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February 2008

Short Post: When Asian-Americans Travel the World

Fri, 02/29/2008 - 07:18
There's a great post just up at Racialicious called "Brown and Out of Town: a POC Traveler’s Guide to Racism".

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Obama Viral Video Artists in Houston

Thu, 02/28/2008 - 12:07
OBAMA VIRAL VIDEO ARTISTS TRAVEL TO HOUSTONLatino/Asian American Artists Behind "Si Se Puede Cambair" Arrive Tomorrow HOUSTON, TX – The artists behind the viral music video "Si Se Puede Cambiar" (Yes  We Can Change) will fly to Houston, TX this weekend to volunteer for  Senator Barack Obama's presidential campaign.  "Si Se Puede Cambiar" has now been posted to the internet with Engli

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Musings revisit McCain's "Gooks" & likely VietAm support

Thu, 02/28/2008 - 11:19
A thread by Mojave Mike on Daily Kos goes a little beyond recalling John McCain's 2000 bout with Tourette's Syndrome -- his outbursts against "gooks" and only belated and reluctant backing off -- to puzzle over what it might mean for the Vietnamese American community in 2008.  Not much, he supposes.

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Video: Derrick Eloquently Illustrates the Power of Supporters on the Street

Thu, 02/28/2008 - 10:04
For those who missed it, an extraordinary video with Derrick, an African American Obama supporter, which I found by way of the Think on These Things blog.  Watch with immense gratification as the tension with the interviewer melts away, and the poin

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Texas' Asian American Vote

Mon, 02/25/2008 - 12:27
Texas contains one of the largest populations of Asian American voters in the country.

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Taking A Chance With Words

Sun, 02/24/2008 - 08:16
There's a lot of political coverage right now.  Obama and Clinton are dominating the media waves and finding their way into my living room every day.  In my own "Si Se Puede" chanting apartment, I  feel empowered by Obama's words to rise up myself, for the good of the world, for true progression, and change. So, where do I begin? Or, rather, how do I continue? My mind sends me in the direction

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National Review tests interracial marriage/communism smear, forgets to use the Google

Thu, 02/21/2008 - 18:58
dday at Hullabaloo tips us to a repulsive National Review post in which Lisa Schiffrin claims that "for a white woman to marry a black man in 1958, or 60, there was almost inevitably a connection to explicit Communist politics" and concludes, "Time for some investigative journalism about the Obama family's background." Schiffin elaborates

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War on Asians

Thu, 02/21/2008 - 15:04
(Hat-tip: Angry Asian Man) Wow. Max Karson, a columnist at Colorado University, wrote a “satirical” piece in the campus newspaper declaring a war on Asian students.

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Obama: Day of Remembrance

Tue, 02/19/2008 - 17:45
The following is Senator Barack Obama's statement on today's Day of Remembrance for Japanese American Internees of World War II.
===================== FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 19, 2008 Obama Press Office; 312-819-24

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Short Marker of Day of Remembrance

Tue, 02/19/2008 - 16:43
From DayofRemembrance.org:
On February 19, 1942, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, setting into motion the exclusion, removal, detention and incarceration of over 120,000 persons of Japanese ancestry during World War II. After decades of activism by Japanese Americans and a broad, multicultural coaliti

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