By Elaine Ikoma Ko For Northwest Asian Weekly The world has lost a hero. Bob was larger than life, and so full of life and energy that we cannot fathom that he is gone. As I write these personal reflections, I am still unable to grasp the depth of losing him. You see Bob was […]
Commentaries on Initiative 123
Initiative 123 would establish a public development authority (PDA) to build and operate an elevated park and other amenities along the Seattle waterfront, integrating one block of the existing Alaskan Way Viaduct into the design. “YES” ON INITIATIVE 123 By Octavia Hathaway and Kate Martin Alaskan Way Elevated Park — a new garden bridge stretching […]
Philadelphia, 2016 Democratic National Convention … here I come!
By David Chan Special to the Northwest Asian Weekly Editor’s note: The following article represents the thoughts of a fire commissioner from Snohomish County and his experience trying to become a delegate for Bernie Sanders. The Democratic National Convention will be held in Philadelphia from July 25–28. This is my second article in a series […]
Catch ‘em all and make new friends
By Ruth Bayang Northwest Asian Weekly You’ve probably heard by now of the Pokémon Go phenomenon. Or you’ve seen groups of people gather in one place, their eyes glued to their smartphones. Pokémon Go is a free-to-play mobile app that you can download for iOS or Android. Released earlier this month, the app has quickly […]
Childhood friends rally around Vietnam vet
By Jane McKinley-Chinn Special to the Northwest Asian Weekly Ken Fugami, 73, is an Army Vietnam veteran who was exposed to Agent Orange, a toxic chemical used to defoliate forest areas that might conceal the enemy. After his military service, he developed narcolepsy, which he suspects was the result of Agent Orange. The condition gradually […]
Dear Mom, Dad, Uncle, Auntie: Black Lives Matter to us, too
Editor’s note: This letter was drafted by hundreds of Asian Americans to their own elders addressing the recent police shootings and the Black Lives Matter movement. Mom, Dad, Uncle, Auntie, Grandfather, Grandmother: We need to talk. You may not have grown up around people who are Black, but I have. Black people are a fundamental […]
COMMENTARY: Jenny Chen’s disappearance and the media’s hierarchy of empathy
By Jeff Dunsavage Director, The Missing Americans Project In the early 2000s, amid several highly publicized disappearances of women in the United States (including Laci Peterson, whose husband eventually was convicted for her murder), I read a satirical press release announcing the creation of a TV channel called WTWWA: The “Where The White Women At?” […]
Op-ed on secure scheduling
By Sejal Parikh Special to Northwest Asian Weekly Imagine getting a text at 5:11 a.m. instructing you that you had just been added to the work schedule and were expected to be on the job at 6:30 a.m. Imagine trying to raise a child when both you and your spouse don’t find out until Thursday […]
Another controversial case of whitewashing, Scarlett Johansson cast as lead in “Ghost in the Shell”
By Eric Card Northwest Asian Weekly “Ghost in the Shell,” a popular Japanese manga series following a cyborg policewoman, is getting a live-action adaptation set to release in 2017. However, the film is already receiving a heavy dose of backlash over the casting of Scarlett Johansson as its lead character, Major Motoko Kusanagi. This is […]
COMMENTARY: The roots of Chinese American silence on political events can’t be overlooked
By Li Jin For Northwest Asian Weekly New York police officer Peter Liang was patrolling a dark staircase in a Brooklyn housing complex when his gun discharged accidentally, and the bullet struck and killed a man walking down the stairs with his girlfriend. This was terrible enough, but what made it worse was that it […]
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