by Seng So | Dec 13, 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
Why I came back to Southern California Over the last five years as an organizer with APEN, I’ve worked tirelessly to fight for justice for California’s Asian immigrant and refugee communities. At the heart of my work have always been three principles: community, love,...
by Vivian Yi Huang | Dec 8, 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
What we won this year – and what comes next In 2022, our communities came together and demanded justice. Together, we won real changes for neighborhoods like ours throughout California and the world. In 2022, we turned out to the ballot box in Oakland and Richmond,...
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 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 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...
