February 4, 2005: Headlines: COS - El Salvador: Politics: Congress: Election2006: Asian American Issues: Asia Week: Congressman Mike Honda is candidate for vice chair of the Democratic National Committee - He earned his mettle in the Peace Corps and suffered in internment camps; he is an educator fluent in Spanish who hails from the nation’s technology hub. His are the experiences of Asian America
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February 4, 2005: Headlines: COS - El Salvador: Politics: Congress: Election2006: Asian American Issues: Asia Week: Congressman Mike Honda is candidate for vice chair of the Democratic National Committee - He earned his mettle in the Peace Corps and suffered in internment camps; he is an educator fluent in Spanish who hails from the nation’s technology hub. His are the experiences of Asian America
Congressman Mike Honda is candidate for vice chair of the Democratic National Committee - He earned his mettle in the Peace Corps and suffered in internment camps; he is an educator fluent in Spanish who hails from the nation’s technology hub. His are the experiences of Asian America
Congressman Mike Honda is candidate for vice chair of the Democratic National Committee - He earned his mettle in the Peace Corps and suffered in internment camps; he is an educator fluent in Spanish who hails from the nation’s technology hub. His are the experiences of Asian America
Lead Editorial:The Civic Honda
By Samson Wong, Feb 04, 2005
In another first, Congressman Mike Honda is a candidate for vice chair of the Democratic National Committee. It is a post he prepared for well last fall while crisscrossing the country to successfully organize a majority of APA voters to support the Democratic ticket.
Now, the party is undergoing a self-examination and rejuvenation that will set a new tone. It is a debate that all APA Democrats must participate in, and it is why our community and our nation need to have Honda’s leadership there.
Honda’s experiences run the spectrum of what it means to be an American. He earned his mettle in the Peace Corps and suffered in internment camps; he is an educator fluent in Spanish who hails from the nation’s technology hub, San Jose, Calif. His are the experiences of Asian America.
A bridge builder in the political as well as personal sense, he will improve the party for all Democrats.
AsianWeek urges party members to contact their delegates to vote for Mike Honda for vice chair of the Democratic National Committee.Do We Get Even, or Do We Get Ahead?
It’s a tragedy that our community has expended so much energy protesting the broadcasting of an anti-Asian parody of “We are the World.” As we go to press, Emmis Communications and New York radio station HOT 97 have announced two employee firings, three suspensions and a $1 million donation to Give2Asia.
We acknowledge these concrete steps. Next, the company needs to address the corporate culture that moved so slowly to address the anti-Asian venom in its own programming.
We hope the company will reach out to the Asian American community in an effort to promote understanding and good business. It will find that Asian Americans bring a depth and fullness in developing a culture of diversity in the workplace. It will also find that we respond to companies that develop strong relationships with our community.
We are strong economic partners, offering the highest levels of income and disposable wealth to companies.
When this story was posted in February 2005, this was on the front page of PCOL:
| RPCVs mobilize support for Countries of Service RPCV Groups mobilize to support their Countries of Service. Over 200 RPCVS have already applied to the Crisis Corps to provide Tsunami Recovery aid, RPCVs have written a letter urging President Bush and Congress to aid Democracy in Ukraine, and RPCVs are writing NBC about a recent episode of the "West Wing" and asking them to get their facts right about Turkey. |
| Ask Not As our country prepares for the inauguration of a President, we remember one of the greatest speeches of the 20th century and how his words inspired us. "And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man." |
| Latest: RPCVs and Peace Corps provide aid Peace Corps made an appeal last week to all Thailand RPCV's to consider serving again through the Crisis Corps and more than 30 RPCVs have responded so far. RPCVs: Read what an RPCV-led NGO is doing about the crisis an how one RPCV is headed for Sri Lanka to help a nation he grew to love. Question: Is Crisis Corps going to send RPCVs to India, Indonesia and nine other countries that need help? |
| The World's Broken Promise to our Children Former Director Carol Bellamy, now head of Unicef, says that the appalling conditions endured today by half the world's children speak to a broken promise. Too many governments are doing worse than neglecting children -- they are making deliberate, informed choices that hurt children. Read her op-ed and Unicef's report on the State of the World's Children 2005. |
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