By Jason Cruz Northwest Asian Weekly Congressman Jim McDermott introduced a bill last week that would right a wrong inflicted upon many Asian American cannery workers more than 30 years ago. The amendment to the 1991 Civil Rights Act would strike language that has prevented cannery workers from seeking legal damages for discrimination.
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Righting a wrong — Congress seeks to amend Civil Rights Act for benefit of cannery workers
Posted on 05 April 2012.
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Queer APIs use identities to address violence and oppression
Posted on 05 April 2012.
Part 2 of 2 in a series about the difficulties APIs face when it comes to sexual identity By Tiffany Ran Northwest Asian Weekly The feeling of disdain was palpable at one particular South Asian event that Bish, who wishes that his full name not be used in this story, and his partner attended. Bish [...]
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Diversity Makes a Difference — final part
Posted on 02 April 2012.
Compiled by Staff Northwest Asian Weekly Northwest Asian Weekly’s Diversity Makes a Difference scholarship program celebrates young people who are committed to reaching out across cultural lines. Students are nominated by their schools as being champions of diversity. From among those students, a judging panel will choose five winners who will receive $1,000 scholarships and [...]
Posted in Education, Vol 31 No 13 | 3/24-3/300 Comments
The Korean American Bar Association invites Supreme Court Justice Steven Gonzáles as guest speaker for 12th annual banquet
Posted on 02 April 2012.
Members of the Korean American Bar Association (KABA) came together last month for their annual banquet at the Palace Ballroom. Participants were treated to the keynote speaker, Steven Gonzáles, Washington Supreme Court Justice. Before his appointment as Supreme Court Justice, Gonzáles served as a domestic-violence prosecutor for Seattle and worked in the business law department [...]
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Community advocate Angela Wan wins national contest with a video about ICHS
Posted on 02 April 2012.
Angela Wan’s video submission to the Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organization’s (AAPCHO) “Our Stories 2012: Empowering Healthy Communities” won the grand prize for the competition, which asked contestants to share how their community health center improved their local community’s health and inspired community members to be leaders. Wan’s video shared how she started [...]
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Wing Luke Museum receives grant to preserve stories of World War II veterans and internees
Posted on 02 April 2012.
Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience received a $170,833 grant for its “Honoring a Legacy, Forging a Future: Preserving the Stories and Collections of World War II Veterans and Internees” project, from the Japanese American Confinement Sites Grant Program. The national 4-year-old grant program, established to protect U.S. confinement sites where Japanese [...]
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28-year-old Iranian American Sahar Fathi announces run for state representative
Posted on 02 April 2012.
Sahar Fathi, former legislative aide to City Councilmember Mike O’Brien, declared her intention to run for state representative of the 36th District. Fathi, who sits on the boards of the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project and ACLU Washington, vows to stand for progressive sustainability in Olympia. Fathi earned a law degree and a master’s degree from [...]
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Vietnamese San Francisco slaying suspect had been ordered deported
Posted on 31 March 2012.
By Terry Collins and Jason Dearen The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — An immigration judge in 2006 had ordered the suspect in the recent slayings of five people in San Francisco to be removed from the country, officials said on March 26. However, he remained in the United States after the Vietnamese government declined [...]
Posted in National News, Vol 31 No 14 | 3/31-4/60 Comments
Boeing delivers 787 planes to Japan Airlines
Posted on 31 March 2012.
EVERETT, Wash. (AP) — Boeing Co. delivered two of its new 787s to Japan Airlines on March 26. The planes will be the first 787s that will fly commercially from the United States.
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Woman gets 3 years in illegal immigrant case
Posted on 31 March 2012.
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A woman convicted in Mississippi of harboring illegal immigrants from China, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, India, and Mexico has been sentenced to three years in prison.
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