THE STRUGGLE TO ABOLISH ENVIRONMENTAL AND ECONOMIC RACISM: Asian Radical Imagining from the Homeland to the Front Line

IT’S OCTOBER 9, 2018. I’M GATHERING MATERIAL TO WRITE this chapter when my eye catches the news announcing the findings of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report. I spot the Red Guard Political Platform, written in San Francisco Chinatown, February 1969. It reads: “We demand that the United States government halt the rape of the land. We believe that if greedy businessmen, with the help of the US government, do not stop destroying our land, air, oceans, and streams, the earth will become a lifeless planet of rock and dust.”¹ In the midst of current environmental