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New York, May 18, 2020 … There was a 50 percent increase in arrests and plots linked to domestic Islamist extremism in 2019, according to data released today by ADL’s (Anti-Defamation League) Center on Extremism. There were a total of 30 arrests linked to domestic Islamist extremism, nine of which were for terror plots. Of the nine individuals arrested for plotting attacks, seven (78 percent) were U.S. citizens.

While there were no attacks or murders linked to domestic Islamist extremism last year, the findings indicate that Islamist extremism still poses a significant threat to the United States.

“Make no mistake: the threat of Islamist extremist activity in the United States is serious and cannot be ignored,” said ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt. “In 2019 alone we saw nine individuals arrested for planning attacks on U.S. soil and a total of 30 arrests linked to domestic Islamist extremism. We are deeply grateful for the efforts of federal and local law enforcement to investigate and disrupt these potentially dangerous attacks.”

In addition to the nine individuals arrested for plotting attacks, 21 others were arrested for engaging in domestic criminal activity motivated by Islamist extremism. Of those 21 individuals, a large majority faced charges for attempting to provide material support to ISIS. Approximately 70 percent of domestic Islamist extremist criminal activity in 2019 was inspired by ISIS, which has reportedly lost all of its territory in Iraq and Syria.

“ISIS’s ability to continue inspiring a large percentage of violent activity even after being effectively disbanded demonstrates the lasting influence of its violent ideology and propaganda on Islamist extremist activity in the United States,” said Oren Segal, Vice President for ADL’s Center on Extremism. “As long as the ideology persists and spreads online, extremists will continue to be inspired by violent rhetoric and instruction.”

While no physical attacks by domestic Islamist extremists materialized in 2019, a Saudi Arabian national attacked the Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Florida, in December, killing three people and injuring eight others. Federal authorities announced on Monday that they had uncovered evidence that the shooter, Mohammed Alshamrani, was encouraged by al-Qaeda to carry out the attack.

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Below is a sampling of posts on Creeping Sharia throughout 2019 - all sourced if searched in the archives:

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1 Indiana: Muslim Brothers Indicted for Manufacturing Fully Automatic Rifles for Islamic State

2 Maryland: Muslim Immigrant Indicted for Attempting to Provide Material Support to Islamic State

3 New Jersey: Muslim Immigrant Indicted for Terror Activities on Behalf of Hizballah’s Islamic Jihad

4 Virginia: Known-Wolf Indicted for Attempting to Provide Material Support to ISIS

5 Alabama: Jordanian Muslim who grew up in Saudi Arabia arrested in terrorism probe

6 Arizona: Muslim arrested for jihad attack on Phoenix cop, now charged with aiding ISIS (VIDEO)

7 Arizona: Two Somali Muslim Refugees Arrested for Conspiring to Provide Material Support to ISIS

8 Arkansas: Muslim Immigrant Charged With Providing Material Support to Al Qa’ida While Overseas

9 Bronx: Bangladeshi Muslim immigrant arrested at JFK, planned to join Taliban, kill U.S. soldiers

10 California man threatens to kill First Baptist Dallas pastor ‘in the name of Allah’

11 California: Muslim arrested in planned attack on Santa Monica Pier, Long Beach rally as “retribution” for mosque attack

12 California: Somali Muslim Refugee Who Tried to Run Down Jews at Synagogue Charged with Attempted Murder

13 Chicago: Gang leader arrested for sending money to Islamic State (ISIS)

14 Chicago:�� Muslim Student at DePaul Univ. Charged with Attempting to Support Islamic State (ISIS)

15 Connecticut: Man Charged with Attempting to Provide Material Support to ISIS

16 Connecticut: Muslim Arrested After Attempting to Travel to Middle East to Join and Fight for ISIS

17 Florida: Muslim Arrested for Plotting Jihad Bombings Against College Deans

18 Florida: Muslim tries to slash Walmart employee, yells threats in Arabic

19 Florida: Suspect sent bomb threats to judges 'for cause of Islamic State'

Former San Diego Resident Jehad Mostafa Charged with Providing Material Support to Islamic Terror Org al-Shabaab

Georgia: Muslim arrested for plotting IED, anti-tank rocket attacks on White House and other D.C. buildings

