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Buffalo Brewing Co., 300 Olive Street
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Mother’s Kettle Corn & the American Marketplace

Mon, 11/30/2009 - 07:59

Mother’s Kettle Corn & the American Marketplace
By EunSook Lee

I travel out of town for work for many weeks out of a year, so whenever I am in Los Angeles, I feel like I am rushing to squeeze as much out of the limited days I have in the office. I do that so that I can spend special time with my children. And, when we can, we make sure to stop by the farmer’s market. We go for our favorite: standard American kettle corn.


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Join us on Mon., 11/23 -- Stand Strong for Inclusive Health Reform (SF)

Mon, 11/30/2009 - 07:58

Communities of color from across California are gathering at the health reform table because we are part of this country. Back in Washington, DC, people like Rep. Joe Wilson represent America’s worst. On Monday, November 23, in San Francisco, we will assert ourselves as immigrants because we are America. We are disappointed about how public conversations about who immigrants are have led to the exclusion of immigrants in health reform legislation.


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Making Room for Everyone at the Health Reform Table

Mon, 11/30/2009 - 07:54

The reality is that as we come closer to the passage of health reform, many immigrants are going to be left out.


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The Asian American Divide between First and Second Generations in Politics and Community Organizing

Tue, 08/25/2009 - 23:38

Here's an article about generational conflict in political races between Asian Americans.  Pictured above is PJ Kim. He's running for City Council in NYC against Margaret Chin.  The article quotes Sandy Kim,


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Update: Lori Phanachone

Fri, 03/27/2009 - 11:13

It seems that a lot of you readers have been contacting the folks at Storm Lake School District, where Lori Phanachone, a high school senior is waging a noble fight against a lame test that I really think is discriminatory in effect to children of immigrants. I just received an email from the superintendent in Storm Lake, which reads: