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2012年9月14日 - 9月27日

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Donald Tsang, BAAFF Film Fes-tival, C hinatown’s N ew R eading Room and Immigration Tips.

When are you considered over-weight? Learn how to c alculate your B MI a nd t he G reat A meri-can Smokeout.

New Affordable Housing in Quin-cy Center.

華埠新聞

January 6 - January 20, 2012 2012年1月6日~ 1月20日

全紐英倫區唯一的中英雙語雙週報The only bilingual Chinese-English Newspaper in New England

(詳文請見反面中文第一版)

A Culture of Employee AppreciationAdcotron EMS, Inc.

AACA Graduates Next STEP Classes

Adcotron EMS, Inc尊重員工價值

不難理解當一個人進入Adcotron EMS公司玻璃大門時所獲得的

那種振奮之情。不僅環境一塵不染－－公司在南波士頓海洋工業園

所佔的35,000平方英尺中珍珠白的牆壁到處可見──而且以一個高

度組織的方式呈現，複雜程度不同的芯片製造機與相映的組件與主

板合併。但是據公司的CEO幾主席Agnes Young介紹，Adcotron

成功的真正秘訣並不在于高技術機械或者生產衍生的綜合產品，而

在於穿著藍色防靜電外套的員工們：他們在公司隨處可見，有的負

責控制按鈕，有的負責檢查組件，有的負責轉動錶盤，有的通過顯

微鏡觀察整套設備。

“我的員工們比任何事都重要。”Young介紹說。

Tips on how to keep your 2012 Financial Resolutions, CD Review and Book Review

Samuel Tsoi looks into “Ending Slavery in Massachusetts” in Sam-pan’s newest column, Inalienable Rights

A Culture of Employee Apprecia-tion - the Adcotron EMS story

FEATURE

中文第一版

It is not difficult to understand the cheerful feeling one gets when en-tering through the glass doors of Ad-cotron EMS, Inc. Not only is the envi-ronment spotless - the pearly white walls visible all around the 35,000 square foot lot the company occupies in South Boston’s Marine Industrial Park - but in a supremely organized manner, highly-automated equip-ment place components on boards with precision and efficiency. How-ever, neither the sophisticated ma-chinery nor the complex products are the true reason of Adcotron’s success, as the company’s Chief Ex-ecutive Officer and President Agnes Young would suggest. Patrolling, pushing buttons, checking compo-nents, turning dials, peering through microscopes all throughout the facil-ity, clad in blue, anti-static overcoats are the true success: the employees.

“Our employees are more important than anything,” said Young, who her-self wore a blue, anti-static overcoat during a tour of the facility. Young’s connection with her employees is

unmistakable – every employee turning to greet her as she made her way around explaining the intrica-cies of each machine and station.

Adcotron, a premier Electronics Contract Manufacturing service (EMS) provider that specializes in manufacturing low to medium vol-ume complex electronic assemblies and systems integration for a broad range of industries including medi-cal, military, industrial, telecommu-nication and alternative energy, sits in a Boston Redevelopment Author-ity-owned building along Boston’s beautiful waterfront district and boasts a story few, if any, businesses around can claim.

Born out of the closure of a previous company, Adcotron got its start in 2005. When Advanced Electronics, a company that had been around since 1978 decided to close its doors in October of 2005, Young, who led the management team in acquiring all of the assets from Advanced Electron-ics, Inc., formed Adcotron EMS, Inc.

On Friday, December 23, 2011, the Asian American Civic Association held a graduation ceremony for more than 70 Next STEP students.

The Next Steps Transitional English Program (Next STEP) provides free ESL

classes for immigrants in the Greater Boston area.

“The students really appreciated be-ing honored for their hard work,” said Melanie Marcus, Next Step & ESOL In-structor.

“It was fun teaching the students,” said Alan Philips, Next STEP instructor, who also left his students a work of advice. “The more they speak English outside of the classroom, the better they will learn inside the classroom.”

sampan.org

Chinese New Year Issue

is Coming Out on January 20th, 2012!

春節特刊將與一月二十日出版

敬請期待！

新年快乐！Happy New Year!

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INFO

Photo by Agnes Young – The employees of Adcotron EMS, Inc.

Photo by Kane Carpenter – Students from the AACA’s Next STEP program line up for photographs after receiving their certificates at graduation.

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Donald Tsang, BAAFF Film Fes-tival, C hinatown’s N ew R eading Room and Immigration Tips.

When are you considered over-weight? Learn how to c alculate your B MI a nd t he G reat A meri-can Smokeout.

New Affordable Housing in Quin-cy Center.

華埠新聞

January 6 - January 20, 2012 2012年1月6日~ 1月20日


(詳文請見反面中文第一版)

A Culture of Employee AppreciationAdcotron EMS, Inc.

AACA Graduates Next STEP Classes

Adcotron EMS, Inc尊重員工價值

不難理解當一個人進入Adcotron EMS公司玻璃大門時所獲得的

那種振奮之情。不僅環境一塵不染－－公司在南波士頓海洋工業園

所佔的35,000平方英尺中珍珠白的牆壁到處可見──而且以一個高

度組織的方式呈現，複雜程度不同的芯片製造機與相映的組件與主

板合併。但是據公司的CEO幾主席Agnes Young介紹，Adcotron

成功的真正秘訣並不在于高技術機械或者生產衍生的綜合產品，而

在於穿著藍色防靜電外套的員工們：他們在公司隨處可見，有的負

責控制按鈕，有的負責檢查組件，有的負責轉動錶盤，有的通過顯

微鏡觀察整套設備。

“我的員工們比任何事都重要。”Young介紹說。

Tips on how to keep your 2012 Financial Resolutions, CD Review and Book Review

Samuel Tsoi looks into “Ending Slavery in Massachusetts” in Sam-pan’s newest column, Inalienable Rights

A Culture of Employee Apprecia-tion - the Adcotron EMS story

FEATURE

中文第一版

It is not difficult to understand the cheerful feeling one gets when en-tering through the glass doors of Ad-cotron EMS, Inc. Not only is the envi-ronment spotless - the pearly white walls visible all around the 35,000 square foot lot the company occupies in South Boston’s Marine Industrial Park - but in a supremely organized manner, highly-automated equip-ment place components on boards with precision and efficiency. How-ever, neither the sophisticated ma-chinery nor the complex products are the true reason of Adcotron’s success, as the company’s Chief Ex-ecutive Officer and President Agnes Young would suggest. Patrolling, pushing buttons, checking compo-nents, turning dials, peering through microscopes all throughout the facil-ity, clad in blue, anti-static overcoats are the true success: the employees.

“Our employees are more important than anything,” said Young, who her-self wore a blue, anti-static overcoat during a tour of the facility. Young’s connection with her employees is

unmistakable – every employee turning to greet her as she made her way around explaining the intrica-cies of each machine and station.

Adcotron, a premier Electronics Contract Manufacturing service (EMS) provider that specializes in manufacturing low to medium vol-ume complex electronic assemblies and systems integration for a broad range of industries including medi-cal, military, industrial, telecommu-nication and alternative energy, sits in a Boston Redevelopment Author-ity-owned building along Boston’s beautiful waterfront district and boasts a story few, if any, businesses around can claim.

Born out of the closure of a previous company, Adcotron got its start in 2005. When Advanced Electronics, a company that had been around since 1978 decided to close its doors in October of 2005, Young, who led the management team in acquiring all of the assets from Advanced Electron-ics, Inc., formed Adcotron EMS, Inc.

On Friday, December 23, 2011, the Asian American Civic Association held a graduation ceremony for more than 70 Next STEP students.

The Next Steps Transitional English Program (Next STEP) provides free ESL

classes for immigrants in the Greater Boston area.

“The students really appreciated be-ing honored for their hard work,” said Melanie Marcus, Next Step & ESOL In-structor.

“It was fun teaching the students,” said Alan Philips, Next STEP instructor, who also left his students a work of advice. “The more they speak English outside of the classroom, the better they will learn inside the classroom.”

sampan.org

Chinese New Year Issue

is Coming Out on January 20th, 2012!

春節特刊將與一月二十日出版

敬請期待！

新年快乐！Happy New Year!

CONTINUED ON PAGE 5

INFO

Photo by Agnes Young – The employees of Adcotron EMS, Inc.

Photo by Kane Carpenter – Students from the AACA’s Next STEP program line up for photographs after receiving their certificates at graduation.

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Chinatown Coalition discusses Chinese American history PAGE 3

‘Spoonful of Ginger’ raises awareness for Asian diabetesPAGE 4

Community groups call for affordable housingPAGE 5

Discovering simple Icelandic farePAGE 8

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2013年3月22日 - 4月4日March 22 - April 4, 2013


儘管連邦承諾在英文學習以及成人基礎教育上投資贊助，但是研究顯示很多項目只能為少數的移民提供此類服務。

麻州州長派屈克在其FY2014提案中提出向州立公民項目分配資助100萬美金, 同比增長321%。

州長派屈克在近期出席一個媒體討論會中說道：「麻州，就好像美國這個國家一樣，是因為這些來自五湖四海的朋友才變得更加富足美好。這些移民為我們的國家和社會做出了很大的貢獻。他們使我們更加富強，壯大。因此如何對待這些移民將會決定我們的將來。」

的確，新移民的未來由他們的英文程度決定。根據波士頓基金會的調查報告顯示，在麻州，一個會說流利英語的移民平均年收入是$38,526 。而一個英語不太好的移民年收入僅是$14,221 。

調查還發現大波士頓地區236,933名英語能力有限的移民中，少於5%的人參加政府資助的小學，中學教育。

小學和中學的教育系統會向成年人提供一些基礎教育計劃。其中一個計劃是『成人社區學習服務』。這個服務向成人免費提供各種課程以及教育資源。另一個計劃是『事業與技術教育』。本服務旗下有很多分支創意計劃，意在向成人提供初中以及高中等更高的教育。2010年，24.5%『事業與技術教育』的畢業生畢業後直接決定就

業，50%的學生直接入學公共大學。但是項目中僅有一小部份的學生在成人基礎教育。

但是人數容量的問題也暫緩了成人教育計劃的前進。波士頓基金會的調查表明，平均每個計劃後補名單上有接近10,000人。有的時候名單上面的人需要等兩年才能被選上接受教育。還有很多移民不想申請或者根本不知道這些資源的存在。

麻州非常需要成人基礎教育和英文課堂的存在來幫助促進社會經濟以及個人事業發展。在華埠，很多機構比如華美福利會、華埠社區中心和建橋者等組織向外提供英文教學。但是對於這些資源的需求遠遠大於了現有的數量。而麻州州長派屈克對英文教學的投資則邁向正確的方向。

英文成人基礎教育項目的重要性黃秋虹報導

After a month-long delay thanks to Winter Storm Nemo, the 25th Annual Chinese Lunar New Year festival — organized by Quincy Asian Resources Institute and staffed by 200 volunteers — took place March 10 at North Quincy High School.

At least 7,000 people attended the celebration, witnessing an opening lion dance and performances on two stages, eating Asian food from several local restaurants, and participating in various activities, including making a wish on a Chinese New Year wishing tree, that reflected the tradition and spirit of the Spring Festival.

“The New Year festival has many goals: To celebrate the culture of Quin-cy’s Asians, to connect Asians and non-

Asians, and to reach out to the commu-nity with partners that provide essential services,” said John Brothers, executive director of QARI.

To that end, 100 vendors set up ta-bles in the high school gymnasium to offer information on essential services as diverse as real estate, public health and employment, tailored to Quincy’s Chinese and Vietnamese populations. The outreach portion also included vol-unteers bearing clipboards of voter reg-istration forms in Chinese and the South Shore YMCA organizing a family fun area. State Street Global Outreach spon-sored a “Green Area” where volunteers taught children how to make snakes and standing drums out of recycled materi-als.

“It’s very rare that you bring this many people together,” Brothers said. “It’s especially hard to reach out and connect with new people in the commu-nity. We didn’t want to set our goals too high, but we have generally had very positive feedback on our outreach.”

Quincy Lunar New Year celebrates Year of the Snake BY PHOENIX TSO

Hong Lok House expands to house more Chinese seniors

BY LING-MEI WONG

Hong Lok House may look old on the outside, but that’s just its façade. Past its four different exteriors, a new steel building with high ceilings, wood floors and large windows overlooks Es-sex Street.

Located next to public transportation, restaurants and luxury condos, Hong Lok House is exclusively for affordable hous-ing. A total of 74 units, including studios and one-bedroom apartments, will rent for less than $500 a month on average. Amenities include a senior center open to the community, a rooftop garden, taichi deck and in-unit emergency call buttons.

The original Hong Lok House used to be the Normandy Lounge, which was bought by the Greater Boston Chinese Golden Age Center. It opened in 1981 with 28 units of affordable housing for low-income elders.

“Before, it was a terrible place,” said Ruth Moy, executive director of the Greater Boston Chinese Golden Age Center. “Building Hong Lok House re-ally brought up the neighborhood.”

