API Chaya's Annual Candlelight Vigil
As an organization that provides domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking services to Asian, South Asian, and Pacific Islander communities, we are coming together to offer spaces of healing as we honor lives lost to domestic and sexual violence. These services are held to remember the lives of Susanna Remerata Blackwell, her unborn child, baby Kristine, Phoebe Dizon, and Veronica Laureta, who were shot and killed at the King County Courthouse in 1995 by Susanna’s estranged and abusive husband. Our vigil theme “Kapwa”, is a Tagalog term meaning the shared interconnectedness among and between beings. By seeing the self in others, we are able to wholeheartedly support our communities while taking accountability for the violence existing in our world. Kapwa seeks to provide the vigil as a transformative and healing space of understanding through celebrating our communities' legacy of resilience and survivorship.
Please join us in solidarity at our Annual Candlelight Vigil on Thursday, March 5, 2015 from 4 - 6 PM at the King County Courthouse. For more information, please refer to our Facebook event page.