Tag: fight
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Democratic mayors in San Francisco and Oakland fight to keep their jobs on Election Day
San Francisco Mayor London Breed and Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao are making the case as to why voters on Election Day should re-elect them. Full story: https://www.kcra.com/article/general-election-san-francisco-oakland-mayors/62817703
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Mayors in San Francisco and Oakland fight to keep their jobs on Election Day
Two of the most closely watched elections in the Bay Area on Tuesday involve the office of mayor in both San Francisco and Oakland. Full story: https://www.nbcbayarea.com/decision-2024/mayoral-race-sf-recall-oakland/3699643/
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Minority athletes hope their Olympic journeys will sway intolerant hearts and minds
Minority athletes don’t just bear their countries’ hopes for gold at the Olympics and Paralympics, but the fight for others of similar backgrounds to be accepted. Full story: https://www.latimes.com/sports/olympics/story/2024-09-01/minority-athletes-hope-their-olympic-journeys-will-sway-intolerant-hearts-and-minds
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Milwaukee’s New Tool To Fight Reckless Driving? Public Art
Messages about positive behavior, in three languages (English, Spanish, Hmong), are interspersed with 50 hand-carved images of Milwaukee buildings from all across the city, illustrating that the … Full story: https://urbanmilwaukee.com/2024/08/14/city-hall-milwaukees-new-tool-to-fight-reckless-driving-public-art/
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Newsom signs bill to end parental notification policies at schools; opponents say fight is not over
California is the first state to pass a law prohibiting school boards from requiring staff to notify parents if their child could be transgender. Full story: https://edsource.org/2024/newsom-signs-bill-to-end-parental-notification-policies-at-schools-but-opponents-say-its-not-over-yet/715767
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Friends and family remember a comedian who was taken too soon
Tou Ger’s family says he used humor and a captivating personality to fight for change and share Hmong culture with everyone. Including at the Great Minnesota Get Together where Tou founded “Hmong Day” … Full story: https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/friends-and-family-remember-a-comedian-who-was-taken-too-soon/
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Trust is key to discussing addiction with Hmong and Karen youth, community leaders say
Experts say the community needs to stop stigmatizing addiction in order to fight substance abuse among Hmong and Karen youth. Full story: https://sahanjournal.com/health/karen-hmong-youth-addiction-stigma/
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Longtime activist pushed city to fight PFAS
Maria Powell, a longtime Madison environmentalist who pushed local officials to address PFAS compounds and other industrial contamination, died Saturday of a pancreatic cancer she believed was at leas … Read Full Article
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In the fight against illegal cannabis, language complicates the conversation
We published our first investigation in 2017, examining what seemed an unsustainable explosion of illegal small farms run by Hmong growers in the high desert of Siskiyou County. Cannabis experts said … Read Full Article
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California county repeals water regulations that Asian Americans say targeted their community
Many Asian American activists and community members in Siskiyou County, California, are celebrating a win in their fight against local water regulations that they say have led to discrimination and … Read Full Article
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Operation Popcorn
During the Vietnam War, the CIA recruited Hmong tribesmen in the hills of Laos to fight the Communists, then brought them as refugees to America. Forty years later in California, someone who might be … Read Full Article
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‘I don’t want more children to suffer what I did’: the 50-year fight to clear US bombs from Laos
Since the last bomb fell on this neutral country 50 years ago, unexploded ordnance has killed 20,000 people. And it could take 100 years to clear it all … Read Full Article
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Welcome Vietnam Veterans Day
Middaugh shined a spotlight on the Lao and Hmong soldiers who were hired by U.S. special forces to fight the Northern Vietnamese, yet are rarely acknowledged for their service. Several Lao and Hmong … Read Full Article
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Our 10 favorite dishes of 2022, from sandwich to steak, are all worth seeking
This year, 2022, felt to me like the year that we finally started to get back on track. Yes, the pandemic is still here, but we have vaccines and drugs to fight back with. And that means eating out is … Read Full Article
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The Fresno Center receives grant to fight against Asian hate
“There was an incident with a Hmong man. He was attacked in Roeding Park,” she said. Cruz added: “An Asian man, he found his car was vandalized with hate messages, and this happened at a local … Read Full Article