The 39 current residents will move to a newly completed section of Hong Lok House in a few weeks, along with four formerly homeless individuals. The orig-inal wood building will have its façade

preserved and be replaced by the new in-terior building.

“What’s important is being able to live in Chinatown where the services are,” said Anne Morton Smith, vice pres-ident of development and community relations for Rogerson Communities, an elder-service nonprofit developer that developed the new Hong Lok House and manages the building. “The number of dialects spoken at Tufts Medical Center by the nurses and doctors is significant. The food and transportation Hong Lok residents need are all right here in this community.”

Redeveloping Hong Lok House cost nearly $33 million, with 23 sources of public and private funds. The waiting list is seven to eight years long due to demand, according to Moy. Phase two’s wait list is closed until the end of 2013.

Hong Lok residents with Ruth Moy (second from right). (Image courtesy of Rogerson Commu-nities.)

Chinese New Year wishing tree at the Quincy festival. (Image by Phoenix Tso.)

The rebuilt Hong Lok House at Essex Street, which kept original façades in front of a new steel building. (Image by Ling-Mei Wong.)

州長派屈克。圖片由州長辦事處提供。

2021年3月5日 - 2021年3月18日Vol. 49, Issue No. 12

INSIDE THIS ISSUE

Japanese InternmentPAGE 2

NE Immigrant SummitPAGE 3

Blob Joints = Dim Sum?PAGE 4

MBTA Service CutsPAGE 5

Vaccine Rollout InequityPAGE 7

ApprenticeshipsPAGE 7

Year of the Ox CelebrationPAGE 8Sampan publishes every other Friday.

See page 5, Anti-Asian Racism

See page 3, Citizenship/Civics Exam

Preventing violence against Asian Americans in BostonBy Jacqueline Church

The growing problem of anti-Asian violence has finally come to the attention of media and government officials nationwide. In the period from March 2020 to December 2020, a national coalition, Stop AAPI Hate (https://stopaapihate.org/) received over 2,800 first-hand reports of acts of aggression or hate speech, 126 of them against Asians over 60 years old.

Reports from across the country, from Indiana to North Carolina, small towns and big cities like San Fran-cisco and New York, show that every-day bias is often becoming physical. Attacks range from verbal insults to spitting, hitting, pushing, and in some egregious cases, setting clothes on fire, slashing the face, and violently pushing down unsuspecting victims. None of these are acceptable.

The combination of more activist young people and their proficiency with social media tools has helped to fuel the growth of AAPI organizations who are collecting data, giving the issues and the survivors a voice, and pushing these issues into the spotlight of public media. The star power of Hollywood actors has also helped to garner attention.

What can we do? Are we seeing these incidents in Boston? Is our Chi-natown safer than others? Are people reporting incidents that do happen?

Despite anecdotal evidence of as-saults here in Boston, many people in-terviewed note the reluctance of AAPI seniors targeted to come forward and report assaults. This hesitancy comes from cultural norms, as well as the very real traumas our communities have faced at the hands of authorities. Many immigrants come from coun-tries where the very act of engaging with authorities can be dangerous.

Still, at least 67 locals have report-ed hate and discrimination between

March and December of 2020 to the Stop AAPI Hate hotline. This easy reporting form allows for various lan-guages to be used.

(For example, https://stopaapihate.typeform.com/to/KUT4C8HE)

While state sen. Jamie Eldridge first presented the Safe Communities Act nearly 10 years ago, it has just been refiled by State Reps Liz Mi-randa and Ruth Balser. The bill aims to prevent immigration status from being raised in community health set-tings and to encourage greater trust in public services, whether it’s getting a COVID-19 vaccine or reporting a hate crime. Two recent attacks of elder Chinese in Quincy appear to be unrelated to race, but there’s an old Chinese proverb: Dig the well before you are thirsty.

We can prepare ourselves for bet-ter safety now. One way is to train to be a safe but engaged bystander. The Hollaback! Organization offers lo-cal trainings (the last one they did in Boston appears to have been in 2015.) (https://www.ihollaback.org/). There are simple intervention strategies they call the 5 Ds: Distract, delegate, docu-ment, delay, and direct. The time is ripe for another training here.

The Massachusetts Asian Ameri-can Commission has a community resource guide (not yet translated into Chinese.)

It can be downloaded here: (https://www.aacommission.org/

resources/anti-asian-hate-resources/). Their site also has a list of public enti-ties where one could report an incident of violence.

In addition to the numerous agen-cies both community and governmen-tal, there are growing number of na-tional coalitions like Stop AAPI Hate

疫苗推出的種族不平等現像Martin Ma 報導

某種程度來講，新冠肺炎在我們的脆弱中凝聚了所有人。但在其他方面，它再次反映了我們之間的鮮明差異和周圍制度種族主義的存在。一個新的聯盟“Vaccine Eq-uity Now! Coalition”聚集了公共健康專家，公民權利和社會正義領袖來共同解決麻薩諸塞州疫苗分配不平等的問題。

根據Massachusetts Public Health Association提供的數據，白人居民接受的疫苗是黑人居民的12倍，拉丁裔居民的16倍。

2021年2月17日，“Vaccine Equity Now! Coalition”發表了一篇新聞稿，向州長Charlie Baker提出5個要求，重點提及了這些種族分歧。要求裡包括了把1千萬美元轉到值得信賴的社區組織，用來支持有色人種社區的參與；為受影響最嚴重的社區[實施]承諾的20％額外劑量； [設定]明確的目標和[追踪]疫苗基準，反映出黑人和拉丁裔居民不成比例的影響；[提高]疫苗推廣和管理等方面的語言能力和文化適應性； [任命]具有解決疫苗不平等問題的權威和責任的領導人。

麻州本土的不平等反映了整個國家的模式。黑人和拉丁裔的病死率已經反映了比例的傾斜。根據Kaiser Family Foundation，“截止2021年2月16日，在全國接受疫苗的群體中，63%是白人，9%是拉丁裔，6%是黑人，5%是亞洲人，2%是印第安人，不到1%是本土夏威夷或其他群島居民，14%是混血或者其他種族。

政治家以及衛生保健專家已經將種族歧視宣佈為公共健康危機，這只是我們能看到的可度量的一種影響。數百年來，從一些重要數據如預期壽命，中位數收入，監禁率和世代財富積累來看，少數裔的公共衛生以及社會平等遭受了許多危機。

覆蓋在警察暴行和無意識偏見的影響之上，富裕的黑人家庭與同階層的白人對比，健康條件更差。如果疫情教會了我們什麼東西，那就是，所有人都是緊密相連的。但是，如果不能讓所有人安全地接種疫苗而免於病患，我們如何能以一個整體前進？

2020年6月12號，Marty Walsh市長在一個行政令中宣布，種族歧視是公共衛生危機。 Boston Pub-lic Health Commision (BPHC)發布了一個Request For Information (RFI) 的調查問卷，目的是更好地了解社區和居民視角中看到的種族歧視。

根據BPHC，RFI的目的是聽取黑人居民，其他有色人種，移民和居住在優先社區（Dorchester, East Boston, Hyde Park, Matta-pan and Roxbury）中居民的反饋。 197位居民回答了問卷，在這一群體中，有74％的人說種族歧視影響了他們的健康。

一名受訪者對醫療保健系統以及她的醫療經歷感到沮喪，並歸因於種族主義，她說：“黑人婦女經常在看病時得不到重視。我幾乎因此而死。”

另一位受訪者說：“我們必須認真對待健康問題。並非每個人都能為自己發聲，其實護理方面有困難的患者需要更多的幫助！”

談及目前的大環境，州代表，來自Dorchester的Liz Miranda 和一位疫苗公平立法的發起人說到：“在有色人種的社區中，對醫療機構和疫苗接種的不信任是個問題”

MPHA執行董事Carlene Pavlos相信，“馬薩諸塞州和整個美國擊敗COVID的唯一方法是，確保受災最嚴重的社區能夠真正獲得疫苗。”

下續中文第二版

On February 22, the U.S. Citizen-ship and Immigration Services (US-CIS) announced that it will cancel the changes made to the Naturalization Civics Test from December 2020 and revert back to the 2008 version of the Civics Test. This is part of President Biden’s executive order on “Restor-ing Faith in our Legal Immigration Systems.”

The Civics Test is an oral exam that takes place at the end of the natu-ralization process. According to the USCIS website, there are a total of 10 steps in the naturalization process to becoming an American citizen. After determining eligibility, one must file the N-400 Application for Naturaliza-tion paperwork and pass a background check to prove one’s good moral char-acter, before doing an interview and

USCIS cancels 2020 changes: Naturalization Civics Test reverts back to 2008 versionBy Carey Lin

taking the English and civics test. In July of 2019, the USCIS an-

nounced a revised version of the civics test which was announced to begin on December 1, 2020. With 128 questions and having to answer 12 out of 20 questions correctly, it is a much longer and drawn out process. More-over, the 2020 version has questions that are more difficult to answer com-pared to the 2008 version.

Sampan spoke to Melody Tsang, AACA’s Multi-Services Coordinator who specializes in filing immigration paperwork.

Tsang said, “The new one has more questions and it’s more compli-cated. They talk about the same thing, but the old one, they might ask ‘Name one war fought by the United States in the 1800s.’ This is easy - just state

the Civil War. But in the new one, you have to explain the name of the war. It’s complicated and hard to remem-ber. The [2008] one is easier and the answer is more simple.”

The announcement to revert back to the 2008 version came as a relief. “Many elderly are illiterate. Some don’t even know how to read [their own language,] Chinese, much less English. So having them remember all these names and terms is very very hard for them. I’m so glad that they revert to the old system, which is very good,” said Tsang.

According to the USCIS, for those who applied for naturalization in De-cember 2020 and have their interview and exam scheduled before April 19,

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‘Alternative Facts’ sheds light on Japanese American internmentBy Shira Laucharoen

ton Latino International Film Festival, the Roxbury Interna-tional Film Festival (RIFF), and Arts Emerson.

“We’re co-presenting a lot, so [we thought], why don’t we actually do something around creating a series that focuses on BIPOC communities, whether it’s around themes or around understanding that we all have these same stories,” said Lisa Simmons, director of RIFF. “We understand that culturally, we are more alike than we are not. It was a way to think about how we could cross sector our audiences. Is there a way that we could cu-rate a series together to bring our audiences to one space?”

In “Alternative Facts,” Osaki studies the use of misinforma-tion in the justification for having Japanese Americans relocated to internment camps. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066 led to the enforcement of this plan, with about 120,000 people, who

had mostly been living on the Pacific Coast, being interned. Osaki reveals that many false claims of espionage and sabotage on the West Coast were used to validate the removal of Japa-nese people, with stories of the detec-tion of submarine signals being spread. In the documentary, political activist and legal scholar Peter Irons even un-covers a memorandum where Edward Ennis, a justice department lawyer, essentially wrote to solicitor general Charles Fahy, [in Irons’ words] “We

are telling lies to the Supreme Court.” In other words, Fahy was aware that the process was motivated by racism, rather than fact, and did not share that information with the court.

“The fact of the matter is that politi-cians were feeling the pressure from white farmers, from exclusionism, at the time, and public officials got to the military,” said Osaki. “They told them they had to do this.” He added, “A lot of people point to Pearl Harbor as a reason for all of this. Really, the efforts to exclude Japanese from the West Coast were in motion for decades. They came in on the heels of the Chi-nese, who had been excluded in the late 1800’s. Those same forces were trying to do the same thing to Japanese Amer-icans and were successful in getting the U.S. government to pass the 1924 Im-migration Act, which banned all Asian immigration. So these efforts were in motion for a long time.”

The conditions that led to the in-ternment of Japanese Americans have not disappeared. Today, the suppression of facts in order to target a demonized group is a practice that still continues. Minority communities have felt the effects of the travel ban and detention of migrant families, under the Trump administration. The parallels to the culture and political climate that Ex-ecutive Order 9066 was born under still exist, said Osaki.

“Unfortunately, the politics of fear is alive and well, today,” said Osaki. “What’s very disheartening about what we have seen over the last four years and what we continue to see today is that the political tactics of targeting

and scapegoating a group of people works. People in this country still respond to those types of really unfortunate political tactics.” He added, “We continue to see the same patterns of identifying who the un-wanted group is in this country and creating a political agenda around them.”

The film raises the question of who gets to dictate history and what we see in our textbooks, acknowl-edging that there are elements of the country’s past that are often over-looked. Osaki said that it is important for a nation to embrace its mistakes, in order to recover and evolve. Ac-cording to Simmons, movies like Osaki’s can continue to challenge hegemonic narratives that dismiss these tragic realities and encourage viewers to seek out the truth.

“It’s really about unearthing this history,” said Simmons. “It’s about giving people the opportunity to see the history behind the history, for people to really understand that you can’t believe everything you read and everything you see. You have to look beyond that and understand that there’s another story that may have been buried. So it’s our responsibility to be able to unearth that and to be able to bring that history forward.”

