This blog post is the third in a three-part series focusing on our three main values at New Breath Foundation: Collective Learning, Collective Healing, and Collective Liberation. At NBF, Collective Liberation means freedom for all groups, recognizing that oppression is intersectional and all our oppressions are tied together. We can only achieve Collective Liberation when…
This blog post is the second in a three-part series focusing on our three main values at New Breath Foundation: Collective Learning, Collective Healing, and Collective Liberation. At NBF, our definition of Collective Healing is when a group or community acknowledges and addresses shared traumas, injustices, or wounds to foster resilience, reconciliation, and mutual well-being…
Mi mayor aprendizaje a sido que juntos podemos lograr grandes cosas, atravez del apollo mutuo aprendí a desarrollar destrezas de expresión en mi persona. My biggest learning has been that together we can achieve great things, and through mutual support, I learned to express myself. –Aida, a formerly detained mother who attended the Pilgrimage to…
“True liberation comes from recognizing and embracing our interconnectedness.” -Yuri Kochiyama February is significant not only because we celebrate Black History Month, but also because we join countries around the world in celebrating the Lunar New Year. I can’t think of a better time to reflect on the importance of racial solidarity than on the…
Last month, we met with our Operations & Development Coordinator, Thy Vu, to help us kick off the new year. Thy shared about how she came to work at New Breath Foundation, what kind of work she does as Operations and Development Coordinator, and what she looks forward to in 2024. Thy is based in…
I want to embrace the New Year with an open mind and heart. The year will bring me my freedom! May I be free. – Eddy Zheng, 2002 I wrote these words on December 31, 2002, while in solitary confinement, or “the Hole.” This was my second time in the Hole, where I stayed for…
We sat down with NBF Board Member McArthur “Mac” Hoang, who joined the Board earlier this year and now serves on the NBF Fundraising Committee. We asked Mac about his relationship with NBF and experiences serving on the Board. We are in deep gratitude to Mac for his service and for sharing his reflections with…
“I now understand the need for affirmative action,” my mother said after the 1988 U.S. presidential election. As a first-generation immigrant from Japan, she lacked context and knowledge of U.S. history—until this election laid bare the extent of white privilege that enabled Dan Quayle to become Vice President of the United States. I am a…
In the past three years, I have driven across the continent five times, visited cities and states I’ve never seen before, met with dozens of organizations around the country, and learned so much about incredible and diverse AANHPI communities fighting systemic violence and racism. During the ongoing pandemic, at a time when so many people…
Earlier this year, we sat down with Micky Huihui, Executive Director of Hawai’i People’s Fund (HPF), an organization that exists to specifically address the needs of grassroots progressive movement building in Hawai’i. Established in 1972, they are a model for progressive social change and participatory, activist-advised grantmaking. Micky is the first Native Hawaiian ED at…