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On this edition of Your Call, we’re discussing this year’s Center for Asian American Media Film Festival (CAAMFest), which runs today through May 23. This year’s festival features over 50 events, including screenings, panels, and live performances. This is an especially important year given the rise of anti-Asian violence throughout the pandemic.
We ll discuss this year s highlights, including
Manzanar, Diverted: When Water Becomes Dust, a beautiful documentary that weaves together memories of intergenerational women. Native Americans, Japanese American World War II incarcerees, and environmentalists form an unexpected alliance to defend their land and water from the powerful Los Angeles Department of Water and Power.
San Diego woman aims to get more people involved in biking
A local woman has created a special program geared towards women and, in particular, those who are part of the LGBTQ community, to get more of them involved in biking.
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SAN DIEGO (KGTV) â Sylvie Foncek is on a mission to make biking and fixing bikes less intimidating and more inclusive. The speed that you move on a bike allows you to see a lot more than you would in an automobile, Foncek told ABC 10News when asked about the many things she loves about biking. And you get this little positive boost by being out moving and being active.
Adventures of a Lefty Lesbian
By Robert Holgate and Jennifer Kroot–
“The lesbians have disappeared,” notes Pam David, the lifelong civil rights activist and organizer, who feels she’s not hearing the “L word” as much these days.
Reminiscing with us, Pam describes San Francisco’s vibrant lesbian community that lasted decades, “along the Valencia Street corridor, there was a lesbian presence. I worked at Artemis, a lesbian restaurant. Down the street was a lesbian bookstore, craft store, and women’s bathhouse. On 18th Street was the Women’s Building and Full Moon Coffeehouse. Plus, there were our bars. They’re all gone.”
Now the tables are turned and students get to accept or reject colleges
Teresa Watanabe
LOS ANGELES – For a few tense months, between the time she submitted her college applications and received the momentous decisions, Rhea Mistry waited and wondered. Was her high school record strong enough for her choice colleges to accept her among thousands of other students in one of the most competitive admissions seasons ever? It s horribly nerve-racking, the Riverside Polytechnic High School student said. You think: Did you do enough? Did you not do enough? You re putting yourself out there to basically be judged as to whether you made the cut or not.
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