Teach Stories of Solidarity with Wherever There’s a Fight
April 28, 2023 | 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm
Have you been looking for stories that show how Asian American experiences are interconnected with other marginalized communities? Do you want to know how Asian Americans have shaped civil liberties collectively with people of color throughout history? Join Yuri’s FREE Book Talk webinar with Wherever There’s a Fight authors Stan Yogi and Elaine Elinson. Let’s discuss how we can get these stories of solidarity into the classroom!
Wherever There’s a Fight illuminates this history through engaging narratives and topics like citizenship, voting, education, segregation, and the rights of workers. It’s from this vantage point of intersectional relationships that we can teach students our common ground in the struggle for civil rights!
Register HereAbout the Speakers
Stan Yogi
Stan Yogi is the coauthor, with Elaine Elinson, of Wherever There’s a Fight: How Runaway Slaves, Suffragists, Immigrants, Strikers, and Poets Shaped Civil Liberties in California, and, with Laura Atkins, of the children’s book Fred Korematsu Speaks Up. He managed development programs for the ACLU of Northern California for fourteen years and is the coeditor of two books, Highway 99: A Literary Journey through California’s Great Central Valley and Asian American Literature: An Annotated Bibliography. His work has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, MELUS, Los Angeles Daily Journal, and several anthologies. He is married to nonprofit administrator David Carroll and lives in Los Angeles.
Elaine Elinson
Elaine Elinson was the communications director of the ACLU of Northern California and editor of the ACLU News for more than two decades. She is a coauthor of Development Debacle: The World Bank in the Philippines, which was banned by the Marcos regime. Her articles have been published in the Los Angeles Daily Journal, the San Francisco Chronicle, The Nation, Poets and Writers, and numerous other periodicals. She is married to journalist Rene CiriaCruz and they have one son.
