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FREE EST. 1974 — SEATTLE VOLUME 36, NUMBER 6 March 18 - March 31, 2009
Significance of
a US Citizenship
p. 6
Latest installment
of the ShyAsian Guy
comic strip p. 10
Op-Ed: How much
progress against
racism has WSU
really made? p. 2
Drunkin’ TatToo
Master p. 10
The Trade
of Asia’s Girls
Not a matter of words:
Making English Official
P. 6
The local impact of
healthcare cuts
p. 7
Behind the Curtains
p. 8
A disturbing trend lurks in our
cities’ neighborhoods. p. 9
ARTS: performing to
break stereotypes
p. 12
Around the nation:
Racist ice cream
p. 4
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Let’s appreciate the
beautiful crap
How much progress against
racism has WSU really made?
Op-Ed
BY HUY X. LE
IE Columnist
BY ALEX KUO
IE Contributor
A while ago, my friend Julita
sent me a piece about a musician who
was playing a violin in the middle of
a busy Metro station in DC. People
stopped by once in a while to listen for
a few seconds, and some people tossed
a buck or two into his violin case, but
for the most part he was ignored as he
played. It turns out the hobo-looking
guy was actually Joshua Bell, one of the
best musicians
in the world,
and his violin
was
worth
3.5 million,
and that two
days
prior,
he
played
at a soldout concert where people paid over
100 bucks a ticket. This episode at the
Metro station was an experiment by the
Washington Post to see if people would
perceive beauty outside its natural
context. They concluded:
“If we do not have a moment
to stop and listen to one of the best
musicians in the world playing some of
the finest music ever written, with one
of the most beautiful instruments … how
many other things are we missing?”
And that was like a bucket of
cold water thrown straight into my
nostrils. Have we, with our busy, hectic
days become so entrenched and narrowsighted that we can only perceive things
when they are in predictable context?
How would I react if I were at the Metro
station? First of all, I had no clue who
Joshua Bell is, which made me feel
uncultured, like a red-neck in a wifebeater with a beer. I have this suspicion
that I would be one of the many people
who would just dismiss Mr. Bell as a
bum and be on my way to accomplish
the much more important things on my
agenda, namely getting home in time to
microwave some pasta and watch the
new episode of “Law and Order SVU.”
I started to wonder what
beautiful things are out there that I am
not appreciating. Look, a sponge! This
sponge is beautiful, full of softness and
absorbency, with a scouring side to take
off baked-on grease, is it not as sublime
as a glass bowl?! And these paperclips,
these shiny, smooth paperclips, who ever
stops to appreciate their magnificence!
I know that when I’m in my “beauty
appreciation” mode, I am moved by
a tree, or a single leaf, or the Cascade
mountains rising to greet me as my beatup Honda Accord crests a particular
steep hill on a clear spring day. But
surely beauty exists in all shapes and
sizes. What are the things that we are
missing because we’re so busy all the
time and have such narrow definitions
of art and beauty?
Today, my friends, I challenge
you to find three things that you’ve
never thought much about and try to
appreciate their beauty. We should
Alex Kuo is writer and professor
of English at Washington State
University.
JAGGED, Continued on Page 5
Linguistic labels delineate the
framework for how we
look at and remember
each other. These symbols
and their codes also
function as keys in the
public construction of
those we do not like or are
not supposed to like, be
they old or young, new or
old immigrants, someone
with or without money.
For Asians, the word
“Oriental” in the English vocabulary
provided useful service to Western
imperialism on every continent, until
“Yellow Peril” upped the ante.
In his 1911 book “The Yellow
Peril,” the Oklahoma preacher G.G.
Rupert promised that Jesus Christ
would stop the menancing Yellow
Peril (pronounced Chinese, Japanese,
Korean and Indian) from attacking the
United States. The use of the expression
Yellow Peril gained popularity in Hearst
newspapers and magazines the next
year, and was revived 55 years later in
1966 when Newsweek, The New York
Times Magazine and U.S.News and
World Report’s benign but equally racist
venues twisted it to the overachieving
“Model Minority,” which quickly was
used to trump against the Negroes of
that politically active decade.
Ah, Asian Americans, success
by dint of hard work and pulling up
miles of bootstrap. According to U.S.
News & World Report, we were people
who depended on our own efforts and
not welfare checks. Never mind that
we came from some 27 very different
countries festooned with at least
twice that many very, very different
languages.
In one bold stroke, Asian
Americans were added to Mark
Twain’s “we” of pregnant women,
tapeworms and the monarchy, together
with unalterable and homogenous
perceptions of family cohesion and
work ethic. Wow. This overnight
branding was more marketable than
the inalienable right to gun ownership
bundled to Buffalo Bill’s Wild West
Show.
And show me it did last week
when I stumbled onto a 2005 long,
opinion piece in Seattle’s respectable
International Examiner written by a
former Washington State University
student, an Asian American from
Nampa, Idaho. It was wild, a sweeping
assertion that racism against Asians
(what about Asian Americans?) does
not exist on this campus, using me
(native-born) and two other (one
from Taiwan, the other from China)
professors with tenure in a computer
“do loop” argument that if WSU were
racist, the three of us would not have
been granted professorship and tenure.
Or was this two-degreed
alumnus now working for Boeing in
Everett saying that because a few of
us have been successful, there is no
racism? Screwed again.
The model minority was
pulled right out of his engineering butt.
I had been caught again pulling up
my damn bootstraps.
I was astonished
and disgusted. The
recognition for my
work
has
come
at
national
and
international levels,
but never at WSU, not
once. In an annual
review a few years
ago, I was informed
that
my
Senior
Fulbright and the National Endowment
of the Arts awards that year “did not
count” as accomplishments.
Friends
encouraged
a
discrimination lawsuit a number of
times, and that option is still on the
table. In my 30-year tenure at WSU, I
have had to do everything on my own,
with no support or encouragement from
any unit on campus, nada, nothing.
Preserve, reinvent, create, and carve
out my own life after each assault in
a large department with a hostile work
environment in which all six of the
administrative positions are currently
held by white men, an unimaginable
statistical probability in the profession,
except here in Pullman, where the sun
has yet to set. To complete the colonial
metaphor, the new janitor in the
department’s building is a Ghanaian
from West Africa.
Let’s back this up maybe 30
years. In 1978, five WSU students and
the Japanese American Citizens League
with Dale Minami as lead counsel
filed a class-action discrimination suit
against this university for violating the
1964 Civil Rights Act. The settlement
in U.S. District Court required the
administration to jump start and
maintain an Asian American studies
program and a counseling component.
In February 2005, three Asian American
female students working at this
counseling/support center encountered
repeated racial epithets, animal calls
and gestures simulating chinky eyes
from two varsity basketball players
passing by their workplace. The inhouse student conduct staff concluded
these accusations were not serious
enough to warrant a full investigation,
referring to the two athletes’ actions
as adolescent behavior that was
misconstrued as racially oriented. The
head coach was cited in the media as
proffering that because these players
were strong Christians, “they had
no desire or intent to say anything
untoward racially.”
There are no Ku Klux Klan
chapters on campus or in Pullman,
although I’m not sure about Colfax, the
county seat 20 miles to the west. The
Rev. Richard Butler of the Aryan Nations
at Hayden Lake, Idaho, 90 miles north
of here, lost his day in court in 2000
WSU, Continued on Page 5
INTERNATIONAL EXAMINER
March 18 - March 31, 2009 —— 3
COMMUNITY NEWS
ARCHITECTURE COMPANY RECEIVES
TOP AWARD
Seattle Begins New Recycling
Program on March 30
The World Trade Club announced the winners of the
2009 Governor’s Trader of the Year Awards, which
included MulvannyG2 Architecture, who has been
selected as the 2009 Governor’s Trader of the Year. The
Chairman of MulvannyG2 Architecture is Jerry Lee, a
local community leader and long-time supporter of
numerous API causes. SonoSite, Inc. was also selected
as the 2009 Governor’s Emerging Trader of the Year.
This year’s panel of judges chose MulvannyG2
Architecture and SonoSite, Inc. in recognition of their
outstanding achievements in international trade. On
MulvannyG2 Architecture
March 19, Lt. Governor Brad Owen will recognize the
2009 winners at a special reception to be held at the
ShoWare Center in Kent, Wash. The Governor’s Trader of the Year Award
recognizes a Washington State business that has demonstrated success
and industry leadership through its innovation in products or services,
its contribution to the local economy, and its service to the community.
Congratulations to MulvannyG2 Architecture and SonoSite, Inc.!
Currently, Seattle sends more than 400,000 tons
of garbage to a landfill in eastern Oregon. That’s
enough to fill 7,000 train cars each year. More
than half of that waste is recyclable or compostable.
Seattle Public Utilities will launch a new program
on March 30 to provide easier, more convenient
recycling options for city residents. Changes to
residents’ curbside services are: new collection
days for most households; glass bottles and jars
can go into the recycling cart; food and yard waste
carts will be picked up every week; customers will
also have more cart sizes to choose from; all food
scraps including meat, fish, bones, shells, cheese and dairy products can
go into food and yard waste carts; more paper, plastic and metal items
will be recycled, including paper and plastic cups, deli trays, aluminum
foil and plastic plant pots. Electronics, used motor oil and bulky items will
be collected through special services. Seattle, a national leader in waste
reduction, aims to divert 60 percent of its waste to recycling or composting
by 2012 with the new recycling campaign. For more on the new recycling
program or for information in Vietnamese, Chinese, Tagalog, Korean,
Cambodian, Amharic, Somali, Oromo, Tigrinya, Laotian, Thai, Spanish, or
Russian, visit: www.seattle.gov/util or call 206-684-3000.
Murray Helps Pass Legislation,
Millions for King County
Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA)
U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) helped to pass
vitally important spending legislation that includes
millions in funding she secured for projects throughout
King County. The funding is included in the Fiscal
Year 2009 Omnibus Appropriations Bill which passed
the Senate by voice vote on March 11. Now that the
Omnibus has passed the Senate and the U.S. House of
Representatives, it will be sent to the President for his
signature. President Obama has signaled that he will
sign the bill.
THE STATE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
PASSES ‘BILL OF RIGHTS’ FOR PUBLIC
SCHOOL STUDENTS
Rep. Sharon Tomiko
Santos (D-Seattle)
Rep. Sharon Tomiko Santos (D-Seattle), who sponsored
the measure, states that rights must be specifically laid
out and communicated to students and their parents or
guardians as they navigate the public school system.
The rights include: the students’ and families’ right to
be treated respectfully by school districts; the right to
have their questions answered and messages returned
in a timely fashion; and the right to view all district
policies, including those concerning bullying and
sexual harassment.The bill would also require school
districts to communicate these rights on an annual
basis in a format to best ensure that students and
families understand. Bill number HB 1762 now heads
to the state Senate for consideration.
