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Community activists call on LA City Council to rename Pershing Square

Community activists call on LA City Council to rename Pershing Square
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Worker Centers: Past, Present, and Future

Worker Centers: Past, Present, and Future
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Pandemic Discrimination Against Asian Americans Has Long Roots

“I have pepper spray and I hold it every time I’m alone right now in case I see someone that is really frightening,” said New York City teacher Annie Tan, who is Chinese American. By February 2020, friends of hers had already been verbally harassed on the subway. One had been deliberately coughed on. Another was too scared to take the train anymore. Many Asian Americans and

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COVID-19: Asian Americans joblessness has lasted longer in pandemic

Last week, San Diego airport bartender Anita Burbage got the call she’d been waiting months to hear – that it was time to go back to work. Burbage, 56, who came to the United States in 1991 from her native Philippines, didn’t mind that she’d be instead working as a server, and for just two days a week. After spending most of the past year unemployed, the Chula Vista, California, resident was grateful to be working again. She and her hospitality worker colleagues have survived the year in part because of regular Zoom chats organized by their union in which they share their fears: That they won’t be able to make rent. That they’ll get COVID. Or for her fellow Filipino colleagues, that they’ll be assaulted – simply because they’re Asian.

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Hate Crimes Spike Against Asian Americans

pexels-cottonbro-5990715 A rash of hate incidents against Asian Americans is spreading like a virus since the COVID-19 pandemic hit. On March 16, eight people were shot and killed at three Atlanta area spas amid growing fears nationwide of anti-Asian bias. Six of the victims were Asian women. Anti‐Asian hate crimes surged by a staggering 149% in 16 of America’s largest cities, even though overall hate crime dropped by 7% in 2020, according to a fact sheet released by the California State University’s Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism. With the stabbing of a 36 year Asian man in Chinatown In February, New York leapt to the top of the leaderboard for the most number (28) of racially motivated crimes against people of Asian descent in a major city, followed by Los Angeles (15) and Boston (14), in hate incidents reported to the police.

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