by Janielle Torregosa | Oct 4, 2024 | Los Angeles, Stories
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...
by TEAM APEN | Sep 17, 2024 | Richmond, Standing Up to Big Polluters, Stories
Our 2024 Ballot Measure Endorsements This election, the stakes couldn’t be higher. While the presidential election is top of mind for many voters, in California working-class communities of color are leading bold campaigns for a better future – a future where all of...
by TEAM APEN | Sep 6, 2024 | Richmond, Standing Up to Big Polluters, Stories
“It was always our intention to set a precedent.” Richmond refinery communities made the front page of the internet this week with a Politico feature on our Polluters Pay campaign and the local organizing that made it possible. Read that article here....
by Caitlyn He | Aug 21, 2024 | Climate Resilience, Oakland, Stories
70+ volunteers. 4 hours. 5,800 kits. 70+ volunteers. 4 hours. 5,800 emergency starter kits packed with life-saving essentials like flashlights, first aid kits and masks. We did that! Thank you to all of the volunteers, staff, members, and partner organizations who...
by Peggy Saika | May 28, 2024 | Richmond, Stories
I want to share a story about APEN’s first campaign Thirty years ago, APEN was created as a response to a call from the First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit to build an Asian immigrant and refugee presence in the environmental justice...
by Ally Putthongvilai | May 22, 2024 | Richmond, Standing Up to Big Polluters, Stories
I was so nervous — but I spoke anyway. Here’s how to support youth leaders like me right now In early 2021, Chevron spilled hundreds of gallons of oil into the bay from their Richmond refinery – right on the waterfront, near where teenagers like me swim every day....
