How I Died in Viet Nam
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Apr 30, 2010
Actually, I died in Viet Nam. I’ve lived a rich and varied life the past forty years, but back in early 1970, I never made it home like I was supposed to. At least the me that was did not; that is, the one who died in Vietnam, Viet Nam.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: american vets, anniversary, April 30, communist, vietnam, vietnamese americans, war
Immigrant Workers Face Firings Even Without Arizonas Laws
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Apr 30, 2010
San Francisco might be pondering a boycott of Arizona because of its new immigration law but 475 immigrant janitors in San Francisco are facing firing after Homeland Security reviewed their Social Security records.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: Arizona, immigration, janitors, workplace raids
Arizona Law Spurs Conservatives to Push for Immigration Reform
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Apr 30, 2010
Conservative leaders and clergy joined hands to denounce anti-immigrant legislation in Arizona, citing the impact it was having on their congregations and called on Republicans to reclaim immigration as an issue.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: Arizona, arizona immigration, conservatives, immigration reform, sb 1070, sb1070
Vietnam 35 Years Later: Betrayal Is Vietnam's Story
New America Media, News Analysis, Posted: Apr 30, 2010
On the 35th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War, Andrew Lam, NAM editor and author of Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora, revisited his homeland with a PBS Newshour film crew to look at where Vietnam is heading, and assess its relationship with returning Vietnamese Americans.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: anniversary, April 30, communism, relations, Viet kieu, vietnam, vietnamese americans, war
First Legal Salvo Launched Against Arizona Immigration Law
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Apr 29, 2010
A coalition of religious groups today commenced the legal battle against Arizona’s new controversial immigrant law, filing suit in the U.S. District Court to stop its implementation.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: arizona immigration law, Joe Arpaio, law enforcement, lega Salvo, Maricopa County
Arizona's Alarm Bell for Immigration Reform
New America Media/Council on Foreign Relations, News Analysis, Posted: Apr 29, 2010
To a greater extent than anywhere else in the country, Arizona's leadership]has become fixated on the idea that enforcement alone can solve the state's problems with illegal immigration. Yet Arizona itself has been a victim of that approach.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: Arizona, border, illegal aliens, immigrant rights, sb 1070, undocumented
Study Finds Sex Education Failing in California
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Apr 28, 2010
The 2004 California Comprehensive Sexual Health and HIV/AIDS Prevention Act promised to reform sex education in California's high schools. But while Latinas and black females between the ages of 13 and 24 make up only 26 percent of the population, they represent 75 percent of those with HIV infections.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: blacks, latina, pregnancy, sex education, teenage
Thirty Five Years After The War, Betrayal is Her Story
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Apr 28, 2010
The Vietnam war ended April 30, 1975 and since then much has changed. The poor-rich gap has widened and corruption is rampant. Many who won the war feel equally betrayed as those who were defeated 35 years ago.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: animal farm, April 30, communism, Hanoi, Orwell, Saigon, Vietnam, war
Basketball Event Spotlights Teen Dating Violence
YO! Youth Outlook Multimedia, Video, Posted: Apr 27, 2010
This Saturday at Lincoln Square Recreational Center in Oakland young basketball teams will be competing in a basketball tournament to highlight awareness of teen dating violence.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: basketball, dating, violence, youth
Lawsuit Restores Help for Thousands Denied Social Security, SSI
New America Media, Video, Posted: Apr 27, 2010
hanks to class-action court settlement, a quarter-million elders and people with disabilities can now reapply for wrongly stopped or denied Social Security or SSI benefits. Those cut off because of often old or mistaken arrest warrants can reclaim their share of $500 million in lost benefits nationally
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: class action lawsuit, social security, ssa, ssi
UC’s New Policy on Freshman Admission -- Moving in the Wrong Direction
New America Media, News Analysis, Posted: Apr 27, 2010
There is nothing fair about the new UC policy of freshman admission if it produces a less racially-diverse group of students and their academic achievement is lower than those admitted under the current policy.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Chinese Media: Where Are Chinese-American Elected Officials?
