New York City : Asian Cine-Vision
Vol. 1, No. 1 (1971)
Bridge was originally published by Basement Workshop, the first Asian American collective in New York City that supported political and artistic movements among the local community. In addition to grassroots mobilization against unjust local and national policies, the collective also offered English lessons, youth education programs, and creative spaces that fostered the work of dance, music, and visual artists. Basement Workshop closed in 1986 and, at the time, had helped to establish several other centers, initiatives, and programs that served the New York City Area. Many of these remain today, including the film collective Asian CineVision.
This opinion piece that appeared in an issue of Bridge magazine was written by Victor Hao Li, who was Professor of Law at Columbia University from 1969 to 1974. He was also President of the East-West Center in Honolulu, Hawai’i. Here, Li scrutinizes the context in which searches had been committed by the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), with focus on the work of the Supreme Court in shoring up fourth amendment protections against unlawful search and seizure by administrative officers. Li does so through citation of Camara v. Municipal Court of the City and County of San Francisco (case details here).
New York, American Immigration and Citizenship Conference [1972].
Formed in 1960, the American Immigration and Citizenship Conference (AICC) was the result of two combined organizations: the National Council on Naturalization and Citizenship, formed in 1930, and the American Immigration Conference, formed in 1954. The AICC is an information-sharing organization that coordinates with national agencies concerned with humane immigration and naturalization policies. It is credited as a key advising organization in the formation of the 1965 Immigration Act. In 1982, the AICC became an arm of the National Immigration Forum, a non-profit advocacy group.
Irving M. Levine, who began the National Project on Ethnic America (NPEA) in late 1967, write the forward to this collection of essays. The NPEA, according to Levine, was established to confront the “strictly negative anti-black agenda” among white ethic groups, to “make them conscious of their own realities,” and to expose “demagogues trying to exploit ethic fears” (quoted in Weed, 1973, p. 20).