US SPEEDSKATERS HEAD TO VIENNA FOR
2009 CHAMPIONSHIPS
Of the five Americans that ranked in the top twelve
skaters in overall classification for the 2008 World
Short Track Championships, three returned to the
2009 championships in Vienna, Austria on March
6-8. One of them is Apolo Anton Ohno of Seattle,
who earned the country’s first World Championship
title for short track speedskating. Ohno returns to
championship ice along with teammates. Of the 10
skaters participating at the World Championships, six
of them have earned individual world cup medals
this year. Both the men’s and women’s relay teams
have won gold during the world cup season.
Apolo Anton Ohno
AAJA DEMANDS IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF
JOURNALIST ARRESTED IN IRAN
The Asian American Journalists Association
(AAJA) and UNITY: Journalists of Color today
demanded the immediate release of Roxana
Saberi, a professional journalist, master’s student
in international relations, and U.S. citizen.
Authorities detained Roxana Saberi in Iran
without any charges announced. AAJA calls for
Saberi to be treated fairly, be allowed regular
contact with her family, and have access to an
attorney. Saberi, 31, was a freelance journalist
working and studying in Iran when she was
detained in late January. She is of Iranian and
Japanese descent, with dual citizenship in the
U.S. and Iran. Media reports initially stated that
Roxana Saberi
Saberi told her father she was arrested when
buying a bottle of wine, but her father believes she is being detained as a
journalist. Her U.S. residence with her family is in Fargo, N.D. The U.S.
State Department has learned that Saberi has been detained under judicial
order. According to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the State Department
has reached out to Swiss contacts to ask for information, and every tool
will be used to try to bring her home. Saberi has had no contact with her
family since Feb. 10.
Mariners manager talks about
family internment
The new Mariners’ manager, Don Wakamatsu, is
using his celebrity as Major League Baseball’s first
Asian American manager to educate people about
the internment of Japanese Americans during World
War II. Wakamatsu’s grandparents were taken
from their home and interned in camps, first in
California, where Wakamatsu’s father was born, and
then in Arkansas. After two years of internment, his
grandparents purchased the barracks where they had
been interned and returned to Oregon. The materials
from the barracks were converted into the home that
his 91-year-old grandmother still lives in today. One
Don Wakamatsu
of Wakamatsu’s first appearances in Seattle after being
chosen as the new manager was before a group of Japanese Americans. He
was quick to acknowledge his debt to an earlier generation and told the
group that the sacrifices they went through would not be forgotten. This
story can be seen in its entirety on Seattle Channel cable 21, or online at
www.seattlechannel.org.
4 ­—— March 18 - March 31, 2009
INTERNATIONAL EXAMINER
AROUND THE NATION
The Web site blog, Angryasianman.com,
posted this photo from a reader. It’s from an
ice cream shop in Lima, Peru. That is an actual
item on the menu called the “chinito”—a
Chinaman caricature made from ice cream,
complete with slanted eyes, a Fu Manchu
mustache and accessorized with a hat.
Image taken from an Angryasianman.com blog reader in Peru
Philippine Law Contests China,
Vietnam for Islands
The Philippine president, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, signed a law March
11, affirming sovereignty over islands also claimed by China and Vietnam,
sparking protests over the control of strategic South China Sea islands.
The Chinese Embassy issued a statement expressing its “strong opposition
and solemn protest” over the signing of the law, and Vietnam urged the
Philippines to refrain from taking action that might complicate the dispute.
Foreign Affairs official Henry Bensurto said the Philippines passed the law
not to reiterate its claims over the Spratlys and Scarborough Shoal but
to define the baseline used to determine its extended continental shelf.
The Spratlys, believed to be rich in oil, gas and fish, consist of about 100
barren islets, reefs and atolls dotting the world’s busiest shipping lanes in
the South China Sea.
China Takes Tough Tibet Stance for
Uprising Anniversary
China criticized the United States for suggesting
Beijing talk to the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan
leader, as authorities further tightened security to
prevent unrest during a volatile anniversary period.
The Associated Press reports that a ban on foreigners
traveling to Tibetan areas was widened, 50 years
after a failed uprising against Beijing’s rule in the
region and a year since violent demonstrations
across a quarter of China’s territory. In the Tibetan
regional capital of Lhasa, paramilitary police
in riot gear and with automatic rifles stood at
the entrances to alleys leading to the Jokhang
temple, a frequent focal point for protests. China’s
determined show of force apparently squelched
any large-scale protests in the region March 10, the start of the anniversary
period. The Foreign Ministry lodged a protest with the U.S. Embassy after
a spokesman for President Barack Obama voiced concern for religious
repression in Tibet and appealed for renewed dialogue between Beijing
and the Dalai Lama. The 1959 revolt ended with the Dalai Lama’s flight
into exile and with Beijing bringing Tibet under its direct control.
NORTH KOREA THREATENS
North Korea agreed to allow South Korean managers working in a joint
industrial zone in North Korea to cross the border after Pyongyang’s move
to cut the last military hot line to Seoul left hundreds stranded overnight.
The communist regime warned that even the slightest provocation could
trigger war during the 12-day drills, reports the Associated Press. The North
stressed that provocation would include any attempt to interfere with its
impending launch of a satellite into orbit. U.S. and Japanese officials fear
the launch could be a cover for a test of a long-range attack missile and
have suggested they might move to intercept the rocket. Analysts say North
Korea’s heated words are designed to grab President Barack Obama’s
attention. With South Korea cutting off aid, the impoverished North is
angling for a diplomatic coup of establishing direct ties with the U.S.,
said Kim Yong-hyun, a North Korea expert at Seoul’s Dongguk University.
For weeks, the North has said it is forging ahead with plans to send a
communications satellite into space — a launch that U.S. and Japanese
officials say would violate a U.N. Security Council resolution banning the
North from ballistic activity.
FIRST API TO LEAD IVY LEAGUE
Jim Yong Kim will became the first Asian American
to head a member of the 8-university Ivy League on
July 1 when he takes office as president of Dartmouth
College. Kim, 49, currently heads up the department
of global health and social medicine at Harvard
Medical School, reports the Associated Press. Kim
has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in
anthropology, social analysis, social medicine and
global health. Kim is a former director of the World
Health Organization’s HIV/AIDS department. Kim
has also advocated developing better care facilities in
poor African countries by building them around HIV
JIm Yong Kim
services. Kim was born in Seoul, Korea. His family
immigrated to the U.S. when he was 5. He grew up in Muscatine, Iowa. He
managed to graduate from high school as valedictorian and class president
while quarterbacking the football team. Kim attended Brown University,
then received a medical degree and Ph.D. in anthropology from Harvard.
Viet Alabaman Pleads Guilty to
Killing 4 Kids, Seeks Death
A man accused of tossing his four young children to
their deaths from a coastal Alabama bridge pleaded
guilty March 5 and told a state judge he wants to be
put to death, reports the Associated Press. Lam Luong,
38, a Vietnamese refugee, entered the plea at a hearing.
Under Alabama law, capital murder defendants must
be tried before a jury even if they plead guilty. Luong’s
trial starts March 16. Luong, who speaks Vietnamese,
communicated through an interpreter. Prosecutors
claim Luong argued with his common-law wife, Kieu
Ngoc Phan, 23, before he drove the family van to the
Lam Luong
top of the two-lane bridge on Jan. 7, 2008 and tossed
the children into the cold Mississippi Sound 80 feet below. The bodies of
the four children—Hannah Luong, 2, Ryan Phan, 3, Lindsey Luong, 1, and
Danny Luong, 4 months—were recovered from waters off the coasts of
Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana.
Paid for with Carl D. Perkins Funds.
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March 18 - March 31, 2009 —— 5
INTERNATIONAL EXAMINER
WSU, Continued from Page 2
and had to close down his summer
camp for white supremacists; the lore
of the 1905 poisoning of Chinese
miners at Strychnine Creek 40 miles
to the east has finally been included in
the tour guides’ history of the region;
and last year in Lewiston, 35 miles
south, a mother and her daughter
were punished for felonious charges
of physically assaulting a young Nez
Perce girl and yelling “white power”
and “white pride” at her.
GPSed at all major points of
the compass around Pullman then —
west, north, east, south — these acts
have emancipated us from racism.
Hans Frank, Adolph Hitler’s legal
counsel and handpicked governorgeneral of Poland during WW II,
said that “Not a thousand years will
cleanse Germany of its guilt.” Are
we are so different? So exceptional
that we believe we can correct our
sins overnight, as when President
Lyndon Johnson signed Executive
Order 11246 in 1965 with a single
stroke of a pen? More likely the
change occurs slowly, stumbling, one
thought at a time, one act at a time,
from perseverance to perseverance.
In the past 30 years, the
highest percentage increase in
racial diversity in our nation’s
public universities has surfaced in
administrative appointments — most
of them in newly funded, high-level
supervisory positions overseeing
equity, diversity and multicultural
affairs (the four-letter R word is no
longer used) — and not students,
staff or faculty. This veritable growth
industry has been duplicating and
mimicking itself, appointing people
who have no clue what the issues are,
but by gosh, they are professional
team players, and by gum, their
incompetence spawns committees,
procedures, manuals. They booster
recycled and highly questionable
data and selective survey results, each
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new bureaucracy creating two more
administrator positions, each press
release covered with corporate veneer
and cosmetic accessories. All the while
stymieing any sincere effort to address
individual and institutional acts of
racism, thereby perpetuating them
and creating a campus environment
of distrust and skepticism at best, and
nothing untoward.
It is essential to follow how
Washington State University deals
with the issues of race, gender and
ethnicity as the institution goes through
this current budget crisis. Or, will it
squander the gains to the well being of
our citizens made by the educational
programs associated with these issues
in the last two decades?
This opinion column first appeared in
the Seattle P-I and is reprinted with the
author’s permission.
JAGGED, Continued from Page 2
make a list of stuff together, and we’ll
call it “The List O’ Beautiful Crap.”
Here’s my list so far:
1. Bottles of Ketchup that are designed
upside-down. They’re awesome, so
well-balanced and practical. Ooh, also,
the beautiful florescent yellow glow of
pickle juice.
2. I think it’s pretty when I’m boiling
water in a pot, and as the water heats up,
hundreds of tiny bubbles start to form,
as if they’re growing from the bottom of
the pot.
3. Oil spills on the ground. Sure,
they’re awful for the environment, but
fascinating and complex.
4. Wireless internet. All that information,
floating around in the air, like invisible
packages of dreams and wishes, mixed
with ads for male enhancement herbal
supplements.