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Apr 26, 2010
Chinese media are criticizing the lack of visibility of elected Chinese officials in the Bay Area in response to a rash of recent attacks on Asians, while community leaders react angrily to the violence.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Latinos, Blacks Join Fight for Civil Rights in Arizona
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Apr 26, 2010
Arizonans from diverse communities, including black, Latino, Native American, Asian and gay activists, joined together Sunday to protest a new state law that makes it a crime to be undocumented. Leaders called the law a threat to the civil rights of all communities, and are planning to fight it using some of the strategies they learned from the civil rights movement.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: Arizona, arizona black, arizona immigration law, arizona latino, jan brewer, MLK day arizona, sb 1070
Vietnamese Elders Overcome Isolation, Language Barriers to Be Counted in Census
New America Media, Video, Posted: Apr 25, 2010
Immigrant elders living in SRO hotels and subsidized apartments in the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco managed to be counted in the decennial census, despite substantial obstacles.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: census, SROs, tenderloin, tenderloin SROs, vietnamese census, vietnamese elders
Buddhist Activism Tilting Thailand's Political Drama
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Apr 24, 2010
Commentator Yoichi Shimatsu argues understanding Thailand's religious rivalries is key to understanding its Red Shirt rebellion.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: buddhism, red shirks, sri lanka, thailand
Pakistani-Americans Largely Unaware of Stimulus Opportunities
New America Media/Daily Khabrain, News Analysis, Posted: Apr 24, 2010
The Pakistani community is in the dark when it comes to the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), better known as the “stimulus package” signed into a law by President Obama in February 2009.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: arra, pakistani, recovery act
Arizona’s Law May Spark Pro-Immigrant Movement
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Apr 23, 2010
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed SB 1070 today, making Arizona the first state in the nation to consider it a crime for a person to be an undocumented immigrant. But the passage of the Arizona law may also have ignited the pro-immigration reform movement.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: Arizona, arizona governor, arizona immigrants, arizona immigration law, arizona law, jan brewer
Cyberbullying: From the Street to the Tweet
YO! Youth Outlook Multimedia, Audio, Posted: Apr 23, 2010
This week on YO!Radio -- we hit the streets to talk to young folks about growth of bullying from the school yard to the FaceBook wall.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: bullying, cyberbullying, facebook, internet
Tibetan Americans Critical of China's Quake Response
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Apr 23, 2010
A massive earthquake in Eastern Tibet reveals fault lines between the Chinese-American and Tibetan-American communities.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: china, earthquake, foreign aid, tibet
Young People to Jin Cheng Yu -- Keep Your Head Up
YO! Youth Outlook Multimedia, Commentary, Posted: Apr 23, 2010
Two 18-year-old African-American men were charged with murder but not hate crimes Thursday in the fatal beating of a 59-year old Chinese-American man who had come to the aid of his son. Eight writers from Yo! Youth Outlook Multimedia write to Jin Cheng Yu, offering their thoughts on the death of his father.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: African American, Asian American, crime, murder
After Earthquake, Tibet Needs More Engineers, Less Monks
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Apr 23, 2010
Commentator Yoichi Shimatsu writes that the April 14th earthquake that's left at least 2,100 people dead in the Tibeatan Plateau shows Tibetan society needs fewer monks and more working men who can handle tough chores in an emergency.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: dalai lama, eathquake, monks, tibet, yoshu
EcoCenter Opens in Hunter's Point
YO! Youth Outlook Multimedia, Video, Posted: Apr 22, 2010
YO!TV heads down to the new EcoCenter in San Francisco's Bayview/Hunter's Point at Heron Park.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: bayview, earth day, ecocenter, green, hunter's point
South Asian Poetry Anthology Debuts in SF
YO! Youth Outlook Multimedia, Video, Posted: Apr 22, 2010
Indivisible, the first ever South Asian anthology of poetry, held its national book launch at San Francisco's Book Smith.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: indivisible, poetry, south asian
A Jihad for Love
New America Now, Audio, Posted: Apr 22, 2010
Parvez Sharma is a New York based Indian writer and filmmaker who is best known for his film on gay and lesbian Muslims in the Middle East, A Jihad for Love. He tells of his travels through transsexual bars and hidden lives as these people fear for their lives.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: a jihad for love, homosexuality, islam, parvez, sharma
The Battle for the Soul of Islam
New America Now, Audio, Posted: Apr 22, 2010
In >No god but God, author and professor Reza Aslan challenges the "clash of civilizations" mentality that has distorted our view of Islam and explains this critical faith in all its complexity, beauty, and compassion.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: aslan, clash of civilizations, iran, iraq, no god but god, reza
Latinos, African Americans Willing to Pay More to Slow Climate Change
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Apr 22, 2010
Latino and African-American communities in the United States increasingly share similar views on the negative impact of climate change and call for government support for a green economy, according to two recently released polls.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: African American, climate change, latino, poll
Police Chiefs Warn Arizona's Bill Will Make Communities Unsafe
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Apr 22, 2010
Law enforcement officials from California to North Carolina are worried that the Arizona bill that would make it a crime to be an undocumented immigrant could soon spread to other states.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: arizona ICE, arizona immigration law, crime immigrant, immigrants arizona
The Dangerous Business of Blogging
New America Now, Audio, Posted: Apr 21, 2010
Stephen Franklin is the ethnic news director for the Community Media Workshop in Chicago. He's also a long time journalist who has spent a long time in the Middle East. He talks about the dangers faced by Arab bloggers.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: arab, blogging, community media workshop, stephen franklin
Planeta o Muerte -- Evo Morales and the Revolutionary Politics of Mother Earth
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Apr 21, 2010
By convening the World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth (CMPCC), Evo Morales, the president of Bolivia, has established himself as the leader of a hybrid global movement that links the rights of humans to what organizers have coined the “universal rights of Mother Earth.”
