【侨报记者吴卓明3月6日旧金山报道】华人进步会3月6日在会址举行三八国际妇女节庆祝活动，和经常在该会参与活动的女士们共同庆祝她们的节日，并分享各自在工作和生活中的体验和感想。 Read More

SAN FRANCISCO — With its legendary culture and cuisine, Chinatown is one of the crown jewels of San Francisco, attracting hundreds of thousands of visitors every year. But because of a new report, many people might be shocked to learn
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【大纪元2011年03月08日讯】【大纪元记者吴雅儒旧金山报导】今年的3月8日是“三八”国际劳动妇女节的一百周年纪念日。6日，位于唐人街的“华人进步会”举行了庆祝活动，邀请了数十位华人妇女畅谈了现代社会妇女面对的不平等问题，以及如何争取妇女的权利。 Read More

【大纪元2011年03月08日讯】【大纪元记者吴雅儒旧金山报导】今年的3月8日是“三八”国际劳动妇女节的一百周年纪念日。6日，位于唐人街的“华人进步会”举行了庆祝活动，邀请了数十位华人妇女畅谈了现代社会妇女面对的不平等问题，以及如何争取妇女的权利。 Read More

On the fifth floor of a building in Chinatown salty porridge, fried pastry, and oranges were being passed for at a special Women’s Day meeting of the Chinese Progressive Association. Of course, the day itself is Tuesday, but as member Wen Lan Rong told me (through an interpreter), in China the holiday is a much bigger deal: women often get the day off work to go out to special meals or outings with their lady friends. Staff and volunteers passed out roses and folic acid vitamins to the females in the room, but the morning played host to a discussion of a campaign that, if successful, could be a much more substantial way of honoring women in our society: the Domestic Workers’ Bill of Rights and attendant legislative drive.   Read More

A complex and controversial project that would involve five San Francisco hospitals — including building a huge showcase facility for the wealthy atop Cathedral Hill — has prompted a debate about what average city residents need from the health care system. Read More

SAN FRANCISCO – The orange chicken at the Chinese muzak-playing restaurants on Grant Street may taste a little bitter after digesting this unsavory morsel: It turns out a full 50 percent of Chinatown restaurant workers earn less than the city’s
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Chinatown restaurants routinely pay workers less than the minimum wage, according to a study by local activists that brings the national trend of so-called wage theft home to San Francisco. The 30-page report being released today by the Chinese Progressive
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Somehow this must have slipped by amid all the hoopla for the Apple iPad: hours were so long and conditions were so bad for Chinese workers making the gizmos that some committed suicide. That was the motivation behind a protest
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