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In the three days the team was in San Diego, they had met people from all over the world. There were Vietnamese speakers, Arabic; Gujarati, Portuguese, in addition to Chinese, Spanish, and English. But according to CAA’s Managing Director of…
隨著疫情而來的仇視亞裔事件，讓亞裔社區受到嚴重打擊，有份志願發起Stop AAPI Hate的創始人崔貞文（Cynthia Choi）跟我們分享成立的過程和她的工作。
華人權益促進會27日發布《三藩市的電子數碼沙漠：三藩市華埠和其他社區如何在於使用電子數碼網路服務方面落後於其他地區》報告，調查了華埠缺乏負擔得起且可靠的寬頻網路的情況。如果沒有高品質的寬頻網路服務，學生很難完成作業，家庭很難找到工作或獲得基本服務，老年人會被孤立，小型企業在網路經濟中的競爭能力也會受到阻礙。
華人權益促進會（CAA）27日發布的一份報告發現，在全美科技重鎮舊金山，44%的華埠家庭沒有訂購寬帶網路（internet broadband），且47%的華埠家庭沒有桌上型電腦或筆電。
Among the groups that joined the protest were members of the Chinese for Affirmative Action, MinKwon Center for Community Action, United Neighborhood Houses, The Black Institute, and city council members Shahana Hanif of District 39 and Alexa Aviles of District…
“People are in distress,” she explained. “Often times there is conflict, incidents that occur that can be racialized, especially in an environment that has been hostile toward immigrants, people of color, people who are trans or gender nonconforming. Hate begets…
Cynthia Choi, co-executive director of Chinese for Affirmative Action, working to stop hate in the AAPI community, implementing new strategies that are based on prevention, under the current panorama, it is only generating.
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…