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: Bolivia, Environment, Evo Morales Latin America, World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth (CMPCC)
Inside Black-Asian Violence--It’s Not About Race
YO! Youth Outlook Multimedia, Commentary, Posted: Apr 21, 2010
Three separate attacks on Asian Americans by black teenagers in the San Francisco neighborhood of Bayview-Hunters Point have some speculating that the incidents are a sign of escalating racial tensions. But one young man who was taught to rob Asians and Latinos says the crimes aren't about race at all.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: attacks on chinese, bayview, black asian violence, black latino violence, hunters point, muni violence, sf black asian violence
Comedy for a Cause
YO! Youth Outlook Multimedia, Video, Posted: Apr 20, 2010
Comedian Micia Mosely shows off her comic talents at San Francisco's Women Against Rape's "She Who Laughs Lasts".
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: comedian, comedy, micia mosely, sfwar, she who laughs last
Vegan Chef Pushes Slow Food, not Soul Food
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Apr 20, 2010
A young African-American chef encourages, Washington, D.C. youth to cook healthy vegetarian food.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: african-american, Alex Ashbrook, Café Green, cafe green, chef, D.C. Central Kitchen, D.C. Hunger Solutions, Dante Lewis, Danyelle Franklin, DCHS, Lauren Von Der Pool, Metropolitan Washington Public Health Association, Potomac River, Robert Egger, Tambra Stevenson, vegan, vegetarian, Ward 8, washington
Californians Support Soda Tax
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Apr 20, 2010
A majority of Californians would support an additional tax on beverages that contain added sweeteners, but support varies by geography.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: clean water, field poll, kettleman city, public health, soda tax
The Jackie Robinson Baseball Won’t Remember
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Apr 20, 2010
Jackie Robinson is remembered for breaking the color barrier in 1947, a tipping point for race relations in America. The irony is that Robinson didn’t see baseball -- or America -- quite the way it is remembered today.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: baseball, Jackie Robinson, race relations
Thailand's Elites Resist Democracy
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Apr 18, 2010
The battle for democracy playing out in Bangkok is revealing the messy underbelly of the land of a thousand smiles.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: bangkok, brothel red shirts, democracy, king, rural population, sex tourism, siam, southeast asia, thailand, thaksin
The Two Sides of Daryl Gates That I Saw
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Apr 17, 2010
Daryl Gates, who died on Friday at 83, stood at the center of the tumultuous events that engulfed the LAPD. He was, depending on whom one talked to, the top cop who expanded and popularized the kick-butt, SWAT teams, or the top cop who devised and expanded innovative, programs such as DARE, which served as a national police model for drug prevention and education.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: daryl gates, los angeles, race relations, riots, rodney king
A Doctor's Word: Uneasy About the Real Beneficiaries of Obama’s Health Care
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Apr 17, 2010
President Obama's health care bill is a welcome step towards addressing health disparities in the U.S. But there is concern about who will benefit the most.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: health care reform, obama
Re-Inventing the Comic Book
YO! Youth Outlook Multimedia, Video, Posted: Apr 17, 2010
I never planned on purchasing an iPhone or Kindle or an iPad, but I did take the dive into the iPhone. My initial reaction to reading anything on my phone brought a certain level of uneasiness.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: comic books, ipad, ipod, literacy, print books, technology, x-men
On April 15, Education Advocates Thanked Taxpayers
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Apr 16, 2010
On Tax Day, parents, students and advocates rallied at post offices to urge the investment of taxpayer dollars in public education.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: education funding, prop 13, taxpayers, tea party
Rebirth of Cool
YO! Youth Outlook Multimedia, Audio, Posted: Apr 16, 2010
This week on YO! Radio -- we're tackling the trendy topic of what's cool. YO! hit the streets to ask young people how they define cool from how they speak, what they wear, to who they hang out with.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Report: Climate Law Healthy for Ethnic Communities