The dates for the upcoming in-stallments of the Shared Stories se-ries are below:

MAR 24–28APR 21–25MAY 19–23JUN 23–27

The incarceration of Japanese Americans in internment camps happened during World War II, but the culture of false information and political manipulation that went on then is still very active today, ac-cording to filmmaker Jon Osaki. His movie, “Alternative Facts: The Lies of Executive Order 9066,” was fea-tured in “Shared Stories,” a monthly film series that began streaming from February 24 – 28. The program was a collaboration between the Boston Asian American Film Festival, Bos-

Photo courtesy of Arts Emerson“Alternative Facts: The Lies of Executive Order 9066,” directed by Jon Osaki.

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Business and university leaders speak immigration reform and eco-nomic recovery during New England Immigrant Business Summit By Christine Mui

to our society and our economy.”In Maine, the need to fill employ-

ment stretches back pre-pandemic to policies passed by former President Donald Trump, namely the slashing of refugee admissions to the United States. The Trump administration announced in October of 2020 that it would cap the number of refugees al-lowed at a record low of 15,000. Ear-lier that year in March, Trump also proceeded to halt refugee admissions amidst the pandemic with the intent of protecting domestic employment.

These cuts in the number of refugees and immigrants have made it much more difficult for busi-nesses to remain competitive and expand, David Barber, an executive of the Maine-based Barber and Ty-son Foods said during the summit. “Before the pandemic, Maine’s un-employment rate was below 4% for years, now it’s back up to 4.7%,” he said. “Businesses in Maine do not have enough people to fill all their jobs. Without immigration, Maine would have had a net population loss from 2010 to 2016.”

President Joe Biden has vowed to replace Trump’s ceiling of 15,000 refugee arrivals with 62,500 admis-sions. Through an executive order signed on Feb. 4, Biden also agreed to create more efficiency and trans-parency within the vetting process of refugee applications.

Eva Millona, co-chair of the Mas-sachusetts Business Immigration Coalition and President and CEO of MIRA, stated that a more stream-lined immigrant policy would have benefits across multiple industries. “The United States has the opportu-nity to advance a 21st-century immi-gration policy that benefits business and the economy, keeps families together, protects essential workers, reestablishes our prominent role on the world stage, and reflects the val-ues of who we are as a nation,” Mil-lona said.

University presidents followed in calling for a revision to outdated immigration laws. Among the is-sues that need urgent addressing are

visa delays and restrictions as well as a lack of opportunities for international students seeking work post-graduation, said Harvard University President Law-rence Bacow. Resultatively, colleges have seen declining enrollment from international students.

“After an unprecedented period of hostility towards immigrants, towards refugees, we’re at a critical turning point,” Bacow said. “We need Congress to pass legislation to put the undocu-mented on a path to citizenship and to win back international students and scholars to avoid lasting damage to our national competitiveness, security, and prosperity.”

The president of Colby College, David A. Greene echoed the relation-ship between immigration policy and future innovation. "It is essential that we not only attract talented indi-viduals from across the globe to our universities but that we have a clear set of incentives to benefit from the talents and productivity of these indi-viduals when they graduate. We need to keep them here," he said.

Bacow emphasized the urgency of our current political moment. “We’re at a critical turning point,” he said. “We’re saddled with immigra-tion laws that have not been revised in 30 years.”

Following the White House’s an-nouncement of a sweeping bill that would overhaul the current immigra-tion system for millions, a broad coali-tion of New England businesses, higher education and political leaders gathered to discuss the advancement of immigra-tion reform measures on Friday, Feb. 19.

Harvard University President Law-rence Bacow and Exelon Chairman Emeritus John Rowe were among the dozens of speakers to attend the New England Business Immigration Sum-mit.

The event, cohosted by the Mas-sachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Ad-vocacy Coalition, aimed to emphasize the importance of passing federal and state immigration initiatives for eco-nomic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic.

The summit highlighted solutions like increasing the number of employ-ment visas issued and creating a path to legalization and citizenship for 11 million undocumented workers, start-ing with Dreamers, Temporary Protect Status holders, and essential workers.

The digital event started with re-marks from Rebecca Shi, executive director of the American Business Immigration Coalition, on the role of immigrants in maintaining society’s continuity during the COVID-19 pan-demic. “Over 70% of immigrants work in an essential sector. They contribute to $1 trillion in GDP and $340 billion in taxes each year,” Shi said, urging for bipartisan solutions like a gateway to citizenship for essential workers and the Farmworker Modernization Act.

Sen. Argus King said that immi-grants will continue to serve an essen-tial role as the nation begins to rebuild from the pandemic’s economic dev-astation. He anticipates that business owners will soon face a labor shortage. “Welcoming immigrants, along with their new ideas and inspirations, will help fill these positions and benefit our society in the process,” King said. “America is a nation built on immi-gration, and we would not have the strengths that we have today without the historic contributions of immigrants

2021, they have the option to choose which exam to take. Tsang said, “I think people should choose to take the old [2008] one, instead of the new [2020] one." After April 19, the USCIS will continue to only use the 2008 version of the civics test.

Due to COVID-19, timing and scheduling the interview and exam is not as certain.

“Before the pandemic, it would take about three months to process. From application process to interview, it takes

three months,” Tsang said. “But now, they reduce the number of people they see per day because they don’t want to overcrowd the waiting area. Before, they would see about 300 people per day, but not any longer.”

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Blob Joints: A History of dim sum in the U.S.The delights of dim sum! Numer-

ous trolley carts of bamboo steamers with bao, dumplings, and other dishes are pushed around the room, and you simply point at the dishes you want. Sometimes you order off a menu, selecting from a long list of intrigu-ing choices. You might have your own favorite dim sum spot in Chinatown, or maybe elsewhere.

When did dim sum first come to the U.S.? What was the first dim sum restaurant in Bos-ton’s Chinatown? Its origins in the U.S. are murky, with little hard evi-dence supporting some of the histori-cal claims.

It’s alleged that the first dim sum restaurant in the U.S. was the Hang Ah Tea Room in San Francisco, which opened in 1920, closely fol-lowed later that same year by the Nom Wah Tea Parlor in New York City. Both of these restaurants are still open. However, there were not any newspaper references about dim sum at these spots during the 1920s and ’30s. It is possible that dim sum was initially something available primarily to the Chinese community, so they did not advertise to non-Chinese people.

The earliest newspaper reference I found to dim sum was in The San Francisco Examiner on Dec. 2, 1939. The advertisement, shown above, not-ed that Fong In featured famous “dim sum” Chinese tiffin. Tiffin is an older word which referred to a “light meal.”

During the 1940s, it seems that many people thought dim sum was a specific food item, not a type of meal. For example, the Knoxville News-Sentinel on Oct. 20, 1946 discussed the Nom Wah Tea Parlor in New York City, stating one of items served was “dim sum, a yellow cup made of egg noodle filled with chopped pork and Chinese vegetables.”

During the early 1950s, dim sum restaurants in New York City started to gain publicity, though they also ac-quired a nickname that lasted into the early 1960s. The Daily News in New York on March 11, 1951 had a request from a reader interested in “finding an authentic Chinese ‘blob’ joint.” The newspaper then noted that “a blob meal consists of an endless series of

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differently stuffed dumplings.” The newspaper answered the question a few weeks later, noting that blob joints were also called Sim Dum, dim

sum, or Dem Sem. The New Yorker Maga-

zine on August 30, 1958 wrote about the Nom Wah Tea Parlor, mentioning that it was “a so-called ‘blob joint,’ which serves blobs, or balls, or meat, fish, vegetables, and dough, prepared in the Nom

Wah Bakery, next door.”With the advent of the 1970s,

dim sum gained popularity with non-Chinese people and gained much more press, usually very positive. It wasn’t until this time that informa-tion on dim sum in Boston started appearing. The Boston Globe on Jan. 29, 1971 published a review of a new restaurant, Shanghai Low at 21 Hudson St., noting “Chinese pasteries (dim sum) are served Saturdays and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.” Then, on Feb. 7 that same year, the Globe, noted that Peking on the Mystic, in Medford, served “…Chinese ‘paster-ies’ or dumplings called dim sum in Cantonese and dian hsing in the Man-darin tongue. They may be steamed or fried.”

The Globe on January 11, 1979 stated, “The Chinatown of Boston has a very few restaurants which serve a limited selection of Chinese pastries daily 9 a.m.-3 p.m.” The writer visited three restaurants that served dim sum, including the Seventy Restaurant, Moon Villa, and King Wah. He con-cluded, “Most of all, I found the Chi-nese pastries at these three restaurants ordinary in preparation, limited in variety, and overpriced at 80 cents to $1 per dish. None of the three offered fried food, and at all of these, the baked foods were served cold instead of warm off a serving cart.”

The Boston Herald presented a lengthy article on April 4, 1979, stating, “Dim sum, or Chinese tea lunch, is the Cantonese equivalent of American brunch. Literally, dim sum means “tiny hearts,” but its poetic in-terpretation is ‘tiny snacks to delight the heart. Traditionally, dim sum is an extensive array of bite-size dump-lings, steamed or fried and filled with meat, fish or sweet bean paste.” Three

restaurant recommendations were pro-vided, including King Wah, Seventy Restaurant, and Peking Garden in Lex-ington.

Dim sum was presented with more positivity in the Globe’s April 22 issue that year, which began, “Chinese dim sum might take its place next to pizza as one of America’s favorite foods.” It continued, “The beauty of dim sum is that one doesn’t need a menu to enjoy it.” For the first time, there was also mention of the differences in regional dim sum dishes. “There are basi-cally two styles of dim sum, northern and southern. In the northern style, there are regional variations such as Szechuan, Pekingese and Shanghai. In southern style, there is basically just Cantonese,” the article said.

Finally, there was a claim about the first Chinatown restaurant to serve dim sim. “In the 1930s, dim sum was served at Yee Hung Guey by the first generation of the family that now oper-ates the restaurant.” However, I have been unable to locate any supporting evidence to verify this claim.

So, the first dim sum restaurants in the U.S. likely originated in the 1920s, and it’s possible the first one in Bos-ton’s Chinatown started in the 1930s, though the evidence is lacking in that regard. There is more evidence that

San Francisco Examiner, December 2, 1939.

dim sum had its start in Chinatown in the 1970s. Whatever its origins, dim sum is a great way to enjoy a meal with family and friends.

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Looming MBTA service cuts cause anxiety among local residentsBy Martin Ma

quarter mile or half mile. They encour-aged everyone who uses those routes to visit the MBTA trip planner to plan an alternative, particularly in those cases where they would be adversely affected by the changes.

With respect to buses, the MBTA is working closely with Boston colleges and universities to provide 11% dis-counts on MBTA passes for students through the Semester Pass Program. Degree-granting colleges and universi-ties with full-time course loads, and that are near MBTA transit lines, can offer the program.

As a result of 11 public meetings held during December 2020 during which the public gave their feedback on proposed service changes, MBTA’s Forging Ahead is set to begin in March and April, 2021 with assurances that they will still preserve equitable access and quality services for all the mem-bers of the community.

Alex Train, director of housing and community development in Chelsea, disagrees. “Residents of Chelsea are heavily transit dependent. Approxi-mately 30% of our residents don’t own any type of personal car or personal vehicles, so the MBTA service is an absolute lifeline for them,” Train said. “Many residents depend on [bus route] 112 to both traverse Chelsea to run errands like go to the grocery store or attend a doctor's appointment at Mass General Hospital or to access other forms of public transportation.”

Benesh said that the MBTA consid-ers which routes are critical by analys-ing their use in “communities of color, low income populations, households

MBTA riders took 333,000 daily trips in 2020, a fraction of the 1.26 million trips taken daily in 2019, ac-cording to the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority.

In response to dwindling ridership during the COVID-19 pandemic, the MBTA announced service changes as part of its Forging Ahead initiative, which was created in response to the organization’s $580 million budget shortfall.

On Feb. 23, the MBTA service planning team held a virtual meeting to inform the public about the tempo-rary schedule changes that go into ef-fect in March and April and will affect commuter rail, ferry, subway, bus, and the RIDE paratransit services.

Beginning March 14, the MBTA will reduce the frequency on the Green Line, Orange Line, and Red Line by 20% and the Blue Line by 5%. Kat Benesh, MBTA chief of oper-ations strategy, policy, and oversight, justified making these changes, claim-ing “the Blue Line and the RIDE, which is our paratransit division, have had the most durable, which means essentially the largest percentage of the ridership has continued to ride.”

However, the MBTA is not just running lines less frequently, it is tem-porarily suspending some altogether. The affected lines include routes 18, 52, 55, 68, 79, 212, 221, 465, 710. Direct Charlestown and Hingham ferry service is also being temporarily suspended.

