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Early in the pandemic, word started to travel among Asian-American artists: racist attacks were on the rise. Jamie Chan told a fellow artist, Kenneth Tam , about getting kicked out of an Uber pool ride by the driver who noticed her sniffling. Anicka Yi , an artist based in New York, called Christine Y. Kim , a curator at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, to talk about being spit at on a Manhattan street; Kim, in turn, recounted being accosted in a Whole Foods parking lot. Tam decided to start recording these incidents in a Google spreadsheet he named “We Are Not COVID.” It circulated on social media first among arts communities, then to wider audiences. Over the last several months, the document has filled up with reports ranging from microaggressions to outright violence. “I had assumed that things like this were going to start happening, but not so quickly, and not to people I knew,” Tam said in a phone interview. “It made me realize that I needed to educate … [Read more...] about Asian-American Artists, Now Activists, Push Back Against Hate

0 This post was contributed by a community member. The views expressed here are the author's own. Neighbor News Locally based organization launched a series of videos to increase awareness about impact of a rare disease on patients and caregivers Marita Gomez , Neighbor Posted Reply PF Warriors is an international, patient support group located in Irving, Texas. Recently, PF Warriors launched a series of videos to increase awareness about a rare lung disease and its impact on patients and caregivers. “My Life with Pulmonary Fibrosis,” is being released during National Family Caregivers Month in November. Pulmonary fibrosis (PF) is a rare disease that is identified by scarring in the lung tissue. Each year, about 40,000 - 50,000 new patients are diagnosed in the U.S. and another 40,000 die of the disease. The scarring, or fibrosis, of the lungs is irreversible and progressive, which leads to shortness of breath, chronic coughing … [Read more...] about New video series highlights the power of caregiving

close Video Arrested Canadian pastor issues dire warning, ordered to parrot COVID experts Artur Pawlowski says "they're so terrified of the truth" on "The Ingraham Angle" A Canadian pastor is facing his final trial after two years of repeated fines, arrests and imprisonment for keeping his church open during the COVID-19 pandemic. Artur Pawlowski, pastor of the Cave of Adullam congregation in Calgary, said he is accused of causing $400 million worth of damages for officiating a church service during the trucker blockade at the U.S.-Canada border last year. "This is the final culmination of over 40 tickets for the COVID tyranny, the house arrest, the prison, all of that stuff," Pawlowski told Fox News Digital ahead of his trial, set to begin Thursday, Feb. 2, in Lethbridge, Alberta. Pawlowski, the first Canadian clergyman to be ticketed for alleged COVID-19 violations, claims the charges against him are an attempt to criminalize his … [Read more...] about Canadian pastor repeatedly jailed over COVID protocols to face final trial: ‘Crazy stuff’

Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) compared the policy of turning migrants away at the U.S. border under Title 42 reasons to the Holocaust, when Jewish refugees from Nazi Europe were sometimes turned away at U.S. shores. Booker, arguing for the “right” to claim asylum in the U.S., apparently without any reason, invoked an infamous episode in 1939 in which 937 refugees aboard a ship called the St. Louis were turned away in Cuba, the U.S., and Canada. The ship was sent back to Europe, and 254 of the passengers were killed in the Holocaust. The episode is often invoked as a cautionary tale against immigration policies that would exclude all refugees. But Title 42 is different. It is a public health measure that allows the U.S. government to turn migrants away because of the ongoing threat of the global coronavirus pandemic. There was no worldwide pandemic in 1939. Booker, conflating the two, demanded that Title 42 be ended, lest the U.S. participate in another “Holocaust”: Cory … [Read more...] about WATCH: Cory Booker Compares Title 42 to the Holocaust

Click here to read the full article. Unifrance and Film at Lincoln Center have unveiled the lineup for the 28th edition of Rendez-Vous With French Cinema , an annual celebration of contemporary French filmmaking. The event will take place March 2–12. It kicks off with a screening of Alice Winocour’s “Revoir Paris,” which stars Virginie Efira as a translator named Mia, who survived a mass shooting in a Paris restaurant and is unable to resume life as usual. In an effort to regain a sense of normalcy, Mia returns repeatedly to the site of the shooting, forming bonds with her fellow survivors. Efira is best known for her star turn in Paul Verhoeven’s “Benedetta.” More from Variety Virginie Efira Claims Unifrance French Cinema Award At France's Ministry of Culture Comedies, Family Fare Dominated International Box Office for French Movies in 2022 Unifrance Rendez-Vous in Paris Sparks Back to Life With 400 Film Buyers, 100 TV Buyers Attending “It is a such … [Read more...] about Unifrance and Film at Lincoln Center Reveal Rendez-Vous With French Cinema Lineup (EXCLUSIVE)

DUNHUANG, China — An oil-field worker in this Gobi Desert town posted poetry online memorializing the victims of the Tiananmen Square crackdown. An artist in Shanghai uploaded satirical photographs of his wincing visage superimposed on a portrait of the Chinese president. A civil rights lawyer in Beijing wrote microblog posts criticizing the Communist Party’s handling of ethnic tensions. In each case, the men were detained under a broad new interpretation of an established law that the Chinese authorities are using to carry out the biggest crackdown on Internet speech in many years. Artists, essayists, lawyers, bloggers and others deemed to be online troublemakers have been hauled into police stations and investigated or imprisoned for “ picking quarrels and provoking trouble ,” a charge that was once confined to physical activities like handing out fliers or organizing protests. The increasing use of that law to police online speech, which appears to have become more common in … [Read more...] about China Uses ‘Picking Quarrels’ Charge to Cast a Wider Net Online