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Apr 16, 2010
California’s efforts to tackle climate change could benefit poor and minority communities long burdened by industrial pollution if the state takes into account the needs of communities hurt most by climate change, a new report finds.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: ab32, california, climate change, oil refineries, pollution, tesoro, valero
New America Now: Voices From The Muslim World
New America Now, Audio, Posted: Apr 16, 2010
This week on New America Now - Voices From the Muslim World: Stephen Franklin talks about the dangers faced by Arab bloggers in the Middle East, author Reza Aslan the looks at the "clash of civilizations" mentality in No god But God, Sumbul Ali-Karamali explains how Muslim women are participating in society and changing the world in The Muslim Next Door, and filmmaker Parvez Sharma on his award winning documentary Jihad for Love which shows the pressures of being a gay Muslim.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: parvez sharma jihad for love gay muslims, reza aslan no god but God clash of civilizations, stephen franklin arab bloggers chicago community media workshop, sumbul ali-karamali the muslin next door muslim women
Steppin to 1 AM
YO! Youth Outlook Multimedia, Video, Posted: Apr 15, 2010
1 AM -- a San Francisco Art Gallery focusing on Graffiti -- works with young artists teaching them the potential of graffiti art beyond writing on walls illegally.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Exploring the Hikikomori Phenomenon in Japan
New America Now, Audio, Posted: Apr 15, 2010
In his book Shutting Out the Sun: How Japan Created Its Own Lost Generation, Michael Zielenziger explores the phenomena of the "hikikomori," young Japanese men taking to their rooms in their parents homes for months at a time and leaving life outside.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
What Americans Get in Return For Their Taxes
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Apr 15, 2010
Many Americans might think of Europeans as overtaxed. But on tax day it is worth trying to figure out whether Americans actually get their money's worth for the taxes they pay, compared to what Europeans get.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
US-Sponsored Arab TV Station Spotlights Women Others Ignore
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Apr 15, 2010
Single mothers or rape victims rarely show up on Arab television. One program gives women challenging these taboos a weekly slot. The irony is it is a station funded by the U.S. Congress.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: alhurra, arab women, television
Bayview Gathers for Anti-Violence Vigil
New America Media, Video, Posted: Apr 14, 2010
On Friday, April 9, Bayview residents gathered for a vigil in memory of Huan Chen, an elderly Chinese-American man who was a victim of a random attack. It was one in a series of violent incidents that have rattled the neighborhood, and pushed them to action.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Now, Obama Can Pick a Justice with a Heart
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Apr 13, 2010
Obama has the chance of a president’s lifetime to follow his heart and pick the kind of Supreme Court justice who will protect the rights of the powerless, minorities and women.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: obama, roberts, scalia, senate judiciary committee, supreme court justice nomination, thomas
Two Inmates' Views on California's Prison Overcrowding Crisis
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Apr 13, 2010
Two California inmates respond to the state's prison overcrowding crisis and a federal court order that could result in the release of 40,000 prisoners.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: California, Crisis, Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Dwight Abbott, inmates, Michael Cabral, Overcrowded, Overcrowding, Prison, Salinas Valley State Prison, Schwarzenegger, Soledad, Supreme Court
Immigration Rally in Seattle Draws Many Asians
New America Media/ UW News Lab , News Report, Posted: Apr 13, 2010
Last weekend's immigration rally in Seattle drew many Asian groups making a concerted effort to show immigration reform was important to their communities as well.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: asian, CIR, immigration reform
Why I'm Working as a Saigon Massage Girl
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Apr 12, 2010
Lan Pham, 21, works in a massage parlour in District I of Ho Chi Minh City, better known as Saigon. It’s where most tourists stay when they visit Vietnam. Pham spoke with NAM editor, Andrew Lam, who visited his homeland on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: corruption, massage parlor, saigon, vietnam war
Hmong Marriage: Is My Future Mine to Command?
