by Alvina Wong | Nov 15, 2022 | Blog, Climate Resilience, Featured front-page updates, front-page-updates, Los Angeles, Mobilizing the Power of Asian Voters, Power to the Frontlines, Safe, Stable, and Affordable Housing, Standing Up to Big Polluters, Statewide, Stories
This decision has been years in the making. Today, I am beyond excited to share with you a decision that has been years in the making: ✨ APEN is launching an organizing project in Los Angeles! ✨ For almost three decades, APEN has been building grassroots...
by Ashley Phuthama, APEN Youth Intern | Oct 7, 2022 | Blog, Featured front-page updates, front-page-updates, Power to the Frontlines, Richmond, Standing Up to Big Polluters, Statewide, Stories
Why I got on a bus at 6am to go to Sacramento This June, I left my house at 6am on a Thursday morning to get on a bus to Sacramento. I wasn’t going on a school trip – at my high school in Contra Costa County, summer break had started weeks earlier. I was going to a...
by Diana Chan | Jun 6, 2022 | Blog, Climate Resilience, Featured front-page updates, front-page-updates, Oakland, Safe, Stable, and Affordable Housing, Stories
Chinatown is so important. Photo courtesy of Jonathan Fong and Friends of Lincoln Square Park. For Chinese immigrant families in Oakland like mine, Chinatown is so important. Most seniors in our community don’t speak English, and Chinatown is the only place we can...
by Marie Choi | Mar 10, 2022 | Blog, Featured front-page updates, front-page-updates, Stories
In every change there is opportunity. In 2021, Miya Yoshitani, Executive Director of Asian Pacific Environmental Network, announced that she would be transitioning out of her role as E.D. As we celebrated Miya’s leadership, we took this opportunity to consider moving...
by chiravann | Nov 12, 2016 | Blog, Climate Resilience, Mobilizing the Power of Asian Voters, Oakland, Power to the Frontlines, Richmond, Safe, Stable, and Affordable Housing, Standing Up to Big Polluters, Statewide, Stories
In the face of fear and grief, we also celebrate what we have won for our communities. We have held the line in Oakland, in Richmond, and in California. While the rest of the country has confirmed our worst fears, California continues to lead the nation because we...
by chiravann | Oct 26, 2016 | Blog, Climate Resilience, Power to the Frontlines, Standing Up to Big Polluters, Statewide, Stories
ICYMI: Check out the recap of the California Climate Equity Coalition’s Convening in Oakland Reposted from Coalition for Clean Air’s blog As one of the Steering Committee members of the California Climate Equity Coalition, along with the Coalition for...
