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State environment committee, DOE need to wake up in performing monitoring and enforcement duties - Business Today
By Ameen Kamal, Head of Science & Technology at EMIR Research The monitoring and enforcement responsibilities of the Selangor’s state environment, green technology, science, technology and innovation and consumer affairs committee, and the Department of Environment (DOE) have to be questioned on its capabilities to monitor and enforce the law.
Award-winning journalist Jenna Hanchard “unmakes” herself with new podcast, “Lola’s Ink”
Jenna Hanchard with her daughter. Photo courtesy of Jenna Hanchard and South Seattle Emerald. This article by Sharon H. Chang originally ran in the South Seattle Emerald on August 28, 2020. It is being reprinted with permission. “Here we are. I finally pressed record. For 10 years I’ve been talking on someone else’s microphone. But this time around — I got my own.” Jenna Hanchard is an award-winning journalist who worked in newsrooms across the U.S. for a prolific decade.
Malaysia’s first independent high school to be part of Huawei Atlas AI Talent Development ecosystem programme
Huawei Malaysia collaborates with Jenexus and Chong Hwa Independent High School to implement AI Development Training Huawei Malaysia has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Jenexus Holding Sdn Bhd and Chong Hwa Independent High School, the first independent high school in Malaysia to be part of the Huawei Atlas AI Talent Development ecosystem programme.
COVID-19 Safety Not Stigma: A photo essay by Sharon H. Chang
Safety Not Stigma is a portrait campaign by Seattle-based photographer Sharon H. Chang to help combat increased racism against people of color during the pandemic, raise awareness about the disproportionate impacts of coronavirus on communities of color, and prioritize safety instead of stigma by the public. Portraits show Asian and Black Americans wearing masks and are shared with humanizing words, updates, and announcements.
Farming For Change: Black Woman Farmers Fight The Pandemic With A Food Revolution
www.southseattleemerald.com By Sharon H. Chang In this special Emerald series supported by NW Journalists of Color and the Facebook Journalism Project, photographer and writer Sharon H. Chang introduces the womxn and nonbinary farmers of color at the heart of Washington’s agrarian revival movement who are moving the needle towards not only a future livable planet, but a socially just one.
The Future Has Arrived
It’s strange to say it: “I have been preparing for this moment my entire life.” And I know I am not the only one. I suppose humanity is never truly prepared for wars, natural disasters or epidemics, partly because we don’t ever want them to come. It might be naive or unfair to think that we are particularly ill-prepared — because of corrupt systems and questionable leaders — for the COVID-19 pandemic currently wreaking havoc around the world.
Documentary tells the extraordinary story of Seattle's Kubota Garden
The premiere of Fujitaro Kubota and His Garden. • Photo by Sharon H Chang Note: This piece was originally published in The South Seattle Emerald and is republished with permission. The crowd was so huge at the premiere of Fujitaro Kubota and His Garden at Ark Lodge Cinemas in December that a second screening was added, and some eager theatergoers were turned away.
Photo essay: May Day March for Immigrants and Workers
Mika Magbanau speaks at the 2019 May Day March for Immigrants and Workers. (Photo by Sharon H. Chang.) Hundreds of people turned out in Seattle last week for the annual May Day March for Immigrants and Workers. May Day is an international movement that focuses on the fight against systemic racism, colonization, imperialism, capitalism and patriarchy. Marchers call for solidarity for labor rights and immigrant rights. Demonstrations, rallies and protests were held worldwide.
Community protests Trump moves to deport Vietnamese refugees
(Photo by Sharon H. Chang.) Vietnamese immigrants and other supporters of immigration rights rallied at Hing Hay Park on Friday against the Trump administration’s moves to deport Vietnamese refugees who have had protection from deportation. Until 2008, Vietnam was not allowing deported refugees to return.
a16z Podcast: Earned Secrets
What does it really take to start a startup (or work at one)? In this episode of the a16z Podcast — based on a Q&A with Ben Horowitz as part of an event hosted by a16z’s Technical Talent and People Practices team for a16z portfolio company summer interns 2018 — Ben shares quick thoughts and advice geared towards those early in their tech careers.
Burien mayor says attacker made reference to city's sanctuary policies
Burien Mayor Jimmy Matta says a man who assaulted him during the Olde Burien Block Party over the weekend made reference to the city’s sanctuary policies and to his ethnicity. Matta and Burien police say that a man in his 60s grabbed Matta from behind and pushed him to the ground.
What It’s Like To Be Black And Homeless In Seattle
Greedy D is 30 years old, black, and homeless. When he was younger, he always went to school and then after he graduated always held a job. He has a culinary arts degree and went through the Job Corps. But a car accident, debt, bad luck, and a poor support system set him on a different path. Racism has played a central role in leading him to where he is today and now also stands in the way of him obtaining a better life. Greedy knows people negatively stereotype him because he’s black.
Time to shed the ‘progressive mystique’ and confront racism in Seattle
When I started reading “Whitewashing the South: White Memories of Segregation and Civil Rights,” I really didn’t think it had much to do with Seattle. Sociologist Kristen M. Lavelle interviewed older white southerners who had lived through segregation and civil rights in Greensboro, North Carolina — often cited as the birthplace of the sit-in movement which launched the entire civil rights movement.