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Apr 10, 2010
Getting married can be a serious challenge in the Hmong community, especially because many of its elders are very judgmental, according to the writer, and the bride price can be a major obstacle when one is young and struggling.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
New America Now: Writing About Japan
New America Now, Audio, Posted: Apr 09, 2010
This week on New America Now - Writing About Japan: A serial killer strikes in post-war Tokyo in Tokyo Year Zero by David Peace, In Color of the Sea, John Hamamura examines living in America as a Japanese-American during the mid-20th century, and Michael Zielenzieger looks at Japan's lost generation in Shutting Out The Sun.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: david peace serial killer year zero post war tokyo, john hamamura sam keiko color of the sea, shutting out the sun michael zielenzieger hikikomori
How to Turn Your Life Around: Become a Rickshaw Driver
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Apr 09, 2010
When I found myself facing destitute poverty and still sending out resumes, I decided to think creatively. I became a rickshaw driver.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: Economy, Innovators, job, Laid Off, pedicab, rikshaw, Young People, youth
Immigration Courts Swamped by Backlogs
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Apr 09, 2010
Judicial vacancies and shortages of court staff, coupled with the increased detention of immigrants that started under Pres. George W. Bush and continues to grow during the Obama administration, are causing exponential growth in immigration caseloads around the country. Legal experts say the dysfunction affects the justice system and must be fixed.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: american bar association, Arizona, court backlog, deportation, immigration, undocumented
Haitian Women Demand Role in Rebuilding Their Country
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Apr 08, 2010
Almost three months after the Jan. 12 earthquake that devastated Haiti, women advocates and UN officials are increasingly worried that Haitian women are being sidelined in national relief and reconstruction efforts.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: displacement camps, earthquake, haiti, madre, united nations, women's equality
Dan Choi: Repeal 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Now
New America Media, Interview, Posted: Apr 08, 2010
President Obama promised to end the "don’t ask, don’t tell" policy, which forbids gays and lesbians from serving openly in the Armed Forces, but for Lt. Dan Choi, an openly gay New York National Guardsman, that's not good enough.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: gay rights proposition 8 asian discrimination military
Why Michael Steele Won’t Go
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Apr 07, 2010
Michael Steele, RNC Chairman, has bungled money and staff. He regularly mugs and grandstands on network talk shows, brags about being hip, a street guy. A handful of detractors is publicly calling for him to step down. That won't happen.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: Michael Steele Won’t Go rnc gop republican democrats race
Will Immigration Reform Impact the US Labor Market?
New America Media, Interview, Posted: Apr 07, 2010
What will be the economic impact of legalization of the undocumented? That’s become the billion-dollar question in a shaky economy. A new study from the Public Policy Institute of California looks back at immigrants who achieved legal status in 2003 to see what effect legalization had on their wages and earnings and finds results that bust some popular beliefs on both sides of the debate.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
SoCal Edison Bails Out of Coal Plant
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Apr 07, 2010
Even as Pres. Obama touts coal as part of a clean energy future, one of the largest utilities in California is trying to distance itself from the fossil fuel.
Southern California Edison is divesting its share of the Four Corners Power Plant on Navajo land in New Mexico, a concession to state limits on polluting power sources and a sign that coal may be losing its profitability.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: coal, four corners power plant, navajo, renewable energy, southern california edison
School Matters: Parents Must Be Key to Education Reform
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Apr 07, 2010
Education reform is on the agenda of the Obama administration, but absent from proposals are serious strategies to increase parents' role in student and school success. But that can change.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Black Women Songwriters Discuss Their Craft
New America Now, Audio, Posted: Apr 07, 2010
The hurdles faced by black women songwriters are effectively depicted by Lashonda Barnett in her book I Got Thunder.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: lashonda barnett i got thunder nina simone dianne reeves chaka khan
Bakewell Exhorts NNPA to Agitate for Change
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Apr 07, 2010
National Newspaper Publishers Association chair and publisher of The Los Angeles Sentinel, threw down the gauntlet at the NNPA’s annual gathering, urging his peers to be more aggressive in putting the burning issues of African Americans on their front pages.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Chicago Ethnic Media Watchdog Workshop April 10-11, 2010
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Apr 06, 2010
Ethnic media watchdog workshops help journalists sharpen their skills, learn new approaches and add depth to their reporting. Award-winning journalists from around the country volunteer their time to provide training on topics such as the 2010 census, criminal justice, the economy, education, health care, immigration and local government. Hands-on spreadsheet software training also will be offered.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: ethnic media, workshop
Obama Makes it Official: He's African-American
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Apr 06, 2010
By checking the box “African-American” on his census form President Obama unequivocally and unhesitatingly made it official: He’s African-American.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: census 2010 demographic shift minorities ethnic media obama african american black
Escaping a Cambodian Brothel: One Woman's Story
New America Media, Interview, Posted: Apr 06, 2010
A young Vietnamese woman's chance Internet encounter led to a year of captivity in a Cambodian brothel. She escaped, but thousands of young women and children like her are ensnared every year in a thriving sex trafficking network. Here is her story.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: cambodia, heroin, human trafficking, maylasia, sex trade, vietnam
Grouping All Asians Together Could Be Bad For Health
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Apr 05, 2010
Extensive new research shows that research lumping “Asians” together perpetuates their image as a healthy “model minority” and hides critical differences. Differentiating Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders can save lives.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
More Young People Moving Back Home
Yo! Youth Outlook Multimedia, Commentary, Posted: Apr 04, 2010
In the bad economy, more and more Americans are moving back home to live with their parents. Three authors from YO! Youth Outlook Multimedia share their perspectives.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
We Don't Want Just Any Immigration Reform
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Apr 04, 2010
Immigrant rights activist Renee Saucedo argues that both immigration reform bills -- proposed by Schumer and Graham in the Senate and Gutierrez in the House -- begin negotiations with the lowest common denominator.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: immigration reform
Skipping School--Crime or Personal Choice?