Georgia: Muslim Woman Arrested For Conspiring To Provide Material Support To ISIS

Illinois: Muslim Arrested for Threatening to Bomb Aurora Casino for Allah

Maryland: Muslim arrested after using car to strike and injure woman; kill woman in Virginia

Miami: Muslim mechanic who sabotaged American Airlines plane accused of spreading ISIS propaganda videos 26

Michigan: 3 Muslim immigrants arrested for plan to join Islamic State (ISIS)

Michigan: Dearborn Muslim charged with receiving terror training from ISIS

Montana: Albanian Muslim immigrant who discussed US attack arrested at gun range

New Jersey: Man who funded Hamas, spoke of bombing Trump Tower, attacking Israeli Consulate is arrested

New Mexico: Muslims who ran Islamic compound charged with planning terror attacks in the U.S.

New York: Bangladeshi Muslim immigrant arrested in Times Square terror plot

New York: Brooklyn Man Arrested - Encouraged ISIS Supporters to Attack NYC Subway System

New York: Pakistani Muslim immigrant in Queens plotted jihad attacks at World’s Fair Marina and Flushing Bay Promenade

North Carolina: Jordanian Muslim who tried to access Fort Bragg special ops facility faces 7 charges, deportation

North Carolina: Pakistani Muslim immigrant arrested after lying about contacts with terror organizations

North Carolina: Woman intentionally runs over, kills 79-year old woman, tries to hit 4 others

North Dakota: Somali Woman Charged With Terrorizing Neighborhood Was Previously Tied to Human Sex Trafficking Case

NYC: Muslim shouting “Allah Akbar” shoves NYT illustrator onto subway tracks

Ohio: Muslim indicted for Fourth of July al-Qaida car bomb plot in downtown Cleveland

Pittsburgh: Syrian Muslim Refugee Arrested for Planning Jihad Attack on Christian Church

Saudi student at University of New Mexico charged with illegally possessing gun; had hit list of people he wanted to kill before leaving the U.S.

Texas: Defendant Returned to Dallas After Being Detained by the Syrian Democratic Forces

Texas: Foreign Muslim recruited at least 5 inmates to join ISIS and wage jihad in the U.S. after their release

Texas: Muslim Charged with Conspiring to Provide Material Support to ISIS

Texas: Muslim convert who tried to become English teacher for ISIS indicted

Two American jihadis captured fighting for ISIS in Syria, militia says

Virginia: Somali Muslim FBI translator charged after his own voice was intercepted on terror surveillance calls

That’s just the first 40+ we found.

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I have been asked to comment on Sweden’s handling of the Corona Virus/Covid-19 pandemic and why Sweden has opted to go a different way from the rest of Europe and our immediate neighbors and, frankly, most of the countries in the world that have experienced an outbreak of the virus.

Let me first begin by saying that this is written by someone who is not an epidemiologist, nor in no way even remotely associated with any medical profession. This is my interpretation and shall in no way what so ever be taken at a weight even slightly near the official information of the Swedish government or Folkhälsoinstitutet (the “peoples health institute” is the direct translation) the government organization that is responsible for handling the current crisis. Official information is available HERE (in English).

As I write this (April 11, 7p.m) the current statistics are as follows: Confirmed number of infected in Sweden: 10 151 Confirmed deaths: 887 People currently in intensive care: 774 Source: Folkhälsomyndigheten (updated April 11, 14.02) In case anyone is interested in the total spread of contamination and of deaths over the country I will add a picture at the end of this post. Now, let’s get on to the topic proper.

Early on in the decision was made to fokus on protecting the risk groups in the Swedish society – meaning that protecting the elderly and the sick was the number one focus on the plan to battle the virus. People above the age of 70 were told to self isolate and only go out to get the essentials. Everyone were encouraged to not visit the elderly in order to keep the risk of infecting them as low as possible. At the same time everyone that showed even the slightest symptoms: sniffles, a headache, a sore throat – where told to go into self isolation until they had been free of symptoms for at least two days. We were encouraged to help each other in those situations, friends and family doing some shopping and delivering groceries and essentials, or just doing online shopping. At the same time the government issued a decree that all higher education – meaning High school and university – education that is not mandatory, should be conducted as distance education. However, schools in year 1 to 9 were still to be open as usual (and still are). The reason for keeping the schools open for the younger children is that 1, children are not a primary carrier of the virus and 2, as a mean to make sure that essential functions in society will have staff – primarily the health care sector. If the schools close down then the parents will have to stay at home in order to care for them.

