#acj speaks

[third-generation-female-warrior]

Very personally curious in tale of two imperials !!

Very happy to talk about it!

It's my super niche "Bad Timeline" AU that takes place around 14 BBY where Cal is an Inquisitor and Omega became Hemlock's assistant after Order 66 and the destruction of Kamino.

While Cal (who became the Second Brother) is escorting Dr. Omega Karr to Nur, their shuttle crash-lands on Dathomir and they're both forced to confront their trauma and how it shaped them into the people they are today.

Still working out how I want it to end, but it has two chapters out on AO3 right now!

[acj0fiction]

do you want me to someday cover my other art work with my oc and their stories on my very humble blog ?

[casaamarilla]

457: Protecting Colombia's most at-risk children from exploitation in downtown Bogotá

On this week's Colombia Calling podcast, we have the opportunity to speak to supporters of the UK-based NGO, Children Change Colombia and their experiences of visiting a local partner project led by ACJ (Asociación Cristiana de Jovenes) in downtown Bogotá. Abhijit Kapadia, Betty Encinales and Carlos Ordoñez join us to share their experiences of seeing - with their own eyes - how ACJ and Children Change Colombia are working to protect some of Colombia's most at-risk children from commercial sexual exploitation (CSEC). Tune in to hear their reflections of visiting the Santa Fe neighbourhood known as the “tolerance zone” in Bogotá. This area is known for high presence of problems of sex work, drug addiction and delinquency. ACJ, works to improve the lives of children and adolescents who have experienced or are at high risk of CSEC, as well as supporting children and young people that have experienced conflict-related violence, including sexual violence. ACJ has a youth centre which is a protective oasis for children and young people at risk of CSEC in the middle of Santa Fe (Bogotá). In this area, children and young people are surrounded by legal sex workers and high levels of gangs and drugs. ACJ provides recreational workshops for children and young people, as well as their families where they learn about their rights and how to protect themselves from CSEC. ACJ also provides psychosocial support to survivors of CSE and works with young sex workers and their children, helping them to find alternative employment and offering academic ‘catch-up’ courses that enable them to gain primary and secondary school qualifications. Please visit the Children Change Colombia website https://childrenchangecolombia.org and consider supporting the important work being done.

Check out this episode!

[skelkaza]

Midoriya Izuku- *exists and is The Good Boy™*

Me- *sobs* fucking superb you funky little broccoli boy

[marylandprelawland]

The Birth Of Asian Americans

By Charlotte Kim, Johns Hopkins University Class of 2021

June 24, 2020

With the celebration of Juneteenth just passed, I thought about another June 19thevent, one that occurred in 1982 and became the reason why I, and other Americans of Asian descent, call ourselves “Asian American.”That night, in Detroit, Michigan, a man was bludgeoned to death with a baseball bat. Why?His killers thought he was Japanese.

The victim was Vincent Chin, a 27-year-old man who would be considered Chinese American today but“Oriental” while he was alive.His killers were white autoworkers, Ronald Ebens and Michael Nitz. To create a clear picture of their motives, one must understand America in the 80s. Not only was Asian-based racism casual and rampant, there was a normalized disregard of Asian ethnic diversity and an accepted mindset of Asians as exotic, perpetual foreigners. On top of all that was Detroit’s economic climate.

In 1982, Detroit, which had housed the headquarters of the Big 3 auto makers (General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler) for decades, was at the height of a record-setting recession [1]. After the 1979 oil crisis caused gas prices to skyrocket, Americans, looking for smaller more efficient cars, turned to Japanese brands. One of every four cars sold in the U.S. was Japanese, causing anti-Japanese sentiment to grow, especially in Detroit where plants began to lay off tens of thousands of workers.Posters reading “Pearl Harbor II” depicted Japanese bombers dropping cars on North America [2]. Local unions sponsored events allowing workers to smash Japanese cars with sledgehammers at the cost of $1. Japanese cars were vandalized, their owners were shot at on the freeway, and casual anti-Japanese slurs abounded[3]. U.S. Representative John Dingell of Michigan claimed that the chief trouble hurting the auto industry was foreign competition, specifically “the little yellow people” [4].

