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Election misinformation is a longstanding problem in the Chinese-language community, Niu said, but she worries that the proliferation of deepfakes — notoriously difficult to identify — will make her team’s fact-checking work even harder.
Representatives from community-based organizations including Self Help for the Elderly, Casa Circulo in Redwood City and Chinese for Affirmative Action were also on hand during the event. Tables with information on health care and other services was also made available.
“We’ve seen how police chases have led to the deaths and injuries of our community members in San Francisco,” said the group’s community safety and justice policy manager Nhi Nguyen in an email.
Chinese for Affirmative Action, a decades-old California-based group that protects the civil and political rights of Chinese Americans, spoke with about 100 Chinese migrants on a recent trip to the border, spokesperson Sin Yen Ling said.
“…it paints a very tiny picture of overall harm that occurs that’s impacting the Asian American community,” said Janice Li, director of the Coalition for Community Safety and Justice, formed in 2019 from four nonprofits to address public safety concerns…
安老自助處行政總裁鍾月娟、CYC社區青年中心行政總裁溫靜婷、華人進步會政治主任林德樂、STOP AAPI HATE政策常務主任李申申、新呼吸基金會創始人鄭小飛等社區領袖均到場。
Dozens rallied holding signs with messages like, “stop Asian hate, stop the violence” and “I want to get home safe, end the violence against Asians.”
Chinese for Affirmative Action, a decades-old California-based group that protects the civil and political rights of Chinese Americans, spoke with about 100 Chinese migrants on a recent trip to the border, spokesperson Sin Yen Ling said.
Opponents call the measure “dangerous and punitive,” while proponents argue it would help get people into drug treatment programs.
“The alleged spy balloon was contributing towards… perceptions that Chinese and Chinese Americans and Asian Americans and immigrants writ large should be considered a suspicious class,” says Cynthia Choi, co-director for Chinese for Affirmative Action.
Groups representing the Asian community included and were not limited to Stop AAPI Hate, and the Asian Pacific Fund, and Chinese for Affirmative Action (CAA), which had raised and distributed $200,000 directly to the affected families.
“The city and county have long known about the deplorable working and housing conditions of migrant workers,” said Cynthia Choi, co-executive director of advocacy group Chinese for Affirmative Action, who has met with survivors. “They have a duty and obligation…