Where Sweden has differed from the rest of the world in the most obvious way is that we have not gone into a full lockdown mode. We are still, if we feel healthy and don’t have any symtoms, encouraged to go out and to meet friends, go to restaurants and the like – one of the reasons is that we need to have a slow, semi controlled spread in society in order to create a herd immunity – the people that are currently moving around are primarily those that are not in the risk groups – they will, if they catch the virus, get a mild infection – or, as in my case, a semi mild infection, but they will not need to visit the hospital or get medical treatment other than which you can get from online consultations. This is important to slow down, but not to stop, the spread of the virus in society at large. If we completely stop the spread the risk is that it will come back again, and at force, as soon as the quarantine is lifted – it is better, according to the Swedish authorities, to allow the infection to spread at a slow pace and create a wider immunity whilst keeping the groups that are at risk of needing intensive care or facing death if infected as safe as possible.

Many companies have started different work from home programs letting their employees do just that, it seems to work well. The company that run the public transport has a campaign out now that states that “if you are not an essential worker, please don’t travel with us right now”. People are complying. We are still out and about, we take walks, we visit friends – sometimes even go out for a beer. But in general it is, as expected, much more sombre. We stay at home – because we do not want to risk to get infected or accidentally spreading it to someone we love or care about – or someone we don’t know.

Other actions that have been taken is that there is a limit on the size of groups of people that can gather. It started out at a 500 person limit, which has now been lowered to 50 people. We are no longer allowed to order alcohol at bars, it is only table service allowed, and the tables must be “well spaced”. Right now the authorities are out and checking that restaurants follow the guidelines. If they don’t they will be forced to close. In general I would say that people do follow the guidelines. We are generally fairly well behaved like that. The Germans of the north, we are. We have trust in the machine – which is the reason why the person that is in the lime light during this trying time is not the King nor the prime minister, but rather a middle level management bureaucrat: Anders Tegnell – the chief Epidemiologist at Folkhälsoinstitutet.

The reason for this trust in the machine depends on many things I’d say. We have historically had a large state with a fairly large control system – the unofficial motto of the Social Democrat party has been “trust in the state, we will make it right”. Another aspect is that we have not really been in a war since 1809 (we don’t count the Norwegian campaign of 1814 because: Norway). We have not needed the consolidating power of a church or a sovereign to help us through trying times, and times of national crisis – as so many countries experienced during the 20th century. Sweden came through the wars unscathed, for good and for bad. And it has made us into a people of secular individualist with a strong belief in a all knowing state. Silly paradoxes we are.

So, now to the important stuff: has this tactic worked. Yes and no, I am sad to say. The goal of keeping the number of cases that need intensive care and hospitalization down as to not over crowd the hospitals have worked. There is still ample room at the intensive care units around the country. The staff are working like madmen and they deserve all the recognition that they get for their hard work. Unfortunately the authorities did not quite count on the virus getting such a grip on the treatment homes for the elderly as it has. There has been a fairly wide spread of the disease in nursing homes across the country, leading to a large number of deaths. Also, the information about the disease in languages other than Swedish were slow to get spread leading to an unusually large representation of hospitalizations and deaths of people with other ethnical backgrounds; especially the Syrian/Assyrian-Swedish population and the Somali-Swedish population have been hard struck – many of the cases being linked to large weddings and funerals that occurred just before the pandemic started. The availability of information has been bettered since then, but naturally that is of very little comfort when loved ones are getting sick and dying.

Another tragedy is that is not limited to Sweden alone is that the people that are most sensitive to this disease are the elderly – and don’t think that I am putting anyone infront of another, but I have to say a particular part of this tragedy is that with our elder our history die – we have seen a large number of holocaust survivors pass the last days and weeks here in Sweden, and I am sure that we are not the only country where this has happened, and with them the voice of a horrible past die forever. We must be aware that this tragedy does not just strike us personally, when a loved one dies – but also as a human collective when the voices of the past slip away from us.

