anti-Asian racism and to raise awareness of the longstanding issue.Organizer Ayeza Tahir tells Global News that she and her co-organizers, Teigan Elliott and Erika Mitsushima, were inspired to organize the vigil and rally following the March 16 shootings in Atlanta, Georgia.
Thousands march in Montreal to denounce the rise of anti-Asian hate crime A 21-year-old white man is accused of killing four people inside two Atlanta spas and four others at a massage business about 30 miles (50 km) away.
Six of the eight people killed last Tuesday were women of Asian descent.“We were all heartbroken, but we’ve been talking about this since before that.