The MBTA defended these sus-pensions by pointing out that there are readily available alternatives within a

with no or low car access, and a high number of senior riders or riders with disabilities. These routes have high ridership potential.”

However, that does not explain the suspensions to Train, who says the decision does not consider “a population that comprises foreign born and large concentrations of immigrant families that we work to serve on a daily basis through our city services and programs.”

Train spoke to the disproportion-ate impact of COVID-19 on Chelsea. “Approximately 80% of our resi-dents are frontline workers in our residents are the people that are sus-taining the regional economy. They work in hotels, restaurants, they keep the airport going. They also manage the regional food supply. Therefore after the implementation of Forging Ahead, especially the service cuts of route 112, would create some unnec-essary burdens for locals in Chelsea and other areas.”

Due to public feedback, MBTA

have changed their initial proposal of 70% available ridership to 75% to 80%. They have also continued bus service past midnight and kept service of the Green Line E to Heath St. intact.

Nonetheless, Train believes that the MBTA does not take a holistic view, but rather “treats the Chelsea area as no different than a suburban area where the MBTA operates. However, these are communities that have higher public health concerns and they face height-ened instances of air pollution, and they are also heavily transit dependent.”

In terms of what lies ahead and to soothe the anxiety of local citizens, Ter-rie Chan, the community liaison from MBTA, said in an email statement, “We can increase service frequency when it’s needed, and we are add-ing service in areas where we’ve seen crowding and steady ridership through-out the pandemic. We can monitor ridership to add service if and when it’s needed. The priority services to add back will also depend on riders’ feed-back.”

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This is a lottery for the 10 affordable homeownership units being built at Sandy Pines in Plymouth, MA. Of the 10 units, six are 2BR duplexes, and four are 3BR single family homes. These ten homes will be sold at an affordable price to households with incomes at or below 80% of the Area Median Income. Homes will feature unfinished basements, vinyl siding and shutters, double hung windows, white cabinets in the kitchens and bathroom, granite countertops, in unit laundry, and large closets, and will contain between 1,296 and 1,632 square feet of living space, and come equipped with 1.5 bathrooms, a yard, and a driveway. The community will feature tree lined streets, an open field area for games, picnics, and neighborhood events, and a playground, and is located just minutes from the highway.

Maximum Household Income Limits:

$67,400 (1 person), $77,000 (2 person), $86,650 (3 person), $96,250 (4 person), $103,950 (5 person); $111,650 (6 person)

The Maximum Household Asset Limit is $75,000.

Completed Applications and Mortgage Pre-Approvals must be received, or postmarked, by 2 pm on April 6th, 2021. Applications and Pre-Approvals postmarked by the deadline must be received no later than 5 business days from the deadline.

A Public Info Session will be held on March 10th, 2021, at 6pm via YouTube https://youtu.be/h2tUFtfCCC0 (or just search for SEB Housing) and via Conference Call – (425) 436-6200. Code: 862627 The lottery will be on April 19th, 2021 at 6pm via YouTube at https://youtu.be/GW4vQtIAu1w (or just search SEB Housing) and conference call – (425) 436-6200. Code: 862627

For Lottery Information and Applications, or for reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities, go to www.sebhousing.com or call (617) 782-6900 (x2) and leave a message, or postal mail SEB Housing, 257 Hillside Ave, Needham MA 02494. Free translation available. Traducción gratuita disponible

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The Reserve at Spring Hill 47 Spring Street, Rehoboth MA

Affordable Housing Lottery www.sebhousing.com

Eleven 2BR Single Family Homes for $206,000 w/ ($87/mo HOA fees)

The first affordable homes will be ready in Summer of 2021.

This is a lottery for 11 affordable units being built in the first 4 Phases at Reserve at Spring Hill. These 11 units will be sold at affordable prices to households with incomes at or below 80% of the area median income. Reserve at Spring Hill will have a community center with a full working kitchen, gym and patio/barbeque area. Homes have 2 full baths, 2 bedrooms, kitchen, great room, dining room and a study. The home will come with a 2-car garage and concrete paver driveway to fit approximately 4 cars. Homes are built on a slab and have a concrete covered patio area in the rear of the home. Lawns come with underground sprinkler system. Front walkway is concrete pavers. Central A/C, gas fired forced hot air heating. Navien tankless hot water system. Vinyl flooring in the kitchen, bathroom and laundry areas, carpet in the great room, bedrooms and study areas. All counter tops will be laminate. All colors/style are from builder selections. Appliances are refrigerator, microwave, dishwasher and electric range. Washer/Dryers are not included. Maximum Household Income Limits: $48,750 (1 person), $55,700 (2 people), $62,650 (3 people), $69,600 (4 people) The Maximum Household Asset Limit is $75,000. For more information on the Development, the Units or the Lottery and Application Process or for reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities, please visit: www.sebhousing.com or call 617.782.6900 x2. A Public Info Session will be held on March 17th, 2021 at 6:00pm via YouTube at https://youtu.be/YTDesuQ-1z0 (or just search for SEB Housing) and via Conference Call – (425) 436-6200. Code: 862627. The lottery will be on April 26th, 2021, at 6 pm. Applications and Required Income Documentation must be delivered, not postmarked, by 2 pm on April 12th, 2021.

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Affordable Housing Lottery 315 College Farm Road Condominiums

in Waltham, MA www.sebhousing.com

$310,500 for a 2BR unit (condo fees are $125/mo)

The affordable home will be ready for occupancy in Summer 2021

This is a lottery for the one (1) affordable two-bedroom condominium unit being built at 315 College Farm Road Condominiums in Waltham, MA. This home will be sold at an affordable price to households with incomes at or below 80% of the Area Median Income. This unit features two bathrooms, two dedicated free parking spaces, over 1,000 square feet of living space, beautiful kitchen cabinets and quartz countertops, hardwood floors, recess lighting, and much more. The building features an elevator, and is conveniently located near public transportation and routes 2 and 128.

Maximum Household Income Limits: $67,400 (1 person), $77,000 (2 person), $86,650 (3 person), $96,250 (4 person)

The Maximum Household Asset Limit is $75,000.

Completed Applications and Mortgage Pre-Approvals must be received or postmarked, by 2 pm on April 19th, 2021. Applications and Pre-Approvals postmarked by the deadline must be received no later than 5 business days from the deadline.

A Public Info Session will be held on March 24th, 2021 at 6 pm via YouTube LiveStream https://youtu.be/NZJec48924E (or just search for SEB Housing) and via Conference Call – (425) 436-6200. Code: 862627. The lottery will be on April 29th, 2021 at 6pm. Applications and Information Packets available at www.sebhousing.com For Lottery Information and Applications, or for reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities, go to www.sebhousing.com or call (617) 782-6900 (x2) and leave a message, or postal mail SEB Housing, LLC, 257 Hillside Ave, Needham MA 02494. Free translation available. Traducción gratuita disponible

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Maximum Allowable Income

SALEM RENTAL AFFORDABLE HOUSING University Square

132-144 Canal Street, MA 5— Studio ($1,282), One ($1,665), or Two ($1,932), Bedroom Units

Utilities are NOT included in the Rent

APPLICATION AVAILABLE ONLINE AT: www.mcohousingservices.com

Public Information Meeting

Via Zoom 6:00 p.m., Thursday, April 1, 2021

Meeting ID: 883 3528 5356 Passcode: 430019

Application Deadline

April 27, 2021 Language/translation assistance available, at no charge, upon request.

Units distributed by lottery. Reasonable Accommodations Available for persons with disabilities

Units available to all eligible applicants. Vouchers accepted.

For Info and Application Availability: Pick Up: Salem City Hall, - City Clerks Ofc, Public Library—Curbside Call 978-744-0860 or Leasing Office: Bridgestone Properties, 50 Dodge Street, Beverly, MA Phone: (978) 456-8388/FAX: 978-456-8986 TTY/TTD: 711, when asked 978-456-8388 Email: [email protected]

Smoke Free. Pets Are Allowed, per policy.

Applications must be submitted or post-marked on or before the application

deadline. Applications can be returned by mail. The Application includes all

submission information.

1 person: $67,400 2 person: $77,000 3 person: $86,650 4 person: $96,250

Affordable HomeownershipAge-Restricted (55+)

Trail Ridge10C Trail Ridge, Harvard, MA 01451

New Construction – Condominium offered via lotteryOne 2 BR, 2 ½ Bath unit $212,500

Applications accepted through March 16, 2021, 1 pm

Lottery: Tuesday, March 30, 2021, VIA ZOOM, Link to be provided with

eligibility letters.Application and Lottery Information:

[email protected] https://sudbury.ma.us/housingtrust/

Sudbury Housing Trust, Lottery Agent278 Old Sudbury Road,

Sudbury, MA 01776 978-287-1092

Income Limit 80% Eastern Worcester AMI and Asset Limits

Deed Restrictions Apply

Commercial space for Rent

Tai Tung Village Boston Chinatown

1346 SFAvailable 12/15/2020

Please call 617-4233-5900

According to the Boston Public Health Commision, “the purpose of the RFI was to hear back from Black Residents and other residents of color, immigrants, and residents living in priority neighborhoods (Dorchester, East Boston, Hyde Park, Mattapan and Roxbury). 197 residents answered the questions, and out of that group, 74% said racism impacts their health.

One of the respondents expressed frustration at the health care system and her experience with medical care which she attributed to racism, stating, “Often black women are not taken seriously at medical appointments. I almost died because of this.”

Another respondent said, “We need to be taken seriously when it comes to our health concerns. Not everyone is able to advocate for themselves so therefore more assistance is needed for patients who are having problems ac-cessing the care that they need!”

Speaking about the current circum-stance, state representative Liz Miranda of Dorchester and a sponsor of vac-cine equity legislation agreed, saying, “In communities of color, mistrust of health institutions and vaccination is a problem.”

Executive Director of MPHA, Carlene Pavlos believes that “the only way Massachusetts and the nation will defeat COVID is to ensure the com-munities that have been hit the hardest have real access to vaccines.” She also warns that Governor Baker’s focus on efficiency is “coming at the expense of both fairness and sound science for how to stop the spread of infectious disease.”

Vaccine rollout's racial inequalities persist in MA and the nationBy Martin Ma

In some ways, COVID 19 has brought us all together in our vulner-ability, but in other ways it has again reflected our stark differences and the existence of institutional racism all around us. A new coalition “Vaccine Equity Now! Coalition” has brought together public health experts, civil rights, and social justice leaders to collectively address the racial inequal-ities that exist in the coronavirus dis-tribution in Massachusetts. According to recent data from the Massachusetts Public Health Association (MPHA), white residents had received 12 times more doses than Black residents and 16 times more doses than Latinx resi-dents.

On Feb 17, 2021, “Vaccine Equity Now! Coalition” issued a press release with five demands to governor Charlie Baker to address these racial dispari-ties, which included “directing $10 million to trusted community organi-zations for outreach and engagement in communities of color; immediately [implementing] the promised 20% ad-ditional doses for the most impacted communities; [setting] clear goals and [tracking] vaccine benchmarks that mirror the disproportionate impact on Black and Latinx residents; [improv-ing] language access and cultural competence across all aspects of vac-cine outreach and administration; [ap-pointing] a vaccine czar with authority and accountability to address vaccine inequities.”

This local trend mirrors a trou-bling pattern nationally, which is only magnified when we consider that CO-VID-19 has already taken a dispro-

portionate toll in sickness and death of Black and Latinx Americans. Ac-cording to the Kaiser Family Founda-tion (KFF), “As of February 16, 2021, among the group who received vacci-nations in the nation, 63% were white, 9% were Hispanic, 6% were Black, 5% were Asian, 2% were American Indian or Alaska Native, and less than 1% were Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, while nearly 14% re-ported multiple or other race.”

Across the nation, politicians and healthcare professionals have declared racism to be a public health crisis, and this is one measurable way we can see its impact. For centuries, based on vi-tal figures like life expectancy, median income, rates of incarceration, and accumulation of generational wealth, the public health and social equality of minorities have greatly suffered.

Overlaid on top of a climate where there is police brutality and uncon-scious bias, wealthy Black Ameri-cans experience worse health out-comes than their white counterparts. If the virus has taught us anything, however, it is that we are all intercon-nected. Yet how can we move forward as a community if we can’t keep part of ourselves safe and vaccinated from disease?

On June 12, 2020, mayor Marty Walsh declared racism as a public health crisis in an executive order, and thus the Boston Public Health Com-mision (BPHC) released a request for information (RFI) to gain better under-standing from residents and communi-ties on their perspective and experi-ences toward racism.

On a national scope, an August 2020 poll taken by researchers at Harvard, Rutgers, Northeastern, and Northwestern Universities found that 52 % of Black respondents are likely to take a COVID-19 vaccine, compared with 67 %of white people, 71 % of Latinos, and 77 %o f Asian Americans.

On February 24th 2021, the Bak-er-Polito administration issued $4.6 million to promote vaccination in 20 communities that are most severely impacted by COVID-19.