Later that year, on June 19th, 1982, Ronald Ebens, a Chrysler foreman, took his stepson Michael Nitz, one of many assembly line workers recently laid off by Chrysler, to a strip club. They happened to sit in front of Vincent Chin and his friends, who were there to celebrate Chin’s bachelor party. Ebens was overheard saying racial slurs like “Chink” and Nip” and,eventually, “It’s because of motherfuckers like you that we’re out of work.” A fight broke out, and both parties were ejected from the bar. Ebens then grabbed a baseball bat from his car and started to chase Chin, who fled [5]. Ebens and Nitz drove around in pursuit of Chin for 30 minutes. When they finally found him in front of a McDonald’s, Nitz held down Chin while his stepfather hit Chin’s skull four times [3]. As his cerebral matter and blood pooled in front of him, Chin’s last words were, “It’s not fair.” He died in a hospital four days later, and instead of attending a wedding, his friends and family attended a funeral.

Ebens and Nitz didn’t deny that they had killed Chin, but their lawyers argued that what had happened was a bar brawl, not a hate crime [1]. On March 16, 1983, Wayne County Circuit Judge Charles Kaufman agreed with them; Ebens and Nitz were found guilty of manslaughter, a downgrade from their second-degree murder charge, and were each fined $3,000, $780 in court fines, and three years of probation. To this day neither man has spent a day in prison. Kaufman’s defense of his sentence was,

“These aren’t the kind of men you send to jail [5]. […] We’re talking here about a man who’s held down a job with the same company for 17 or 18 years, and his son who is employed and a part-time student. These men are not going to go out and harm somebody else. I just didn’t think that putting them in prison would do any good for them or for society. You don’t make the punishment fit the crime; you make the punishment fit the criminal” [6].

The outrage among the Asian American community was immediate, although people were unsure whom to turn to. Then, two weeks later,more than a hundred Asian Americans from towns surrounding Detroit met and formed American Citizens for Justice (ACJ)—the first explicitly Asian American grass-roots advocacy effort to extend nationally. Its top priority was to have Chin’s case become the first criminal civil rights case involving someone of Asian descent. [3]. Roland Hwang, co-founder of ACJ, explained that the Vincent Chin case was a wakeup call for anti-Asian racism. It “transformed a biracial discussion on race relations to be a multiracial one” [7].

Over the next few months, public outrage continued to grow. Protests led by ACJ and other groups spurred the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate and determine that Ebens and Nitz had violated Chin’s civil rights. Ebens was sentenced to 25 years in prison. According to Renee Tajima-Peña, a professor of Asian American studies at UCLA, “It was the first time Asian Americans were protected in a federal civil rights prosecution. […] Before that, Asian Americans were seen as not being a protected class” [5]. However, in September 1986, a federal appeals court overturned Ebens’ conviction and,in May 1987, he was cleared of all charges. Two months later, Ebens was ordered to pay $1.5 million to the estate of Vincent Chin [8], butas of 2015, Ebens hasn’t paid anything, and that amount has grown to more than $8 million [9].

Now, it may seem that the term “Asian American” originated from this turning point in history. However, it was created 14 years before Chin’s death in 1968 by two college students and even today is used secondarily to the more specific “Japanese,” “Thai,” etc., descriptive. Still, the term has power. Professor Daryl Maeda of the University of Colorado Boulder says that instead of describing family histories or personal identities, “Asian American” expresses the idea that “as Asian Americans, we have to work to fight for social justice and equality, not only for ourselves, but for all of the people around us.”

The cry for social justice and equality after Vincent Chin’s death forged a pan-Asian identity among once disparate groups.In the words of Helen Zia, co-founder of ACJ “…whether people wanted to feel like there was anything in common or not, they could not deny that if they looked that way, they could be killed, whether they were Japanese ethnically or not.” [9].

Before Chin’s death, this sense of pan-Asian identity even in cases of extreme racial injustice, was non-existent. In fact, to avoid being targeted by the same racism and exclusion facing other groups, different Asian communities stayed silent. When the Chinese Exclusion Act was set to be made permanent in 1902, Japanese immigrants didn’t protest. When people of Japanese descent were forced into internment camps during World War II, Chinese- and Korean-Americanswore buttons stating their ethnicity so as not be mistaken as Japanese (pictured below). The narrative is the same— the perceived injustice was being lumped together with another ethnic group rather than the injustice itself [9].

The term “Asian American” was created as a way to bring Asians into the American political conscience as a collective community (as well as a pushback against the derogatory blanket term, “Oriental”). According to Zia, “To the rest of America at the time, Asian people didn’t exist in the popular consciousness. […] They were like, ‘Oh, where did these people come from? What – they’re organizing, they have a voice, they’re talking about racism? What – they speak English?’ These were all the reactions we got…It was a teaching process” [9].

