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Activist Alice Wong reflects on 'The Year of the Tiger' and her hopes for 2023
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The news moved on fast, but I needed time to process how the shooting in my neighborhood shattered our sense of safety in Asian American suburbia. Can we look beyond 'hate crimes' as a framework for justice? Here's my latest about it for .
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I spoke to Ru'a Rimawi, whose brothers Jawad & Thafer were killed by Israeli occupation forces on Nov 29, 2021. Since then, Rimawi has been engaged in memorialization ritual that is as necessary as it is painful. My latest for
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it wasn't the plan for me to do an intro, but as the ep came together it spilled out of me. i am worried it's corny, selfish, tacky but i think. if it was necessary to explain the fundamentals of sgv to this audience, then. i wanted to explain my particular sadness, too.
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this episode of code switch features 's excellent reporting out of monterey park, 's beautiful production, so much collaboration from the team, my mom, and my overwhelming grief.
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Reporter shared her incredible reporting out of Monterey Park with us in this week’s episode. She wrote a piece based on our conversation for about the special place the city holds for the Asian diaspora in Southern California.
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Monterey Park, CA is more than its recent tragedy, it’s a city with a rich history and community. This week, the role the city plays in Asian America, the residents and neighbors who love it, and collective grief during Lunar New Year🧧
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A portrait of Tyre Nichols and his son on display outside the church sanctuary during his funeral service.
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What's left after a mass shooting, after the crush of news vans disappear?
The people who love the place. A woman who couldn't wait to leave but came back to raise her son. The Midwesterner who found the culture and belonging he missed out on as a kid.
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The video of Tyre Nichols skateboarding as a teenager moved me to my core. I’m so glad they exist.
So, I tracked down his friend Austin and spoke w/ him about Tyre, skateboarding and what the videos mean to him now. My latest:
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A lot is going on. If you have the capacity🙏, I would appreciate if you could take a moment to read more about some of the victims from Half Moon Bay.
I’m glad I got to advocate for “eat bitter” (吃苦）as a cultural specific term published by
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"Do not talk to us about potential for 'violence' from protestors, to do so is to appropriate the language and framing of white supremacy"
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I wrote about Monterey Park, which was and will continue to be a beacon for Asian American life
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We mourn the loss of 7 farm workers in #HalfMoonBay.
While we wait for more news, we dream of a nation in which our hearts have a moment to heal in between breaking.
Our full statement:
ufw.org/ufw-statement-
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Still saddened by the news in Monterey Park.😢In 2016, I wrote about Star Dance, the dance hall where the tragedy took place. It was such a lively place where folks of all different backgrounds would come together to enjoy themselves on the dance floor:
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1/ We, the staff of , are forming a union!
Unionizing will help us create the best version of Reveal, protect our work and mission, and preserve this organization’s legacy. This is our mission statement. #RevealCIRGuild
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this podcast has *everything*:
- an underdog who rises to mythical status
- a heist gone horribly wrong
- a lesson on the US justice system — who it serves, who it doesn’t, why
(also our team’s been working on it for MONTHS so. that too)
listen now:
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i wish the pizza thing was real because it's so much funnier than him being the most well known sex trafficker on the english language internet
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wrote about lensa's AI app not knowing what to do with my face — which led me down a rabbit hole of AI generated art's ethical issues
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friday was my last day at npr — I’m free and looking for freelance, part-time and full-time work: audio production gigs, writing/editing on art, culture, food, music, tv/film, etc.
⚡️ summerthomad.com
💌 summer.thomad @ gmail dot com
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once again i am being incredibly earnest on the internet <3 wrote about coming back to ballet as an adult and being passionately mediocre in community
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the new york times union is walking out today, yes; also down here in texas, a huge state with a major dearth of local coverage, the fort worth newsguild is on day 11 of a strike against mcclatchy which has revoked their health insurance and posted their jobs
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Day 10 of our strike. Here are some wild policies @mcclatchy has proposed:
1) Parental Leave: the company insists people should have less paid leave depending on how they gave birth. Meaning staff would have to tell the company whether they gave birth vaginally or via c-section
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Good luck and respect to the striking workers at Newark and Logan airports, UC, the New School, HarperCollins, the NYT, and elsewhere. Everyone deserves a living wage.
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Today we were ready to work for as long as it took to reach a fair deal, but management walked away from the table with five hours to go. It’s official: members are walking out for 24 hours on Thursday. We know what we’re worth.
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Many video game industry workers are tired of the status quo, ready to leave behind a culture of sexism, harassment, and mismanagement. This is how the industry is unionizing, compiled into a 54-page zine we've been working on over the past year:
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spotify making its own myers-briggs is very funny to me. my first reaction was to say “u just made that up!!” but that’s exactly what they did with the real one lmao. except with an added tinge racism
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we've got charts breaking down state-by-state restrictions* in gender-affirming health care and schooling, as well as current nondiscrimination protections:
*(note: some of these laws may have passed, but not be in effect due to court injunctions.)
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