Daily News | Legal fight against Sixers arena develops in Chinatown as steering committee holds first meeting
Over 40 Chinatown associations and organizations came together Monday morning to formally announce the Chinatown Coalition to Oppose the Arena — and joining the coalition is national civil rights organization Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund .
“I want to say to the interpreter and those in the room who are crying,” Rev. Mark Kelly Tyler, pastor of Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, said as he came to the microphone, “that we feel your pain, because home should be sacred. … Our message for Chinatown is to fight back against the gentrification of your community.”
Walking around Chinatown today, “NO STADIUM” signs are plastered on many windows throughout the neighborhood, so Lin surveyed business owners in Chinatown about the arena plan leading up to Monday’s news conference, ranging from grocery stores to restaurants to travel agencies. “What most people don’t know when they’re going for dim sum in Chinatown is that Chinatowns started as a direct result of the violence against the Asian American community. They were forced to create Chinatowns in order to survive,” said Bethany Li, legal director of AALDEF.
““What most people don’t know ... is that Chinatowns started as a direct result of the violence against the Asian American community.”The legal group accused the district of “deliberate indifference” to the mistreatment of Asian immigrant students at South Philadelphia High School, culminating in an explosive day of violence on Dec. 3, 2009. About 30 Asian students were attacked by classmates in and around the school, sending 13 to the hospital with injuries.
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