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THE ASIAN AMERICAN HOUR has gotten bigger - we are now on the air weekly on public radio
WAIF-CINCINNATI 88.3 FM and our broadcast time has moved to prime-time
THE ASIAN AMERICAN
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CONTINUES 13 YEARS ON THE AIR WITH WAIF 88.3 FM - Date of First Broadcast: 6/7/2001
THE ASIAN AMERICAN HOUR will continue to feature talk, and music, and other good things with a discernable
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THE ASIAN AMERICAN HOUR is produced and hosted by Charleston Wang with Mary Joan Reutter as co-host,
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BE THE CHANGE:
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A REAL UZBEK DYNASTY

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September 1, 2014 - Labor Day History; Ferguson Revisited
September 8, 2014 - Update Ukraine
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September 22, 2014 Update Thailand

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Charge of Light Brigade-Lord Alfred Tennyson
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BASTILLE DAY CELEBRATED
IN THE CITY OF MONTGOMERY, OHIO
Saturday, July 19, 2014

I SAW A CHILD IN JERUSALEM,
INNOCENT AS A LAMBKIN
by Charleston C. K. Wang

I saw a child in Jerusalem
Growing up in a holy city
The center of the universe
The hope of humanity.

I saw a child in Jerusalem
He was a child of Jesus
She was a child of Allah
Children of the LORD.

I saw a child in Jerusalem
He was looking for friends
To play ball and to talk to
In the way children do.

I saw a child in Jerusalem
She does not know hate
He does not wage war
They are our future.

I saw a child in Jerusalem
She played hide and seek
And was laughing with joy
Her friends did not find her.

I saw a child in Jerusalem
She is now alone
He now is afraid
Friends are hard to find.

I see children in Jerusalem
Tears are in their eyes
They are much in need
Of the Hesed of the LORD
Of the Grace of Jesus
Of the Embrace of Allah
I pray for the loving kindness
Of the One who created
HaShem will not forsake
For all creation is good
Blessed with innocence
We are all children
Destined to play again
As did the children
Of Abraham
I saw them in Jerusalem
Innocent as lambkins.

July 7, 2014

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T'is Way to Edinbraugh

Compassion On the Move
Reflections On Life In the Turn Lane
By Beverly Jones - August 23, 2014

I had hit a wall of sadness - Ferguson, Iraq, ISIS, James Foley. I cannot sustain the level of grief that I feel. And
then I saw a 10 year-old boy riding his bike on the bike path, an exultant grin on his face, one arm in the air. As if
to say, look at me world! I’m here. I’m alive. I’m happy. That was it! His presence broke through my wall – there’
s a life force, too. I have been known to call it Peony Power, some people call it God - whatever it is that creates
and sustains life whether plant, boy or me. I can’t generate it; I can only join it and be thankful for it.

So I went looking for the common element in all the tragedies this week’s technology has brought to my living
room. The closest I can come to identifying the ingredient that seems to be lacking in all of these events is
compassion – that human ability to stretch one’s skin to cover another – to know and feel what it’s like to be
someone else.* Compassion for the black community in Ferguson, for the persecuted in Iraq, for the murdered
reporter and his family. And compassion for the police in Ferguson trying to do what they have been told; even
for those who join ISIS – what could have happened to them to so warp their humanity?

The internalization of the Golden Rule means to not only do unto others what you would have them do unto you;
but, feel what another would feel as if you were living their circumstances.

To me lack of compassion relates to a lack of imagination. Like the white Mayor of Ferguson, Missouri, James
Knowles, who said in a TV interview (Andrea Mitchell, MSNBC), that Ferguson has not had racial issues, that
everyone gets along. According to his point of view it would seem that an all white power structure in a
community that is predominantly black is no problem. He sounded like white officials in Montgomery, Alabama in
the 60’s.

To me compassion includes more than feeling another’s pain, it’s imagining what I would actually do in
circumstances, like Janette Navarro’s harrowing life of poverty as a Starbuck’s barista in San Diego. At age 22
she tries to keep herself and her four year old son on a path toward something better than the erratic Starbuck’s
schedule and the poverty it brings. My imagination fails me when I try to think what I would do, just faced with her
journey to her job:

“Ms. Navarro hated waking Gavin so early, but the trip from home to day care to work took a mile-long walk, two
trolleys, a bus ride and over three hours.”

Three hours? Walking, bus and trolley? Poverty statistics made real.

How to break the cycle of hurtful human relations? Of course I don’t know the answer, but I’m learning some
clues from participation in a recent community endeavor.

To go back to Ferguson – Maria Chappello-Nadal, Missouri state senator (a young African-American woman)
said that the “rioting” black youth she’d talked to were so discouraged about the prospects for their lives that they
didn’t care whether they were shot or arrested; that no one seemed to speak for them.

