My comments about language access as a form of equity and resiliency, especially important during emerging public health/safety situations so communities are not left behind.

We have the tools, knowledge, resources to do this. Why not make it a best practice.

https://twitter.com/Nuttallreports/status/1220541011060899840

The evolving #WuFlu situation brings back vivid memories of SARS, when I just happen to job shadow the executive director of the Centre for Disease Control here in Vancouver for a week, as set up by my high school career councillor.

For those wondering why there are increasing conflicts between pro-nation state China and pro-HK folks, it is due to different understandings and beliefs of what the #HongKongProtests are about:

1. Belief in ethnic and cultural unity as a collective supersedes individualism.

https://twitter.com/hiroshiman18/status/1182566652438646784

Geopolitical reasons aside, this belief by mainland nationalists is also one of the key reasoning why they lay “claim” to Taiwan. Sorry, let alone how Taiwan is culturally and ethnically diverse, along with active reconciliation efforts toward aboriginal peoples on the island,

10/01: Within an hour of the #LennonWall being built at Aberdeen Station, pro-CCP Mainland Chinese nationalists are destroying it and intimidating people. Ugly, disrespectful actions.

Part 1:

📍Richmond, Canada.
#HongKongProtests #cansaveHK Part 2:

(not in video but important situational context) Lennon Wall Organizers and event-goers reported on the telegram group that they are being followed by Pro-CCP people as they leave the event. They don't feel safe.

Police stepped in, luckily. Pics coming.

As a 'community organizer', I can confirm that this is the biggest intellectual and public psyche blindspots we have in Canada, especially Vancouver.

e.g. I'm still shocked by how little knowledge those with power knows of the "Chinese" community and geopolitics in Asia.

https://twitter.com/yskevinhuang/status/1169336465924354048

The reliance on opportunistic and biased brokers, who themselves arguably don't have a full enough grasp of local "Chinese" community dynamics, only sets up the community for further tokenization, licensing of agendas, and reinforces rifts between "Chinese" groups.

#hongkongprotest rally in Vancouver. Mainland China nationalists showed up. Hong Kong solidarity group chanting #freehongkong and #twosystems while China nationalists chanting #onechina and “take off your masks” and singing the Chinese national anthem

#cansavehk Nationalists chanting “we love Hong Kong” and “we love China” with banner that says “Hong Kong is part of Chinatown”.