Photo: Broadway Elementary in Venice Celebrates Chinese New Year
Students in the Mandarin Immersion Program at Broadway Elementary in Venice celebrate the Year of the Dragon.
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Students enrolled in the Mandarin Immersion Program at Broadway Elementary School in Venice celebrated Chinese New Year on Tuesday. An assembly was held on the playground and featured students enrolled in the largest Los Angeles Unified School District Mandarin Immersion Program on the Westside.
Broadway Mandarin Immersion students will participate in a myriad of Chinese events throughout the week, from food fun-stations consisting of Chinese dumplings, fried noodles and rice cakes, to a Lion Dance parade through the school.
The school and classrooms have been decorated with lanterns and other student-made crafts to celebrate the Year of the Dragon.
venicelocal
8:45 am on Sunday, January 29, 2012
Soon we will all be working in some prison slave labor camp. And all celebrating Chinese new year.. just like china Olympics slogan "one world, one China " get used to it. Its called fascism. Thanks Obama for bailing out the banks and thanks Clinton for opening relations with slave labor china so all our companies can open shop there leaving the people mostly out of work or lower pay
DrSH
9:56 pm on Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Good grief! Racism much?
venicepower
12:03 pm on Sunday, February 5, 2012
If memory serves, it was Richard M. Nixon who opened the dialog with China.
Many Americans then - jingoistic and otherwise - were still complaining about our government's tolerance of business with companies whose products displayed "Made in Japan."
Is China our new "Japan?" No. Japan was already industrial; China is still largely rural (though newly-sprouted sweat shops are paving farmland and contaminating water supplies).
The newest debacle is Apple - our foremost innovator of "feel-good" electronics for the latte class - and most high-profile driver of Chinese sweat shop conditions. Apple's "I Need It Now" manufacturing model changed the game where we weren't looking.
It is well-known that President Obama asked Steve Jobs point-blank "What will it take to bring those jobs back home?" Jobs replied "Those jobs aren't coming back," and then turned around to show the richest men in America his new iPhone - handmade by Chinese laborers whose jobs Jobs created, and whose injuries, disabilities and deaths their own government enables.
Would you give up your iPhone (or i-Whatever) for factory safety in a country whose residents you will never meet, and whose government you don't control?
That was Jobs' point. Was he just cynical or are we just selfish?
Presidents come and go. They don't control what we buy the way we do.
As long as we consume the Kool-Aid made by ladder-climbers and penthouse dwellers, we are as responsible as Apple and its brethren.