A reflection, by Bob Fulkerson: In reflecting on the end of Asian American Month, I am ashamed for knowing so little about this community, but I’m glad that there have been more events and attention this year than ever before. If you missed two of Nevada’s most powerful women Asian American leaders, Lorenzita Santos and Amy Koo from One APIA Nevada, talking about their work on “What’s the
Nevada’s Elected Officials Will Continue to Kill Black and Brown Folks After a month-long wait for the Nevada State Senate and Sen. Majority Leader Nicole Cannizzaro to hold a fair, public hearing for AB395, a bill that proposes to abolish the death penalty in Nevada, Governor Steve Sisolak and Senator Cannizzaro announced today they have blocked the bill from being heard, just one day before the May 14th legislative
Introduction Location of Thacker Pass In late March of 2021, PLAN staff and supporters visited Thacker Pass where a land occupation protest is ongoing in opposition to a massive Canadian owned lithium mine proposed for the site. Thacker Pass is on Northern Paiute lands in northern Humboldt County near the border with Oregon. It is just to the south of the Fort McDermitt Paiute Shoshone Reservation, and west of
By: Shonda Austin Black women all over the United States are facing multiple economic injustices. Chief among them is housing. During this pandemic I’ve loss almost all of my support and resources. Even though the CDC and Governor Steve Sisolak have extended the eviction moratorium, my family and I are currently still at risk of being homeless once again as the pandemic winds down and the eviction moratoriums will no
March 17th, 2021 Reno, Nevada Yesterday, on March 16th in Atlanta a white man murdered eight people, seven of them women, six of them Asian American. The history of Anti-Asian violence is the history of America. The idea that Asians belong in Asia has been around forever. It’s a huge part of our Nevada history: Chinese immigrants built the railroad that built Nevada and the west. Hundreds of
A Direct Attack on the Voice of the People LAS VEGAS, NV — The horrifying events that happened January 6th at the U.S. Capitol is the expected endgame of an ideology that thrives off division, the devaluing of lives as well as the votes and voices of Black, Indigenous, and people of color in order to protect the wealth and privilege of a small few. This was a direct
We are deeply disappointed in the lack of transparency and leadership in the drafting and presentation of Senate Bill 2, which addresses the disastrous Senate Bill 242 that passed during the 2019 legislative session. We understand that during a special session things move quickly, but the hearing for this bill began before the bill text was made available to the public, and while the Assembly was hearing another bill related to policing. During the
