{"id":4870,"date":"2009-10-23T04:10:37","date_gmt":"2009-10-23T04:10:37","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-10-23T04:10:58","modified_gmt":"2009-10-23T04:10:58","slug":"Actor-Bee-Vang-of--Gran-Torino--to-discuss-Asian-gang-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=4870","title":{"rendered":"Actor Bee Vang of &#8220;Gran Torino&#8221; to discuss Asian gang violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the central actors in Clint Eastwood\u00b4s film <strong>&quot;Gran Torino&quot; <\/strong>will highlight <strong>a free public forum on gang violence within the Southeast Asian American community<\/strong> to be held <strong>today, Saturday,<\/strong> at the <strong>University of the Pacific<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Actor Bee Vang<\/strong> will give the keynote address for a panel discussion titled,<strong> &quot;The Real Gran Torino Story: Stockton\u00b4s Secret War on the Streets,&quot;<\/strong> on October 24, from 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM, in <strong>the DeRosa University Center\u00b4s Grand Ballroom, Stockton, California. <\/strong>After the discussion, internationally-known Khmer-American hip-hop artist PraChy Ly will perform. Ly often addresses gang violence in his music.<\/p>\n<p>Organized by <strong>University of the Pacific students, the panel will include State Senator Leland Yee (D-San Francisco),<\/strong> chair of the California Senate Select Committee on Asian Pacific Islander Affairs, as well as a number of other local and state government and law enforcement officials.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&quot;It is imperative that we discuss issues surrounding gang violence and together find ways to prevent it,&quot;<\/strong> said Yee. <em>&quot;Clint Eastwood has helped raise significant awareness about this issue; it is now our responsibility to find solutions to this community problem.&quot;<\/em><br \/>\n<!--break--><br \/>\n<!--Session data--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the central actors in Clint Eastwood\u00b4s film &quot;Gran Torino&quot; will highlight a free public forum on gang violence<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":72448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"magazineBlocksPostFeaturedMedia":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x150.jpg","medium":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","medium_large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","1536x1536":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","2048x2048":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-highlighted-post":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-featured-post-medium":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-featured-post-small":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x90.jpg","colormag-featured-image":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-default-news":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x150.jpg","colormag-featured-image-large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-block-extra-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-small-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-medium-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg"},"magazineBlocksPostAuthor":{"name":"njaiyo","avatar":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/255e26fc52858afad234c2c1d44c946e16c565fd0ef5615b0c1caa793897759d?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"magazineBlocksPostCommentsNumber":"1","magazineBlocksPostExcerpt":"One of the central actors in Clint Eastwood\u00b4s film &quot;Gran Torino&quot; 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