How to Support Asian American Businesses Looted During Nationwide Protests

Looting has increased following nationwide protests with the Black Lives Matter movement over the murder of George Floyd, impacting small Asian-owned businesses already struggling due to the pandemic.

Some of the local businesses have had to reduce employees, delivery methods and store hours to accommodate. In April, the small business sector lost 11 million jobs, Axios reported.

Areas such as New York City’s Chinatown have been plundered, with storefronts destroyed.

There have been protests in at least a dozen cities so far, including New York which has set a curfew to curtail the looting and violence.

Small businesses have been destroyed in cities including Portland, Tampa and Minneapolis.

NextShark has compiled a small list of some of the spots hit, which you can read here.

Persian House — Portland

Buranko Cafe — Portland

Saigon Bay — Tampa, Florida

Pham’s Rice Bowl — Minneapolis

Midori’s Floating World Café — Minneapolis

Places to donate that will give the funds to businesses in need:

• Asian Americans for Equality have started a relief fund during COVID-19 and are based in New York.
• Little Tokyo in Los Angeles is cleaning up after protests and looting. The Little Tokyo Service Center in Los Angeles is taking donations to support it’s COVID-19 relief efforts for struggling businesses.
• There is a fundraising page to help Oakland Chinatown small business owners with assistance from the Chinatown Chamber of Commerce for the area.
• Cambodia Town is a community strip located in Long Beach, California that had seen a peaceful protest turned violent. A community organizer stepped up to create a fundraising page to help rebuild the community.
• Support the Cities is an organization working to support neighborhoods and small businesses following the protests.
• The Asian Economic Development Association, a non-profit that is looking to help Asian businesses impacted by the unrest in a fundraising campaign.

By no means is this an exhaustive list. If you know of a business or community donating page, please send details to info@nextshark.com to update this list.

The post How to Support Asian American Businesses Looted During Nationwide Protests appeared first on NextShark.

Contributer : NextShark