Asian Philly students prepare for potential violence
Oh this is real nice!
Philadelphia public school students head back to the classroom next Tuesday. Asian immigrant students planning to attend South Philadelphia High School for the first time will be getting some training from former students on how to handle potential violence.
On a single day last December more than a dozen Asian immigrant students at South Philadelphia High School were attacked by their African American peers. Both students and community leaders said the violence was racially motivated and pointed to years of such incidents that school officials dismissed or ignored. The incident touched off an eight-day boycott by students protesting a lack of safety at the school.
This year there is a new principal and new after school arts programs run by the Asian American Arts Initiative. But former South Philly high student Bach Tong says he wants the incoming students to know how to stick up for themselves.
"I would love them to know that whatever happens to speak up and just stand up, and stand on their footprint," he says.
Tong says he's hopeful that the new principal will help make the school safer.
Recently, the Department of Justice found merit in a human rights complaint filed by the Asian American Legal Defense Fund.
Jay Sean Drops Official Video - 2012 (It Aint The End)
It’s all about celebrating life to the max in Jay Sean’s latest hit single, “2012 (It Ain’t The End).” After climbing up the iTunes charts in its first week to an incredible #16, scorching the airwaves and clubs, the official video for the track is out now on VEVO.
Citing the mythic prophecy predicting that the world will end in the year 2012, Jay Sean felt inspired to write a song calling people across the world to celebrate every moment like it was your last, while at the same time stressing that actually, “it ain’t the end of the world!”
In the video, along with it girl rapper of the moment and label mate, Nicki Minaj, Jay Sean jet sets across the globe to the world’s poshest party capitals: New York City, London and Tokyo. In each location he enters the sexiest clubs and encourages people to ‘party like it’s the end of the world.’ “2012 (It Aint The End)” ends with Jay doing what makes him feel most alive, performing on stage. The track encourages people to actually live life without fear. Jay Sean’s rocket to success in North America is an example of what happens when you live life that way.
Fans get a sneak peak of “Break Ya Back,” Jay Sean’s next single from his second Cash Money album, Freeze Time at the end of the “2012 (It Aint The End)” video. “Break Ya Back” is slated for release in mid September and is a return to Jay Sean’s more urban style. “Break Ya Back” is produced by new signee to Orange Factory Music, Israel Cruz along with co-production from Jay himself.
The support from Jay Sean’s South Asian fans catapulted his first U.S. single, “Down,” to number one on the American Billboard and iTunes Charts. Jay, who is extremely passionate about the South Asian movement credits his success to the love and support of his fans who have been down with him from day one. The movement continues with “2012 (It Ain’t The End)” and the South Asian masses have the opportunity once again to rally behind the man that brought his community to the main stage by purchasing the record on iTunes and requesting at their local radio stations. Lets do it again!
See our latest interview with Jay Sean on his latest LP.
APIAVote – Massachusetts - Faces of Leadership - Sept 3rd
Join APIAVote and a number of our community’s most prominent elected officials, including Congressman Mike Honda, Senator Sonia Chang Diaz, Mayor Lisa Wong and Councilor Amy Mah Sangiolo, for “Faces of Leadership” - part of APIAVote’s “Norman Y. Mineta Leadership Institute Speaker Series” (see attached flyer)
When: Friday, September 3rd, 2010; 5:30-7:30pm
Where: Bingham McCutchen LLP - One Federal St., Boston MA
Why: Benefiting & celebrating the launch of “APIAVote – Massachusetts” – A collaborative effort between APIAVote and a number of Massachusetts organizations to increase voter participation & civic engagement in the Asian American community.
Individual Tickets: $80.00 – Sponsorship opportunities available
For more information: Contact APIAVote’s Executive Director, Leverett Wing at Leverett@APIAVote.org (or this email address)
“Faces of Leadership’s” highlights will include:
A Panel Discussion involving Congressman Mike Honda & some of Massachusetts’ most historic elected officials.
* Congressman Mike Honda (flying in from California.) - senior ranking Asian American in Congress and the Chair of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus.
* Senator Sonia Chang Diaz
* Fitchburg Mayor Lisa Wong
* Newton City Councilor Amy Mah Sangiolo
* Former Lowell City Councilor Rithy Uong
A Ceremony honoring The Coalition for Asian American Voting Rights and its efforts spearheading the recent passage & signing of a bill requiring fully transliterated Chinese & Vietnamese ballots in Boston.
Participating organizations include:
* APIAVote
* Asian American Commission of MA
* Asian American Women’s Political Initiative
* Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association,
* Harvard APA Law Students Association
* Korean American Citizens League of NE
* Northeastern APA Law Students Association
* OCA - NE
* Quincy Asian Resources, Inc.