We are in a time now where it is more important than ever to remember.

As promised: a map. The left column is number of infected, the right column is reported deaths. Oh, and I should mention that we do not have mandatory testing for corona virus in Sweden. The decision was taken early on to only test the ones that were in need of hospitalization. So the number of infected are much likely higher.

If you have any questions, please send them to me and I will try to answer them, but please remember: I know nothing, really.

Update: I got a question about the age of the people that have died in Covid-19 in Sweden to date, and I did a quick search and found the following numbers on the official website (in Swedish): 1-9 yo: 0 10-19 yo: 0 20-29 yo: 3 30-39 yo: 2 40-49 yo: 4 50-59 yo: 34 60-69 yo: 64 70-79 yo: 228 80-89 yo: 362 90+: 190

Here is a picture of the live update page linked above with a quick English translation of the key items in case you want to check the page out for yourself.

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Lingvanex translation applications will help you any time! Our applications that work on various devices – android, iOS, MacBook, smart assistants from Google, Amazon Alexa, and Microsoft Cortana, smartwatches, any browsers – will help translate from English into Thai anywhere! It’s easy and free! Lingvanex also provides online translation from Thai to English.English to Thai translation by Lingvanex translation software will help you to get a fulminant translation of words, phrases, and texts from English to Thai and more than 110 other languages.Use Lingvanex applications to quickly and instantly translate an Thai English text for free. Lingvanex provides an accessible alternative to Google translate service from English to Thai and from Thai to the English language.

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Our translation service use Lingvanex translator machine engine to translate the text you have typed in English. Whenever you type a word, phrase or sentence in english – we send API request to Lingvanex engine for a translation. In return, they translation service Lingvanex send back a response with a translated text in Thai. Lingvanex uses advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence (deep learning), big data, web APIs, cloud computing, etc. to deliver higher quality translations. You can check the quality of the translation from English to Thai right now.

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Not. You can’t download it. At a moment you can only use our Thai translation online on this page. However, you can install the chrome extension tool called Lingvanex – Translator and Dictionary Chrome Extension or use our translation applications – links to these applications are on the page. Once this translation tool is installed, you can highlight and right-click section of text and click on “Translate” icon to translate. This way you can translate not only from English to Thai, but also between any 36 languages supported by the application. Also, you can translate web page from English into Thai by clicking on the “Translate” icon on the browser toolbar.

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‘Press 1 for English’: Vaccination Sign-Ups Prove Daunting for Speakers of Other Languages

In late February, a week after Virginia launched a centralized website and call center for covid-19 vaccine preregistration, Zowee Aquino alerted the state to a glitch that could prove fatal for non-English speakers trying to secure a shot.

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Callers who requested an interpreter on its new 1-877-VAX-IN-VA hotline would be put on hold briefly and then patched through. Then the line would automatically hang up on them.

It was a startling discovery for Aquino, a community health manager, and her colleagues at NAKASEC Virginia, a nonprofit that works with Asian Americans across the state. The glitch was a “direct barrier to access,” she wrote to senior state officials, “and must be addressed immediately.”

But that wasn’t the only problem. Only two languages were offered when callers dialed in — “press 1 for English” or “press 2 for Spanish.” But Virginia is home to speakers of many other languages — Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, Arabic, Mongolian, Amharic and dozens more — who would need the help of translators to get their place in line for a vaccine.

“There’s so much attention to, let’s translate flyers, right? We’re like, what’s the point of translating a flyer that says you can call ‘VAX in VA’ and we have all these languages, when the phone line doesn’t work consistently, or it’s not even set up well for non-English, non-Spanish-speaking populations?” said Sookyung Oh, the group’s Virginia director.

Concerns about equity have loomed large in the nation’s mass covid vaccination effort. Distribution of doses has been spotty among underserved populations, many of whom have been hit disproportionately by covid hospitalizations and deaths. As Aquino found, barriers to vaccinating those groups begin with providing basic information about the shots and getting people registered.

Several individuals in interviews said the immigrant populations they work with, including Asians and Latinos, are eager to be vaccinated. But the barriers are steep, including lower rates of technology literacy and how well they speak English, if at all.

