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COMMENTARY: A snapshot of the life of activist, writer, and Seattle community leader Cindy Domingo

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By Cindy Domingo My family has been involved with Alaska cannery workers since my father immigrated to the United States in the 1920s. We are a family of three generations of workers, which is not unusual in Seattle’s Filipino community. By the 1970s, about one out of five Filipino families on the West Coast sent […]

GUEST EDITORIAL: Proposed beverage tax harmful to small businesses, minority communities

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By Daniel Kim Executive Director, Korean Grocers Association of Washington For over two decades, the Korean American Grocers’ Association (KAGRO) and the countless local grocers that it supports have been a part of the Seattle community. As small businesses already struggling with an excessive amount of taxes, fees, and regulations, we are deeply concerned about […]

COMMENTARY: Where are the women, people of color?

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By Ruth Bayang NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY It was a capacity crowd on March 1 at Tony Robbins Live! at ShoWare Center in Kent, Wash. The bestselling author and superstar life coach to Bill Clinton and Oprah Winfrey spoke longer than expected, but the 7,000-strong crowd did not seem to mind. Attendees left in a “beautiful […]

COMMENTARY: Keep capital punishment

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By Frederick Su NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY State Attorney General Bob Ferguson, Governor Jay Inslee, and former Attorney General Rob McKenna wish to ban capital punishment in Washington. I say, “No!” Will evil take a vacation if we ban the death penalty? Not likely. An evildoer may pop up and shoot and kill little grade schoolers […]

COMMENTARY: Response to ‘Was the relocation of West Coast Japanese racist?’

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By Kristina West (Kristina West is from Pasco, Wash. and currently resides in Tokyo, Japan.) On Jan. 29, The Tri-City Herald published an op-ed, entitled “Was the Relocation of West Coast Japanese Racist,” denying the racist motivations of Japanese American incarceration. I was shocked to see this in a newspaper. Some people would use Japanese […]

A Day of Remembrance — Remembering Executive Order 9066

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By James K. Doane NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY The Board of Governors of the Washington State Bar Association, meeting at Gonzaga University in Spokane on the morning of Jan. 27, unanimously passed a Day of Remembrance resolution to recognize the 75th anniversary of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066, signed on Feb. 19, 1942. At […]

GUEST EDITORIAL: Lunar New Year is for losers like me

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By Stacy Nguyen Northwest Asian Weekly When I’m not mucking about the Northwest Asian Weekly office, I work as a graphic designer. Mostly for fun, I also churn out stock clipart for pennies on the hour. Recently, I made this Lunar New Year-theme illustration in anticipation of my favorite holiday of the year. I’m Vietnamese, […]

Creating a sense of belonging in our national parks

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By Amanda Hsu National Park Service “In My Backyard” intern When I first applied for an internship with the “In My Backyard” program with the National Park Service (NPS), it seemed almost impossible for someone like me to join. As a young woman born and raised in the suburbs of California, I didn’t grow up […]