During a press conference at Cal State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) last Monday, 55th District Assemblymember Warren Furutani (D-South Los Angeles County– far right) presents a $10,000 check on behalf of the Asian Pacific Islander Legislative Caucus to various Samoan relief organizations. Also pictured, from left, are 49th District Assemblymember Mike Eng, 53rd District Assemblymember [...]
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Commentary: A Labor of Love
October 22nd, 2009 · No Comments · Commentary
By Vivian J. Malauulu
Samoans have a firm and long-standing reputation for being extremely family-oriented, deeply proud of their Polynesian ancestry, and very religious. These beliefs were epitomized for the entire world to see when, within hours of the magnitude-8.0 temblor and subsequent tsunami that devastated the islands of American Samoa and independent Samoa on [...]
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