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Chinese version of Engage Her

Posted in 2008 elections, General, New Media, asians, tagged , , , , on October 15, 2008 | No Comments »

Exciting news! We are having our film broadcast on a widely watched Mandarin news channel program called Dialogue 360  hosted and produced by Jay Stone Shih tomorrow night. On Thursday and Friday, October 16 & 17 our entire documentary will be broadcast in two segments. This is historic to be able to have a full [...]

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Margaret Ouye….”Your name is now Margaret”

Posted in 2008 elections, General, asians on May 30, 2008 | No Comments »

On Masako Kitashima’s first day at school in Centerville, California in the 1920’s, her teacher Miss Diaz asked her what her name was. When she answered, Masako Kitashima, her teacher said “No, no…that’s too hard. We’ll call you Margaret from now on”. What Margaret didn’t realize was that it was a sign of things [...]

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Janis Hirohama “You look like Yoko Ono”

Posted in 2008 elections, General, Voting resources, asians, tagged , , , on May 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Janis Hirohama was born in Japan on an U.S. Army base as a third generation Sansei. She spent most of her time growing up in Hawthorne, California . A working class neighborhood where many families were employed by the local Aerospace industry. Her neighborhood was mixed with second to fourth generation Latinos, a handful of [...]

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Anne Ho….The Vagina Monologues

Posted in asians on March 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Walking into the Castro Theater on a midweek in San Francisco, I was surrounded by hundreds, maybe a thousand other excited women.  As I looked around,  I saw women of every color, nationality, sexual preference, young, old, grandmothers, daughters sitting in anticipation.  We were waiting to see the 10th Anniversary of the Vagina Monologues produced for [...]

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