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West Coast Helps Launch National Hepatitis Testing Day
22 May 2012 11:30 PM | No CommentsU.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) highlights Hep B Free and Hep C Task Force for Los Angeles and San Francisco as part of nearly 100 testing events across U.S. SAN FRANCISCO AND LOS ANGELES, CA – May 19, 2012 – Fresh on the heels...
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Free Hep B and Hep C Testing at AHSC’s Healthy Living Pavilion
18 May 2012 11:42 PM | No CommentsThe Healthy Living Pavilion at the 8th Annual Asian Heritage Street Celebration taking place at San Francisco’s Civic Center on May 19th, will provide free and low-cost health services, professional medical advice, interactive activities with prizes and health-related education materials. Located on Larkin Street between...
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Amok again: Have a “Lin-sane” Street Fair!
18 May 2012 11:35 PM | 1 CommentWhat, another year? Another heritage month? Why not let your friendly longtime amok columnist slice and dice things up for you nicely? This year we replaced poor Asian American YouTube hater, Alexandra Wallace, the blonde buxom bully of Asian Americans in the library, with basketball...
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SF Hosts Largest Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Celebration Saturday, May 19 at Civic Center
18 May 2012 11:11 PM | No CommentsSAN FRANCISCO – The City is hosting the largest pan Asian street fair nationwide to celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage month on Saturday, May 19th at San Francisco’s Civic Center. The 8th Annual Asian Heritage Street Celebration, produced by the AsianWeek Foundation, will feature a...
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Rob McKenna Opens WA Campaign Office In Seattle Chinatown/ID
18 May 2012 1:53 AM | No CommentsI got this in my e-mail box. I first ran into Rob McKenna when he ran for Attorney General back in 2000 on the campaign trail for Supt of Public Instruction. Now he’s a favorite to be the next governor against Jay Inslee. While Rob...
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Beyond Borders Archive
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Arlene “What Pogrom?” Ackermann Out, Chinese Navy No Threat
Posted on August 27, 2011 | 4 CommentsPhilidelphia’s Ackermann Gets $1M To Get Fired [Hu's On First ] Last time you heard about Philadelphi’s Arlene Ackerman, their superintendent of color, I slammed her for trying blame the hapless Asian victims in the South Philadelphia high school riots. Now I can have the... -
On The Scene: Trekking to Beatiful Bhutan and Nepal
Posted on May 1, 2010 | No CommentsThe country of Bhutan has always held a fascination for me, and after seeing the wonderful Bhutan exhibit at San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum last year, it was a definite destination desire for the Wongs. Bhutan is a beautiful undiscovered part of the world, but... -
Black-Asian Unity: Why we need to talk about race relations beyond individual incidents
Posted on April 27, 2010 | No CommentsBy Sam Cacas Since publishing my first book, “BlAsian Exchanges, a novel” two years ago, I have often been asked to speak about the real-life common history of Blacks & Asians that is highlighted throughout my book. This includes the true story about Richard Aoki,... -
Black-Asian Unity: BlAsian Love in the New Media
Posted on December 7, 2009 | 5 CommentsBy Sam Cacas Absence makes the heart grow fonder. And for a writer, I might add that absence also makes the words go stronger. Since this column’s appearance in the summer, a number of new media developments have taken the BlAsian world by storm and... -
LGBT Perspective: For 2009: Tolerance Not Violence
Posted on December 29, 2008 | 1 CommentA woman was beaten and raped by four men. They terrorized her for close to an hour and, when they were done, left her naked in the street. Throughout the attack, they taunted her with the reason she was chosen: She is a lesbian. -
Christmas and Its Malcontents
Posted on December 16, 2008 | No CommentsMuch to my annoyance, some of the Christmas zealots in my neighborhood put up their lights as early as Halloween this year. And I distinctly remember hearing the first hints of Christmas music over the speakers in a pharmacy two weeks before Thanksgiving, as if... -
Blasian Perspective: Discovering My African Roots
Posted on December 9, 2008 | 5 CommentsAre Asians descended from the African continent? While many side with historians who believe that civilization started in Europe or China, I have believed the answer to the above question to be an emphatic yes since reading The Destruction of African Civilization by Chancellor Williams... -
LGBT Perspective: The Success Of A Loss
Posted on December 3, 2008 | No CommentsCalifornia now has a constitution with an amendment that discriminates against a minority. California now has two groups of people: one can marry, the other cannot. -
Faith Perspective: Praying for a Future President
Posted on November 24, 2008 | No CommentsCongratulations, Asian America, on the new president! You worked hard, listened and voted. But is Obama the answer to your prayers? For African Americans, Obama is an answer to decades of prayers, not cheap please-don’t-let-the-Republicans -win-again kind of prayers, but prayers borne of the Civil... -
Blasian Perspective: Yes, We Did!
Posted on November 16, 2008 | No CommentsRemember my August 7 column where I boldly predicted that Barack Obama would be the first BlAsian president of the United States? (BlAsian in the combined biological-family-cultural sense: His father is Kenyan and his stepfather, who helped raise him, is Indonesian. And Barack was born...