I can only hope that somewhere, sometime, those young people might have the self-organizing, unifying group
experience that I’m finding in Cincinnati’s Economics of Compassion Initiative. I can’t help but think that ECI’s
process might work to help those young African American men find a productive path.

What’s been so amazing to me is that ECI has a very loose, open structure – although, for efficiency, there is
leadership, it is extremely adaptable. Every member has input into it. It is lived democracy.

This was not by pre-design, it’s happened spontaneously. People feel free to work on whatever project interests
them, to move freely between projects, to create ways to communicate with each other and with the wider
community.

We do not “know” each other in the usual social sense; our glue is that we are mostly disenchanted with the
consequences of our current economic system, compassionate toward those who have been affected the most
and thankful that we have found each other so that together we might begin to do something about it – help
enterprises put people ahead of profits.

This works, I think, because we seem to have left our egos behind; so far we’re keeping our eyes on the prize,
and, as individuals, are frustrated enough with the economic status quo, i.e. Ms. Navarro’s Starbucks’s situation,
to step over the usual organizing speed bumps.

Here it’s easy to see how the parts relate to and create the whole. ECI does not exist outside these relationships,
which makes it fluid, fragile… and fun.

This open, freeing ECI process just might catch on!

Beverly Jones.

PHOTOJOURNALIST JAMES FOLEY
WAS A BRAVE AND GOOD MAN

I watched the video of the last few minutes of the life of a man whose name is
James Foley. After the initial horror of the scene, I was confused and even
repulsed by what he seems to be saying.

I thought about this video all night and all day. Now this is what I understand of
the kind of man James Foley has been - he is a brave and good man.

James Foley's final communication must be found in his demeanor and not his
words - he is telling us he is strong and not afraid. He wants the world to know in
no uncertain terms.

James Foley is also a thinking person - he knew if he protested, cursed, or
screamed or kicked, his resistance would never be revealed to the world. If he
whimpered and begged, yes that will be displayed, so he made sure he did not.
The only way he could show his bravery is to say the words they wanted him to say
but to say it without fear, remorse, or self-pity and without mincing any of the
words. He had his fingers crossed behind his back.

I will always remember James Foley for he was a brave and good man.

Charleston C. K. Wang 8/20/2014

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SIXTH ANNUAL CROQUET OPEN IN DOWNTOWN CINCINNATI, AUGUST 23, 2014
Photos courtesy of Mark Mahoney, Esq. and Friends.

We’re a’ Jock Tamson’s bairns!

Lang may yer lum reek!

"Whit’s fur ye’ll
no go by ye!" >>>>>>>

"Jen Hao Wan" >>>

Caught by my camera squirrel on my
patio. This shot won Photo of the Day,
8/13/2014 by CaptureCincinnati
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IN MEMORY OF I-TSEN WANG
February 7, 1926- September 16, 2013

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Senorita At CincyCinco 2014

A WIN IN THE U.S. SIXTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS. On August 18, 2014 in Nifadev v. Holder, (Case No. 13-3704/4222 6th Cir. 2014), the
United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit held that Mikheil B. Nifadev has proven his claim that he had suffered persecution by reason of
his Russian ethnicity at the hands of the security and regular police of Uzbekistan.   The Court vacated the decision of the Board of Immigration
Appeals (BIA) in Washington, D.C. which had denied Mr. Nifadev asylum, and the Court remanded the case with additional instructions to the United
States Attorney General, including that the BIA should determine whether the BIA should also reconsider its denial of Nifadev’s application for
withholding of removal and protection under Convention Against Torture (abbreviated CAT for Convention Against Torture And Other Cruel,
Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment of the United Nations) in light of the opinion of the Court. The Sixth Circuit opinion essentially and
explicitly held that "[b]ecause the IJ [Immigration Judge] appears to have erred in her determination that Nifadev did not suffer past persecution and
because the IJ clearly misinterpreted Nifadev’s credible testimony regarding the ethnic animus of the Uzbekistan security officials, we find that
Nifadev has made out a credible case of being a refugee under the definitions of 8 U.S.C. § 1158(b)(1)(A)." [Emphasis added].   The United States
Immigration Court in Cleveland, Ohio, had initially found Mr. Nifadev and his witnesses to be credible but declined to grant asylum because it
erroneously determined that Mr. Nifadev had NOT suffered persecution.   Shown in photograph on the right is Mr. Mikheil B. Nifadev with Charleston
C. K. Wang, Esq. who represented Mr. Nifadev during trial and both appeals. To read the complete opinion, please click here.

Pursuant to the Sixth Circuit opinion, the BIA on January 5, 2015, ordered the Immigration Court to grant asylum to Mr. Mikhail Nifadev. To read the
BIA order, please click here.