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COMMENTARY: An urgent call for citywide dialogue to address our city’s recovery and future

April 8, 2021 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Last summer, a diverse group of Seattleites came together out of deep concerns over the serious issues facing our city. We are long overdue to finding solutions to put us on the right track and to our great city’s full potential. We have endured a full year of the COVID-19 pandemic, complete with home lockdowns, […]

Filed Under: Commentaries Tagged With: 2021, VOL 40 NO 15 | APRIL 10 - APRIL 16

COMMENTARY: JPMorgan Chase exec addresses recent anti-Asian violence

April 1, 2021 By Northwest Asian Weekly

As the world confronts the current pandemic, our society finds itself dealing with another alarming issue: COVID-19-related biases that are leading to attacks on the Asian community.

Filed Under: Commentaries, Featured stories Tagged With: 2021, VOL 40 NO 14 | APRIL 3 - APRIL 9

COMMENTARY: The legacy of anti-Asian racism today

April 1, 2021 By Northwest Asian Weekly

My mother, Rose Kobata, was 9 years old in 1942 when U.S. government agents seized the thriving Seattle flower shop that sustained my grandparents and their eight children.

Filed Under: Commentaries, Featured stories Tagged With: 2021, VOL 40 NO 14 | APRIL 3 - APRIL 9

COMMENTARY: Asian Americans’ awakening

April 1, 2021 By Northwest Asian Weekly

The ruthless and senseless killing of eight people—including six women of Asian descent in Georgia on March 16—touched the nerves and ignited deep anger inside Asians in the U.S. Through heavy rain, 3,000 people attended the Stop Asian Hate Rally in Seattle just four days after the shooting.

Filed Under: Commentaries, Featured stories Tagged With: 2021, VOL 40 NO 14 | APRIL 3 - APRIL 9

COMMENTARY: Words matter—Statement on anti-Asian hate from Mukilteo’s police chief

April 1, 2021 By Northwest Asian Weekly

My family and I emigrated from Korea a little over four decades ago. I spent my childhood growing up in the eastside of Tacoma, always being the only “Asian kid” at school and in the neighborhood.

Filed Under: Commentaries, Featured stories Tagged With: 2021, CHEOL KANG, VOL 40 NO 14 | APRIL 3 - APRIL 9

COMMENTARY: Your Climate and Air Depend on Clean Fuels

March 30, 2021 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Our country is in the midst of a long overdue reckoning with racial injustices and systemic inequality. While those issues have finally moved to the front of our collective focus, environmental justice and impacts of pollution and climate change on communities of color still need much greater attention.

Filed Under: Commentaries, Featured stories

COMMENTARY: How do we stand up to hate? By remaining united

March 25, 2021 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Kai Curry Northwest Asian Weekly COVID was bad enough. Then there was the rise in crime, the rise in homelessness and joblessness, the rise in racism. From the start, I was afraid to step out of my house lest I be spit on by someone as some kind of a sick joke to spread […]

Filed Under: Commentaries Tagged With: 2021, VOL 40 NO 13 | MARCH 27 - APRIL 2

COMMENTARY: Birds tell us to act now on climate change

March 25, 2021 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Art Wang For Northwest Asian Weekly I finally visited China in 2019, traveling with my two adult children to Beijing, Shanghai, Xian, and Hong Kong. While it seemed we ate our way through China, my son Alex and I also would spend mornings looking at wild birds in the parks. I’ve been a birder […]

Filed Under: Commentaries Tagged With: 2021, VOL 40 NO 13 | MARCH 27 - APRIL 2

“It’s unconscionable”—Seniors in nursing home formerly owned by Keiro face eviction

March 8, 2021 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Feb. 19, 2021, marked the 79th anniversary of Executive Order 9066, signed and issued by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1942—a day when the U.S. government executed a legal act of racism, the forced removal of over 120,000 Japanese Americans, two-thirds of whom were born American citizens, to internment camps where they were incarcerated throughout the U.S.

Filed Under: Commentaries, Community News, Featured stories

COMMENTARY: Remember Rodney King’s words, put aside partisanship & come together against hate

March 4, 2021 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Amidst greater awareness of anti-Asian violence, there is now talk of congressional hearings and resumed efforts to pass legislation to bolster federal aid to localities for hate-crime reporting and training.

Filed Under: Commentaries, This week's issue Tagged With: 2021, VOL 40 NO 10 | MARCH 6 - MARCH 12

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