Boston, December 11, 2012 – Community advocate Michelle Wu filed with the Office of Campaign and Political Finance today as a candidate for one of Boston’s four At-Large City Council seats.
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Tag: Politics
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South End Resident Michelle Wu Files for Boston City Council At-Large
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His Campaign Saved by Superstorm Sandy, Obama Is Urged to Take Bold Action on Climate Change
Exit polls by CBS News reveal that the fossil-fueled Superstorm Sandy, and President Obama’s response, was a crucial factor for two in five voters nationwide. Twenty-six percent of those polled said Obama’s broadly praised response was an important factor, and 15 percent — about one in six voters — said it was the most important factor in their vote.
Fire ruined upward of 100 homes in Queens, N.Y. as Sandy passed by.
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Firstever Tie in First-of-the-nation Dixville Notch Election: Obama and Romney Each Gets Five Votes
By David Li, bostonese.com
The results of the first in the nation presidential election was made public on live TB at 3:05 AM on November 6, 2012 in Dixville Notch, NH. The voting started right after the midnight, and a total of 10 votes were recorded in this small precinct. Among the 10 votes, there were five independents, three Republicans and two democrats.
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Boston’s Chinese Community Thanks Senator Brown for Senate’s Apology for Chinese Exclusion Act
By David Li, bostonese.com
In the evening of October 20, 2012, about 300 Chinese People of Greater Boston and New England held an appreciation party for Senator Scott Brown at Empire Garden restaurant. They thanked Senator Brown’s contribution in passing resolution S.Res.201 – A resolution expressing the regret of the Senate for the passage of discriminatory laws against the Chinese in America, including the Chinese Exclusion Act, passed in the US Senate on October 6, 2011. Also in attendance were members of the Vietnamese, Korean, and Cambodian communities.
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Facing a Weak Economy, Both Candicates Are Tough on China
(from chinadaily.com.cn)
China-bashing is fiercer in the 2012 US presidential election than any previous election campaign, with both the Republican and the Democratic candidates attacking China, observers said.
Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama wave to the audience during the first presidential debate at the University of Denver in Colorado on Oct 3. Charlie Neibergall / Associated Press
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Japan, Taiwan Ships Exchange Water Cannon Fire As China’s First Aircraft Carrier Entering Service
BEIJING, Sept. 26 – Japanese and Taiwanese ships shot water cannon at each other yesterday in the latest confrontation over tiny islands in the East China Sea as Japan met with another rival, China, in an effort to tamp down tensions.
A Japanese coast guard ship sprays water at a Taiwanese ship yesterday near the disputed islands. (AP)
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Letter of Portest to the Japanese Ambassador to the USA
September 15, 2012
RE: Protesting against Japan’s Illegal “Nationalization” of Chinese Diaoyu Islands
Where-as
The Diaoyu Islands (also called Senkaku Islands in Japan) are unequivocally territories of China, which Japan failed to return to their rightful owner after World War II.
And,
Numerous historical documents, some dating back to as early as 1403, recorded the Diaoyu Islands as part of China. Throughout history, fishermen from China have been fishing around the Diaoyu Islands. However, Japan seized the islands and Taiwan after the Sino-Japanese war in 1894.
And,
During World War II the Cairo Declaration of 1943 asserted that “Japan shall be stripped of all the islands in the Pacific which she has seized or occupied since the beginning of the First World War in 1914, and that all the territories Japan has stolen from the Chinese, such as Manchuria, Formosa, and the Pescadores, shall be restored to the Republic of China. Japan will also be expelled from all other territories which she has taken by violence and greed.” Japan accepted the terms of the Declaration when it surrendered at the end of World War II. With Japan’s return of Taiwan to China in 1945, the Diaoyu Islands should also have been returned to China as part of Taiwan.
And,
The recent push by the Japanese right-wing faction trying to illegally seize the Diaoyu Islands has been heating the confrontation between the Chinese and Japanese authorities. A most recent example is the Japanese government’s move to “nationalize” the Diaoyu Islands. Similar situation also took place between South Korea and Japan recently over the Dokdo Islands. The move has reopened the old wounds an imperialistic Japan inflicted upon the people of the region and fueling concerns about peace and stability in the area. The Japanese militarism and imperialist expansionism that underlie its ongoing provocation is a real and troublesome threat to the peace of East Asia and the world.
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As the world marks the 67th anniversary of Japan’s unconditional surrender that concluded World War II, people are still haunted by the memories of Japan’s militarism and imperialistic expansionism that propelled its invasion of Asia and the attack on Pearl Harbor. Japanese government has never formally repented for its atrocities against the world. Its leaders continue to worship the Yasukuni Shrine where war criminals’ tablets are kept. Its right-wing activists have repeatedly sought to rewrite school textbooks to distort its war history. There are more signs that its extremists, in a heady dream with Japan’s pre-war “glory” in which violence and aggression were exalted, have been stepping up their attempt to revive Japan’s militarist past. This dangerous and peace-threatening movement has to be warned and stopped immediately.
Therefore,
To protest against Japan’s illegal “nationalization” of Diaoyu Islands, the Chinese community in Utah is organizing a rally, from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM on Saturday September 15, 2012, at the Utah State Capitol.
The Chinese community and the residents in Utah will have their voice heard at this rally, along with any other peace-loving people throughout the world. We demand the Japanese government to immediately:
- Officially recognize the Diaoyu Islands are part of the Chinese territory,
- Refrain all the Japanese arm forces and unlawful Japanese citizens from occupying the Diaoyu Islands and its neighboring water,
- Constrain the Japanese right-wing militia from harassing the Chinese fishermen working in the neighboring water,
- Apologize to the Chinese people and the rest of the world about its wrongful actions to the Diaoyu Islands in the past.
Sincerely,
The Organizing Committee of “the September 15, 2012 Rally against Japan’s Illegal ‘Nationalization’ of Chinese Diaoyu Islands”
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Not 99%, It’s 47% – Transcript of Leaked Romney Fundraiser Remarks
(By NBC News on September 18, 2012)
The campaign discussion was dominated Tuesday by remarks made by Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney at a May 17 fundraiser in Boca Raton, Fla., which were surreptitiously recorded by an anonymous source and surfaced Monday evening.
Romney shows his grandchildren, from left to right: Owen, 5; Wyatt, 7; Nash, 3; and Sawyer, 1; his campaign charter plane in Salt Lake City, Utah, Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2012. (AP photo)
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Aung San Suu Kyi to Deliver Godkin Lecture at Harvard Kennedy School
CAMBRIDGE MA — Nobel Peace Prize winner and democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi will deliver the annual Godkin Lecture at Harvard Kennedy School on September 27th. The event will begin at 5:30 p.m. in the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge.
VOA’s Scott Stearns interviews Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi at VOA in Washington D.C., Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2012. (VOA/A. Klein)
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Transcript: Clint Eastwood Talking to An Empty Chair at RNC
Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you.
Save a little for Mitt.
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