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From the February issue
Fear of ICE cancels Lunar New Year parade
Squirrel Hill’s Lunar New Year celebration, which traditionally starts with a lion dance on Murray Avenue followed by a parade of fire dancers, martial arts demonstrations, dragons and acrobats, will not be held this year.
The reason? Members of Pittsburgh’s Asian community have been detained by agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the parade is a public celebration of Asian culture.
“Asian leadership fears it might attract ICE and protesters,” said Marian Lein, the board president of OCA - Asian Pacific American Advocates. “They did not want what should symbolically be joyous and celebratory be potentially used to advance another agenda.”
Read more in the February issue of Print.
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Department store is the target of protests​
Hundreds of protesters swarmed the Target store in East Liberty to call on the Minneapolis-based chain to refuse access to federal agents from Immigration, Customs and Enforcement.
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School board reconsiders closures​​
In November the Pittsburgh Board of Public Education voted down a plan to close nine school buildings. But on Jan. 28 members resurrected the plan to look at what changes can be made to the proposal to reduce the number of seats the schools can handle. Currently the schools have nearly 18,000 more students than are being educated in the school system now.
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Read more about it in the February issue of Print.
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