5. The sound of the toilet tank refilling,
it’s like a beautiful song, a song that
lets you know that things are working.
Imagine how awful it would be you
don’t hear that sound after flushing.
6. Swirly, twisty light bulbs that save
energy, they’re beautiful, all swirly and
stuff.
7. The smell of Laundromat vents.
8. How clean sheets feel, especially
after you’ve taken a shower.
9. In the afternoon, when the sun is
starting to set, and the light is softer, and
when combined with the amber hue of
a rusty metal railing, the effect is ... ooh,
I’ll get back to this list later. A re-run of
“Law and Order, Criminal Intent” is on
on USA!
Blog: Jaggednoodles.wordpress.com
Save in Your Kitchen!
Last year, Seattle residents helped make 80,000 tons
of compost for local parks and gardens by collecting
leftover kitchen scraps and putting them in their food
and yard waste carts – instead of the landfill.
The City of Seattle and local retailers would like to say
“thank you” by providing great discounts on kitchen
compost bags and collection kits.
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(525 Dexter Ave North, Seattle) with this coupon.
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INTERNATIONAL EXAMINER
IE NEWS
Not a Matter of Words
Some legislators want to enact the
English language as the law of the land.
But others say a universal language will
create more division than unity.
BY CHRISTINE LOREDO
IE Contributor
Christine Loredo is the Marketing & Communications Supervisor
at International Community Health Services, a non-profit
community health center providing culturally-relevant,
in-language, and affordable primary medical and dental services.
Visit www.ichs.com
It seems that every two years
or so a bill is introduced on a state
or federal level to make English the
official language.
This legislative
session, the issue was raised again by
Representatives McCune and Haler
when they proposed House Bill 1645
to designate English as the official
language of the state of Washington.
For many immigrant and
refugee communities this action
signals alarm bells. “This proposed
law sends a message of intolerance
and non-inclusiveness for non-English
and limited-English speakers who live
and work in our state,” commented
Teresita Batayola, Chief Executive
Officer of International Community
Health Services (ICHS), a non-profit
community health center committed
to providing culturally-relevant and
affordable primary health services.
ICHS mobilized its patients
to speak out against the bill as a part
of Asian Pacific American Legislative
Day, held at the state Capitol last
month. Many of the participants felt
that they needed to come to Olympia
to let the government know what the
community wanted. Ying Hong He,
an ICHS patient and Legislative Day
participant, said, “We need to have
accurate
healthcare
information
translated and interpreted. It affects
our health. Without interpretation
it would be like we are blind and
deaf.”
Zhong continued, “I speak
some English but I just got a letter
from Social Security. It [was] helpful
to have it in English and Chinese. I
couldn’t understand if it wasn’t in both
languages. Sometimes I recognize the
[English] word but I don’t understand
it. It is not like Chinese where every
word has a meaning. In English some
of the words only have meaning
when they are put together with other
words.”
If English is designated as
the official language, multilingual
information
from
government
agencies, for example, may no longer
be deemed necessary, creating barriers
that would hinder the true purpose of
government – to serve the people.
The underlying assumption of
this bill is that immigrants and refugees
need to be forced to learn how to
communicate in English. Most of the
people taking part in APA Legislative
Day disagree with such a notion and
expressed a sincere desire to learn
the language of their new home. As
Zhong says, “I have to learn English
because it would be rude if I can’t
talk to people. I need to be able to say
hello and to get around.”
Another participant, Yoong
Hy Uy, who was born in Cambodia
and speaks Cantonese, Thai, Khmer,
and English, said when she came
to United States, the first thing she
wanted to learn was English so she
can communicate especially with
her children and grandchildren. She
attended classes but she started to get
migraines. When she went to see her
doctor, he simply told her to stop going
to the classes if it was making her ill.
Uy decided she wanted to continue
on with her classes. “I keep going
and stopping [when the migraines get
too bad], but I keep trying to learn
English,” she said.
Many feel strongly that English
as a Second Language (ESL) and
naturalization classes are still needed
in the community. Ming Ren Chen,
another participant, did not want to
see funding cut for these programs.
“I am still attending classes. My wife
and I just got our citizenship. I really
want to learn English…because when
I first came to America, I had to work.
I took English and citizenship classes
so I could become a citizen and to be
reunited with my family.”
To find out more about HB 1645
and to voice your concerns to your
legislators, visit www.leg.wa.gov/
legislature.
The Significance of a
US Citizenship
BY LOUIS HORN
IE Contributor
Louis Horn is a Naturalization Aide for the Asian Counseling and Referral Service
On February 5 of this year,
various groups of Asian/Pacific Islander
immigrants and advocates descended
on the state capitol in Olympia for
Asian Pacific American Legislative
Day. In this time of budget uncertainty,
approximately 3,000 people showed
up to stand up for issues important to
Washington’s Asian/Pacific Islander
communities.
Among those thousands,
three represented the Naturalization
department at the Asian Counseling
and Referral service:
Tran Tran, a student in
the ACRS citizenship
class, Lang Hue Du,
a recent graduate and
a new US citizen, and
Hao Tu, a long-time
volunteer in the ACRS
citizenship
classes
who also became a
citizen after studying
in the class at ACRS.
W h i l e
currently in different
stages
of
the
naturalization process,
all three had come
to Olympia with a
common purpose: to make their
legislators understand the importance
of state funding for citizenship
education. Tran, Du, and Tu joined
thousands of others in a rally to
support issues related to Asian Pacific
Islanders and then proceeded to meet
with legislators from their districts to
voice their concerns about possible
naturalization funding cuts.
But why is citizenship
important? First, becoming a citizen
is the only way for immigrants to
acquire the right to vote. This is not
only important for the individual
immigrant as he or she can participate
in American democracy, but also
for the immigrant’s community as a
whole, because as more and more
immigrants become citizens, their
concerns become harder for elected
officials to ignore.
But citizenship has many
other benefits beyond the right to vote.
For instance, one concern of many
immigrants is petitioning for their
relatives to join them in the United
States. For citizens, this process is much
faster than for green-card holders.
For instance, immigration visas are
immediately available for parents
and spouses of US citizens. However,
green-card holders must wait years for
their spouses and unmarried children
to be eligible. Green-card holders
cannot petition for parents or siblings,
while citizens do have this ability.
Another benefit is eligibility
for certain types of public assistance.
Green-card holders are already
eligible for many types of public
assistance including food stamps and
Medicaid, but not for Supplemental
Security Income (SSI). SSI is a
federal cash-assistance program for
the elderly and disabled. With the
looming termination of the GA-U
cash-assistance in Washington state
(a benefit for green-card holders and
citizens), this benefit is extremely
important as current recipients of
GA-U may qualify for SSI if they
become citizens.
There are even further
benefits to citizenship:
no fear of being
deported, ability to
live overseas without
losing legal status,
eligibility for federal
government
jobs,
automatic citizenship
for children 18 and
under, and the right to
own a gun.
During
APA
Legislative Day, Tran,
Du, and Tu described
what
citizenship
meant for each of
them.
Tran dreamed of the
day when he could travel to Australia
and Switzerland on a U.S. passport to
visit his children. The experience of
APA Legislative Day motivated him to
study even harder for his citizenship
interview so that he could participate
further in American democracy.
Du looks forward to her
upcoming 65th birthday when she
could start collecting her SSI benefits
and plans on petitioning for her two
sons in Vietnam to come to the US. Du,
who speaks Vietnamese, Cantonese,
and Mandarin, took citizenship
classes in each of these languages at
ACRS so that she could get the most
help in passing the test. Although she
worked very hard on her own, she
credited ACRS in helping her learn
English, a language she never thought
she could learn.
ACRS offers free or low-cost help in
applying for citizenship, especially
for low-income immigrants. The US
Citizenship and Immigration Service
charges $675 for filing citizenship
applications but a fee waiver is
available. Organizations like ACRS
can help apply for the fee waiver
along with the citizenship application
at no cost to the client. Citizenship
classes are available in Mandarin,
Cantonese, Vietnamese and English
for immigrants of all nationalities. ESL
classes are also available. All classes
are free for people with low-incomes,
or $25 a quarter. After October 1,
2008 USCIS created a new test for the
civics question portion. The subject
matter has changed.
INTERNATIONAL EXAMINER
March 18 - March 31, 2009 —— 7
IE NEWS
Health Care Cuts Mean Dire
Consequences for Community
In a down-turning economy, more than just your
wallet is impacted—your health is at risk, too.
BY Christine Loredo
IE Contributor
Christine Loredo is the Marketing & Communications Supervisor
at International Community Health Services, a non-profit
community health center providing culturally-relevant,
in-language, and affordable primary medical and dental services.
Visit www.ichs.com
Times are tough right now,
and as our president predicts, it will
get even tougher before it gets better.
Unemployment continues to rise and
state revenues continue to worsen.
Relief, in the form of over $4 billion
in federal stimulus money, is on its
way and includes $1.9 billion for
healthcare. But Washington state health
care advocates’ hope of stemming the
disastrous impact on affordable health
care programs remains fragile as state
lawmakers move towards allocating
that money towards other non-healthrelated budget priorities.
Earlier this year, Governor
Gregoire proposed significant cuts to
various safety net health care programs,
including the General Assistance
Unemployable (GA-U) program and
Basic Health, a state program that
provides affordable health coverage to
Washington residents who do not have
access to health insurance through
their employer or who cannot afford to
buy it on their own.
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state budget in December of last year.
The cuts in Basic Health alone
can potentially result in a 6 percent
increase in the number of uninsured
people in Washington overnight.
Everyone in our communities will be
affected. Community health centers
and emergency rooms will become
the last and only option to many
uninsured people, driving up the cost
of health care premiums for employers
and those with insurance.
For community health centers
like International Community Health
Services (ICHS), the impact of these
cuts will be devastating. ICHS faces a
substantial loss of insured patients, and
an increase of uninsured ones, resulting
in major financial losses and affecting
our ability to provide crucial services
direly needed during these tough
economic times. Preventative checkups, immunizations, and prenatal care,
services that have proven to reduce
golden opportunity
for them to utilize
that money to shore
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safety net, mitigate
the effects of the
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our most vulnerable
populations,
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our communities.
The time to
voice your concerns
with your elected
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them know that
they need to protect
the programs that
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provide a safety net
for the members
the need for more expensive care
of our community most negatively
later on, will be out of reach for more
impacted by this economic downtown
people. In addition, the reduction in
by spending the stimulus money
Basic Health, a lifeline for many ICHS
intended for health care on health care
patients and one of the few affordable
and finding additional ways to raise
insurance options available to lowrevenue to for these programs. They
income working adults, including
need to retain the critical services
non-citizens, will have an even deeper
needed in our communities, and they
impact among immigrant and refugee
need to protect health care jobs in our
families.
state.
