0:00 - Introduction, questions
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0:23 - Beginnings as a CPC youth director, Chicago, Chinatown, activism, identity racism from discrimination, coming to New York for vacation, looking for jobs, youth issue, housing conditions, failing school, pressure from parents, community politics
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3:23 - Being quiet as a kid, school project from younger days, speaking up and having a voice
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6:30 - Feeling like an activist, youth program
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8:27 - Seeing the bigger picture, how to become an activist, institutional change
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10:15 - San Francisco, Midwest, student activism
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11:37 - Coming to Chinatown in the 1980s, New York changing, more white people moving into New York, diversity within neighborhood changing in Chinatown
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14:27 - Key moments in Chen’s career, joining Organization Chinese America, peace and justice issues
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16:30 - Being called a communist, Soviet Union, activism during Cold War
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17:48 - Budget issues, making a living, having a career
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19:49 - First coming to New York, supporting an issue
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22:04 - Younger and older people working together, learning lessons
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23:48 - Theory of organizing, effective methods of demonstrating
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26:14 - Korean professor, Chen as a student, education
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30:44 - Youth activism, West coast, networking, lobbying, protesting, promoting change, raising issues
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33:43 - Social working
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36:10 - Working with other groups in Chinatown, individual’s ability of seeing an organization, identifying issues and change, organization skeptics
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38:51 - Asian-American movement, Connection to African-American Civil Rights Movement, cultural movements indirectly and directly relating to one another
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40:47 - How Chinatown has changed over the years, communities continuously changing, progress, institutionalized change
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43:43 - Malcolm X, radical, Martin Luther King Jr., using history to become accepted, becoming American
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45:13 - Chen’s current projects, CPC workload, change from the bottom and change from the top
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46:45 - Organizing during younger days, sustaining change coming from the top, institutional changes, change coming from youth, individual change coming and going, systematic change
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49:24 - Encouraging young people to be activists, seeing and remembering, doing and understanding, jumping into political issues, proactive activists, intellectualizing political issues
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51:35 - Not about how old one is, burn out through activism, new opportunities, open-mindedness
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53:49 - Manhattan’s Chinatown, closing of restaurants, Chinatown’s decline
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57:02 - Diverse Chinatown, lack of new buildings
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60:42 - Artifacts to donate to the museum, pictures, being a spokesperson
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65:24 - Final thoughts
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