Rising hate scrapes away Pacific Northwest's so-called progressive image
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, author of “From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation” and assistant professor of African American studies at Princeton University, was supposed to give an anticipated Town Hall talk on her new book last week. But she was forced to cancel at the last hour due to threats spawned by a Fox News smear campaign.
Product Marketing for New Products
You might have the greatest product on earth, but if your potential customers don’t know they need it, they won’t know they have to buy it — let alone buy it from you. This may seem obvious, but it’s actually an important concept to pause and focus on, because it affects everything from understanding who your buyer really is and who the competition are to how you set the buying criteria and frame the problem your product solves for customers.
a16z Podcast: What Startups Should Know about Analyst Relations
In the age of the internet — where information is freely available online, and connections between sellers and buyers of software products are visible on LinkedIn — do analysts really matter? Do they play a role in decision-making for purchases from smaller vendors like tech startups, especially given the rise of the developer as a buyer? Or what if you’re trying to create a new category … do you need to be on a Gartner Magic Quadrant or Forrester Wave or similar?
Khizr Khan's words echo for Japanese American World War II Gold Star families
I could feel myself getting choked up as I watched Khizr and Ghazala Khan address the Democratic National Convention last week. And when Mr. Khan — a distinguished man of the Muslim faith — described how his U.S. Army Captain son sacrificed his life to save his men and how his son represented “the best of America,” the tears started streaming down my cheeks.
Trump Supporter Milo Yiannopoulos Furthers Racial Hatred At DePaul University
When conservative provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos came to speak at DePaul University on May 24, tensions were already running high on the Chicago campus. During the course of the year DePaul’s Black Student Union had been repeatedly meeting and negotiating with the administration about ongoing hate at the university.
Return of the City State in 2050
‘Dear 2015…’ begins the Meeting Of The Minds prompt. ‘Write a letter from 2050. In the context of a rapidly urbanizing world, with two-thirds of the world’s population expected to live in cities, tell us what it’s like in the future.
Women of Color deserve a voice in the debate over Planned Parenthood
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The battle over abortion rights is more heated than it has been in decades. Regular efforts by conservatives in U.S. government to defund Planned Parenthood have been invigorated by undercover (and likely illegal) video showing Planned Parenthood officials discussing medical research on fetal tissue. There has been outrage across conservative America (even though many people who are outraged have not actually watched the videos in question).
By Sharon H. Chang, Abby Higgins, Forrest Baum, Tariq Yusuf, Louise Wisechild, Cyan James, Sara McCaslin Verified
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Congratulations to Rita Meher, Globalist of the Year!
The Seattle Globalist is thrilled to announce our Third Annual Globalist of the Year, Tasveer co-founder Rita Meher. “I’m really honored that this work is recognized and it’s starting to be seen,” says Rita.
The return of the city-state in 2050
In line with earlier posts on Social City, Sharon Chang argues that the emergence of city-states would give rise to a more enlightened view on identity. Cities are strangely unique organizational units. Over time, a city organically shifts its boundaries to reflect its people, not the other way around. Cities are about choices. Choices lead to possibilities. Think of San Francisco and New York as compared to cities in flyover states — two dramatically different worlds contained within one country.
5 Arabic words I wish we had in English
As a second-generation nuss-nuss (“half n’ half”) Arab American who is Lebanese and German, it was only in my adult life that I took a keen interest in my grandparents’ language. I took a standard Arabic course in Seattle, then traveled to Lebanon to learn the spoken language, only to be evacuated in the summer of 2006 when bombs started dropping on Beirut during a brief war between Hezbollah and Israel.
How Asian American Women Are Forgotten In The Tech Diversity Debate
Three Asian American women are putting prominent tech companies on the hot seat, charging they faced discrimination at work over their gender and race. The slew of lawsuits has shone a light on what appears to be a blind spot in the debates surrounding Silicon Valley’s diversity problem: how Asian women often fall through the cracks. Last week former Facebook employee Chia Hong, who is Taiwanese, filed a lawsuit accusing the social media giant of gender and racial discrimination in the workplace.
What It’s Like To Be Black And Homeless In Seattle
Greedy D is 30 years old, black, and homeless. When he was younger, he always went to school and then after he graduated always held a job. He has a culinary arts degree and went through the Job Corps. But a car accident, debt, bad luck, and a poor support system set him on a different path. Racism has played a central role in leading him to where he is today and now also stands in the way of him obtaining a better life. Greedy knows people negatively stereotype him because he’s black.
Domestic Violence Survivor Found Guilty Of Child Abduction For Fleeing With Daughter, May Be Deported
A unanimous jury found Korean immigrant detainee and domestic violence survivor Nan-Hui Jo guilty Tuesday of child abduction charges filed by her child’s father and alleged abuser, Jesse Charlton. Now, Nan-Hui is also facing deportation and permanent separation from her child immediately after the hearing.
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