For over three decades, ICHS
has provided vital services to Seattle’s
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and other underserved populations.
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No stranger to financial hardships,
ICHS has weathered several ups and
downs in the economy, and has always
emerged stronger and more vibrant
than before.
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the up-coming
federal stimulus dollars. Their decision
will have both short- and long-term
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INTERNATIONAL EXAMINER
IE FEATURE
The Trade of Asia’s Girls
Asian women are considered a commodity in
today’s market. In honor of International Women’s
Day, on March 10, we shed light on a very serious
epidemic of trade exploiting Asia’s girls.
BY DORI CAHN
IE Contributor
Dori Cahn is a writer and teacher who has traveled, lived, and worked in Asia.
Footage from “The Jammed”, an Australian thriller documentaing the sexual trade of southeast Asian women.
A baby girl, somewhere in Asia.
Her family has little money. Without
prenatal care or medical help, she barely
survives childbirth. Illness and hunger
punctuate her childhood; she works for
her family, maybe gets a little bit of school.
What’s next for her?
Girls and women throughout
Asia find education is elusive and jobs are
scarce, relegating many to find work in
the sex industry, as overseas domestics, or
in sweatshops.
It is not uncommon for girls
in poor families to be sold, both for the
money and to lessen the household
burden.
In her book about forced
prostitution in Cambodia, Somaly Mam
recounts how her grandfather sold her to
a brothel, and her subsequent efforts to
help others in the situation she ultimately
escaped from. The organization she
founded in Phnom Penh 13 years ago,
AFESIP, has opened offices in Laos,
Vietnam, and Thailand to combat the
regional trade in girls.
“In Thailand’s brothels,” writes
Nicholas Kristof, columnist for The
New York Times, “Thai girls usually
work voluntarily, while Burmese and
Cambodian girls are regularly imprisoned.”
In Cambodia’s worst brothels, he says,
“Pimps use violence, humiliation and
narcotics to shatter girls’ self-esteem
and terrorize them into unquestioning,
instantaneous obedience.”
Somaly Mam finds girls as young
as 5 and 6 sold to brothels, explaining,
“Since we started AFESIP, the brothels
have grown larger and more violent. We
find women chained to sewers. Girls
come to us half beaten to death ... these
girls suffer a more brutal sort of torture.”
The U.S. State Department pursues
international trafficking of women for sex
by investigating U.S. citizens involved in
trafficking, and monitoring countries with
a history of sex trade. But investigators
have a hard time distinguishing between
illegal migration and forced trafficking,
and between trafficking for sexual
purposes and forced labor.
In fact, many advocates argue
that labor trafficking is a far worse problem
than forced sex work.
Throughout Asia, women are
recruited for jobs in foreign countries.
Once signed up, they have no control over
where they go, how much they work, or
the type of work they do. The bait may be
child care in San Francisco, housekeeping
in Malaysia, or factory work in Hong Kong;
the reality is often much more arduous,
and much less lucrative.
The Immigrant Women and
Children Project of the Bar Association of
New York City says the majority of their
clients were trafficked into domestic work,
including immigrants brought to work for
UN and consular officials.
The typical employee “gets paid
$50 a month or not at all…. working
seventeen, eighteen hours a day, catering
parties, washing laundry by hand even
though there’s a washing machine. They’ve
had their documents withheld and their
phone calls monitored.”
Most of the publicity and
prosecutions of forced labor have been
for prostitution. Writing in The Nation
magazine, Debbie Nathan criticizes this
focus as a “morbid fascination with forced
prostitution, even though more people
may be forced to pick broccoli than to
rent out their genitals.”
In some Asian countries,
sweatshops offer an alternative, with rare
stable jobs for women, who often leave
behind their homes and families.
Kristof concludes that jobs in
Cambodia’s garment sweatshops are
among the best in that country: “In the
hierarchy of jobs in poor countries,
sweltering at a sewing machine isn’t the
bottom.”
His critics argue, however, that
the problem isn’t factory work itself, but
the factories with deplorable conditions,
where “recruiters” lure children into illegal
factory work, as in a case that erupted in
China last summer.
Some women instead turn to
international matchmaking to escape
poverty, assuming that marriage to a man
who can afford the cost of “consuming”
a mail-order bride, which can range from
$4,000 to $15,000, is better than toiling
in the rice fields, garment factories, or sex
shops of Asia.
The unregulated “wife-import”
business draws women mostly from poor
countries like Vietnam and the Philippines.
Some companies even advertise minors
to their clients, says the American
Immigration Lawyers’ Association.
But many brides find themselves
in servitude to their husbands. In the
U.S., a woman can only get permanent
residency after two years of marriage,
tying her to her husband and making her
vulnerable to abuse.
In 1994, in a stunning act of
violence against his imported bride,
Timothy Blackwell shot his abused Filipina
wife Susanna to death outside the Seattle
courtroom where her divorce petition was
being heard.
What are the alternatives?
Educating vulnerable girls is the
best hope for ending poverty and abuse,
says the Girl Effect, an organization
working to improve opportunities for girls
throughout the Third World.
Girls and young women ages 10
to 24 comprise over one-quarter of the
population in Asia. And when girls and
women earn an income, they reinvest
more of it into their families than men,
says The Girl Effect; every additional
year of secondary school increases their
income by 15-25 percent.
NGO’s and governments are
finding when women invest in their
communities, rates of malnutrition,
hunger, disease, infant mortality and HIV/
AIDS can be reduced, and economic
growth improved. Microlenders report
an exceptional rate of repayment among
women’s businesses, and measure
the return on their investments in
improvements to the community.
Maybe that baby girl can grow
up with more choices.
INTERNATIONAL EXAMINER
Behind the Curtains
IE FEATURE
A disturbing trend is lurking in our cities’
neighborhoods. But, while some of the women
are sex slaves in a massive international tradering, many are also here legally.
BY DORI CAHN
IE Contributor
Dori Cahn is a writer and teacher who has traveled, lived, and worked in Asia.
The names sound alluring:
Red Rose Hot Stone Spa. Sunset Tan.
Chada Thai Massage. Global Healing
Center. They evoke images of tropic
heat and healthy bodies. They are also
businesses that have been raided in the
last two years on suspicion of fronting
prostitution.
Some of these business
advertise on Craigslist, enticing potential
customers with “The #1 Asian Angel
Massage”, or “Looking for the best
Asian Massage?????”. Others look for
customers in the erotic advertisement
pages of the Seattle Weekly or the
Stranger.
Massage parlors are a growing
industry in Seattle and King County, with
recent arrests in Bellevue, Kirkland,
SeaTac, Renton, North Seattle, and Lake
City.
“We had virtually no massage
parlors in the city five or six years ago,”
says Detective Harry James of the Seattle
Police Department. James and his
partner comprise the federally funded
human trafficking unit at the SPD; the two
of them cover all of Washington state.
A vice cop for almost two
decades, James has seen hundreds of
women working in brothels.
“Ninety to ninety-five percent
of workers are Asian,” says James. “Some
are from China, but the majority are SE
Asian—Cambodian, Thai, Vietnamese,
Laotian.” He adds, “Most of them are here
legally.”
The idea that most women
working in massage parlors and brothels
are legal immigrants counters popular
images of forced prostitution. “The idea of servitude is a media
impression,” says Ye-Ting Woo, an assistant
U.S. Attorney in Seattle who prosecutes
federal trafficking and forced labor cases.
“Most of the women who work
in the sex industry are here legally.”
Some have a visitor, family, or
student visa. Woo sees many women who
have been in the U.S. for several years.
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of larger networks, traveling to different
brothels around the country every 10-14
days. Sometimes the owner of the massage
parlor or brothel buys the plane tickets.
That does not mean there isn’t
trafficking. Woo’s office has prosecuted
numerous trafficking cases for prostitution
and forced labor.
In October of last year, a federal
grand jury charged Chomphoonut
Dongird, known as “Lisa”, with conspiracy
to transport individuals in furtherance
of prostitution, bringing women from
Southeast Asia to the Seattle area to work
in a string of brothels disguised as massage
parlors in Kirkland, Bellevue and SeaTac.
She is now also being charged with forced
labor.
According to the indictment, the
women were required to perform sex acts
as part of their employment. In one case,
Lisa brought a woman from Thailand to the
U.S. and then told her she owed $25,000
for her immigration paperwork and travel,
requiring her to work off her debt at the
brothels.
Brothel raids have found women
with fake visas for nurses or teachers, or
sham marriages. Some are promised they
will be models when they get here. Some
are brought across the border from Canada,
or are smuggled in shipping containers. Seattle is not the only place in
Washington state where trafficking victims
wind up. A recent study by the Western
Regional Institute for Community Oriented
Public Safety described human trafficking
in the Spokane area as a “considerable
concern”, noting that, “There is a wide
spectrum of trafficking activities that
include sex slavery, forced prostitution,
forced panhandling, farm labor, janitorial
work and domestic servitude.”
Even rural parts of the state are
not immune. The Seattle-based Asian
Pacific Islander Women and Family
Safety Center sees women around
the state who have been trafficked,
though mostly for domestic work and
marriage.
“Because some women are in
areas where they would travel several
hours to [access services in] Seattle,”
says APIWFSC’s Emma Catague, “we
instead help organizations statewide to
provide assistance.”
Law enforcement officials
generally consider the women to be
victims, and refer them to agencies such
as APIWFSC. Prosecutors acknowledge
while they may be able to charge the
workers with prostitution or immigration
fraud, that doesn’t stop the business.
Many of the massage parlor owners
insulate themselves from the day-to-day
operation. They often live out of state
and hire bosses, usually Asian women,
to manage the workers and the front
business.
Woo has prosecuted business
and home-based brothels equally,
though owners like using tanning and
massage parlors as fronts because “they
are an accepted form of business where
people take their clothes off.”
Many women say they are
doing the work by choice, but Detective
James prefers when he finds women
who are here illegally, because there is
no question of free will.
“Is it really a choice?” he asks.
“No one is standing over them with a
baseball bat, but the average woman
does not like to be degraded by some
man who hands them $100. It’s really
an issue of women’s rights.”
10 ­—— March 18 - March 31, 2009
INTERNATIONAL EXAMINER
IE NEWS
The “Drunkin’ Tattoo Master”
A local tattoo artist shares his love of the edgy
art and shares how it transformed his life.
BY NICHOLAS WONG
IE Contributor
Nick Wong is a graduate from the University of Washington with
a degree in Sociology and American Ethnic Studies. He also likes
to watch fish swim.