“Especially in stressful situations, they are not trying to struggle through English,” said Oh, who described trying to secure a vaccine appointment for her mother — a Korean woman who lives in Philadelphia — as a “complete clusterf***” because the city’s registration portal isn’t available in that language.

President Joe Biden announced this month that by May 1 the federal government would launch a website and new call center to help people find vaccine appointments, but officials have declined to elaborate on whether the website will be translated into non-English languages and which languages will be available through the call center. A spokesperson for the Department of Health and Human Services did not respond to questions about language access.

Approximately 5.3 million U.S. households have limited English proficiency, according to the U.S. Census 2019 American Community Survey. And, it found, nearly 68 million people speak a language other than English at home.

The CDC’s website for covid-19 vaccine information is comprehensively translated into four languages: Chinese, Korean, Spanish and Vietnamese. The federal agency has drafted other flyers about vaccines, but which languages the materials are available in varies considerably. A “Facts about COVID-19 Vaccines” flyer is translated into nearly two dozen languages, including Arabic, French, Tagalog, Russian, Somali and Urdu. Other documents are not translated at all; if they are, Spanish is the most common translation.

“It’s really concerning that the information is not available in different languages,” said Bert Bayou, director of the Washington, D.C., chapter of African Communities Together, which works with immigrants across the metropolitan area.

Virginia in mid-February released a centralized online preregistration system and a new hotline for vaccinations, a full month after residents 65 and older and those with certain medical conditions could register for appointments. As of mid-March, the state health department’s portal could be translated only into Spanish, spoken by nearly 8% of the state’s population. Similarly, the District of Columbia’s vaccine preregistration website that launched this month was initially available only in English, although officials were working to have it translated into additional languages before the month is out.

Any agency that fails to inform limited-English speakers of how to access their services — in this case, vaccinations — could be found to have violated federal laws that prohibit discrimination in health care on the basis of race, color, national origin and other factors, said Mara Youdelman, a managing attorney at the National Health Law Program, a civil rights advocacy organization.

“If they launch a website and they choose not to have it translated into multiple languages, I would say at a minimum that they should have some taglines on the webpage about where to get more information,” Youdelman said. Even beyond the law, making the vaccination process as accessible as possible to non-English speakers is “the necessary thing to do and the right thing to do.”

Otherwise, she said, “we’re not going to reach the herd immunity we all want and need to get life back to normal.”

Fairfax County, the most populous county in Virginia, maintained its own registration portal, but officials only on March 15 launched a Spanish registration website, two months after the state significantly broadened vaccine eligibility. In the interim, Spanish speakers had been directed to download a PDF questionnaire, and then call a phone line to relay their information for an eventual appointment. Roughly 14% of the county’s population identifies as Spanish-speaking, according to the 2019 American Community Survey.

In Virginia, many immigrants are left with the heavily promoted VAX-IN-VA hotline, where access to interpretation services was uneven. The state eventually added a “press 3” menu option for help in a different language — although the “press 2” and “press 3” prompts are spoken in English — that allowed non-English and non-Spanish speakers to more easily connect with interpreters in more than 100 languages.

Yet their needs often fall to the back of the line because the languages are so discrete and, after Spanish, there’s no “obvious” third language that’s prioritized, Oh said. Census data shows that more than 1.3 million Virginians speak a language other than English at home, including about 310,000 who speak Asian and Pacific Island languages and 295,000 who speak Indo-European languages.

A state spokesperson said that, upon reviewing call logs, in some situations the callers were the ones who may have hung up while on hold, and other times call center agents may have accidentally hung up. Records showed that this occurred fewer than 10 times, mostly all during the first week.

“We had a small handful of issues but looking forward we have not uncovered any ongoing issues,” Vaccinate Virginia spokesperson Dena Potter wrote in an email. She did not respond to questions about whether state officials planned to translate Virginia’s preregistration portal into other languages and whether the system might violate federal civil rights laws.

Nationally, Asian Americans have had lower covid mortality rates than other minorities, including Black and Latino Americans. However, there are troubling signs that underscore the urgency to boost vaccination rates. According to data compiled by the American Public Media Research Lab, the four-week period between early February and early March was the deadliest stretch of the pandemic for Asian, Latino, white and Indigenous Americans. Roughly 3,730 new deaths were reported among Asian Americans. Among Hispanics, 16,780 new deaths were reported.

