We all deserve a healthy and clean environment where our communities can thrive.
Trying to make sense of all the ballot measures this year?
California: here are our recommendations for how to vote on state and local ballot measures in 2024.
What’s New
Land is Life: Three Lessons from Bai Bibyaon Ligkayan and the Lumad Community
October 2024. Here we are: one full year since the genocide in Gaza ignited, the presidential elections are a month away, and people across the country are grieving and rebuilding in the wake of life-threatening wild fires and hurricanes. Some days, I feel overwhelmed...
Our 2024 Ballot Measure Endorsements
California: here’s what you need to know about the ballot measures you can vote on in 2024.
“It was always our intention to set a precedent.”
Richmond refinery communities made the front page of the internet this week — and people across the country are paying attention.
Our History
For over two decades, APEN has been building the power of Asian immigrant and refugee communities on the frontlines of fighting big polluters.
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Together, we are stronger than the crises that threaten us.
We need long-term volunteers who:
- Are fluent in Mandarin, Cantonese, Mien, Khmu, or Lao or
- Have professional filmmaking, photography and/or graphic design skills or
- Are from the Oakland Chinatown or Richmond’s Southeast Asian communities
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