CITY of ALBUQUERQUE
TWENTY FOURTH COUNCIL
COUNCIL BILL NO. R-21-229 ENACTMENT NO. ________________________
SPONSORED BY: Lan Sena, by request
RESOLUTION
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Denouncing Xenophobia, Anti-
Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) Sentiments And Condemning Harmful Rhetoric, Racist Acts, And Hate Crimes Targeting
Asian-Pacific Americans Stemming From People's Reaction To The COVID-19 Pandemic (Sena, by request)
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DENOUNCING XENOPHOBIA, ANTI-
ASIAN AMERICAN PACIFIC ISLANDER (AAPI) SENTIMENTS AND CONDEMNING HARMFUL RHETORIC, RACIST ACTS, AND HATE CRIMES TARGETING
ASIAN-PACIFIC AMERICANS STEMMING FROM PEOPLE'S REACTION TO THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC.
WHEREAS, Article VIII of the City Charter states that, "The Council shall preserve, protect and promote human rights and human dignity... and shall prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin or ancestry, age or physical handicap"; and
WHEREAS, stigmatization represents a serious threat to our collective emergency response to the pandemic. It furthers dangerous and false information about how COVID-19 spreads, misinforms people's perception of risk and repeats mistakes in our own history during past emergencies when racist and xenophobic sentiment targeted vulnerable groups; and
WHEREAS, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ("CDC") asserts that stigma associated with COVID-19 may currently be affecting persons of
Asian descent, people who have traveled, and emergency responders or healthcare professionals; and
WHEREAS, the World Health Organization ("WHO") has indicated that attaching locations or ethnicity to the disease is dangerous. The official name for the disease was deliberately chosen to avoid stigmatization - the "co" stands for Corona, "vi" for virus and "d" for disease, and 19 for the emergence of the disease in 2019. It is not a "Chinese virus," "
Asian virus" or "Wuhan virus"; and
WHEREAS, the Stop-AAPI Hate Reporting Ce...
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