YO! Youth Outlook Multimedia, Commentary, Posted: Apr 03, 2010
The City of Richmond, Calif. announced last week that students who are caught on the streets during school hours could be fined or forced to appear before a juvenile court judge. Young people in the Bay Area debate whether cutting class is a student's right or a punishable offense.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: cutting class, cutting school, ditching class, Richmond school, skipping school, truancy
Flat Unemployment Rate Masks the Race Gap
New America Media, News Analysis, Posted: Apr 03, 2010
Just released figures show the unemployment rate held steady at 9.7 percent. But unpacking the numbers shows that the unemployment rate actually rose for African Americans.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: African Americans, unemployment
Obama Gets His Groove Back
YO! Youth Outlook Multimedia, Audio, Posted: Apr 02, 2010
This week on YO!Radio -- Obama makes the world a safer place, Democrats get targeted with threats, and Obama makes a surprise visit to Afghanistan.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: career jobs, democrats, Janelle Monae, obama, politics
YO! Honors Count Us In Contest Winners at SF Zeum
YO! Youth Outlook Multimedia, Video, Posted: Apr 02, 2010
To honor the contestants and winners of the YO! Count Us In contest, YO! and the City and County of San Francisco held a special ceremony at the Zeum: San Francisco's Children's Museum.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: 2010 Census, Census, Contest, New America Media, Winners, YO, Youth Outlook, Zeum
New America Now: Stormy Weather, I Got Thunder, Paula West
New America Media, Audio, Posted: Apr 02, 2010
This week on New America Now - A special on black entertainers: James Gavin talks about his book Stormy Weather: The Life of Lena Horne, Lashonda Barnett looks at black women songwriters and their craft in I Got Thunder, and local singer Paula West reveals some of her favorite jazz musicians.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: james gavin stormy weather life of lena horne, jr, lashonda barnett i got thunder, paula west jazz andy bey oscar brown
Caution Advised About Lead in Indian Spices and Powders
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Apr 02, 2010
Recent reports about traces of lead being found in Indian spices and ceremonial powders has led to a lot of confusion.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: Indian spices, lead
A Doctor's Word: How to Keep Your Blood Pressure Down
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Apr 02, 2010
High blood pressure is rampant, and it’s one of the most common reasons why people develop strokes, heart problems, and kidney failure. But if you make necessary lifestyle modifications -- and take prescribed medications you can overcome it, writes Dr. Erin Marcus in her Doctor's Word column.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: blood pressure, doctor's word, health attack, stroke
Health Care Reform - A Step Forward But Long Road Ahead
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Apr 01, 2010
Now that the health care reform bill has been signed into law, “health reform anxiety” is setting in as Americans are trying to learn what the changes will mean for their lives. Here are some of the key advances--and disappointments— of special interest to racial and ethnic groups.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: health reform
Mixed-Race Numbers Expected to Increase on 2010 Census
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Apr 01, 2010
For the first time, the Census Bureau will have information from two decennials to analyze how multiracial self-reporting translates over age groups and gender.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Front Page, Inside the Shadow Economy, Youth Culture
Tags: census 2010, census race question, mixed race census, mized race census