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Since1929pacific CITIZEN vnVW.PACIFICCITlZEN.ORG Making Them Cry Changed Lives Flexing the Brain UCLA grad Ham Tran Five years later Nat'l JACL awards tells the boat people's Muslim Americans more scholarships tearjerking story in are still feeling the to our future leaders. 'Journey from the Fall.' sting of discrimination. WINNERS' LIST PAGES 6·7 ENTERTAINMENT PAGE 9 PAGE 3 Wake the Giant Just in time for the November elections, since1 929 PACIFIC CITIZEN a study calls APAs the 'Sleeping Giant' in California politics. The National Publication of th e Japanese American Citizens League PAGE 3 #30651 Vol. 143, No.6 ISSN: 0030-8579 SEPT. 15-0CT. 5, 2006 Calling 911 Doesn't Always 9/11 REMEMBRANCE Mean Help· is On the Way Personal Belongings of Fallen Sept. 11th Hero . are Donated to World Trade Center Tribute Exhibit Many VoIP phone (i.e. Internet phone) users do By Pacific Citizen Staff not realize their 911 service does not work like tradi­ Alongside the picture of a tional 911 on landlines. bespectacled young man cradling APAs need to be especially the head of a wounded Sept. 11, 2001, victim sits the medical bag aware since this group is and belt he used to save lives. the largest among VoIP The medical supplies belonged to phone users. Zack Zeng, a Bank of New York By CAROLINE AOYAGI-STOM financial analyst and trained emer­ Executive Editor gency medical technician credited for heroism during the terrorist Peter John will never forget Feb. attacks. Amid the smoke, debris and 2, 2005. Two armed robbers had confusion, Zeng's mission was AP PHOTOIPAT SULLIVAN burst into his Houston home, shoot­ clear - he was killed while per­ PHOTO COURTESY OFFICE OF COUNCILMEMBER lIU Peter John with his VOIP phone. ing both him and his wife Sosomma forming emergency ftrst aid. His HONORING A HERO: Jiao Xin Cen (second from right), mother of fallen in the thigh before fleeing. Now Joyce could only get a recorded personal belongings were recently Sept. 11 th hero lack Zeng, shares a moment with the media along­ they lay bleeding in the front hall­ message after trying to call 911 on donated to New York's World Trade side New York City Council Member John C. Liu and WTC Tribute way while their teenage daughter their VolP (Voice over Internet Center Tribute Center. Center Exhibit Developer Meriam Lobel (left). Joyce tried frantically to reach 911 Protocol) phone. In desperation, Zeng, 29, was also the only Asian York building just blocks away was first aid kits he could carry and emergency services from an Joyce raced over to a neighbor's Pacific American known to have evacuated, but instead of safely responded without being asked. upstairs phone. home where she was finally able to come to the assistance of others . waiting, he rushed to Ground Zero Shortly before the towers fell, he But after several attempts and try­ during the Sept. 11 th attack. to help the injured victims waiting was videotaped by WNYW-TV Fox ing different phones in the house, On that day, Zeng's Bank of New See CALLING 911IPage 4 for medical care. He gathered all the See FALLEN HEROIPage 2 ASianBoston Magazine Creates Peculiar Buzz Katrina APA Community One Year Later: Still in Limbo JACL,APAgroups are Critics of the Asian­ heading back down to the themed magazine Gulf Coast for the second have honed in on legal education clinic. How the difference in much has changed? approach between AsianBoston's debut By LYNDA LIN issue (left) and the Assistant Editor NORMALCY: A graveyard second issue. of beached boats still "Nothing is the same," said mars the Gulf Coast, but Jennifer Ryan, a 48-year-old full­ The Asian-focused maga­ big deal? its APA community is time homemaker upon her return to zine is not going to garner For months now AsianBoston moving on. Above a child any literary or innovative has received backhanded slaps of Metairie, Louisiana, an unincorpo­ PHOTOS COURTESY BPSOS gets tutored in school. awards but controversy disapproval from local Asian rated suburb of New Orleans that surrounds the publication American groups and negative sto­ nearly drowned in Katrina's high lot of people." front of Jennifer's parents' house. It largely because the publish­ ries have run in both ethnic and waters last year. Sunken houses and Last month, Jennifer, who is of has nowhere near the square footage debris still dot the tree-lined streets eris White. mainstream press. Chinese descent, and her family of their last place, but the trailer Perhaps the controversy has to do like mummifted artifacts, but moved back to Metairie after an 11- houses Jennifer, her husband Terry By CAROLINE AOYAGI-STOM with the fact that the creator and Jennifer still