To figure out whether they’re eligible and to get vaccine appointments, non-English speakers rely on the clinics that treat them, English-speaking friends and family, and other nonprofits that serve immigrant communities. Without reliable information across languages, health centers and other nonprofits worry about what fills the void: Rumors and false information proliferate not only on U.S. social media platforms but apps like WhatsApp and WeChat used around the world.

“They’re not your Facebook and your Instagram chats,” said Andrea Caracostis, CEO of the HOPE Clinic in Houston, a federally qualified health center that treats patients from at least 60 countries. “I think language issues and misinformation from abroad is going to erode a lot of the work that we do.”

The Houston area is home to one of the largest Vietnamese populations in the country. In late January, the clinic prioritized Vietnamese seniors for shots after receiving about 500 doses from the city. To make it happen, Caracostis said, they partnered with local Vietnamese doctors, nurses and even medical students to help. Clinic staff members translated immunization release forms before patients showed up.

“It’s going to take a village,” she said.

Groups are assembling teams of volunteers to make preregistration calls and appointments, and setting up pop-up registration sites in church parking lots in poorer neighborhoods.

“You can answer questions right on the spot,” said Wanda Pierce, co-chair of Arlington County’s Complete Vaccination Committee, a 40-plus-person group formed to ensure equitable distribution of vaccines in that Virginia suburb of Washington. County officials have organized preregistration pop-ups, typically done alongside other services for low-income residents, such as clothing and food distribution. A recent pop-up held at Macedonia Baptist Church, a Black church in a lower-income area of the county, saw a handful of limited-English speakers preregister for vaccines, according to organizers.

Recent polling has found that vaccine hesitancy is dipping among minority groups; however, they are still more likely to take a “wait and see” approach than white Americans. And many are struggling to secure appointments.

A March poll from KFF found that among adults who have gotten at least one dose of vaccine, 39% said someone else had helped them find or schedule an appointment. Hispanic adults were more likely than white adults to say they did not have enough information about where or when they could get vaccinated.

Spanish-language needs and outreach to Latinos haven’t been adequately prioritized, said Luis Angel Aguilar, the Virginia state director of CASA. In addition to language access, “there’s not enough communication and information now on where and who to call,” he said.

“It’s so easy for people to give up and say, ‘You know, I tried,’” added Nancy White, president of the Arlington Free Clinic, which treats low-income minorities and counts Spanish, Mongolian and Amharic speakers among its patients.

The clinic, instead of signing up patients through Virginia’s preregistration portal, is using its own system to get its patients vaccinated since the clinic receives an allocation of doses directly from the county. After an early pilot program to vaccinate seniors 75 and older, Arlington Free Clinic this month began vaccinating people 65 and up and those with chronic medical conditions. It relies on over 100 volunteer interpreters to help patients navigate the health care system.

“You can do it,” White said of getting around language issues, “but it takes a lot of time and a lot of manpower.”

KHN (Kaiser Health News) is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues. Together with Policy Analysis and Polling, KHN is one of the three major operating programs at KFF (Kaiser Family Foundation). KFF is an endowed nonprofit organization providing information on health issues to the nation.

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‘Press 1 for English’: Vaccination Sign-Ups Prove Daunting for Speakers of Other Languages

This story also ran on U.S. News & World Report. It can be republished for free.

Callers who requested an interpreter on its new 1-877-VAX-IN-VA hotline would be put on hold briefly and then patched through. Then the line would automatically hang up on them.

Otherwise, she said, “we’re not going to reach the herd immunity we all want and need to get life back to normal.”

“It’s going to take a village,” she said.

Groups are assembling teams of volunteers to make preregistration calls and appointments, and setting up pop-up registration sites in church parking lots in poorer neighborhoods.

“You can do it,” White said of getting around language issues, “but it takes a lot of time and a lot of manpower.”