Mass.gov states that, “These ef-forts will specifically focus on com-munities of color, homebound se-niors, disabled individuals and other hard-to-reach populations. Archi-pelago Strategies Group(ASG) and Health Care for All (HCFA) will pro-vide hyperlocal, population-specific communication resources as well as hiring local residents and working with local organizations with cultural and linguistic competencies to reach disparately impacted populations in each priority municipality.” This ini-tiative is a good first step in response to the coalition, but more steps need to be taken in order to determine whether the vaccine inequalities have been eliminated.

According to Mass.gov, “resi-dents can now go to www.mass.gov/COVIDvaccine to find and schedule their appointments.” Given what we know about the racial inequalities of vaccine distribution, we can only be-gin to address the issue by taking ac-tion and encouraging our colleagues to do the same.

Photo courtesy of Tufts Medical CenterMary Chin, CEO of the Asian American Civic Association was the first patient at Tufts Medical Center to receive the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.

March 5, 2021SAMPAN8 The Year Of The Ox brings Opportunities in a Time of CrisisBy Mandy Sun

Celebrating the Year of the Ox, many are hopeful of the year to come, as the Ox represents strength and change. In this time of crisis, due to the pandemic and rise of Asian hate crime, the symbol of the Ox has creat-ed an opportunistic outlook for many organizations, schools, and families as they virtually gather to celebrate this year’s Lunar New Year. Remark-ably, they have fostered a new sense of creativity and vigor as they seek to provide a safe space for Asians and others within Greater Boston, Quincy, and Malden.

Many of the organizations this year used video to bring Lunar New Year festivities straight to families’ homes. Quincy Asian Resources Inc. (QARI) was prepared to do a virtual celebration, having successfully pre-sented a virtual August Moon Festival a few months prior.

Their Lunar New Year video fea-tured messages from government of-ficials, sponsors, and Chinese Yoyo and dance performances. Improving upon the last event, they found a silver lining to this virtual space. “Because we are now in the virtual environ-ment, we not only improved our skills in technology, but we have to look at what that path provides for us. Before, our in-person events attracted thou-sands of people to visit, but these were all locals... travel is now no longer a boundary. We can have people watch-ing anywhere as long as they have access to the internet and know about the video,” remarks Rockey Chan, QARI Massachusetts programs and service manager.

Vietnamese American Initiative for

Development (VietAID), a community organization serving the Vietnamese community of Dorchester, also cel-ebrated the new years online. Their video featured singing video mon-tages from preschool students, from high school youth leaders wishing a happy new year to the community in Vietnamese, and from the elders of Dorchester’s community thanking VietAID. “There have been so many challenges and struggles for our com-munity members, and amidst all of that, we deserve moments of joy that we can hold onto,” says Huong Pham, Development and Communications team at VietAID.

Lion dances have, unfortunately, found it difficult to adjust to a virtual setting. Wah Lum Kung Fu and Tai Chi, the lion dancers, featured within VietAID’s celebratory video, have not practiced lion dance since March of 2020. However, Lunar New Year has brought them together as they held asynchronous safe distanced lion dances at schools, organizations, and even Microsoft. Mai Du, the lead instructor of Wah Lum, comments that, “It was really amazing because at the Murphy school had some of the students […] who saw our lion dance actually made their own lion head with boxes and towels and fabric. It was definitely heartwarming to see engagement across communities and not just the Asian communities.”

Josiah Quincy school held virtual lessons and activities centered around Lunar New Year for its students. An-gel Yang, a K2 Sheltered English Im-mersion teacher’s class read ‘Bringing in the New year’ by Grace Lee, while

they talked about their family’s tra-ditions and crafted lanterns to scare away the monster, Nian. Yang com-ments, “I want my students to be proud of who they are, understand why these traditions exist and be able to continue practicing them. I believe it is my duty to introduce different cultures and traditions to all students.” says Angel Yang. In addition to the lessons taught in class, Josiah Quincy made an accompanying website con-solidating Lunar New Year resources. The website features other cultural read-aloud books, coloring pages, and songs.

Lunar New Year is another oppor-tunity to create solidarity within AAPI and reach out to others who do not celebrate the event. Chinese American Citizens Alliance Boston (CACA Bos-ton), the Chinese American Heritage Foundation and Chung Wah Academy of New England kicked off the 1st Lunar New Year Rolling Parade this

Angel Yang’s K2 Class celebrating Lunar New Year at Josiah Quincy Elementary School.

Photo courtesy of Angel Yang

year. A train of decorated cars visited hospitals, police stations, and other community organizations throughout Massachusetts. “We hope to reach a farther group of people.. of Asian American children who don’t live in Chinatown or Malden or Quincy…. I see this Lunar New Year as a catalyst for solidarity. We’re showing solidar-ity with all other Asian American eth-nicities, not just Chinese. If we don’t come together now, we don’t ever come together,” comments Wilson Lee, co-founder of CACA and co-organizer of the parade.

This Lunar New Year is not only an appreciation of Asian culture and heritage, but it has brought together the Asian American community separated by the restrictions of the pandemic. Despite the barriers, it has brought the opportunity for even those outside these communities to learn more about Asian heritage and culture.

DETAILS

First-Time Buyer Homeownership Opportunity

This unit is deed-restricted to

ensure long-term a�ordability.

Assets must not exceed program guidelines. The price for this unit is

set and cannot exceed the listing price.

VIRTUAL INFORMATION

MEETING: March 3, 2021 at 7:00 pm

link: contact [email protected]

Virtual tour & Photos: https://429cherry.com

COMPLETED pre-applications must be received in our o�ce or postmarked by the Application Deadline . A lottery will be conducted to select purchasers.

APPLICATION DEADLINE : April 10, 2021; 5:00 pm

Lottery drawing on April 18.

Applications are available : • At the Newton City Hall • To download on the Metro West CD

website at https://metrowestcd.org/homebuyers/homes-for-sale (fastest way to get application)

• Or by contacting: Stefanie at Metro West CD ([email protected] (email preferred) or 617-923-3505 x9)

The Eliot 429 Cherry St.

West Newton, MA

New Construction 3-Story Building

2-BR/2 Bath 1,040 sq. ft. Condo Fee $132-203/month Parking 1 parking spot Balcony

Gas Heat

Central Air Conditioning Microwave * Dishwasher

Refrigerator Washer/Dryer Hookups

Quartz Countertops * 9’ ceilings * Elevator * Heated garage

* Close to MBTA commuter rail, MassPike and express bus

* Short walk to W. Newton eateries, shops, entertainment & parks

INCOME LIMITS PROCESS

THREE Deed-Restricted 2-BR / 2-bath Units for Sale in West Newton - Priced at: $301,000 and $461,000

Household Size 1-Person 2-Person 3-Person 4-Person

5-Person

80% AMI Income Limit $67,400 $77,000 $86,650 $96,250 $103,950 120% AMI Income Limit $99,960 $114,240 $128,520 $142,800 $154,224

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農曆新年來臨，慶祝牛年對許多人充滿希望，因為牛代表著力量和變化。在危機時期，由於疫情關係而對亞裔仇恨犯罪的上升，牛的象徵為許多組織，學校和家庭提供了機會看向未來的機遇，他們幾乎聚集在一起慶祝今年的農曆新年。引人注目的是，他們尋求為大波士頓，昆士和馬爾登市的亞洲人和其他人提供安全的空間，從而樹立了

『牛』年在危機時刻帶來機遇孫靜怡報導

新的創造力和活力。今年，許多組織都使用視頻將

農曆新年的慶祝活動帶到了家中。亞協服務中心（QARI）有自信的準備好進行虛擬慶典，因為幾個月前成功舉辦了虛擬的八月中秋節。

他們的農曆新年視頻精選了來自政府官員，贊助商以及扯鈴舞和舞蹈表演。在對上一事件進行改進的過程中，他們找到了這個虛擬空

間的一線希望。“因為我們現在處於虛擬環境中，所以我們不僅提高了技術技能，而且還必須研究該途徑為我們提供了什麼。以前，我們的現場活動吸引了成千上萬的人前來參觀，但這些都是當地人…交通不再是一個界限。只要人們可以訪問互聯網並了解視頻，我們就可以在任何地方收看電視。”馬薩諸塞州QARI計劃和服務經理Rockey Chan說。

服務於多切斯特越南社區的社區組織越助中心（VietAID）也在網上慶祝了新年。他們的視頻精選了學齡前學生，祝新年快樂的高中青年領袖，越南社區的歌唱蒙太奇，以及多切斯特社區的老人們感謝越南國際開發署的演唱視頻剪輯。 “對於我們的社區成員來說，挑戰與鬥爭是如此之多，而在所有這些之中，我們值得保留的歡樂時光，”VietAID開發與傳播團隊Huong Pham說。

不幸的是，舞獅很難適應虛擬環境。VietAID的慶祝視頻中出現的舞獅華林功夫太極舘自2020年3月以來就沒有練習舞獅。但是，農曆新年將他們聚集在一起，因為他們在學校，組織和社區舉辦了異步安全的遠距離舞獅。甚至微軟。華林功夫的首席講師余翠梅評論說：“這真是太神奇了，因為在墨菲學校，有些學生[…]看到我們的舞獅實際上是用盒子，毛巾和織物製作了自己的獅子頭。看到整個社區而不僅僅是亞洲社區的參與絕對令人振奮。”

約賽亞昆士小學為學生舉辦了

照片由Angel Yang提供Angel Yang在約賽亞昆士小學慶祝農曆新年的K2班。

圍繞農曆新年的虛擬課程和活動。 K2庇護英語浸入式課程的班主任Angel Yang閱讀了Grace Lee的“迎接新的一年”，同時他們談論了他們家庭的傳統，並製作了燈籠以嚇跑年獸。Yang說：“我希望我的學生為自己的身份感到自豪，了解為什麼存在這些傳統並能夠繼續實踐它們。我相信我有責任向所有學生介紹不同的文化和傳統。”楊天使說。除了在課堂上講授的課程外，昆士小學還製作了一個伴隨網站，整合了農曆新年的資源。該網站還提供其他文化朗讀書籍，塗色頁和歌曲。

農曆新年是在AAPI內建立團結並與其他不慶祝該活動的人接觸的又一次機會。波士頓同源會（CACA），華裔美國人文物基金會和新英格蘭中華音樂學院今年舉行了第一屆農曆新年大遊行。一列裝飾的汽車訪問了馬薩諸塞州的醫院，警察局和其他社區組織。“我們希望能接觸到更多的人..不在唐人街，馬爾登或昆士居住的亞裔美國人……我認為農曆新年是團結的催化劑。我們表現出與所有其他亞裔美國人的團結，而不僅僅是中國人。如果我們現在不在一起，我們永遠也不會在一起。”CACA聯合創始人，遊行組織者Wilson Lee評論道。

農曆新年不僅是對亞洲文化和遺產的讚賞，而且使大流行限制下的亞裔美國人社區聚集在一起。儘管存在障礙，但它甚至為這些社區以外的人們帶來了更多了解亞洲遺產和文化的機會。

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Emerson College艾默⽣學院社區公告(新冠病毒)

基準測試和每週測試於2021年1⽉11⽇開始，並將在整個春季學期繼續進⾏。該公告每天（星期⼀⾄星期五）更新。下⾯列出了

最新獲取的數據。

2021年2⽉22⽇⾄2⽉28⽇的測試結果• 所有測試：5,743• 陽性測試：7• 陽性測試⽐例：0.12

截⾄2021年3⽉1⽇的隔離和檢疫• 截⾄3/1，校園患者（有症狀或無症狀但呈陽性）隔離數：2• 截⾄3/1，校園密切接觸但無症狀者隔離數：3

有關艾默⽣學院社區公告的更多信息，請訪問：

https://www.emerson.edu/one-emerson/dashboard

有關新冠準則，信息和社區資源，請訪問艾默⽣學院知識中⼼，

網址為：https://www.emerson.edu/[email protected]

Teresa Polhemus, Executive Director/Secretary

虛虛擬擬公公開開會會議議

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項項目目描描述述：：請加入波士頓規劃與發展計劃的虛擬會議，以製定市中心海濱區的設計和使用指南（Design and Use Guidelines for the Downtown Waterfront）。該指南將為新的開發提供信息，並為Harborwalk，公共領域，開放空間資源和公共使用設施建立統一的要求。我們希望聽到您對如何更好地激活中心海濱區的想法，以確保該地區受到所有居民和遊客的歡迎和訪問以及能夠改善地方感和清晰度。

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2月22日，美國公民及移民服務局（USCIS）宣布將從2020年12月起取消對入籍公民考試的更改，並恢復為2008年版本的公民考試。這是拜登總統關於“在我們的合法移民系統中恢復信仰”的行政命令的一部分。

公民考試是在入籍過程結束時進行的一次口試。根據移民局網站的介紹，入籍過程中要成為美國公民總共需要10個步驟。確定資格後，必須進行N-400入籍申請文書工作，並通過背景調查，以證明自己的良好道德品質，然後才能接受面試並接受英語和公民測驗。