And it still is a teaching process.Although the diversity of Asian ethnicities in the United States needs to be respected and acknowledged, there is a common experience among all Americans of Asian ancestry of being lumped into one homogenous group facing prejudice and harassment. As a community, Asian Americans can come together to multiply their presence in the American conscience and thus shine light on the diversity of problems facing individual Asian ethnicities and strike down the idea of Asians as a homogenous, foreign, “model minority”.

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[1] Wu, Frank H. “How the racist killing of Vincent Chin sparked the Asian-American movement.” South China Morning Post, 20 June 2020, https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3089541/how-racist-killing-vincent-chin-sparked-asian-american-movement.

[2] Counts, Glenn, et al. “Detroit: The New Motor City.” EDGE, Ethics of Development in a Global Environment, https://web.stanford.edu/class/e297c/poverty_prejudice/citypoverty/hdetroit.htm.

[3] Wu, Jean Yu-Wen Shen, and Chen, Thomas C. Asian American Studies Now: A Critical Reader. E-book, Rutgers University Press, 2010.

[4] Clines, Francis X., and Weaver Jr., Warren. “Briefing.” nytimes.com, New York Times, 16 Mar. 1982,https://www.nytimes.com/1982/03/16/us/briefing-253650.html.

[5] Little, Becky. “How the 1982 Murder of Vincent Chin Ignited a Push for Asian American Rights.” History.com, A&E Television Networks, 5 May 2020, https://www.history.com/news/vincent-chin-murder-asian-american-rights.

[6] Cummings, Judith. “Detroit Asian-Americans Protest Lenient Penalties for Murder.” nytimes.com, New York Times, 26 Apr. 1983,https://www.nytimes.com/1983/04/26/us/detroit-asian-americans-protest-lenient-penalties-for-murder.html.

[7] Wang, Frances Kai-Hwa. “Who is Vincent Chin? The History and Relevance of a 1982 Killing.” NBCNews.com, NBC Universal, 15 June 2017, https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/who-vincent-chin-history-relevance-1982-killing-n771291.

[8] “Vincent Chin Timeline.” Vincent Who?,Tony Lam Productions, https://www.vincentwhofilm.com/timeline/.

[9] Kandil, Caitlin Yoshiko. “After 50 years of ‘Asian American,’ advocates say the term is ‘more essential than ever’.” NBCNews.com, NBC Universal, 31 May 2018, https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/after-50-years-asian-american-advocates-say-term-more-essential-n875601.

[10] Wu, Frank H. “Why Vincent Chin Matters.” nytimes.com, New York Times, 22 June 2012, https://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/23/opinion/why-vincent-chin-matters.html.

[ostaraandtheamberowl]

Would you do a two card reading for whether I’m following the right path for my witchcraft? The need/want type style? Thank you so much! (Also do you have a Kofi set up for tipping?) ACJ

Of course! Here’s your reading!!!

The Hermit and Judgement.

You may need to spend more time on meditation, but you’re definitely heading in the right direction. You are focusing on yourself and your own needs or values. The Hermit specifically speaks to seeking wisdom and inspiration from above or within. Judgement card speaks to rebirth and renewal, which is possibly one thing you may want to get out of this path. A sense of creation. You will definitely feel that on this path. Overall, it is a positive reading. The cards say that it is the right path, but to also remember that things do change based on the decisions we make. You’ll see results from this path soon.

Thank you so much!!! I don’t have Kofi, but I do have a paypal: paypal.me/ostaratheamberowl

[third-generation-female-warrior]

I'm so caught up in my own AU where force-sensitive Omega ends up becoming Cal's padawan that it's started bleeding over into how I consume canon Star Wars stuff now

Ahsoka with her tense relationship with her Mandalorian padawan and in my mind, Cal is just off to the side being "Can't relate. Rip to you, but we're different. Come on, Omega. It's time for instruction."

[mbgdesign-blog]

How do colors influence your airline interior design?

Flying in an aircraft has always been more than a journey. It has been projected as an experience ever since the inception of airlines.

Color scheme in airline interiors render an influence over customer experience. The most successful commercial airlines across the world use separate color schemes within the interiors. Cathay Pacific airline interiors are blue and green while Qatar Airways airline interiors are maroon and lavender.

One comes across a world of variation in the interior décor scheme of different airlines, in terms of colors and designs. But one factor always remains the same. VIP aircraft interior design, in most cases has the color blue somewhere within the interiors.

The color is placed strategically within aircraft interiors, following a number of studies in aircraft completion management. A few of the prime focus areas in the studies are first impressions and psychological impact of colors over human emotions.