What does an outlaw biker and
a third grade elementary school teacher
have in common? Nowadays, one thing:
they could both have a tattoo.
From warding off evil spirits in
Japan, to identifying Jewish prisoners in
Nazi internment camps, to promoting
solidarity amongst military soliders,
tattoos have shifted and adopted different
meanings throughout time. So the question
is, who gets tattooed now?
“Everybody,” says local expert
Joy Soutchay Pathoumsat. “Grandparents,
doctors, police officers, lawyers all have
tattoos. Anybody can get it now, it’s
basically art.”
Better known around the area as
the “Drunkin Tattoo Master”, borrowing
the moniker from Jackie Chan’s 1978
hit, “Drunken Master” (though without
the alcohol), most inked-Asian or Pacific
Islander Seattleites have heard his name
before. And if they haven’t, then they
probably don’t have a tattoo.
“I would say 80 percent of my
clients are Asian,” says Pathoumsat. “They
come to me because I’m an Asian tattoo
artist and they trust me.”
Pathoumsat found his way to
the art of body modification in the State
Reformatory Center of Walla Walla, Wash.
What began as an interest in drawing to
pass time, eventually turned into tattooing
his fellow inmates as the canvas went
from the page to the skin.
After dutifully serving his time,
Pathoumsat managed to find an honest
living by continuing his trade from
his parent’s house. It may seem a bit
unconventional, but it’s how all artists
start. When I turned eighteen, I inked my
first design while watching music videos
in his room. I still remember apologizing
for my repeated reassurance of the
sterilization process, but he told me not
to apologize for it. It was good that I was
being cautious.
don’t have to be a criminal or be in a gang
to get it. It’s just art.”
While I flip through examples
of customer tattoos, I notice reoccurring
photos of Asian-themed pieces. Sometimes
it is simply a flag or the name of a nation.
Other times, it’s complicated Chinese
calligraphy, an intricate Buddhist figure,
or a beautifully depicted mythological
element of Asian folklore, such as the
Cambodian poem “Reamker” or the
Laotian three-headed elephant.
“People get them to represent
where they’re from—to keep their culture
alive,” says Pathousmat.
In a society with a generation
supposedly forgetting their ancestral
backgrounds, tattooing appears to be one
thing keeping the youth familiar with their
cultural roots.
But tattooing not only maintains
culture, it is creating a new one. The tattoo
shop is a place where people hang around
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And as promised, the final
work turned out clean and spectacular,
receiving compliments from established
artists around the area, curiously
wondering where such work came from.
Soon enough, a simple home operation
evolved into a full-fledged business.
Now located off Rainier Avenue
in south Seattle, cars line up in front of his
co-owned shop, “Tatmasters”. Plastered
on the wall amongst the plethora of
designs are hand-drawn charcoal portraits
of influential social figures, like Martin
Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and Tupac
Shakur. In his own personal workspace
hang photos of his son and crayon-written
notes from the young boy to his father. As
usual, the shop is buzzing with business.
People of all walks step in for various
reasons.
“For some of them, their family
passed away, so they get their names or
portraits. Some people get it for love,
but eventually come back,” chuckles
Pathousmat. “There are a lot of stories that
come in but anyone can get it now. You
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Left: Joy Soutchay Pathoumsat holds a photo of
a design he tattooed on a client, of a Laotian god.
The original sketch hangs in the background. Above:
Pathoumsat works on a client.
for hours, comparing their own respective
pieces, exchanging stories, and finding
a space for commonality. It forms a new
place of community.
Joy’s tale of rough beginnings
proves how people can recover from their
past and come back to create something
that brings people together: a space
where people can share their stories and
an art that can retain a culture, engrave
the remembrance of a loved one, or
make peace with a past heartache. With
the changing perception of the art, it
is no longer taboo to be tattooed and is
in fact, a newly emerging tradition that
carries meaning. So if you haven’t already
dropped in for one yet, “Come get tatted,”
says the “Drunkin Master”.
Feel free to contact Joy at (206) 291-7664 or
e-mail: [email protected], or
visit: myspace.com/drunkintattoomaster.
Tatmasters is located at 5113 S Fisher St.,
Seattle, Wash., 98118.
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A Snapshot of Tokyo
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A husband-wife photographer team find meaning
in the details of a bustling, international city.
BY CARINA A. DEL ROSARIO
IE Contributor
Sanja Parade in Toyko, Japan. Photo by photographer team Virginia Sorrells and Nicholas Vroman. The
current exhibition, “Tokyo Micro/Macro” is at Georgetown’s Calamity Jane’s Restaurant.
Places can be both exhilarating
and overwhelming. Whether it’s the
Grand Canyon or Paris, the grandeur
can be too much to absorb. One can
try to take a snapshot of the landscape,
but once you see it in print or, more
likely, on a computer screen, it falls
short of capturing the feeling one had
when standing there, looking over
the canyon’s dizzying ledge or across
the Siene to the Left Bank’s sweeping
skyline.
Photographers
Virginia
Sorrells and Nicholas Vroman take
a different approach to Tokyo, the
bustling city where the husband-wife
photographic team now lives. Their
joint exhibit, “Tokyo Micro/Macro”,
now at Georgetown’s Calamity Jane’s
Restaurant, features over 66 color
photographs that break down the hectic
beauty of the city into small, delicious
sweet, savory and subtle bites.
“As a relative newcomer to
Japan, I find myself drawn to document
those fine details in an attempt to
discern the elements that make up
the larger picture,” writes Vroman,
a former Seattle native. “Consider
these [photos] as cells making up the
organism of Tokyo.”
Vroman’s eyes linger over
discreet moments, like white towels
hanging in a doorway, the mask
shadows cast on a bright sidewalk, kanji
scrawled on a green chalkboard. While
the colors in these are muted, others
drip with saturation. “Snakewoman”
is composed so that the mural of the
title slithers along a deep green wall
along the bottom of the frame with a
red ceiling weighing her down from
above.
Even though their works are
intermingled throughout the exhibit,
one can tell who shot which by subject
matter. Sorrell is more interested in
photographing people than objects
and abstract forms. Still, she shares
Vroman’s desire to find stillness.
“Tokyo is often overwhelming
with noise, advertisements and the crush
of people,” she writes in the exhibition’s
press release. “But the rituals of daily
life, the celebrations and the way things
function in a such complex urban space
serve to mediate and humanize the
environment in a wonderful way.”
Sorrell mostly captures people
while they are alone, lost in thought
or at the work in front of them. There’s
the young boy leaning against a train
window, looking out at the blurred
world, his turquoise jacket brightening
the dim scene. There is the “Candy
Man” who carefully spins sugar into the
shape of horses.
It’s interesting to see how
Sorrells’ and Vroman’s styles weave
almost seamlessly together. The photos
are not signed, nor do they have
individual cards indicating the title and
artist. If you do not grab a copy of the
artists’ statement by the restaurant’s front
door, or know about the exhibit ahead of
time, you would think the photos were
all taken by the same person. In their
joint statement, the artists write, “To
collaborate in works of art, or in the art
of living, partners should hold visions of
the world that are at once shared and
wholly unique. It helps to have a rich
common language … We can walk the
same streets, surrounded by the same
people and things, yet find completely
different ways of representing the
landscape.”
And the various slices of
Tokyo they gather and offer capture the
freshness of their new love for the place
they now call home.
“Tokyo Micro/Macro” is on display
through April 4 at Calamity Jane’s
Restaurant, 5701 Airport Way S., Seattle.
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“Garden and Cosmos”
The “Garden & Cosmos” exhibit at SAAM features
culturally and politically complex royal Indian paintings
from the 17th-19th centuries.
BY SHIWANI SRIVASTAVA
IE Contributor
Shiwani Srivastava is a freelance writer covering cultural trends
and community issues whose work has appeared on MSN, The
Root, and the Examiner online.
Gardens have captured the surprise gardens are treated with such
human imagination across centuries, reverence in their art work. There are
cultures, and religions. In art, they often also many Hindu deities in their paintings
symbolize an earthly paradise – a space – sometimes featured prominently, and
for contemplation that brings us closer sometimes hidden away – each with a
to the heavens. “Garden & Cosmos: The distinct symbolic meaning.
Royal Paintings of Jodhpur” (at SAAM But perhaps most surprising
from January 29-April 26) explores this are the paintings that explore the
theme through
more
esoteric
Indian
court
concepts, such as
paintings from
the heavens and
the
17th-19th
the origins of yoga.
centuries.
In comparison to
These
the lush garden
55 works of art
paintings that are
are
currently
full of activity, the
part
of
an
cosmos portion of
international
the series is serene
tour, featuring
and
minimalist.
paintings
of
They look oddly
royal
life,
contemporary and
gardens, Hindu
out of place, which
deities, and the
makes them all the
cosmos – all From the “Garden and Cosmos” exhibit, on display at the more fascinating in
Seattle Asian Art Museum.
commissioned
the context of the
by the various
exhibit.
rulers of the Jodhpur court over the Despite the historical, political,
course of centuries. Visitors might find cultural, and religious factors at play in
the style familiar, as it resembles the these paintings, they are also just plain
famous miniatures commissioned by the fun to look at. They seem almost like
Mughal Empire. While these pieces use a scavenger hunt – an observation that
a vibrant color palette and amazingly the SAAM staff noticed, and took to
fine brushstrokes like Mughal art, they’re heart. “Garden and Cosmos” is a great
an entirely different body of work.
exhibit for children – not just because
In fact, they provide a unique of the art, but because of the activities
insight into the cultural and political that the staff has thoughtfully created as
complexities of the Marwar-Jodhpur well.
region, or present day Rajasthan, at One of them includes a
the time. When the Jodhpur court scavenger hunt, where children (or
commissioned these works, the Mughals adults, for that matter) have to find
– a Muslim dynasty that ruled over much certain images hidden away in these
of India till the early 1700s – had already paintings, inspiring them to take a
weakened. At the same time, the British closer look. In addition, the museum
East India Company was establishing its has set up a cultural learning room that
foothold. In other words, power was no is directed towards children, complete
longer something rulers could take for with picture books about South Asia
granted.
and activities like creating dioramas.
So why did the Jodhpur For grown-ups, the museum has
maharajas turn to art during unstable been hosting a series of events related
times? Art was a vehicle not only to the exhibit. There are several events
for preserving the exploits and in March, including a talk featuring
achievements of the Jodhpur court, but Indu Sundaresan – a local author who
also for portraying the court in a regal, has written historical fiction about
almost divine light. It was a way of the Mughal court – and a “Garden
recording history as they’d like it to be and Cosmos” symposium with local
remembered, as these paintings were professors, curators, and art historians.
for their private enjoyment.