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The hunger for news among Colorado’s immigrant and refugee communities In the age of COVID, the Rocky Mountain Welcome Center shifts to become a multilingual, multicultural information hub

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Before the pandemic and all that has spiraled from it — the quarantines, the distancing, the business closures, the lost work and childcare, the how-do-I-pay-the-bills-and-feed-the-kids panic — Diana Higuera and Jennifer Gueddiche had a plan.

It was a good plan.

Together, they run the Aurora-based Rocky Mountain Welcome Center, a nonprofit that helps integrate immigrants, refugees and those seeking or who have received asylum into this country. The center focuses on early childhood education and literacy, which are Higuera’s passion, and on the social and emotional well-being of young adults, work that is close to Gueddiche’s heart.

Higuera opened RMWC in October 2017 in the Mountain View United Church and welcomed to the space other nonprofit partners that served newcomers in various ways across many cultures and languages. Here you might find English language classes, a support group for East African mothers, leadership training, in addition to the center’s own pre-K and kinder classes.

Pre-COVID, the plan was to expand their work, to zero in further on mental health and trauma, to hold regular community forums to allow immigrants and refugees to share their stories with each other and with non-immigrants.

“We want to create welcoming communities and to do that, to build the two-way street, the immigrants have to learn the ropes and understand our culture and we have to understand what they and their people are coming from,” Gueddiche says.

But their services were largely face-to-face and the face-to-face world disappeared behind a mask and computer screen and “our work changed 180 degrees,” Higuera says.

In a meeting before quarantine started and before they closed up their offices, they decided they would become a multi-lingual, multicultural information hub for immigrants “because we knew that no one was going to do that.”

The local Somali community, for example, was getting its COVID-19 information from social media channels based in Somalia and in Minneapolis, where the U.S.’s largest concentration of Somalis live. And while that information was not necessarily wrong, it was not Colorado-specific. So, the Welcome Center turned to its community outreach workers and partners and translators and “we went to our website and created a page to put COVID information in 18 languages and we were updating it daily, with whatever new information was coming out,” Higuera says. They did something similar on the center’s Facebook page, using video and expanding the range of information.

They knew they were on the right track when a COVID video they produced in the Karen language for a segment of the Burmese community racked up 2,000 views. “They are hungry for information,” Higuera says.

Thanks in part to a grant from the Colorado Media Project, one of our founding partners in COLab, Higuera will start feeding that hunger for information by appearing every Thursday at 8 a.m. on Rodolfo Cardenas’ Hablemos Hoy in a segment called Perspectivas on 1150 AM.

She doesn’t want to talk numbers. She wants to talk about how families cope when bus lines are cut due to COVID and now mom can’t get to work or her child to school. She wants to talk about how a parent who has limited English skills and spotty internet is supposed to guide her child in online learning. She wants to hear from listeners.

As one of 10 recipients of the Media Project’s Informed Communities grants, Higuera and Gueddiche are also now joining the larger weekly COLab meetings among dozens of Colorado newsrooms. While they have mostly been listening, they are ready to speak, to guide, to inform, to connect.

I cannot tell you how critical this is. A larger conversation is happening among journalists and the public around coverage of communities that long have gone uncovered or not been covered well, the result of ignorance or arrogance, of newsroom blind spots and deaf ears, of the subjectivity that disguises itself as objectivity in largely white newsrooms. That conversation, reflective, earnest, defensive at times, angry and anguished at others, is a reckoning. It is a call to do better inside newsrooms and outside them by better connecting to the communities we cover,

This is hard, necessary, long-overdue work. It requires both traditional and nontraditional answers. It’s why the Media Project put money into the Informed Communities grantees, why it is backing FreePress’s News Voices: Colorado, why COLab is finding ways we can all work together. And why Susan and I have been merging The Colorado Independent into COLab.

If this mission inspires you, let us know if you are interested in serving on COLab’s board to help grow our new organization and expand the reach of stories for and about immigrants and other overlooked communities statewide.

There are stories out there demanding to be told, stories, as Gueddiche puts it, of people who are “not falling through the cracks, but off the edge.” There are stories that will make us all better neighbors, stronger communities, more engaged citizens. Your support helps us in this effort.

The pandemic changed Higuera’s and Gueddiche’s plans. What comes from that change and what may endure beyond the pandemic should not be seen as a setback, but as an opportunity for a shared step forward.

Thank you,

Tina

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