在2019年7月，美國公民及移民服務局宣布了公民測試的修訂版本，該版本宣佈於2020年12月1日開始。有128個問題，並且必須正確回答20個問題中的12個，這是一個漫長且冗長的過程。此外，與2008版相比，2020版的問題更難回答。

舢舨採訪了AACA的多服務協調員曾嘉兒，她專門研究移民文件。曾說：「新的問題更多，也更複雜。他們談論的是同一件事，但是舊的可能會問“命名美國在1800年代打過的一場戰爭。”這很容易-只需說南北戰爭即可。但是在新版本中，您必須解釋戰爭的名稱。這很複雜，很難記住。[2008年]比較

美國公民及移民服務局取消2020年變更：入籍公民測驗還原為2008版

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容易，答案也更簡單。”宣布恢復到2008年版本的公告

令人感到寬慰“許多老人是文盲。有些人甚至不知道如何閱讀[他們自己的語言]中文，更不用說英語了。因此，讓他們記住所有這些名稱和術語對他們來說非常困難。我很高興他們恢復了原來的系統，這非常好。”曾說。

根據USCIS，對於那些在2020年12月申請入籍並在2021年4月19日之前安排面試和考試的人，他們可以選擇參加哪種考試。

曾說：“我認為人們應該選擇舊的[2008]測試，而不是新的[2020]測試。”4月19日之後，美國公民及移民服務局將繼續僅使用2008版的公民測試。

由於使用了COVID-19，面試和考試的時間安排和時間安排還不確定。曾說：“在疫情之前，大約需要三個月的時間來處理。從申請到面試，整個過程需要三個月。但是現在，他們減少了每天見到的人數，因為他們不想擠滿等候區。以前，他們每天會看到300個人，但以後不會再有人了。”

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2020年，馬塞諸塞灣交通局（MBTA）的乘客乘坐了33.3萬次交通，相比2019年126萬次的乘坐量，其實微不足道。

做為對疫情之間波動較大的乘車率做出的回應，MBTA宣布了一些服務措施的改變，這也是“Forging Ahead”計劃的一部分。 Forging Ahead計劃是為了彌補5.8億美元預算虧損而採取的一系列應對措施。

2月23號，MBTA服務計劃組在一個網上會議中宣布了暫時的時間表調整，在3月和4月生效，這個調整會影響到通勤鐵路，輪船，地鐵，公交車和輔助運輸服務。

從3月14號開始，MBTA會減少綠線，橙線，和紅線20%的頻率，藍線5%的頻率。 Kat Benesh, 任職MBTA的運營策略，政策和監督主管，解釋道，“藍線和RIDE, 是我們的輔助運輸服務，持續擁有最多的旅客乘坐。

MBTA不僅僅是減少了地鐵線的頻率，它還暫停了其他一些交通線。受影響的公交車線路包括 18, 52, 55, 68, 79, 212, 221, 465, 710。 Charlestown 和Hingham的直航輪渡也相繼暫停。

MBTA對這些線路的暫停辯解道，這些暫停的線路，在其0.25-0.5英里周圍，有其他替代線路正常運營。 MBTA鼓勵受停止線路影響的乘客使用MBTA trip planner，找到替代線路，做出相應調整。

關於公交車，MBTA正在與波士

MBTA服務縮減導致當地居民焦慮

Martin Ma 報導

頓各大學和學院密切合作，通過學期交通卡項目為學生交通卡提供11%的折扣。任何提供學位的全日制大學和學院，只要在MBTA沿線站點，都可提供此項目。

2020年12月，MBTA召開了11次公眾會議，收集公眾對服務變更草案的意見，做為結果，Forging Ahead計劃將於2021年3月和4月生效，前提是保證社區的所有成員始終可以享受到高質量的服務們。

Alex Train, Chelsea 的住房和社區發展總監，對此計劃做出反對。他提到“Chelsea的居民大部分都依賴於公共交通工具，我們鎮30%的居民沒有自己的交通工具和私家車。MBTA的服務是他們的救命稻草”。Train提到，“很多Chelsea的居民會乘坐112公交線路，去超市買菜或者去麻省總醫院看病，或者用112當中轉乘其他公共交通。

Benesh表示，MBTA在考慮線路的重要性時，會優先考慮有色社區，低收入家庭，無車家庭和老年殘障乘車人。那些線路有更高的乘車必要性。

然而這並不能消除Alex Train的疑慮，Train認為，這些決定並未足夠考慮一個大部分都是移民的社區，Chelsea的市政和服務項目，都在盡最大的努力確保社區居民能過上好日子。

Train提到了疫情對Chelsea不成比例的巨大影響。“我們社區大約80%的居民都是前線工作者。

他們在酒店和餐廳工作，保持機場運營。他們管理區域糧食供應。因此，在實施“Forging Ahead”之後，特別是停運112線路，將為Chelsea當地人和其他地區的居民帶來不必要的負擔。

鑑於公眾的反饋，MBTA已將其最初建議的70％的乘車率提高至75％至80％。他們還將繼續保證午夜之後的巴士線服務，並確保綠色E線至Heath St 的服務。

儘管如此，Train認為MBTA未能考慮周到，相反“將Chelsea視

為MBTA運營的其他郊區線路。但是Chelsea社區有更大的公共健康隱患，空氣污染日趨嚴重，他們也比其他地區更依賴交通工具。 ”

為了安撫當地群眾的焦慮，Terrie Chan，MBTA的社區聯絡人在一封郵件中說到“我們會在群眾需要的時候增加服務頻率，我們也會在一些擁擠以及需求更多的地方增加頻率。我們會監測乘車率然後做出相應調整。我們做出的改變會取決於群眾的反饋。

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早茶帶來的愉悅！無數輛餐車上擺滿放包子，餃子和其他早茶種類的籠屜，在房間裡熱熱鬧鬧地穿梭遊走，而你只需指向你想要的食物。有時候，早茶店給你菜單，你可以從菜品琳瑯滿目的菜單上點菜。你心儀的早茶店，也許在在唐人街，也許在城市的其他角落。

或許有人會問，早茶是什麼時候被引進美國的？第一家在唐人街的早茶店是哪家？它的起源比較模糊，也並沒有硬性的事實可以追溯它的歷史。

據稱，美國第一家早茶店是在1920年舊金山開業的Hang Ah Tea Room，同年，在紐約開業了另一家早茶店Nom Wah Tea Parlor。這兩個早茶店至今還在開門納客。然而，在1920和1930年間，沒有任何報紙報導過這兩個早茶店。有種可能是，早茶原本只是在小範圍的中國社區中廣為人知，而在非中國社區中鮮為人知。

我找到的關於早茶最早的新聞報導是在1939年12月2號，刊登於“The San Francisco Examiner”報紙上。在廣告欄內記錄了Fong In提供獨具特色的“早茶”中式輕食。

“Blob Joints”港式飲茶在美國的歷史二十世紀四十年代，很多人

定義早茶是某種食物類別，而不是正餐。比如，在1946年10月20號的Knoxville News-Sentinel 是這樣描述在紐約的Nom Wah Tea Parlor提供的某道早茶點心，一個用雞蛋麵條做成的黃色杯中，盛滿了切

碎的豬肉和中式蔬菜混合物。

在二十世紀五十年代初期，紐約的早茶店們開始積累了一點名氣，它們還有了一個延續到二十世紀六十年代的暱稱。1951年3月11號在紐約出版的Daily News，記錄了一位

讀者的要求，他想尋找“一種正宗的中國Blob joints”，報紙隨後記錄了這種”blob meal”包含了各種各樣不同餡料的餃子。這家報紙幾週之後回答了這位讀者的問題，稱“blob joints”也叫“Sim Dum, dim sum, 或者Dem Sem.，即我們現在通用的早茶。

1958年8月30日的紐約人雜誌描寫了關於Nom Wah茶餐廳的運營，茶餐廳提供丸子，肉，魚，蔬菜，而開在隔壁的Nom Wah 餅屋提供各類麵食糕餅。這就是所謂的Blob Joint。

二十世紀七十年代來臨之際，

早茶在外國人中開始流行，同時在新聞方面積累了許多正面的報導。也正是這時候，更多關於在波士頓早茶的內容浮現在大眾的眼前。 1971年1月27號的波士頓環球發表了一篇點評，是關於開在Hudson街21號的新餐館“Shanghai Low”的，點評提及餐廳在周六週日早上11點到下午2點供應中式早茶。同年的2月7號，環球報提及了在Medford的“Peking on the Mystic”供應中式早茶點心，可蒸可炸，粵語稱之為Dim Sum，普通話叫Dian hsing。

1979年1月11號的環球報寫到，“在波士頓唐人街有少數幾個餐館，每日從早上9點到下午3點供應限量的中式早茶”。記者參觀了三間供應早茶的餐館，其中包括了Seventy Restaurant, Moon Villa, 和 King Wah。他寫道，“我發現這三個餐廳的早茶水準很平庸，種類少且價錢昂貴，每份點心要80美分到1美元。而且，這三間餐廳沒有一個提供炸食，最糟糕的是，所有餐廳的烘焙食物都是冷的，而不是加熱保溫的”。

1979年4月4號的Boston Hearld 發表了了一篇長文，提到了“早茶，其實是廣東版的美式早午餐。字面上解釋點心，是指“一點點的心”。詩意的解讀是“小零食來愉悅你的心”。歷來，早茶是一種包含蔬菜，肉，魚或者甜餡，可煎或蒸的可以一口吃下去的餃子。報紙上推薦了幾個早茶餐廳，包括King Wah, Seventy Restaurant,和位於Lexington的

Richard Auffrey

San Francisco Examiner，1939年12月2日

Peking Garden.同年的4月22號，環球報提供

了更多關於早茶正面的新聞，其中包括了“中式早茶可能成為繼披薩之後最受美國人歡迎的食物”。文章繼續寫到，“早茶的美妙之處是，客人無需菜單即可享用美食。”文章第一次提及了早茶的地域差異，“現在有兩種早茶，北方和南方。北方的樣式大部分源於四川，北京和上海。南方的樣式大部分是粵式”。

文章的最後，是關於第一家在唐人街供應早茶的言論。“在二十世紀三十年代，Yee Hung Guey餐廳的第一代家族經營者開始提供早茶”。然而，我並沒能找到具體的證據支持這個言論。

所以，美國第一家早茶餐廳很可能起源於二十世紀二十年代。雖然尚缺乏證據支持，波士頓第一家早茶店有極大的可能，起源於二十世紀三十年代。有更多的事實證明早茶店起源於二十世紀七十年代。但不管從什麼年代開始，早茶被認為是鏈接家人和朋友共同享受美食的紐帶。

Richard Auffrey/舢舨

早茶。

儘管日裔美國人被關在拘留營裏的事情發生在二戰期間，但是根據導演Jon Osaki的介紹，那時候的誤傳文化和政治操作持續到現在。他的電影《替代事實：9066號行政命令的謊言》（Alternative

《替代事實》揭示日裔美國人拘留背後的故事 Shira Laucharoen 報導

Facts: The Lies of Executive Order 9066）是《共同的故事》（Shared Stories），從2月24日到28日開始播放的月度電影系列，的正片兒。這部電影是波士頓亞裔電影節、波士頓拉美人國際電影節、儸克斯伯裏國際電影節（RIFF）、和愛默生藝術聯手拍的。

“因爲我們常常一起放映電影，所以（我們想）圍繞著共同的主題也好，相同的故事也好，爲什麽不創建一個關於BIPOC（Black, Indigenous, and People of Color -- 黑人、原住民、有色人種）的系列？”RIFF的執行主任Lisa Simmons說。“我們知道，我們的文化的相似之處多於不同之處。我們

要想辦法來讓每個組織的觀衆參加一個活動。我們可以把自己的觀衆聚集在一起嗎？”

在《替代事實》中，Osaki對假消息在為日裔美國人被迫遷移到

拘留營辯護中的作用進行研究。羅斯福總統的9066號行政命令導致了這個計劃的實施；一共有12萬人，大多數住在太平洋海岸的人，被關在拘留營裏。Osaki揭示了許多虛假的間諜活動和破壞活動的指控，是用來為日裔美國人的强行遷移辯護：比如説，日本潛艇信號被探測的假故事被傳開了。

在紀錄片中，政治活動人士和法律學家Peter Irons揭開了美國司法部律師Edward Ennis寫的備忘錄；在備忘錄裏，Ennis基本上給司法部副部長Charles Fahy寫：（用Irons的話來概括一下）“我們對美國最高法院撒謊。”換句話説，雖然Fahy知道導致日裔美國人拘留的主要原因是民族歧視，而不是間諜或破壞活動，但是他沒有通知最高法院。