Blue evokes feelings of calmness and relaxation. Hence airlines try and make blue a part of their airline interior décor scheme, along with their brand colors.

There are a number of colors that make a perfect match for interiors in business jet completions. This is also subject to the service or the product which a brand intends to promote. Red is a stimulating, vibrating and passionate color. It is associated with Hong Kong Airlines, and speaks a lot about the Hong Kong’s aura. Similarly, orange is characterized by fun, enthusiasm and energy. Lufthansa Airlines has a hint of orange in airline interiors.

Yellow, which is a cheerful, friendly and a warm shade is used to a fine effect by Philippines airline. One comes across a whole lot of pinks in Swoop airlines. Pink is a calm and feminine shade. Hawaiian Airlines interiors are purple, and the shade stands for wisdom and royalty

Cabin interiors are often white to ensure a proper lighting. Lighting in plane interiors is often indirect so one does not see the source of the light. By using shaping the cabin strategically, light from the source reflects in the desired ways. White is also preferred because it is a nice and natural color.

While cabins are white, seats are seldom white as darker colors are easier to clean. In most cases the airplane passenger seats are blue. A few of the oldest of the airlines, such as British Airways have blue seats. American Airlines and Ryanair also have blue seats. Shades of blue are variable though.

Blue is reflective of serenity, efficiency and trust, and the shade is used for airline passenger seats in accordance with color psychology. The shades are used to maximize the degree of comfort and ensure a pleasant environment. While blue is conservative, it is a corporate shade as well. It promotes a feeling of calmness. In muted shades, blue promotes a homely feeling.

Color scheme of aircraft interiors is also complimented by the lighting. Newer models us soft LED light that keep the atmosphere stress free. Lighting in airplanes is chosen after a lot of research. Research is conducted over CMF (color, materials and finish) to see how light reflects off seat colors. The focus area is ensuring a fine flying experience.

Nikki Gledhill is designer & CEO at MBG International Design, LLC with a dedicated team of trade professionals and designers to create a customized interior as per your style and travel needs. You can go through our gallery here - BBJ interior design & ACJ Design.

[afroinsider]

Bayelsa Assembly Holds Public Hearing On ACJ Bill

Bayelsa Assembly Holds Public Hearing On ACJ Bill

Yenagoa – Bayelsa State House of Assembly on Monday held a public hearing on the Administration of Criminal Justice Bill 2017, saying that it was always guided by due legislative process in the passage of private and executive bills on the floor of the Assembly.

Peter Akpe, leader of the Assembly, gave the clarification while speaking during the public hearing in Yenagoa, the state capital.

Tonye…

[sclaw]

Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 - Sections 168 and 173 - Compensation - Just compensation - Death in accident - High Court while reducing quantum of compensation as well as rate of interest failed to assign any reason - Impugned order of High Court being non-speaking order calls for interference

Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 – Sections 168 and 173 – Compensation – Just compensation – Death in accident – High Court while reducing quantum of compensation as well as rate of interest failed to assign any reason – Impugned order of High Court being non-speaking order calls for interference

(2012) ACJ 2328 : AIR 2012 SC 3263 : (2013) 115 CLT 330 : (2012) 7 JT 517 : (2012) 168 PLR 784 : (2013) 1 RCR(Civil) 220 : (2012) 7 SCALE 514 : (2012) 8 SCC 145 : (2012) 4 TAC 1 : (2012) AIRSCW 4779 : (2012) 6 Supreme 223 SUPREME COURT OF INDIA REBEKA MINZ AND OTHERS — Appellant Vs. DIVISIONAL MANAGER, UNITED INDIA INSURANCE COMPANY LTD. AND ANOTHER — Respondent ( Before : G.S. Singhvi, J; Fakkir…

[asianamericanactivismatumic-blog]

Vincent Chin Protest

1987 UMASC Protest against the murder of Vincent Chin

April 16 (noon)

150+ students

Intended to raise awareness/speak out against the injustice

Speakers from UMASC, UCAR, ACJ

UMASC = University of Michigan Asian Student Coalition

Formed March 23 that year

Goal of UMASC to dispel the model minority myth and other stereotypes about Asian Americans

UCAR = United Coalition Against Racism

ACJ = American Citizens for Justice

Did not seem to have a huge impact outside of the Asian-American community

December 04 same year, another article published in the Daily describing the continued issues of Asian-Americans

“administration has ignored the problems and needs of the increasing Asian student population”

Students lobbied for the creation of a Korean language program at the University and were turned down

Efforts to start an Asian-American Studies department have met with similar resistance.