In addition, there are a series of events
Certainly, this exhibit is worth scheduled for April – like a “Garden and
seeing for the aesthetics alone. It’s hard Cosmos” concert featuring classical,
to believe the colors have remained so traditional, and regional Indian music.
vibrant over centuries, and the closer And throughout the show’s run, SAAM
you stand to the paintings, the more is running hour-long tours of the exhibit
you notice each finely-painted detail. that are free with admission. History,
But there’s also a lot to be gained from art, and a scavenger hunt through
understanding the history and context cosmic gardens? Not a bad way to
of the Jodhpur court.
spend a weekend afternoon.
For example, the MarwarJodhpur region was largely comprised For more information on the exhibit
of deserts, with only a small, highly- and the accompanying special events,
valuable strip of arable land. It’s no please visit www.seattleartmuseum.org.
“Stories Waiting to be Told”
A performer crosses barriers to break stereotypes of
Asian women and create a legacy for future generations.
BY ROXANNE RAY
IE Contributor
Jude Narita is taking her place “Some artists have tremendous
in the midwst of Asian women, real professional support — agents,
and imaginary, past and present.
managers, producers, etc. I never
In “Stories Waiting to be have had that kind of professional
Told”, Narita crosses generations and encouragement and support.”
ethnicities in order to break stereotypes Instead,
significant
in
of Asian women.
inspiring and supporting her theatre
“I
decided
performances
have
to create some real
been Narita’s own
Asians,” she says. “We
experiences and family
do not all look alike.”
life.
“My mother,
For her stage
Cobi Nobuko Narita,
performance, Narita
was and is incredibly
draws upon a range of
supportive.”
material to give voice
Narita lauds her
to women in Asian
mother
as
being
American
society.
the
person
most
Especially influential,
responsible for her
she says, were “the
accomplishments as an
internment of Japanese
artist. “It wasn’t easy for
Americans, the way
her, as a single mother
the wars in Asia were
raising seven children,
written about, the way
but she got us all music
the Asians that were
or dance lessons, and
in these wars were
took us to theater,” she
portrayed and so often,
says.
demonized.”
Cobi Narita still has
In contrast,
a hand in Jude Narita’s
Jude Narita
Narita
sought
to
work. “Many years ago
connect with the Asian
she was the first person
Americans in her audiences. “I’ve to book one of my plays,” Narita says.
been so amazed at what my work has “She has since helped me produce my
meant to so many Asian Americans,” theatrical runs over the years.”
she says. “They saw themselves or a Jude Narita passed down
family member for the first time on this familial involvement to her own
stage. They heard their stories. Their daughter, Darling. “She is inspiring
voices.”
and fearless, challenging me to do
Although Narita’s emphasis things I would never think of,” Jude
is on creating characters reflective of Narita says. “I love working with
real Asian experience, Narita insists her.”
that her performances go beyond Family continues to be
ethnicity.
important to Narita as she explores her
“I’ve performed in areas of next theatre piece.
the United States where there were no “I’m in the beginning stages
Asian Americans, and people would of working on a piece about missing
come up to me afterwards and say fathers,” another story waiting to be
—that was my mom you portrayed, or told.
my sister, or even, that was me—across
race and gender lines,” she says.
“Stories Waiting to be Told” runs
Narita feels this kind of on March 20, 2009, at the Kirkland
response is what makes her work Performance Center, 350 Kirkland
rewarding. “It’s difficult to create, act, Avenue, Kirkland 98033.
book and produce, but I do it all to
continue as an artist,” she says.
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By Alan Lau
HIGHLIGHTS
Co-authors Tracy Lai, tenured historian at Seattle
Central Community College and Kim Geron, associate professor of political science at Cal State,
East Bay, will discuss their recently published book
“The Snake Dance of Asian American Activism:
Community, Vision, and Power” (Lexington Books)
in Seattle. A third co-author, Michael Liu is based
in Boston but won’t be making the trip out west.
The book traces the history of the Asian American
movement from its 1930’s roots to the present day
and the societal, community dynamics that led to its
development and rise. As such, it is one of the first
books to delve significantly into this important topic.
Saturday, March 21 from 4 to 6 p.m. Beacon Hill
Branch of the Seattle Public Library at 2821 Beacon
Avenue S. (206) 684-4711. Co-sponsored by Seattle
Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance and Wing Luke
Asian Museum.
“Drums Along The Pacific – The Music of John Cage,
Henry Cowell And Lou Harrison” is a four-day festival
that features the music of these important American
composers whose music was deeply influenced by
Asia. Performing will be The Pacific Rims Percussion
Quartet, Seattle Chamber Players, Gamelan Pacifica.
Stephen Drury and John Duykers. March 26 – 29.
Accompanying these concerts is a series of presentations and reflections on the music of these
composers. All are free and open to the public.
Cornish College of the Arts PONCHO Concert Hall at
710 East Roy St. For tickets, visit www.cornish.edu/
drums. For information, call (206) 726-5011.
The work of the
late
Northwest
master
painter
Frank Okada is
spotlighted with
four large paintings in a group
show entitled “On
a Grand Scale”
through June 7.
Also showing is
“ Tr e s p a s s i n g ” ,
show of contemporary works
Frank Okada. Oil on canvas 82
by six Native
inches in diameter.
A m e r i c a n ,
Alaskan Native
and
Native
Hawaiian artists on view through March 22. Whatcom
Museum at 121 Prospect St. in Bellingham,Wash.
(360) 778-8930 or www.whatcommuseum.org.
Catch Seattle Symphony’s Ko-ichiro Yamamoto as
he performs in the world premiere of Samuel Jones
“Trombone Concerto” as part of a program featuring
Cadim Repin performing Brahms’ Violin Concerto
and Diamond’s “Rounds for String Orchestra.” April
2 at 7:30 p.m., April 4 at 8pm and April 5 at 2 p.m.
Benaroya Hall downtown. (206) 215-4247 or www.
seattlesymphony.org.
Noted specialists from Japan will give a special lecture on the philosophy behind the traditional Japanese
Garden on March 29 at 2 p.m. at the Graham Visitors
Center in Washington Park Arboreturm at 2300
Arboretum Dr. E. Free. (206) 682-9107 x 134.
Sol Hasemi and Jason Hirata investigate flowers,
wood, fog and their friendship in the show “Please
Stand By: Stand By Me” from noon to 5 p.m. at Punch
Gallery Fri.-Sun. through March 28. After 9 p.m., you
can see the artists in sleeping bags in the front windows as they interact with fog and lights at scheduled
intervals. 119 Prefontaine Place S. (206) 621-1945 or
www.punchgallery.org.
“Identity, Costume, Cliché: Korean Photography
Today” opens a window to the multi-faceted, ever
changing culture of contemporary Korea through the
eyes of 3 photographers. Chan-Hyo Bae expresses
his feelings as an Asian immigrant in London by
dressing in period costumes as unidentified members
of English aristocracy. His self-portraits mimic women
monarchs and look at issues of gender, power, race
and class. Ok Hyun Ahn in her “Mirror Ball Series”
asks her Korean subjects to pose in clichéd poses
that are not the norm for women of her culture.
She encourages each subject to strike a pose that
simultaneously embrace and expose clichés. Suk
Kuhn Oh in his “Text Book” series takes the central
characters in Korean Children’s books (like our “Jack
& Jill”) and poses them as large dolls in very real
modern settings. He finds hidden meaning in the
unconsciousness as viewers perceive each figure’s
discomfort in the situations they find themselves in.
On view through March 27 at Photographic Center
Northwest at 900 – 12th Ave. (206) 720-7222 or visit
www.pcnw.org.
performing arts
Award-winning playwright, performer and theatre
activist Jude Narita (see elsewhere in this issue for
a preview) comes to the area to perform two of
her most well known piedes that reflect the realistic
life experiences of Asian American women. “Stories
Waiting To Be Told” is on March 20 at 8 p.m. at the
Kirkland Performing Arts Center. www.kpcenter.org.
“From The Heart” is on March 21 at Vashon Allied Arts/
Blue Heron Arts Center on Vashon Island. http://www.
vashonalliedarts.org. Narita will be in the area March
22 – 31 and is available for workshops, lectures and
mini-performances for schools and non-profits. She
can be reached at [email protected].
“Tokyo Sonata” is the latest film by Japanese director
Kiyoshi Kurosawa known for his disturbing thrillers.
The film follows the disintegration of a Japanese family as the father walks out on his job while all the time
pretending that nothing has changed at home. With
dashes of comedy, tragedy and an ending that even
brings hope, Kurosawa has crafted a timely film for
our troubled times. With a strong performance by the
always reliable actor Koji Yakusho. March 27 – April
2 at 7 & 9:15 pm.Northwest Film Forum. 1515 – 12th
Ave. (1-800) 838-3006. www.nwfilmforum.org.
A complete Arts Etc.
arts calendar is available
online at
www.iexaminer.org.
Kitchen Scrap Collection:
Clean and Easy!
Hey Seattle! WEEKLY food and yard waste collection
begins March 30. Here are some helpful tips to help
make kitchen scrap collection easy:
Bag it! Use a paper or approved compostable bag to store
food scraps. Just toss the bag in your food and yard waste
cart when it’s full. No plastic bags allowed.
Store it! Use a container with a tight fitting lid to store
food scraps. Empty scraps into food and yard waste
cart, then rinse and reuse container.
Use the news! Spread newspaper at the bottom of
your cart or wrap your scraps in newspaper to help
keep your cart clean.
Namaste Kirkland is Kirkland Performance Center’s
second annual tribute to the diverse music and dance
traditions of India. “India Jazz Suites” is an explosive collaboration between Chitresh Das, traditonal
Kathak dance master and Emmy Award-winning tap
dancer Jason Samuels Smith set for April 3 at 8 p.m.
Indo-Canadian vocalist Kiran Ahluwalia sings original
ghazals and Punjabi folk songs on April 11 at 8 p.m.
Finally master sitarist/vocalist and Indian classical
musician Shujaat Khan performs in concert on April
25 at 8 p.m. Series tickets available. (425) 893-9900
pr www.kpcenter.org
Seattle Theatre Group presents “Kungfu Theatre:
Tales from the Beijing Opera” on April 17 at 7:30 p.m.
at the Moore Theatre. It presents a selection of comic
and dramatic scenes from some of China’s most popular stories with Chinese & English dialogue, music,
dance, mime, acrobatics, martial arts and more.
Features some of the best Chinese performers currently living in the US. Tickets online at stgpresents.
org or call (877) STG-4TIX. You can also buy tickets
in-person at the Paramount Theatre ticket office. The
Moore Theatre is located at 1932 Second Ave.
film & Video
Better recycling coming March 30
Check your mailbox for more information and to find your collection day.
