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4. In addition to the millions of people around the world who are already suffering from the halting of aid, the funding cutoff also impacts billions of dollars that go to US businesses and farmers that supply the food and humanitarian goods that go to these locations, impacting jobs & our economy

3.2. (Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT), has also suggested that Musk’s dismantling of USAID is an effort to curry favor with China, for whom USAID is a thorn in its side, so that he can market his (Dangerous) self-driving cars there)

3. Musk himself worked with USAID to bring his Starlink services to Ukraine. In fact, his beef with USAID may stem partly from USAID’s inspector general investigation into how those terminals were used to Russia’s benefit.

2.2 Not for nothing, but Ivanka Trump used USAID as the vehicle for her women’s economic empowerment initiative!

2. In addition to providing humanitarian aid to the world’s poorest people, USAID is a major source of American soft power which has enabled us to counter global influence efforts of our adversaries — the Soviet Union during the Cold War and Russia and China today.

8/ and consider supporting Oakland Ballet, who strive to bring the beauty of ballet and dance to the Bay Area and the world, with an eye to bringing together disparate influences and cultural inclusion.

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7/ Please take the time to learn more about the Angel Island Conservancy: angelisland.org

6/ the world premiere performance of all 8 pieces at the Dancing Moons Festival on May 4th at Paramount Theatre in Oakland. They hope to tour nationally with these works if funds can be found. oaklandballet.org/performances...

5/ These poems inspired a composer, Huong Ruo, to set them to music, and inspired the amazing Oakland Ballet Company to engage 7 Asian choreographers to set his oratorio to dance. The company is planning to have a special preview performance of these works on Angel Island on March 22 and 29, and

4/ The carvings tell the story of the talent and beauty brought to America by our immigrants, and the agony and struggle of those who wanted to join in the American promise.

3/ The most compelling part of my visit was seeing the poems carved into the wooden walls. The immigrant detainees composed poems, abiding by Chinese poetic structures, and then carefully and artfully carved them into the walls.

2/ I took the ferry from San Francisco and toured some of the surviving buildings, including the hospital, where invasive physical exams were performed, again to try and reject Asian immigrants, and a barracks building, where people were detained for as long as 22 months.