During the course of her research on Aoki, Fujino has come across the stories of not only Tagawa and Kurose, but also found leads to four other Asian Panthers, including Lee Lew Lee, who produced the film “All Power to the People” about the Panthers. And the more that Fujino has discovered, the more her students are inspired to delve into grassroots activism like the Asian Panthers did. “The basic principles of this country are that it supposedly operates on equality and democracy,” Fujino says. “But if it does, then we wouldn’t need grassroots resistance. Yet the fact that the BPP even existed meant that grassroots resistance was needed. And today, it’s still needed.”
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