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Save the Date!
The International Examiner’s first
ever ‘InspirAsian’
Fashion Show and Competition
Wednesday,
May 20, 2009!
The first fashion show by a
northwest API publication celebrating
local, up-and-coming API designers!
Sunday, 3/22
Join Studio 904
and Ginger’s Pet
Rescue in making
a difference in the
lives of needy and
at-risk dogs! Studio
904 Salon Invites
You to Ginger’s
Pet Rescue Fundraising Event. Ginger’s
Pet Rescue specializes in saving Death
Row Dogs and Puppy Mill Dogs. Kim
Sgro, KCACC Exposed Co-Director,
will discuss the current status of animal
welfare in King County, with emphasis
on the impact of present political and
economic climate. From 4– 5:30 p.m. at
Studio 904, Mercer Island Salon, 3041
78th Ave. SE Mercer Island, Wash. Bring
a friend and join them for appetizers and
raffle prizes. Buy one-of-a-kind, handmade cards with proceeds donated
towards rescue expenses. R.S.V.P at
(206) 232-3393 or visit: www.studio904.
com/media2/march09_gingerluke.jpg
Presenting “Asian Idol”
at the Tulalip Casino.
The event is from
8:30 p.m. -12 a.m. Visit
www.tulalipcasino.com.
Sunday, 3/29
Presenting the Golden Voice Contest
(Giong Ca Vang 09) at the Emerald
Queen Casino! The event begins at 8
p.m. Emerald Queen casino is located
at 2024 E. 29th St., Tacoma, Wash. This
is the Northwest semifinals.
Friday, 4/3
The
National
Association
of
Asian
American
Professionals
(NAAAP)
Speed
Networking
event
from 6 - 9 p.m. at
Crimson C. This event
is between a social and professional
development event. NAAAP will
have a guest speaker to provide
attendees on how to communicate
efficiently in a short time. Please
visit: www.naaap.org.
IE CLASSIFIEDS
Saturday, 4/4
Wednesday, 5/13
Wing Luke Asian
Museum’s
2009
Annual Dinner &
Auction featuring
the Art of Cuisine
with
emcee
Mark
Dacascos,
Chairman of Iron
Chef America. Taste
your way through a
Mark Dacascos
selection of artinspired appetizers created by local
chefs, learn about their inspirations
and vote for a favorite. The event will
be held at the Bell Harbor International
Conference Center, 2211 Alaskan Way
in Seattle’s Pier 66. Tickets: $150-$500.
To purchase, call (206) 623.5124 ext.
107. All proceeds from the Dinner
& Auction will go towards the Wing
Luke Asian Museum’s operations
and programs. Contact Joann Natalia
Aquino, Public Relations and Marketing
Manager, at (206) 623-5124 ext. 106 or
email: [email protected].
NAAAP-Seattle Diversity Career
Fair “Exploring Opportunities”,
from noon - 6 p.m. at Union Station,
in Seattle’s C/ID. This will be the first
career expo event of NAAAP-Seattle.
The International Examiner is the
proud exclusive media sponsor for
this event.
Thursday, 4/16
The Asian American Journalists
Association
(AAJA)is
accepting
applications for it’s Convention News
Project internship. To learn more
about the project and download the
application, please visit here: http://
www.aaja.org/programs/for_students/
journalism_trainings/newsproject. The
deadline for the application is March
27th.
The Japan America Society Annual
Dinner and Meeting. Keynote speaker:
Nicole Piasecki, President, Boeing
Japan. Featuring the Fourth Annual
Thomas Foley Award. Doors open at
5:30 p.m. Dinner and award ceremony
is at 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. For questions,
please contact Rebecca Retzler at the
JAS office (206) 374-0180 or email:
[email protected].
Friday, 4/17 – 4/19
Safeco Insurance
Festál:
Seattle
Cherry Blossom &
Japanese Cultural
Festival.
Festival
explores Seattle’s
deep connections
with Japan and
celebrates
the
beauty of spring. Delicious Japanese
food, tea ceremony demonstrations
and artwork present both a modern and
ancient view of this complex culture.
10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. at the Center
House and Fisher Pavilion. For more
information on Safeco Insurance Festál
2009 as well as a complete listing of
Seattle Center events, visit: http://www.
seattlecenter.com.
Saturday, 4/18
Presenting
the
Vietnamese Student
Association of UW’s
(VSA-UW)
Hoa
Khoi Pageant. The
pageant celebrates
accomplished
Vietnamese college
girls in the community.
Profits will be used to
fund the VSA’s philanthropy project of
the year, a medical mission to Vietnam.
The winner earns a scholarship. The
event will be held at the UW campus,
Kane Hall 130, from 1 – 4:30 p.m.
Ticket Price: $10 Pre-Sale, $15 At-theDoor, $20 VIP (Pre-sale only).
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
The Northwest Journalists of Color is
offering scholarships of up to $2,500
to Washington state college and
high students interested in pursuing
a career in journalism. Applications
must be postmarked by April 24, 2009.
Please send completed applications
to: Northwest Journalists of Color
Scholarship c/o Caroline Li, 14601 9th
Ave NE, Seattle, WA 98155. For more
information, visit www.aajaseattle.org
or e-mail editor@earthwalkersmag.
com.
College-bound high school seniors,
undergraduate and graduate students
who are descendants of World War II
Japanese American veterans are invited
to apply for the EiroYamada Memorial
Scholarship. Application deadline
is April 6, 2009. Applicants must be
direct descendants of those Japanese
Americans who served during WWII
services
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descendents of non-Japanese Americans
who served in the 100th Infantry
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American wartime experience. Previous
scholarship recipients and applicants are
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online at www.goforbroke.org or may
be obtained by emailing cayleen@
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Scholarship amounts range from $500
to $1,000.
The Asian Pacific Islander Community
Leadership Foundation (ACLF) is a
nonprofit, nonpartisan organization
that builds individual and community
leadership,
promoting
greater
economic, social, and political justice
and mentors ethical, highly-skilled,
and caring API leaders committed to
the community. ACLF is now accepting
2009 Community Leaders Program
(CLP) applications. ACLF is extending
their Community Leaders Program (CLP)
application deadline: applications must
be received at the ACLF office by noon
on Monday, March 23. Contact ACLF
for information at (206) 625-3850 or
[email protected].
COMMUNITY RESOURCE DIRECTORY
Arts & Culture
Leadership Development
Asian & Pacific Islander Women &
Family Safety Center
P.O. Box 14047, Seattle,
WA 98114
INTERNATIONAL
EXAMINER
ph: 206-467-9976 www.apiwfsc.org
Provides community organizing, education, outreach & client
advocacy services on domestic violence, sexual assault and
human trafficking.
March 18 - March 31, 2009 —— 15
www.ichs.com
Community Resource Directory. Email: [email protected]
COMMUNITY RESOURCE DIRECTORY
COMMUNITY RESOURCE
DIRECTORY
Asia Pacific Cultural Center
934 Broadway, Tacoma, WA 98402
ph: 253-383-3900
www.asiapacificculturalcenter.org
Celebrating and increasing awareness of Asia
Pacific cultures.
Arts
Arts && Culture
Culture
Asia Pacific Cultural Center
934
Broadway,
Tacoma, WA
WA 98402
98402
1300 1st Ave,934
Seattle,
WA 98101
Broadway,
Tacoma,
ph: 253-383-3900
253-383-3900
ph: 206-654-3209
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The Seattle Art
Museum (SAM) supports community-based and
www.asiapacificculturalcenter.org
Celebrating
and increasing
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awareness of
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groups. To learn
more:
and
Pacific
cultures.
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719 S King St, Seattle, WA 98104
ph: 206-623-5124 fx: 206-652-4963
[email protected] www.wingluke.org
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Smithsonian Institution affiliate, the
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1st Ave,
Ave, Seattle,
Seattle, WA
WA
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ph: 206-382-1197 www.cidbia.org
Merchant association enhancing the economic vitality of the
Community Businesses. Programming focuses on public safety,
transportation, graffiti and debris removal and organization of community wide promotional events.
Business
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Chinatown/International
District
Business
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association
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Ave
S, Seattle,
WA 98108
community
promotional
events.
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wide
promotional
events.
ph: 206-725-7535 fx: 206-723-4465
[email protected]
A multiracial, multicultural, intergenerational, open and affirming church on the
corner of Beacon and Graham in Beacon Hill. Rev. Angela L. Ying, Pastor.
Church
Education
6230 Beacon
Beacon Ave
Ave S,
S, Seattle,
Seattle, WA
WA 98108
98108
6230
6230
Beacon Ave S,
WA 98108
ph:
206-725-7535
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206-723-4465
ph:
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[email protected]
[email protected]
multiracial, multicultural,
multicultural, intergenerational,
intergenerational, open
open and
and affirming
affirming church
church on
on the
the
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multiracial,
A multiracial,
multicultural,
intergenerational,
affirming
church
on the
corner
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Rev.and
Angela
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801
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Rev.
Angela
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corner
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ph:
206-621-7880
[email protected] www.deniselouie.org
Multicultural preschool and Head Start services for children ages
3-5 with locations in the ID, Beacon Hill and Rainier Beach.
Education
Education
Housing &
Neighborhood Planning
801 SS Lane
Lane St,
St, Seattle,
Seattle, WA
WA 98104
98104
801
ph: 206-621-7880
206-621-7880
HomeSight
ph:
801
S Lane St, Seattle,
WA 98104
[email protected]
www.deniselouie.org
Rainier Ave S, Seattle, WA 98118
[email protected]
ph: 206-621-7880 5117www.deniselouie.org
Multicultural preschool
preschool
and Head
Head Start
Startfx:
services
for children
children ages
ages
ph: 206-723-4355
206-760-4210
Multicultural
and
services
for
[email protected]
www.deniselouie.org
3-5 with
with locations
locations
in
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Hillservices
and Rainier
Rainier
Beach. ages
www.homesightwa.org
3-5
in
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ID,
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and
Beach.
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preschool
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for children
3-5
with locations
in the
ID, Beacon Hill
and Rainierthrough
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HomeSight
creates
homeownership
opportunities
estate development, home buyer education and counseling,
and lending.