Above APIAVote Program Director Alvina Yeh listens intently as the New Faces of Leadership is underway.
Padma turns 40 - Looks 30!
Padma turns 40 today! Although, she looks like she's 30! Her skin is flawless! Here are some interesting tidbits on the Indian princess!
1. She hasn’t always gotten the greatest treatment from the press. In 2005, a New York Times fashion writer described her as “a semicelebrated hustler” and commented that “in the current fashion pantheon Ms Lakshmi … stands for a love of money and commodity.”
2. In an endorsement that surprised many, she teamed up with Carls Jr. for a steamy commercial last year where she enjoys a Western Bacon Cheeseburger. I mean, really enjoys it.
3. She was the fourth wife of award-winning novelist Salman Rushdie, 23 years her senior, from 2004 to 2007, a union that caused many a raised eyebrow. She is the inspiration behind one of the central characters — and love interests — in his novel Fury.
4. She had been estranged from her father most of her life. In a 2006 interview with The Guardian, she said of their reconciliation meeting that he brought along another daughter, 10 years younger than Lakshmi: “She was an Indian actress and classical dancer. My father had quit his job as an executive at Pfizer to manage her career. That was kind of like rubbing salt in the wound. I didn’t understand why he wanted that relationship with her, and not with me.”
5. The 5′11″ stunner (some reports put her at 5′9″) was called “giraffe” at school, and says kids could be cruel and didn’t understand her ethnicity. She was also teased for a seven-inch scar she incurred from a car crash when she was 14.
Pictures by Sthanlee Mirador/Pacific Rim Photo Press
Discovery Channel Gun man - James Jay Lee
An ongoing hostage situation with gunman James Jay Lee stormed into The Discovery Channel headquarters in Silver Springs, MD armed and strapped with devices.
UPDATE 5:15PM James Jay Lee shot and hostages flee.
UPDATE 5:45PM James Jay Lee shot dead. Hostages in good condition.
Police are trying to negotiate the release of the hostages. James Jay Lee is 43 years old. This is not the first time Lee had trouble with The Discovery Channel. In 2008, he was arrested for disorderly conduct when he staged a protest at the Discovery headquarters.
At this time, he is still at large on the first floor. See his demands:
The Discovery Channel MUST broadcast to the world their commitment to save the planet and to do the following IMMEDIATELY:
You can read all of them here.
1. The Discovery Channel and it's affiliate channels MUST have daily television programs at prime time slots based on Daniel Quinn's "My Ishmael" pages 207-212 where solutions to save the planet would be done in the same way as the Industrial Revolution was done, by people building on each other's inventive ideas. Focus must be given on how people can live WITHOUT giving birth to more filthy human children since those new additions continue pollution and are pollution. A game show format contest would be in order. Perhaps also forums of leading scientists who understand and agree with the Malthus-Darwin science and the problem of human overpopulation. Do both. Do all until something WORKS and the natural world starts improving and human civilization building STOPS and is reversed! MAKE IT INTERESTING SO PEOPLE WATCH AND APPLY SOLUTIONS!!!!
2. All programs on Discovery Health-TLC must stop encouraging the birth of any more parasitic human infants and the false heroics behind those actions. In those programs' places, programs encouraging human sterilization and infertility must be pushed. All former pro-birth programs must now push in the direction of stopping human birth, not encouraging it.
3. All programs promoting War and the technology behind those must cease. There is no sense in advertising weapons of mass-destruction anymore. Instead, talk about ways to disassemble civilization and concentrate the message in finding SOLUTIONS to solving global military mechanized conflict. Again, solutions solutions instead of just repeating the same old wars with newer weapons. Also, keep out the fraudulent peace movements. They are liars and fakes and had no real intention of ending the wars. ALL OF THEM ARE FAKE! On one hand, they claim they want the wars to end, on the other, they are demanding the human population increase. World War II had 2 Billion humans and after that war, the people decided that tripling the population would assure peace. WTF??? STUPIDITY! MORE HUMANS EQUALS MORE WAR!
4. Civilization must be exposed for the filth it is. That, and all its disgusting religious-cultural roots and greed. Broadcast this message until the pollution in the planet is reversed and the human population goes down! This is your obligation. If you think it isn't, then get hell off the planet! Breathe Oil! It is the moral obligation of everyone living otherwise what good are they??
