Leon Chow, chairman of the Chinese Progressive Association in San Francisco, announces a program to help hospital workers in SARS-affected Hong Kong. It will send hospital masks and other medical supplies and money, as well as a quilt decorated with
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As California becomes a Pacific Rim state with an increasingly large Asian population, the opinions and concerns of Chinese and Korean communities become even more important in the national debate over war in Iraq. In Chinatowns and Koreatowns, write PNS
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Over the weekend of Feb. 15-16, in more than 600 cities and towns around the world, more than 20 million people linked arms in a vast tide of resistance against Washington’s rush to war. Here in California, about 150,000 people
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A thousand immigrants and longtime Americans — representing dozens of community groups and bound by fear of how much worse their lives could get if a war erupted — came together Sunday for the first time. Connie Liu, a 40-year-old
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Immigrant Chinese workers rallied at City Hall yesterday, protesting their sudden layoff from a San Francisco electronics manufacturer last week. Lee Mah Electronics fired about 250 employees, 15 percent of its workforce, from its Folsom Street plant on Friday, according
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Santa Isabel German tips back the lid of a heavy iron pot to reveal the source of the tantalizing aroma that fills her room. It’s a stew of chicken, tomatoes, chiles, cilantro — the same caldo de pollo she once
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