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Op-Ed: America’s Global Blitzkrieg and the Good Americans

Op-Ed: America’s Global Blitzkrieg and the Good Americans

Larry Yu August 3, 2011 Comments Off

“There will be no peace. At any given moment for the rest of our lifetimes, there will be multiple conflicts in mutating forms around the globe. Violent conflict will dominate the headlines, but cultural

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Op-Ed: Enough With the Dragons

Op-Ed: Enough With the Dragons

Michael Yee July 20, 2011 Comments Off

After working in the International District/Chinatown for 20 years and studying other Asian ethnic neighborhoods, I know developing the ID into a more economic vibrant neighborhood demands community collaboration and creativity. The new economic

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Op-Ed: Are Refugee Stories Creating a New Stereotype?

Op-Ed: Are Refugee Stories Creating a New Stereotype?

Bao H. Nguyen July 20, 2011 Comments Off

The most significant introduction I received soon after coming to the United States was to the world of literature.  I was immediately smitten and my eyes could not stop scanning page after page of

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Op-Ed: Wal-Mart Gets a Free Pass For Bias From the Supreme Court

Op-Ed: Wal-Mart Gets a Free Pass For Bias From the Supreme Court

IE Guest Contributor July 7, 2011 1

BY RINKU SEN IE Contributor ColorLines.com The Supreme Court issued its decision in the Dukes v. Wal-Mart sex discrimination case yesterday, a frustrating ruling that doesn’t challenge the existence of bias, but that exempts

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Op-ed:  Women in the Green Economy

Op-ed: Women in the Green Economy

IE Guest Contributor June 15, 2011 Comments Off

BY TAMMY NGUYEN & KRYSTN JOY IE Contributor You can’t open a newspaper or turn on the radio these days without hearing about the healthy food crisis in America. Children – especially children from

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API Male Oppression: Stuck between a rock and a hard place

API Male Oppression: Stuck between a rock and a hard place

Bao H. Nguyen June 15, 2011 8

Take a moment and try this exercise. Picture an Asian man in one of these roles: a star quarterback, CEO of a big company, a popular politician, a fashion model. It is not easy,

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Op-ed:  Key Information Hid on WWII Japanese American Internment

Op-ed: Key Information Hid on WWII Japanese American Internment

IE Guest Contributor June 15, 2011 Comments Off

BY Bob Shimabukuro IE Contributor “Who knows what a Writ of Coram Nobis is?” Attorney Peggy Nagae asked at the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association western regional conference June 4 in Portland. Only

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Europe, Arizona, and My Plumber

Europe, Arizona, and My Plumber

Guest Contributor June 2, 2011 Comments Off

By Frank Viviano New America Media www.newamericamedia.org Arizona, for Americans, has come to symbolize anti-immigrant hysteria codified into law. Under its highly controversial terms, anyone who simply “appears” to be foreign can be stopped

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Change You Can’t Believe In

Change You Can’t Believe In

Larry Yu May 4, 2011 2

Do you think the student union should not have accepted the military funding?

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Fighting a Green Fight

Fighting a Green Fight

Michael Woo May 4, 2011 Comments Off

Easter marked the 41st Anniversary of Earth Day. Earth Day was celebrated for the first time on  April 22, 1970. In that inaugural year, 20 million people participated in the United States. Today, it is

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