5. Immigration: Programs must be developed to find solutions to stopping ALL immigration pollution and the anchor baby filth that follows that. Find solutions to stopping it. Call for people in the world to develop solutions to stop it completely and permanently. Find solutions FOR these countries so they stop sending their breeding populations to the US and the world to seek jobs and therefore breed more unwanted pollution babies. FIND SOLUTIONS FOR THEM TO STOP THEIR HUMAN GROWTH AND THE EXPORTATION OF THAT DISGUSTING FILTH! (The first world is feeding the population growth of the Third World and those human families are going to where the food is! They must stop procreating new humans looking for nonexistant jobs!)
6. Find solutions for Global Warming, Automotive pollution, International Trade, factory pollution, and the whole blasted human economy. Find ways so that people don't build more housing pollution which destroys the environment to make way for more human filth! Find solutions so that people stop breeding as well as stopping using Oil in order to REVERSE Global warming and the destruction of the planet!
7. Develop shows that mention the Malthusian sciences about how food production leads to the overpopulation of the Human race. Talk about Evolution. Talk about Malthus and Darwin until it sinks into the stupid people's brains until they get it!!
8. Saving the Planet means saving what's left of the non-human Wildlife by decreasing the Human population. That means stopping the human race from breeding any more disgusting human babies! You're the media, you can reach enough people. It's your resposibility because you reach so many minds!!!
9. Develop shows that will correct and dismantle the dangerous US world economy. Find solutions for their disasterous Ponzi-Casino economy before they take the world to another nuclear war.
10. Stop all shows glorifying human birthing on all your channels and on TLC. Stop Future Weapons shows or replace the dialogue condemning the people behind these developments so that the shows become exposes rather than advertisements of Arms sales and development!
11. You're also going to find solutions for unemployment and housing. All these unemployed people makes me think the US is headed toward more war.
Humans are the most destructive, filthy, pollutive creatures around and are wrecking what's left of the planet with their false morals and breeding culture.
For every human born, ACRES of wildlife forests must be turned into farmland in order to feed that new addition over the course of 60 to 100 YEARS of that new human's lifespan! THIS IS AT THE EXPENSE OF THE FOREST CREATURES!!!! All human procreation and farming must cease!
It is the responsiblity of everyone to preserve the planet they live on by not breeding any more children who will continue their filthy practices. Children represent FUTURE catastrophic pollution whereas their parents are current pollution. NO MORE BABIES! Population growth is a real crisis. Even one child born in the US will use 30 to a thousand times more resources than a Third World child. It's like a couple are having 30 babies even though it's just one! If the US goes in this direction maybe other countries will too!
Also, war must be halted. Not because it's morally wrong, but because of the catastrophic environmental damage modern weapons cause to other creatures. FIND SOLUTIONS JUST LIKE THE BOOK SAYS! Humans are supposed to be inventive. INVENT, DAMN YOU!!
The world needs TV shows that DEVELOP solutions to the problems that humans are causing, not stupify the people into destroying the world. Not encouraging them to breed more environmentally harmful humans.
Saving the environment and the remaning species diversity of the planet is now your mindset. Nothing is more important than saving them. The Lions, Tigers, Giraffes, Elephants, Froggies, Turtles, Apes, Raccoons, Beetles, Ants, Sharks, Bears, and, of course, the Squirrels.
The humans? The planet does not need humans.
You MUST KNOW the human population is behind all the pollution and problems in the world, and YET you encourage the exact opposite instead of discouraging human growth and procreation. Surely you MUST ALREADY KNOW this!
I want Discovery Communications to broadcast on their channels to the world their new program lineup and I want proof they are doing so. I want the new shows started by asking the public for inventive solution ideas to save the planet and the remaining wildlife on it.
Cassie's new do!
Cassie changes hairstyles as much as she tries out new songs. Check out Cassie's new blond bob. She's still a much better model than she is a singer. A least the buzz cut is gone!!
Margaret Cho on Dancing with the Stars
We knew Margaret Cho was going to be a contender for the next season of Dancing with the Stars!
Margaret says, "I’m so excited to be doing Dancing With The Stars, but I’ve got a lot to learn. I’ve got some mean stripper moves and I can pick up a dollar with my butt, however the Viennese Waltz is all new for me! I’ve been training with my partner for three days now and I can’t believe how much my body hurts! I’m trying to embrace the pain".
We have some signed posters of Margaret Cho available. Contact the site, if you would like one sent to you!
Cheryl Burke on the red carpet at the Emmy Awards
Let's look at some more Asian American Emmy Awards attendees. Here's Russian, Irish and Filipina dancer Cheryl Burke. Her show Dancing with the Stars was nominated for an Emmy.
Photos by Sthanlee B. Mirador/Pacific Rim Photo Press
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