The environment and the 2012 election - Ethnic minority media exchange meeting (picture)

The environment and the 2012 election - Ethnic minority media exchange meeting (picture) (reported by the Alberta Times) by New America Med…

(Alberta Times report) The "Environment and 2012 Elections" Arizona Minority Media Exchange, co-organized by New America Media and Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication

, was successfully held on April 11 at the downtown campus of Arizona State University. Nearly ten ethnic minority media outlets participated in the meeting that day. Zhang Huafang, president of the Chinese Overseas Chinese Association of Greater Phoenix (Overseas Chinese Federation), and Xie Chengyan, editor-in-chief and news director of the Alberta Times, attended on behalf of the Chinese and expressed their views on environmental and election issues in the Chinese community at the meeting.

Conference site

Sandy Close, executive director of New American Media, first made a speech to welcome the media and community representatives to attend, and emphasized the importance of the voices of minority media in the formulation of urban management policies. Regarding the voting support of ethnic minorities on environmental issues, Dave Metz and Brendan P Boepple, who are engaged in the Rocky Mountain Conservation in the West survey, have made detailed analysis of the voting status of ethnic minorities in the survey data. Judging from the voting on the Rocky Mountain Conservation Project, the views of minorities and Hispanics are basically the same. Dave Richins, the person in charge of the "Sun Corridor Protection Project", gave an introduction to the economic development they are engaged in, the growth and changes in four aspects of natural desert, open space, urban life, and the sustainable development model. The Arizona Desert Alliance, Black Mesa Water Alliance, will protect the Mother River and protect the urgency of water issues. They introduced that some Indian reserves are still without water or electricity, and environmental protection and economic development are urgent. To solve these problems, we hope to gain the support and votes of ethnic minorities, which will ultimately influence the decision-making of politicians.

Chairman of the Overseas Chinese Federation was interviewed by New America Media

Chairman of the Overseas Chinese Federation Zhang Huafang said that the Chinese community has a long history of attaching importance to environmental issues. Chinese "Feng Shui" is the study of the important relationship between the environment and human survival. However, after Chinese immigrants came to the United States, they faced great pressure to survive and often neglected to pay attention to the environment. From the perspective of the media, Xie Chengyan, editor-in-chief and news director of the Alberta Times, first proposed that new Chinese immigrants should focus on work, daily expenses, and children’s education, and environmental issues should be put second. As a media, you should contact mainstream events from the details. Relate the articulation of environmental issues to issues of concern to newcomers. For example, if everyone calls for the use of new energy, then we should calculate accounts for new immigrants, how the use of new energy will affect their monthly utility bills, vote for environmental issues, and conduct a detailed analysis of the changes brought to the daily lives of immigrants after the introduction of new policies. An in-depth and simple introduction can better build a bridge between environmental scientific research and voters.

Participants said that such exchanges would be of far-reaching significance. On the one hand, they would allow the media to understand the latest developments in various fields of environmental protection, and at the same time, they would also bring this information to every minority community through the media.