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March 4, 2021
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(Commentary co-written by UCLA’s Cecilia Rios-Aguilar) We are all ready to put COVID-19 behind us. But let us be clear: Few people have been squeezed harder by this pandemic than low-income Californians who are trying to get a college degree remotely while raising children who are also “doing school” from home. For them, recent and forthcoming financial supports from federal and state governments and their own campuses have been a critical lifeline.
They gather almost every night at San Francisco s Dragon Gate, the ornately decorated entrance to the nation s oldest Chinatown. Armed with only whistles and pamphlets, the volunteer neighbourhood patrol roams the streets, checking out ATMs and mum-and-pop shops in areas where Asian residents have experienced attacks that have left this neighbourhood on edge. Some volunteers drive more than an hour to walk these blocks - largely deserted by a combination of fear and pandemic lockdown - to hand out bilingual fliers that explain how to report a crime to police. Similar patrols have sprouted in Asian neighbourhoods in Oakland, California, Los Angeles and New York City, a response to what these communities say is a wave of racist violence and harassment since headlines about a virus from China began appearing in US media a year ago.
'Nobody came, nobody helped': Fears of anti-Asian violence rattle the community mysanantonio.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from mysanantonio.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.