by TEAM APEN | Sep 17, 2021 | Featured front-page updates, front-page-updates, Oakland, Safe, Stable, and Affordable Housing, Stories
All of us deserve to walk down the street without looking over our shoulders for fear of being attacked – to go to work, drop off our kids at school, get groceries, and gather with friends without fear of being assaulted or worse. Earlier this year, after...
by Clio | Feb 24, 2021 | Climate Resilience, Issues, Safe, Stable, and Affordable Housing, Statewide
Public Banks for Clean Energy and a Just Transition Principled Partnerships for a Just Transition: How Public Banks Can Finance Clean Energy Upgrades for Low-Income Renters In 2019, California became the third state to authorize the establishment of Public Banks. The...
by TEAM APEN | Jan 15, 2021 | Featured front-page updates, front-page-updates, Issues, Location, Richmond, Standing Up to Big Polluters, Stories
We are honoring the lives of Mr. Thongsoun Phuthama and his wife, Boua Vanvilay, who passed away from COVID-19 on December 22 and 25th respectively. Thoungsoun and Boua were both active leaders in Richmond’s Laotian community, and their passing, amidst so much other...
by TEAM APEN | Dec 16, 2020 | Climate Resilience, Featured front-page updates, front-page-updates, Issues, Location, Power to the Frontlines, Richmond, Safe, Stable, and Affordable Housing, Standing Up to Big Polluters, Stories, Uncategorized
A New Generation in Richmond by Denny Khamphanthong, Richmond Community Organizer, APEN I still remember the first time I learned about APEN. It was a cold, drizzly September morning in San Francisco during the People’s March for Climate, Jobs and Justice in 2018. I...
by TEAM APEN | Nov 10, 2020 | Climate Resilience, Featured front-page updates, front-page-updates, Issues, Location, Mobilizing the Power of Asian Voters, Oakland, Power to the Frontlines, Richmond, Safe, Stable, and Affordable Housing, Standing Up to Big Polluters, Statewide, Stories, Uncategorized
Elections 2020: When We Organize, We Win. When we organize, we win. This election was proof that when our communities come together, when we build power from the bottom-up that is rooted in working-class communities and communities of color, we can win real victories...
by Clio | Oct 13, 2020 | Featured front-page updates, front-page-updates, Issues, Location, Mobilizing the Power of Asian Voters, Statewide, Stories, Uncategorized
It’s been an overwhelming election season so far, to say the least! That’s why it’s critical that working-class immigrant & refugee communities like ours, who are so often ignored by mainstream political parties, have the information we need to...
