Taryn Flaherty and Kaia Chau have been awarded the Bread and Roses Community Fund’s Emerging Leaders Award for the activism against the proposed Sixers arena they’ve lead over the past year as co-founders of Students for the Preservation of Chinatown.
During Chinatown’s past fights against big development, then-young Flaherty and Chau watched their community organize. Chau vividly remembers a city council meeting they attended with their activist mothers: Helen Gym, Flaherty’s mom, and Asian Americans United co-founder Debbie Wei, Chau’s mother. Chau and Flaherty were sitting in the upper wings of the room, watching their moms testify about why a casino would be detrimental to the community.
Having Wei and Gym as their mothers played a significant role in Chau and Flaherty’s eventual self-led activism, but so did the community they grew up in. Both attended the Folk Arts-Cultural Treasures Charter School in Chinatown, which was founded in 2005 to create a more immigrant-friendly education experience in Chinatown, which also had no public school. Attending FACTS, they said, provided a critical foundation of cultural and political awareness, Asian American identity, and fighting injustice.
Aside from FACTS, Philadelphia’s Chinatown is a community that emphasizes generational activism — working in unity across all ages and passing the torch down so the next generation can carry on the fight.
When Chau hears that last sentence, it almost feels like a prophecy manifested. Here she is, 20 years later, doing exactly what her mother predicted. It feels surreal. But it also feels right.
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