Housing &
Housing Planning
&
Neighborhood
Neighborhood Planning
Inter*Im
Community Development Association
HomeSight
HomeSight
310 Maynard
Ave Ave
S,
WA WA
98104
HomeSight
5117 Rainier
Rainier
AveSeattle,
S, Seattle,
Seattle,
WA 98118
98118
5117
S,
ph: 206-624-1802
fx: S,
206-624-5859
5117
Rainier Ave
Seattle,
WA 98118
ph: 206-723-4355
206-723-4355
fx:
206-760-4210
ph:
fx:
206-760-4210
[email protected]
www.interimicda.org
ph:
206-723-4355
fx:
206-760-4210
www.homesightwa.org
www.homesightwa.org
www.homesightwa.org
Affordable
economic
development,
neighborhood
HomeSighthousing,
creates homeownership
homeownership
opportunities
through real
real
HomeSight
creates
opportunities
through
planning
and advocacy
for the
APIeducation
community.
estate development,
development,
home
buyer
education
and counseling,
counseling,
estate
home
buyer
and
HomeSight
creates
homeownership
opportunities
through
real
and lending.
lending.
and
estate
development, home buyer education and counseling,
and lending.
International
District
Housing Alliance
Inter*Im
Community
Development
Association
Inter*Im
Community
Development
Association
Maynard
S #104/105,
Seattle, WA
310606
Maynard
AveAve
S, Seattle,
Seattle,
WA 98104
98104
310
Maynard
Ave
S,
WA
98104
Inter*Im
Community
Development
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ph: 206-624-1802
206-624-1802 fx:
fx: 206-624-5859
206-624-5859
ph:
ph:
206-623-5132
fx: 206-623-3479
310
Maynard
Ave S, Seattle,
WA 98104
[email protected]
www.interimicda.org
[email protected]
www.interimicda.org
ph:
206-624-1802
fx:
206-624-5859
Multilingualhousing,
low-income
housing
outreach, rental
information,
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economic
development,
neighborhood
Affordable
housing,
economiceducation.
development,
neighborhood
[email protected]
www.interimicda.org
homeownership
community
planning
and advocacy
advocacy
for the
the API
API community.
community.
planning
and
for
Affordable housing, economic development, neighborhood
planning and advocacy for the APA community.
International District
District Housing
Housing Alliance
Alliance
International
606 Maynard
Maynard Ave
Ave
#104/105,
Seattle,
WA
606
SS #104/105,
WA
International
District
HousingSeattle,
Alliance
98104
98104
606
Maynard
Ave S #104/105
221 18th Ave S, Seattle,
WA 98144
ph:
206-623-5132
fx:
206-623-3479
Seattle,
WA 98104 fx: 206-623-3479
ph: 206-322-4550 ph:
fx: 206-623-5132
206-329-3330
ph: 206-623-5132
fx: 206-623-3479
[email protected]
Multilingual low-income
low-income
housing outreach,
outreach,
rental information,
information,
Multilingual
housing
rental
Affordable
housing community
with culturally
appropriate services for people
homeownership
community
education.
homeownership
education.
62Multilingual
years of agelow-income
and older. housing outreach,
rental information, homeownership community education.
Seattle Chinatown/International District
Preservation and Development Authority
ph: 206-624-8929 fx: 206-467-6376
[email protected]
221 18th
18th Ave
Ave S,
S, Seattle,
Seattle, WA
WA 98144
98144
221
18th Ave S,
Seattle,
WA 98144
ph:
206-322-4550
fx:
206-329-3330
ph:Housing,
206-322-4550
fx:
206-329-3330
property221
management
and
community
development.
ph:
206-322-4550
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[email protected]
[email protected]
Affordable housing
housing [email protected]
with culturally
culturally appropriate
appropriate services
services for
for people
people
Affordable
with
62 years
years of
of age
age and
andAffordable
older. housing with culturally appropriate
62
older.
services for people 62 years of age and older.
Seattle Chinatown/International
Chinatown/International District
District
Seattle
Preservation
and Development
Development Authority
Authority
Preservation
and
Seattle
Chinatown/International
District
ph: 206-624-8929
206-624-8929
fx: 206-467-6376
206-467-6376
ph:
fx:
Preservation
and Development
Authority
[email protected]
[email protected]
ph:
206-624-8929 fx: 206-467-6376
[email protected]
Housing, property
property management
management and
and community
community development.
development.
Housing,
Housing, property management and community development.
Asian Pacific Islander Community
Leadership Foundation (ACLF)
Join our
PO Box 14461, Seattle, WA 98104
ph: 206-625-3850
[email protected] www.aclfnorthwest.org
Community leadership development, networking
and mentoring.
Randolph Carter Family & Learning Center
Asian & Pacific Islander206-323-6336
Women &
Asian Safety
Pacific
Islander Women
Women &&
East KingFamily
County
Center
Asian
&&Family
Pacific
Islander
Center
425-213-1963
Family
Safety
Center
Family
Safety
Center
P.O.
Box
14047,
Seattle,
WA
98114
South KingP.O.
County
Family
Center
Box
14047,
Seattle,
WA
98114
P.O.
Box 14047, Seattle,
WA 98114
ph:
206-467-9976
www.apiwfsc.org
253-854-0077
ph: 206-467-9976 www.apiwfsc.org
Leadership Development
Asian Pacific Islander Community
Political
Leadership& Civil Rights
PO Box 14461
FoundationSeattle,
(ACLF)WA 98104
Foundation
(ACLF)
PO Box
Box 14461,
14461, Seattle,
Seattle, WA
WA
98104
PO
ph:98104
206-625-3850
ph: 206-625-3850
206-625-3850
ph:
[email protected]
[email protected]
www.aclfnorthwest.org
www.aclfnorthwest.org
www.aclfnorthwest.org
[email protected]
of Asian Pacific American
Affairs
Community
leadership
development,
networking
leadership
210 11th AveCommunity
SW, Rm 301,
General development,
Administrationnetworking
Building,
and
mentoring.
and
mentoring.
Olympia, WA
98504-0925
Community
leadership
development, networking and mentoring
ph: 360-725-5666 or 360-725-5667 fx: 360-586-9501
[email protected] www.capaa.wa.gov
Statewide liasion between government and APA communities.
Monitors and informs public about legislative issues.
ph: 206-467-9976
Provides
community www.apiwfsc.org
organizing, educaProvides
community
organizing,
education,
outreach
& client
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advocacy
services
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sexual assault
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and
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Adoption,Childcare,
Pregnancy
advocacy
services
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domestic
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sexual
assault
and
human
trafficking.
human
trafficking.
Support,
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Youth
Tutoring.
human trafficking.
Randolph
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Family
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CareerFamily
Alternatives
Center
For
Career
Alternatives
206-323-6336
206-323-6336
901
Rainier
Ave S,
S, Seattle,
Seattle,
WA 98144
98144
901
Rainier
Ave
WA
East
King
County
Family
Center
East King County Family Center
ph:
206-322-9080 fx:
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206-322-9084425-213-1963
425-213-1963
ph:
206-322-9080
www.ccawa.org
South King
King County
County Family
Family Center
Center
www.ccawa.org
South
253-854-0077
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Adoption,Childcare, Pregnancy
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Political & Civil Rights
Support, Addiction
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Treatment, Youth
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Tutoring.
Support,
OCA
- Greater
Seattle
Commission
of Asian
Pacific
American Affairs
Commission
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Asian
Pacific
American
Affairs
606SW,
Ave.
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- SuiteAffairs
104 Building,
Commission
of
Asian
Pacific
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210
11th Ave
Rm 301,
General
Administration
210
11th
Ave
SW,
Rm
301,
General
Administration
Building,
P.O.
Box
3013,
Seattle,
WA
98114
210
11th
Ave
SW,
Rm
301,
General
Administration
Building,
Olympia, WA 98504-0925
Olympia,
WA
98504-0925
ph:
(206)
682-0665
www.ocaseattle.org
Olympia,
WA
98504-0925
ph: 360-725-5666 or 360-725-5667 fx: 360-586-9501
ph:
360-725-5666
or
360-725-5667
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360-586-9501
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www.capaa.wa.gov
and economic
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of APIAs,
and aims to
[email protected]
www.capaa.wa.gov
Statewide
liasion
between
government
APA communities.
Statewide
liasion
between
government
and
APA
communities.
embrace
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OCA - Greater Seattle
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Ave. South - Suite 104
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WA 98114
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PO Box 14344, Seattle, WA 98104
[email protected] www.naaapseattle.org
Fostering future leaders through education, networking and
community services for Asian American professionals and
entrepreneurs.
Professional Association
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Association
Professional
Senior Services
WE MAKE LEADERS
Queen Anne Station, P.O. Box 19888, Seattle, WA 98109
PO Box
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14344, Seattle,
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leaders
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networking
community
services
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professionals
community
services
for
Asian
American
professionals
and and
ph: 206-652-2330
fx: 206-652-2344
community
services for Asian
American professionals
and
entrepreneurs
entrepreneurs.
[email protected] www.kinon.org
entrepreneurs.
Provides home care, home health, Alzheimer’s and
caregiver support, community education and chronic care
management. Coordinates medical supply delivery. Installs
Personal emergency Response systems. Serves the
Chinese/Asian community in King County.
Senior Services
Community
Care
Network
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On Health
Care
Centerof Kin On
815 SSSWeller
Weller
St, Suite
Suite
212, Seattle,
Seattle,
WA 98104
98104
4416
Brandon
St,
Seattle,
WA 98118
815
St,
212,
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16 ­—— March 18 - March 31, 2009
INTERNATIONAL EXAMINER
EVENTS
From left to right: IE’s Development Officer Susan Hyunae Lee with Steve Kipp,
Comcast’s VP of Communications, Center for Career Alternatives Executive
Director Al Sugiyama and “Uncle” Bob Santos.
THE CCA DINNER
The Susan G.
Komen For a
Cure Gala
The March 7 event raised over
$770,000 for breast cancer
research. Congratulations to the
Susan G Komen For a Cure of
Puget Sound Executive Director,
Mona Locke (pictured second
from right). And a thank you to
all of the donors and attendees,
such as Jerry and Charlene Lee
(pictured).
From left to right: Charlene Lee, Jerry Lee, Chairman of MulvannyG2 Architecture,
Mona Locke, executive director of the Susan G. Komen For a Cure, and former
Washington Governor Gary Locke.
The Center for Career Alternatives
(CCA) celebrated the organization’s
achievements
and
honored
awardees
with
hundreds
of
attendees on Thursday, Feb. 26 at
the Sheraton Hotel. Those whose
lives have been transformed by CCA
spoke inspirational personal stories
at the event. CCA offers education,
employment, training and career
development services for a culturally
diverse population of disadvantaged
youth and adults.
Visionshock Seattle
A local enterntainment promotions
company, Visionshock
Seattle,
makes an effort to partner with API
organizations to raise money towards
a worthy cause, while promoting
awareness to the masses. The photo
below is from Visionshock’s Traffic
Light Party, a non-charity event, on
Friday, Feb. 27 at Tia Lou’s.
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