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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Eva Lowe Fellowship 2010 Graduation Program
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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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DETROIT, 24 Jun (IPS) – The committed determination of young people in the environmental justice movement is emerging as a highlight of the 2010 U.S. Social Forum, which opened in Detroit this week with some 20,000 activists meeting in ‘Motor
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SAN FRANCISCO – A crowd of at least 100 people gathered outside the Union Square Apple store yesterday evening for what may be the first large-scale American protest of Foxxconn, a Chinese factory that produces iPads and iPhones.
As SF
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SAN FRANCISCO – A crowd of at least 100 people gathered outside the Union Square Apple store yesterday evening for what may be the first large-scale American protest of Foxxconn, a Chinese factory that produces iPads and iPhones.
As SF
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Shaw San Liu of the Chinese Progressive Association, San Francisco. https://cpasf.org
For communities of color, ‘recovery’ can be a vapid term. People of color consistently face rates of unemployment higher than what whites experience in the worst recessions. Meanwhile, people
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In my weekly read of the San Francisco Business Times (Sun Tzu taught his warriors to “know your enemy”), a seemingly-out-of-place opinion piece about our collapsing economy caught my eye. “It’s obvious that the people who say ‘no one saw this coming’ are liars,” writes Neil Westergaard, the editor of the Denver Business Journal. “The negligence is unconscionable. The behaviors are reprehensible.” Read More
SAN FRANCISCO – When young people talk about such grim issues as cancer, asthma and heart disease, people generally listen. That’s what 32 Chinese and Hispanic teenagers, all from San Francisco's Chinatown and Mission Districts, have been doing for the last couple of years. They have been going door to door in southeast San Francisco neighborhoods to promote a healthy environment in their communities. Read More
If you haven’t heard of the Monster Cable Products labor controversy, it’s a lesson in the unexpected ironies of our globalized economy. Judging from the Monster affair, cheap immigrant labor just isn’t cheap enough anymore. Last October the company laid
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