“事實上，政治家感到白人農民和排外主義的壓力，然後政治家聯係了軍隊。”Osaki說。“他們說軍隊一定要執行這個計劃。”他接著說：“很多人把珍珠港事件視爲主要的原因。其實，排斥日本人的努力是從二戰的幾十年前開始的。日本人是續中國人來到美國的。中國人是19世紀末被排斥的；同樣的排外主義的人想以同樣的方式排斥日本人，成功地使政府通過禁止亞洲移民的1924年移民法。所以，這樣的努力早就開始了。”

導致日裔美國人的拘留的條件沒有消失。目前，壓制事實，以便

針對妖魔化的群體，還是常有的。近幾年少數民族感受了特朗普政府的旅行禁令和對移民家庭的拘留的影響。Osaki說，今天的文化和政治氣候與產生9066號行政命令的條件有相似之處。

“可惜的是，恐懼政治還是很普遍的。”Osaki說。“近四年，還有目前，最讓人沮喪的是，針對一群人，敵視一群人這樣的政治手段很有效。這樣的不道德的政治手段在我們國家的人引起反響。”他接著説：“我們一直看到同樣的模式：識別不想要的群體，制定圍繞著它的政治議程。”

這部電影提出了誰可以決定我們對歷史的敘述，誰可以決定我們的歷史教科書裏有什麽内容的問題。它也承認，我們國家歷史上的一些事件常常被忽視。

Osaki說，爲了國家的回復和發展，它必須承認過去的錯誤。根據Simmons的介紹，像《替代事實》那樣的電影可以挑戰無視悲慘的事實的霸權主義歷史，鼓勵觀衆去找出歷史的真相。

“歸根結底，這部電影是關於歷史的發掘。”Simmons說。“這部電影讓觀衆看看歷史背後的歷史，讓他們明白你不能相信你所看到和讀到的一切。你必須仔細地看，明白我們看的歷史的背後很可能有另一個被掩蓋的故事。我們的責任就是發掘這個故事，揭示這樣的歷史。”

圖片由愛默生藝術提供《替代事實：9066號行政命令的謊言》，由Jon Osaki導演。

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職業移民排期表

親屬移民排期

全世界（包括港澳台）

中國大陸印度墨西哥菲律賓備註

第一優先2014年1月1日

2014年1月1日

2014年1月1日

1997年9月22日

2010年3月1日

第一優先：美國公民的成年未婚子女

第二優先2A 有名額有名額有名額有名額有名額第二優先2A：永久居民的配偶及未成年子女

第二優先2B2014年11月1日

2014年11月1日

2014年11月1日

1998年12月1日

2010年2月1日

第二優先2B：永久居民的成年未婚子女

第三優先2008年2月1日

2008年2月1日

2008年2月1日

1996年5月8日

2000年5月15日

第三優先：公民的已婚子女

第四優先2006年7月1日

2006年7月1日

2004年12月22日

1998年3月15日

2000年5月1日

第四優先：成年公民的兄弟姊妹

職業移民排期

全世界（包括港澳台）

中國大陸

薩爾瓦多

瓜地馬拉

洪都拉斯

印度墨西哥菲律賓越南備註

第一優先2019年6月1日

2017年6月8日

2019年6月1日

2015年5月1日

2019年6月1日

2019年6月1日

2019年6月1日

第一優先：杰出人才、研究人員、研究人員教授

第二優先有名額2015年9月1日

有名額2009年5月25日

有名額有名額有名額第二優先：跨國公司主管

第三優先2017年1月1日

2016年4月15日

2017年1月1日

2009年1月22日

2017年1月1日

2017年1月1日

2017年1月1日

第三優先：技術勞工及專業人士

非技術勞工2017年1月1日

2008年6月1日

2017年1月1日

2009年1月22日

2017年1月1日

2017年1月1日

2017年1月1日

第四優先有名額有名額2016年7月15日


有名額有名額第四優先：特殊移民

宗教工作者有名額2015年5月15日


有名額有名額2017年2月8日

第五優先有名額2015年5月15日


有名額有名額2017年2月8日

第五優先：投資移民

日益增長的反亞洲暴力問題終於引起了全國媒體和政府官員的注意。在2020年3月至2020年12月期間，一個國家聯盟Stop AAPI Hate（https://stopaapihate.org/)收到了2,800多份關於侵略或仇恨言論的第一手報告，其中126份報告是60年來針對亞裔長者。

從印第安納州到北卡羅萊納州，小城鎮和大城市（如舊金山和紐約），全國各地的報告都顯示，日常偏見往往越來越趨於實際。攻擊的範圍從口頭侮辱到隨地吐痰，毆打，推擠，在某些極端情況下，還可以縱火焚燒衣服，砍臉，猛烈擊打毫無戒心的受害者。這些都不是可以接受的。

激進的年輕人和他們對社交媒體工具的精通相結合，幫助推動了AAPI組織的發展，這些組織正在收集數據，讓問題和倖存者發聲，並將這些問題引起公眾媒體的關注。好萊塢演員的明星力量也有助於引起人們的關注。

我們可以做什麼？我們在波士頓看到這些事件了嗎？我們的唐人街比其他人安全嗎？人們是否在報告確實發生的事件？

儘管在波士頓這裡有襲擊的傳聞證據，但許多受訪者註意到，AAPI的前輩不願挺身而出並報告襲擊事件。這種猶豫來自文化規範，以及我們社區在當局手中所面臨的非常真實的創傷。許多移民來

如何防止在波士頓對亞裔美國人的暴力行為Jacqueline Church 報導

自與當局接觸的行為非常危險的國家。

儘管如此，至少有67位當地人在2020年3月至12月之間向Stop AAPI Hate熱線舉報了仇恨和歧視。這種簡單的報告形式允許使用各種語言。（例如，https：//stopaapihate.typeform.com/to/KUT4C8HE）

州參議員Jamie Eldridge大約在10年前首次提出了《安全社區法》，剛剛由州代表Riz Miranda和Ruth Balser提出。

該法案旨在防止在社區衛生環境中提高移民身份，並鼓勵人們越來越信任公共服務，無論是購買COVID-19疫苗還是舉報仇恨犯罪。昆士最近發生了兩次針對華裔長者的襲擊，與種族無關，但其中有一句古老的中國諺語：在口渴之前先挖井。

我們現在可以為更好的安全做準備。一種方法是訓練自己成為安全但有責任感的旁觀者。 Hollaback！組織提供本地培訓（他們在波士頓進行的最後一次培訓似乎是在2015年。）（https://www.ihollaback.org/）。他們將簡單的干預策略稱為5個D：分散注意力（Distract），委派（Delegate），記錄（Document），延遲（Delay）和直接干預（Direct）。在這裡進行另一次培訓的時機已經成熟。

馬薩諸塞州亞裔美國人委員會有一個社區資源指南（尚未翻譯成中文），可以在這裡下載：（https://www.aacommission.org/resources/anti-asian-hate-resources/）。他們的站點還列出了一些公共實體，可以在其中舉報暴力事件。

除了社區和政府的眾多機構外，還有越來越多的國家聯盟，例如Stop AAPI Hate（https://stopaapihate.org/），它們正在收集數據，建設資源和進行培訓。停止AAPI Hate有一個簡單的多語言工

具來報告攻擊。美國亞裔正義促進中心織是另

一個使用多種語言的工具來收集襲擊故事的組織。

https://www.standagainsthatred.org/stories

願牛年帶給我們力量，堅持不懈，做好準備並善加發掘。

Hongyu Liu/舢舨儘管這個新年華埠異常得安靜，人們仍舊采購各色新年飾品在家慶祝牛年的到來。

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Plymouth 經經濟濟適適用用房房抽抽籤籤Sandy Pines

www.sebhousing.com二居室複式房屋 (HOA 費用 $42/月)價格$288,000；三居室單戶住宅 (HOA費用 $42/月) 價格$320,700

經經濟濟適適用用房房將將在在2021年年夏夏季季準準備備入入住住這是在馬薩諸塞州普利茅斯的 S a n d y P i n e s 建造的 1 0 套經濟適用房所有權的抽籤。在 1 0 套單元中，有 6 個是二居室複式房屋，有 4 套是三居室單戶住宅。這十套房屋將廉價出售給收入等於或低於地區中位數收入 8 0 ％的家庭。房屋將具有未裝修的地下室、乙烯基壁板和百葉窗、雙懸窗，廚房和浴室中的白色櫥櫃、花崗岩檯面、洗衣空間和大壁櫥，並且將包含1,296至1,632平方英尺的居住空間，並配有1.5間浴室，一個院子和一條車道。該社區將擁有綠樹成蔭的街道，可進行遊戲、野餐和鄰里活動的開放場地以及遊樂場，並且距高速公路僅有几分鐘的路程。

家庭最高收入限制:$67,400 (1 人), $77,000 (2 人), $86,650 (3 人),

$96,250 (4 人), $103,950 (5 人); $111,650 (6 人)

最最高高家家庭庭資資產產限限額額為為7755,,000000美美元元。。

完完成成的的申申請請和和抵抵押押預預批批准准必必須須在在2021年年4月月6日日下下午午2時時之之前前收收到到或或蓋蓋上上郵郵戳戳。。在在截截止止日日期期前前蓋蓋上上郵郵戳戳的的申申請請和和抵抵押押預預批批准准必必須須在在截截止止日日期期的的5個個工工作作日日內內收收到到。。

公共信息會議將於2021年3月10日下午6點通過YouTube在https://youtu.be/h2tUFtfCCC0（或僅搜索SEB Housing）以及電話會議(425) 436-6200舉行。編碼：862627

抽籤將於2021年4月19日下午6:00通過YouTube在https://youtu.be/GW4vQtIAu1w（或僅搜索SEB Housing）並通過電話會議（425）436-6200舉行。編碼：862627。

關於抽籤或申請過程的更多信息，或殘障人士需要幫助，請訪問我們的網站www.sebhousing.com或致電(617) 782-6900 (x2)並給我們留下語音信息，或通過信件聯係我們，地址如下：EB Housing, 257 Hillside Ave, Needham MA 02494。免費翻譯。

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經經濟濟適適用用房房抽抽籤籤 Dwell85

85 Plymouth Street, Bridgewater, MA 02324

一居室 @ $1,298*, 二居室@ $1,545*, 三居室 @ $1,771* *租金可能發生變化. 住戶需要付燃氣暖氣、燃氣熱水、電費、烹飪用電。租金含水費和下水道費。

Dwell85是一個交通便利的多戶住宅開發項目，由58個單元組成。該項目位於Bridgewater市中心，距離Bridgewater州立大學和Bridgewater MBTA通勤火車站僅幾步之遙。該項目具有四層住宅樓層和地面停車位。所有單元都設有完整的廚房，包括石材檯面，不銹鋼器具和高品質的櫥櫃。起居區設計有超大窗戶，9英尺高的天花板和木質LVT地板。所有材料將是高質量和耐用的。公共區域設計為全天多功能的，可提供多種用途和舉行社交聚會。內置的皮卡座和公用桌可促進協作和社區建設，公共區域元素的選擇耐用且設計高檔。

家庭最高收入限制:$53,350 (1 人), $60,950 (2 人), $68,550 (3 人) $76,150 (4 人), $82,250 (5 人), $88,350 (6 人)

必必須須在在2021年年4月月9日日下下午午2時時之之前前收收到到完完成成的的申申請請表表和和要要求求的的收收入入證證明明文文件件，，此此非非郵郵戳戳時時間間。。

公共信息會議將於2021年3月3日下午6點通過YouTube在https://youtu.be/Pig6oJG8bAs（或僅搜索SEB Housing）以及電話會議(425)

436-6200舉行。編碼：862627。抽籤將於2021年4月21日舉行。

關於抽籤或申請過程的更多信息，或殘障人士需要幫助，請訪問我們的網站www.sebhousing.com或致電(617) 782-6900 (x1) 並給我們留下語音信息，或通過信件聯係我們，地址如下：EB Housing, 257 Hillside Ave, Needham MA 02494。TTY服務請撥打711。免費翻譯。

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The Reserve at Spring Hill 47 Spring Street, Rehoboth MA

經經濟濟適適用用房房抽抽籤籤www.sebhousing.com

11套套二二居居室室單單戶戶住住宅宅，，價價格格：：$206,000 需需繳繳納納 ($87/月月 HOA 費費)

首首批批經經濟濟適適用用房房將將在在22002211年年夏夏季季準準備備就就緒緒。。

這是在Spring Hill Reserve的前四個階段中建造的11個經濟適用房的抽籤。這11個單元將廉價出售給收入等於或低於該地區中位收入80％的家庭。

Reserve at Spring Hill將設有一個社區中心，含設施齊全的廚房、健身房和露台/燒烤區。房屋有2個全套浴室、2間臥室、廚房、客廳、飯廳和一個書房。該房屋將配備可容納2輛車的車庫和混凝土車道，其可容納約4輛車。房屋建在樓板上，房屋後部有一個混凝土覆蓋的露台區。草坪配有地下灑水系統。前走道是混凝土。中央空調、燃氣強制熱空氣加熱。 Navien無罐熱水系統。廚房、浴室和洗衣區有乙烯基地板，客廳、臥室和書房有地毯。所有檯面都是層壓板。所有顏色/樣式均來自構建商的選擇。電器包括冰箱、微波爐、洗碗機和電爐灶。不包括洗衣機/乾衣機。