University offered only one course on Asian-American issues

No single permanent faculty member to teach such courses

No Asian-American counselor at the Counseling Services

Over one thousand Asian-American students whose problems differ from their white peers

Seen as "overrepresented" on campus (reminiscent of today’s issues?)

[third-generation-female-warrior]

My custom Cal Kestis costume for ComicCon came today!

I'm a tiny little Latina, but I'm gonna be the best Cal I can be!

[third-generation-female-warrior]

Last Line Challenge

Rules: in a new post, show the last line you wrote (or drew) and tag as many people as there are words (or however many you like).

I was tagged by @nightfall-1409 (super talented, btw), but I don't know anyone to tag, so.......

“You do plenty, for people like Omega,” Cal assured her, and only smiled when Lyana’s expression turned confused. “We all need tethers to ground ourselves. Reasons to keep fighting.”

Slight spoilers for my fic, but the chapter goes up next week anyways, and I don't know if anyone here is actually gonna know what the hell it means. I think it's cute, regardless. I promise, it makes 100% sense for Cal Kestis to be talking to Lyana in the story.

[third-generation-female-warrior]

I will be forever convinced I met my soulmate at a con, but I don't even know who they are

[third-generation-female-warrior]

20 Questions for Fic Writers

I was tagged by @nightfall-1409, so, here we go!

How many works do you have on ao3?

A proud 11!

What’s your total ao3 word count?

321, 918 published, a godly amount of unknown beyond.

What fandoms do you write for?

Star Wars, The Bad Batch specifically.

What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

Not to brag or anything, but you might recognize some of my classics like: Tales From Marauder Lane, Remnants of the Republic, The Boy Who Came to Dinner, The Rumor at the End of the Hall, and The Way Forward

Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

Of course! I love interacting with my readers and going "director's cut" on them.

What is a fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

The Way Forward by far. It's that sad but hopeful ending, I cried writing the whole damn fic, but that ending, OH, it still gets me.

What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

The Boy Who Came to Dinner. Super cute, wholesome family hijinks.

Do you get hate on fics?

No, but I have gotten some REALLY passive aggressive remarks and not very constructive criticism.

Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

No, I want to, haha, but I don't think it would be good. I'm very much a tasteful fade-to-black kind of person. We'll see, though. If I write smut, I know what I want to write, and it will probably be published anonymously.

10. Do you write crossovers?

Technically, yes(??) Jedi: the Video Game Series and Bad Batch Crossover, but I guess, since it’s all in the Star Wars universe, not really.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

No, thankfully. *knocks on wood*

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

No, but I have worked on translating a person's not-use of Mando'a for another person's fic. Like, the section was in English, but it was supposed to be Mando'a. Still working up the courage to tell them...

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

Yes, in the days of old. I miss it.

14. What’s your all-time favorite ship?

Oof. You're talking to a multi-shipper. For example, Merrical has my heart right now, but I have also written some Cal KestisxOmega stuff and I loved doing that, and I do have some MerrinxOmega stuff on the backburner of my mind, but that’s neither here nor there.

15. What’s a wip you want to finish, but doubt you ever will?

Oof… probably… This Night, For Them. Painful admission…

16. What are your writing strengths?

I’ve been praised for my dialogue, nailing down character voices and such. I think I also have intricate and interesting concepts.

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

I wish I could write more emotion. I feel like I’m not emotional enough, I wish I had more of a prose-y style.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic?

It comes weirdly natural for me. I do have bilingual or multi-lingual characters, and I just kinda… understand how that works, how they would say or express themselves and when they would slip into native tongue.

19. First fandom you wrote for?

Ninjago. That’s all I’m going to say on that.

20. Favorite fic you’ve written?

I’m torn between Remnants of the Republic or Tales From Marauder Lane. I will go back and re-read both and be like, “This shit was genius. I wish I could bottle this” and I loved the fan reactions from them. Remnants, I think, will be my answer, if I had to pick one, I just LOVED that, and I loved writing it.

I don't have anything to add, but I hope people who like my fics are patient with me, I'm sorry for the haitus!

[third-generation-female-warrior]

I can't engage in ship wars

I have literally the rarest of pairs that no one has even heard of/thought of

But they make me happy, they make sense to me, so I'll just continue on in my canoe, rowing off into the sunset while Margaritaville plays in the background

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But if y'all wanna hear my opinions, I got opinions, I think I can convert some of y'all