{"id":60564,"date":"2023-10-19T13:34:36","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T20:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=60564"},"modified":"2023-10-19T13:34:45","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T20:34:45","slug":"historic-street-naming-reveal-sherry-hirota-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=60564","title":{"rendered":"HISTORIC STREET NAMING REVEAL &#8212; SHERRY HIROTA WAY"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b><i>Tribute to Asian Health Services, Community Impact\u00a0Historical Site Once Oakland\u2019s Japantown<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Thursday, October 19,\u00a02023\u00a0&#8212;\u00a0(Oakland, CA)<\/strong>\u00a0Julia\u00a0Liou, MPH, Chief Executive Officer, and Thu Quach, PhD, President of\u00a0Asian Health Services\u00a0(AHS), the\u00a0federally qualified\u00a0community health center with 12 sites throughout Alameda County,\u00a0announced today a community event to commemorate and celebrate the historic street naming reveal of\u00a0<b>Sherry\u00a0Hirota\u00a0Way<\/b>\u00a0in Oakland\u2019s Chinatown.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>This street naming in tribute to an\u00a0Asian American marks\u00a0a momentous occasion in Oakland\u2019s history. Aptly,\u202fthe neighborhood\u00a0is\u00a0not only centered in Chinatown and\u202fadjacent to\u00a0several of Asian Health Services\u2019 clinics,\u00a0but it\u202falso\u00a0highlights the spot that was once Oakland&#8217;s Japantown, before Japanese Americans were unjustly imprisoned by the US government during World War II.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><b><i>Sherry\u00a0Hirota\u00a0Way,<\/i><\/b>\u202fthe block of Alice Street between 9th and 10th Street, is named as a\u00a0tribute to\u202f<b><i>Asian Health Services\u2019 five decades of community impact and engagement<\/i><\/b><i>,\u202f<\/i>and its mighty\u00a0team of professionals and their leadership, service, advocacy, and compassion, then and now.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Helen Zia, journalist, activist,\u00a0author\u00a0and longtime Oakland resident conveyed the importance of the street naming, \u201cas founding Chief Executive Officer\u00a0of our beloved Asian Health Services, Sherry\u2019s mark is felt daily by the 50,000 patients who rely on AHS. Sherry also shines as a nationally\u00a0renowned\u00a0leader for language and cultural access, and immigrant rights. She embodies the positive history of Oakland and Alameda County as a courageous voice for multi racial unity,\u201d said Ms. Zia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Congresswoman\u00a0Barbara\u00a0Lee also supported the street naming, \u201cSherry\u00a0Hirota\u00a0embodies the civic spirit and aspirations of my District and Oakland in particular. Ms.\u00a0Hirota\u2019s\u00a0steadfast commitment for more than 47 years has enhanced the health,\u00a0well-being, and safety of our AAPI and\u00a0all of\u00a0our diverse communities in Oakland. Ms.\u00a0Hirota\u00a0has forged coalitions and led courageous campaigns. She has shifted policies and narratives on local, state, and national levels, from managed care and language access to Public Charge and immigrant rights. Ms.\u00a0Hirota\u00a0has helped make a better Oakland and I look forward to walking down Sherry\u00a0Hirota\u00a0Way and paying tribute along with my constituency, to Ms.\u00a0Hirota\u2019s\u00a0civic leadership,\u00a0and Asian Health Services\u2019\u00a0hard work and impact on behalf of Oakland,\u201d said Congresswoman Lee.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tribute to Asian Health Services, Community&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ca-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60564"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60566,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60564\/revisions\/60566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}