AsianWeek, the largest and longest and established English language weekly for Asian Pacific Americans, has continually explored and exposed issues relevant to its readers.
“For the last 28 years, AsianWeek has been the mirror of our community, showing our triumphs and shortcomings, serving as both the face and conscience of Asian America,” said AsianWeek President James Fang. “AsianWeek has acted as a forum in advocating for those Asian Americans who were defenseless and voiceless in the face of an uncaring power. Whether it was in bringing much-needed national and decisive exposure to the killing of Vincent Chin or in demanding justice for Wen Ho Lee and Capt. James Yee, the strength of AsianWeek has been its unequivocal eagerness to support our community.”
In 1965, after the Hart-Celler Immigration Act ended over 80 years of race-based exclusion of immigrants from Asia, America for the first time experienced an influx of Asian immigration. As Asian Americans became the fastest growing minority in the U.S. and as they became more settled, they began forming organizations and associations to serve their communities.
But who would report and tell the stories of this community? Realizing the need to provide a voice for Asian Pacific America, visionary John Fang, started AsianWeek newspaper in 1979. Based in San Francisco with a circulation of almost 50,000, AsianWeek continues to be the longest and largest running weekly published from a shared Asian American perspective using the English language to connect and outreach to not only Asians and Asian Americans but to all interested in learning and reading about the APA experience. In 1995, AsianWeek changed its format to a full-color one and converted itself from an exclusively paid circulation newspaper to a publication consisting of both free distribution and paid subscribers.
AsianWeek, is more than just a news resource, the newspaper is committed to promoting and participating in events that celebrate the diversity of our community. AsianWeek plays an active role in sponsoring and hosting community events, spreading health awareness on Hepatitis B, and promoting cross-cultural and interracial cooperation with major outdoor events in San Francisco, including the Castro Street Fair, Chinatown Autumn Moon Festival Street Fair, Haight-Ashbury Street Fair and Nihonmachi Street Fair. AsianWeek is also on the planning committee for the Asian Heritage Street Celebration, Northern California Cherry Blossom Festival, and Pistahan Filipino Parade and Festival.
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Hope to see you at the 5 Funny Females, Fags & Friends shows at the Purple Onion, http://www. purpleonioncomedy. com in San Francisco on October 3-5 that I will be hosting. See you at the show. Best, Susan
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I, CHAU VAN TRUONG, have done my best to place the VIETNAMESE and fellow ASIANS into the INERNATIONAL SPOTLIGHTS. No lone individual, but a collective agreement of minds, can soldier on to make the pursuit of this dream become reality. Our identity, heritage, and our place in history depend on our perseverance, courage, and support from today and future generation to shape the promises and intellects of our youth. We must not accept the labels of what people say we are but show them what we are capable of. I have spoke often of a higher purpose and there are no higher purpose then loving who you are and to avoid the chasm of the status quo that shame us into the negative lights of the global community. WE, VIETNAMESE and fellow ASIANS, will make the impossible a possibility.
"DIVERTING THE BUDDHA is an ambitious novel that delivers through a vivid portrayal of the treachery and deceit that emerged during the catastrophic Vietnam War. Bob Swartzel wastes little time in immersing his readers in a chaotic world where poor innocent people are caught between a corrupt Vietnamese leadership, as well as the self-interest of a few profiteers and an American foreign policy gone amok. Among the many achievements of this novel is Swartzel’s ability to provide his readers with a realistic sense of the historical setting the characters inhabit. It also vividly captures the chaotic theater of war where we witness a gritty epoch of guns, politics, treachery and economic self-interest.
No doubt there are many novels pertaining to the Vietnam War, however, this one stands out as an unforgettable tale at its most emotional and painful with its multiple perspectives pertaining to the politics and history recounted in human terms. ” Norm Goldman, B.A. LL.L, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures. com
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Washington Transcripts (What is really being said in DC)
Those envoys of the Dalai Lama in China, talking with the Chinese government, I can take some credit for pulling that off. I talked with senior officials in China's government, personally, and told them how a predecessor of mine, President Johnson, tricked Buddhist monks back in Vietnam, tricked them into talking instead of protesting. That little trick allowed him to derail the Vietnamese pro-democracy movement, damp down world opinion, and keep the Vietnam War going nine years. I even sent those China boys a book called “Diverting the Buddha”. It tells just how President Johnson pulled off his little Texas hat trick.
From Diverting the Buddha, the blog that is all about political hacks betraying democracy!
Please vote for Susan Alexander (Korean comic) at http://www. friarsroast. com/roasts/susan-alexander-roast-of-george-takei/ at the Friars Roast semi-finals of George Takei so I can make the finals. The top prize is roasting the Today's show Matt Lauer at the annual Friars Club New York City event in October.
