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s—The Washington South Asian Council was founded to call the community’s attention to challenging topics such as HIV/AIDS and domestic violence, as well as ensure that mainstream service providers were adequately serving South Asians.

—Helen Clemente was forced into a sham marriage by an ex-Seattle police officer and his wife.

For three years, she worked with them in conditions of indentured servitude.

—Tessie Guzman, Filipino activist, was killed by her husband after many years surviving domestic violence.

—Asian, South Asian and Pacific Islander women organized in each other’s homes around their concerns regarding domestic violence in our communities.

At the same time, a group of Filipino women activists who had experience with union organizing and in the anti-Marcos struggle were meeting about similar concerns.

—Susana Remerata Blackwell, her unborn daughter, Veronica Laureta, and Phoebe Dizon were murdered at the King County Courthouse by Susana’s estranged husband.