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John Liu and David Yaasky lead the National Bike to Work Day. This is for the purpose of the cars to be responsive of the bike lanes in opening their doors.
John Liu also helped facilitate in passing a bill about an automatic $50 charge for those who ride their bikes on the sidewalk.
Staten Island’s Mosel Avenue Mayor George Lee is in the action. He has been helping his people from some situations that make them afraid.
Chinese Americans are bothered by what is happening in their neighborhood, especially under Staten Island’s Expressway Overpass. There have been crimes like hitting and stealing of things.
Authorities believed that these crimes are happening by chance and not bias related, but that didn’t decrease the fear of the people.
Lee has many plans for the neighborhood in order to bring them to safety. He has ideas of building supermarkets and other necessary establishments, so that the people would not be traveling just to by things they need.
Dear Friends:
This is an appeal on behalf of our surviving Filipino WWII veterans. Out of the more than 400,000 listed after WWII, only about 20,000 remain. Time is of the essence as they are in their mid-80s and their numbers are dwindling. In a few years they will all be gone. For the first time ever, the Filipino Veterans Equity Bill has passed Committee levels of both Houses and has passed the US Senate. The House will act on S1315 TOMORROW, May 21.
S.1315 was passed by the U.S. Senate on April 24, and it contains a range of benefits for U.S. veterans, as well as benefits for our surviving Filipino WWII veterans. We must all ask Speaker Pelosi to move S.1315 towards approval and we should contact our U.S. Representatives to support the House version of S.1315 and to ensure that the benefits to Filipino WWII veterans are not amended or removed.
HERE’S WHAT YOU NEED TO DO NEXT:
I just sent an email to my representative by following along with the very SIMPLE steps below. You should do the same NOW. Do each step as you read it now:
(This is an adaptation of the NaFFAA call to action email.)
Study says that Asian Americans are more susceptible to illnesses caused by smoking, because they are the ones who smoke like chimneys, they are cigarette sticks more than they have to a day.
Smoking puts everyone’s life at risk, because of the chemical that is in the cigarette itself comes out in the form of smoke and you exhale it and before you know it it’s already in infecting your lungs. A large number of Asian Americans populations are smoking. They are the only racial group which lung cancer is the primary reason of death. More or less 70% of Asian American in California alone does smoke. The study shows as well that, more than a half of a country’s budget is being spent on the medical costs for those people who are sick due to smoking, and more than a half of a country’s production cost is lost due to disease caused by smoking.
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It was after the earthquake that Chinese-Americans have decided to gather up together to collect some donations for the victims and begin contacting Red cross and other agencies or organizations that can also be of support.
One of the largest Chinese-language newspapers in U.S. which is Sing Tao Daily has been publishing eight pages of news paper since the tragedy. They would want to be of help to the victims that’s why they had built their disaster relief fund that could help accumulate contributions from the readers of the newspaper around the world.
Asian Heritage Month is celebrating the role of Asians in Canada which was held at Parliament Hill. The underline of the celebration was about multiculturalism and the significance of Asian-Canadian’s contributions to Canada.
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Asian Week publicizes its new director of advertising and associate publisher, Nikki Nguyen Cranor. She’s an Aisian –American specifically a Vietnamese-American who symbolizes the growing number of Asian-Americans as professionals who has local, national and international wellbeing. She was also the former editor-in-chief of the International Examiner, an Asian American journal, and development director of Wing Luke Asian Museum, a pan-Asian American museum.
“My hope is to help shape AsianWeek to reflect this shift and to promote the potential of the untapped Asian Pacific American market that has grown to an economic buying power of $427 billion” said Ms. Nguyen.
Free legal trainings for Asian-American community-based organizations are given by AALDEF. These are given for the preparation of summer voter registration drive and the Fall Presidential Elections.
The founder and executive director of Empower A Village Mihiri Tillakaratne, has been awarded as “Outstanding Woman of the Year” at ASPIRE’s Asian American Women in Leadership Conference at Harvard University. Her parents are Sri Lankan and they are also on the advisory board of Empower a Village.
Their organization is also into breast cancer awareness workshops, English literacy programs and has also supported a pre-school in Sri Lanka.
South Asian Americans Leading Together has executed a 10-week leadership program to teach Asian-American high school students about Asian American history, social issues and current events.
Korean-American organizations in Los Angeles, Washington and New York have received concerns about health alerts adjoining American beef in South Korea. There were information that a mad cow disease is spreading, but the organizations believed that these information were all overstated some anti-American people.
“There is no 100 percent safe food in the world. But American beef is more thoroughly managed than anywhere else,” the American Federation of Los Angeles.