came home. Nothing is month stay with relatives in and their two teenage daughters Executive Editor publisher of AsianBoston is not the same, but very little has Virginia. Right now, home is a Natasha and Amanda. changed. Federal Emergency Management As the first glossy magazine dedi­ See MAGAZINE/Page 5 "It's part of life. It happened to a Agency (FEMA) trailer parked in See KATRINA/Page 12 cated to all things Asian in the Boston area, AsianBoston magazine is not going to win any literary Racially Segregated Teams on 'Survivor' Spark Controversy, awards anytime soon. So what's the But Have You Seen So Many APAs on TV Before? ~~. The number of APAs season's "Survivor," vehement criticism, the loudest of ~~ quadrupled this season, which premieres Sept. which has been echoing from the en .. but critics say this 'social 14, the contestants office of New York Councilman ~ ... ~ en experiment'may go bad. competing for the $1 John Liu, who called the show, "stu­ iil(":)Co> _ million prize while pidity at play." And even though the ~~ By LYNDA LIN stranded on the Cook world's largest automaker said its -r-N- Assistant Editor Islands in the South decision to pull its sponsorship was gtrj Pacific will be divided not influenced by the show's contro­ ~Z They'v€? stabbed each other in the C> into four teams - versial new twist, critics think their ~ backs, formed unlikely alliances and m Asian Paciftc loud protest did elicit some action. Y' banished teammates to exile. What's »C") American, African In a statement, Liu urged CBS to <0 next, fans wondered, and the answer C> American, Hispanic cancel the show. ~ seems to be racial segregation. The American and Cauca­ But whatever the challenge, "" show often credited with populariz­ sian. "Survivor" is coming your way with ing reality television is pushing its Since its new race a five-member APA cast - an limits again in its 13th season and based gimmick was unprecedented number on the televi­ despite its fixture in prime time, the revealed late last sion landscape that usually only show and its makers have not won month, "Survivor" has affords one or two ethnic tokens. immunity from the backlash. been slapped with For the first part of this upcoming See 'SURVIVOR'IPage 4 2 LEITERS/NATIONAL PACIFIC CITIZEN, SEPT. I5-0CT. 5, 2006 FALLEN HERO borders a park where Zack used to meet his r.. PAtlFlt CnlZEN ~ 2005 WINNERI (Continued from page 1) friends. It was a mission to let her son's legacy live that prompted Cen to go door-to-door in fl)MEDIIA 5 News in a now immortalized moment of hero­ Chinatown gathering signatures for a street name ~ Awards In Writing ~ ism. change petition. "When the Bank of New York sent everyone Zeng, who was originally from China's home, Zack, who's also a paramedic, rushed over Guangdong Province, came to the United States PACIFIC CITIZEN to the World Trade Center with his medical bag," in the late 1980s. After graduating from the 250 E. First Street, Ste. 301, reads a quote from University of Rochester with an MBA in 1998, he Los Angeles, CA. 90012 Zeng's mom, Jiao Xin began working in the Bank of New York, which Tel: 213/620-1767, Cen, near the exhibit. "I is two blocks from the World Trade Center. 800/966-6157 was searching for him for Those who knew Zeng have said they weren't Fax: 213/620-1768 E-mail: [email protected] weeks. Finally one of his surprised that he sacrificed his own life to save www.pacificcitizen.org friends called to say he others. had seen Zack on a Fox "He was a completely selfless person - he Executive Editor: Caroline Y. Aoyagi-Stom newscast in front of the was just someone who would automatically vol­ Assistant Editor: Towers helping people." unteer his assistance. To me, it was a truly heroic Lynda Lin Five years after the display," said Peggy Farrell, Zeng's supervisor on Office Manager: tragedy, Zeng's personal possessions joined many the National Emergency Medical Services Brian Tanaka others at the tribute center, the first visitors' center Memorial Web site . • Circulation: Eva Lau-Ting to open near the World Trade Center site. Publisher:Japanese American Zeng was also honored by the New York City Citizens League (founded 1929) Council on Sept. 11,2004, when members passed 1765 Sutter Street, San a bill to posthumously honor Zeng by renaming Francisco, CA 94115, tel: Bayard Street between Mulberry and Baxter 4151921 -5225 fax: 4151931- 4671, www.jacl.org Streets in the Chinatown area of Manhattan after JACL President: Larry Oda the fallen hero. A street in New York's Chinatown was Nat'l Director: John Tateishi The street, now named ''Zhe 'Zack' Zeng Way" renamed in 2004 in Zack Zeng's memory.
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