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> OCT 07 COVER: Iraqi Refugee Crisis

As a 5-year-old, Quang Nguyen remembers watching from the roof of his parents’ house as the communist forces slowly approached his neighborhood in Saigon, the smoke, fire and artillery shells getting ever so closer. Eventually it was gunbattles in the streets and dead bodies on the ground.

And it was time for him and his family to leave.

Thirty years later, Nguyen has become one of the most respected and influential leaders of his community in Seattle. The executive director of the Vietnamese American Economic Development Association is trying to help turn Little Saigon into a unified and powerful economic and cultural force that meshes well with the American mainstream but doesn’t compromise the area’s unique character and history.....

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> OCT 07 EDITORIAL: Iraqi Refugees

It’s hard to believe it has been four years since the last presidential contest. Over those years, we have seen a bitterly divided nation turn against the government, ushering in a change of leadership in Congress and a potential change in the White House in 2008.
 
It has been only four years since Sen. Barack Obama burst onto the political scene with his landmark speech at the Democratic National Convention. ...

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STAY TUNED FOR SPECIAL COLORSNW COVERAGE FROM THE 2008 DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION ...
 

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> Changes at ColorsNW

As some of you have heard, ColorsNW Magazine, the Northwest’s only regional publication about communities of color, suspended its print edition in July and will move to an online format beginning in the fall. ...
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SEPTEMBER 08

EVENTS CALENDAR
Events, Announcements
- Naomi Ishisaka

NEWS BRIEFS
News around the Sound
- Naomi Ishisaka

PUBLISHER'S NOTE
Changes at ColorsNW
- Robert JEFFREY JR.