家家庭庭最最高高收收入入限限制制: $48,750 (1 人), $55,700 (2 人), $62,650 (3 人), $69,600 (4 人)

最最高高家家庭庭資資產產限限額額為為75,000美美元元。。

有關開發、房屋單元或抽籤和申請流程的更多信息，或為殘疾人士提供幫助，請訪問：www.sebhousing.com或致電617.782.6900 x2。

公共信息會議將於2021年3月17日下午6:00通過YouTube在https://youtu.be/YTDesuQ-1z0（或僅搜索SEB Housing ）以及電話會議–（425）436-6200舉行。編碼：862627。抽籤將於2021年4月26日下午6點舉行。

申申請請和和所所需需收收入入證證明明文文件件必必須須在在2021年年4月月12日日下下午午2時時之之前前交交付付，，此此非非郵郵戳戳時時間間。。

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經經濟濟適適用用房房抽抽籤籤315 College Farm Road Condominiums

位位於於 Waltham, MA www.sebhousing.com

一套二居室單元，價格： $310,500 (公寓費為$125/月)

該該經經濟濟適適用用房房將將在在2021年年夏夏季季開開放放入入住住

這是馬薩諸塞州Waltham市在315 College Farm Road Condominiums建造的一（1）個廉價的兩居室公寓單元的抽籤。它將廉價出售給收入在或低於地區平均收入80％的家庭。這個單元設有兩個浴室，兩個專用的免費停車位，超過1,000平方英尺的起居空間，漂亮的廚櫃和石英檯面，硬木地板，嵌入式照明等等。大樓設有電梯，位置便利，靠近公共交通以及2號和128號公路。

家家庭庭最最高高收收入入限限制制::$67,400 (1 人), $77,000 (2 人), $86,650 (3 人), $96,250 (4 人)

最最高高家家庭庭資資產產限限額額為為7755,,000000美美元元。。

完完整整的的申申請請和和抵抵押押預預批批准准必必須須在在2021年年4月月19日日下下午午2時時之之前前收收到到或或蓋蓋上上郵郵戳戳。。在在截截止止日日期期前前蓋蓋上上郵郵戳戳的的申申請請和和預預批批准准必必須須在在截截止止日日期期起起的的5個個工工作作日日內內收收到到。。

公共信息會議將於2021年3月24日下午6點通過YouTube在https://youtu.be/NZJec48924E（或僅搜索SEB Housing）以及電話會議(425) 436-6200舉行，編碼：862627。抽籤將於2021年4月29日下午6點舉行。

可在www.sebhousing.com找到申請書和信息資源包。

關於抽籤或申請過程的更多信息，或殘障人士需要幫助，請訪問我們的網站wwwwww..sseebbhhoouussiinngg..ccoomm或致電(617) 782-6900 (x2) 並給我們留下語音信息，或通過信件聯係我們，地址如下：SEB Housing, LLC, 257 Hillside Ave, Needham MA 02494. 免費翻譯。

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法律公告：

土地租赁：以马萨诸塞州波士顿市Kneeland Street、Lin-coln Street、South Station Connector和Albany Street为边界的约1.4英亩（61,492 +/-平方英尺）的土地和上空权

马萨诸塞州交通部（MassDOT）正在依照马萨诸塞州波士顿市约61,492平方英尺土地和上空权的土地租赁投标邀请书参与投标。该物业包括MassDOT拥有的一块土地（56,578 +/-平方英尺）和波士顿市拥有的一块土地（4,914 +/-平方英尺）。该物业以马萨诸塞州波士顿市Kneeland Street、Lincoln Street、South Station Connector和Albany Street为边界。

如需索取投标邀请书并成为注册投标人，请访问网站https://www.mbtarealty.com/bid-docs/，或与MassDOT的指定服务代表联系。

Greystone Management SolutionsAttn: MassDOT Parcel 25, Boston, MA20 Park Plaza, Suite 1120Boston, Massachusetts 02116电子邮件：[email protected]

必须在2021年4月15日下午1时之前将回复寄至以下地址：

Massachusetts Department of Transportation10 Park Plaza, Suite 5720Boston, Massachusetts 02116Attn: MassDOT Parcel 25, Boston, MA

MassDOT保留拒绝接受任何回复的权利。

法律公告：

土地租賃：以馬薩諸塞州波士頓市Kneeland Street、Lin-coln Street、South Station Connector和Albany Street為邊界的約1.4英畝（61,492 +/-平方英尺）的土地和上空權

馬薩諸塞州交通部（MassDOT）正在依照馬薩諸塞州波士頓市約61,492平方英尺土地和上空權的土地租賃投標邀請書參與投標。該物業包括MassDOT擁有的一塊土地（56,578 +/-平方英尺）和波士頓市擁有的一塊土地（4,914 +/-平方英尺）。該物業以馬薩諸塞州波士頓市Kneeland Street、Lincoln Street、South Station Connector和Albany Street為邊界。

如需索取投標邀請書並成為註冊投標人，請訪問網站https://www.mbtarealty.com/bid-docs/，或與MassDOT的指定服務代表聯繫。

Greystone Management SolutionsAttn: MassDOT Parcel 25, Boston, MA20 Park Plaza, Suite 1120Boston, Massachusetts 02116電子郵件：[email protected]

必須在2021年4月15日下午1時之前將回复寄至以下地址：

Massachusetts Department of Transportation10 Park Plaza, Suite 5720Boston, Massachusetts 02116Attn: MassDOT Parcel 25, Boston, MA

MassDOT保留拒絕接受任何回复的權利。

波士頓重建局d / b / a波士頓規劃與發展局徵集藝術家 - Mattapan壁畫項目

聯係人Kenya Beaman: [email protected]

波士頓重建局d / b / a波士頓規劃與開發局（“ BPDA”）計劃委託藝術家在Mattapan社區創作一幅臨時藝術壁畫。 BPDA將在“藝術家徵集”過程中，以及選定藝術家或藝術家團隊後選擇安裝設計中與市長藝術文化辦公室（“ MOAC” ）進行協調與合作。這項“徵集藝術家”活動面向所有國内和國際藝術家開放，並傾向與Mattapan有聯繫的藝術家。B-PDA預算了一萬五千美元（15,000美元）用於壁畫的創作和安裝。壁畫必須在2021年夏末完成。

獲取詳細信息：2021年3月1日上午9點起，所有藝術家都可以免費從Submittable門戶上以及bit.ly/PlanMattapan下載此徵集藝術家資料包。有興趣的響應者應創建或登錄其Sub-mittable帳戶以提交“PLAN: Mattapan Public Art Proj-ect”所需的信息。如果無法通過Submittable門戶訪問“徵集藝術家”資料包，請聯繫Kenya Beaman以做出其他安排。

討論會：BPDA將在2021年3月15日舉行兩場有關問題和回答的會議，第一場是美國東部時間12:00-1:00 PM，第二場是6:00 PM-7:00 PM。兩次會議都將被記錄並發佈在bit. ly/PlanMattapan。有關更多信息，請通過電子郵件[email protected]與社區參與經理Kenya Beaman聯繫。

截止日期：藝術家徵集截止日期為美國東部時間2021年4月7日下午5:00。BPDA保留拒絕任何或所有提案和修改細節的權利。最終合同的授予取決於資金的可用性。

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隨著白宮方面宣布了一項能夠影響數百萬人的移民政策改革計劃，一大部分來自於新英格蘭地區的商業、高等教育以及政治方面的領導人於二月19日週五討論了該政策將對移民系統帶來的改善作用。

哈佛大學校長Lawrence Bacow和艾索倫電力公司主席Emeritus John Rowe是此次活動的發言人之一。此次活動由麻州移民難民倡導聯盟聯合舉辦，旨在強調聯邦政府與州政府通過這些移民政策對於國家從新冠疫情中恢復的重要作用。

此次峰會提出了諸如增加工作簽證數量，並且為一千一百萬未註冊勞工（如Dreamers、臨時保護簽證持有者以及必要工作者）創造成為合法公民的法律途徑的方案。

此次線上會議在Rebecca Shi，美國商業移民協會執行董事，的致辭下展開。她提到了移民在疫情下維持社會發展的重要作用。“超過百分之七十的移民工作在重要的職位上。他們每年貢獻了一兆美元的人均總產值以及三千四百億美元的稅收”，Shi說道。她期待能夠有一個給必要工作者合法身份以及關於農民現代化法案的兩黨解決方案。

議員Argus King說移民將會在這個國家經濟重建的過程中扮演重要作用。他預測企業所有者很快會遇到一輪勞工短缺。“歡迎移民以及他們的新靈感的到來，能夠幫助彌補這些空缺並且對社會產生貢獻”，King說道。“美國是一個由移民建造的國家，如果沒有移民們

商業及大學領導人在新英格蘭地區移民商業峰會上發表關於移民政策改革以及經濟復甦的講話

Christine Mui 報導

對我們的社會與經濟一直以來的貢獻，我們就沒有今日的強大”。

在緬因州，勞工短缺的問題由於前總統特朗普限制難民入境的政策在疫情開始之前就十分緊俏。特朗普政府於2020年十月宣布稱他們每年只會允許一萬五千名難民進入，達到了歷史新低。在同年三月，特朗普在疫情期間暫停了難民入境，以保護本地就業率。

這些對於難民和移民的限制使得企業更難贊擴張中保持競爭性，David Barber，來自於緬因州Barber and Tyson Foods公司的董事在峰會上說。“在疫情之前，緬因的失業率在近幾年保持在4%左右，如今卻升到了4.7%”，他說。“緬因的商業沒法僱傭足夠多的人。沒有了移民，緬因將會面對2010至2016年流失人口的總和”。

總統拜登發誓將特朗普的一萬五千名難民限制提升至六萬兩千五百名。拜登通過在二月四日簽署行政令使得難民身份申請的審查過程更加高效透明。

Eva Millona，麻州商業移民協會協同主席兼麻州移民難民倡導聯盟主席以及執行總監，稱更加流暢的移民政策能夠對很多行業利好。“美國有機會推進一套能夠促進商業和經濟的屬於二十一世紀的移民政策。這套政策應當能夠讓家庭們不分離，保護必要工作者，重新建立我們在國際舞台的主導地位，並體現我們的國家精神”，Millona說道。

大學校長們緊隨其後呼籲改變

移民法。在這其中是簽證延遲、限製過多，以及缺少讓國際學生畢業後得到工作機會的問題，哈佛大學校長Lawrence Bacow說道。這些政策的結果便是學校國際生數量的逐年下滑。

“在一段對於移民和難民前所未有的敵對時期後，我們來到了重要的轉折點”，Bacow說。“我們需要國會通過立法使得未註冊人員能夠有獲得合法身份的途徑，同時重新獲得學生與學者的青睞，從而避免對國家的競爭力，安全，與繁榮

帶來更大的損害”。Colby College校長，David

A. Greene同意了移民政策與未來創新密不可分的關係。“我們不僅需要吸引全球有才華的人來到我們的大學，還需要他們在畢業的時候又能夠利用他們的才華與生產能力的激勵措施。我們需要能夠將他們留住”，他說。

Bacow強調了在當前政治環境的緊迫性。“我們如今正處在一個轉折點上”，他說。“我們如今被三十年前製定的移民法規限制著”。

她還警告說，Baker州長對效率的關注是“以公平和健全的科學為本，阻止傳染病的傳播。

在全國范圍內，哈佛大學，羅格斯大學，東北大學和西北大學的研究人員於2020年8月進行的一項民意調查發現，相對於67％的白人，71％的拉丁美洲人和77％的亞裔美國人，有52％的黑人受訪者可能會接種COVID-19疫苗。

2021年2月24日，Baker-Polito 政府部出資460萬美元，在受COVID-19影響最嚴重的20個社區中推廣疫苗接種。

Mass.gov提及”所有的努力將會聚焦有色社區，困居家中的老年人，殘障人士和其他有困難

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疫苗推出的種族不平等

需要援助的群體。Archipelago Strategies Group(ASG) and Health Care for All(HCFA)會提供非本地的，針對特定人群的交流資源，僱用本地居民以及與具有文化和語言適配能力的本地組織合作，覆蓋各個重點城市中受嚴重影響的人群”。這個舉措是回應聯盟的第一步，但接下來，將有更多需要完成的工作來決定疫苗不平等是否可以被根除。

根據Mass.gov,“居民可以在www.mass.gov/COVIDvaccine尋找和計劃他們的疫苗預約。鑑於我們對疫苗分配種族不平等的了解，我們只能通過採取行動，並鼓勵身邊的人同樣行動，一起解決這一問題。

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