by Diana Chan | Jun 6, 2022 | Blog, Climate Resilience, 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 | 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 TEAM APEN | May 29, 2020 | Oakland, Richmond, Stories
APEN members at an International Women’s Day celebration in Oakland Chinatown, February 2020 Two months ago, as the shelter-in-place order first went into effect, we asked you to stand with our working-class immigrant and refugee communities by donating...
by TEAM APEN | Apr 14, 2020 | Oakland, Safe, Stable, and Affordable Housing, Stories
查看中文版本 (View in Simplified Chinese) What is the Oakland Evictions Moratorium? The Oakland Moratorium is currently the only real moratorium on evictions in the state of California. Here’s an overview of what it does: 1) It protects Oakland tenants from being evicted...
by Clio | Mar 16, 2020 | Oakland, Richmond, Stories
Support working-class Asian immigrant and refugee families through the COVID-19 pandemic. As we face one of the worst pandemics of our lifetimes, we know that our best chance of weathering the storm is to pool our resources and help the people in our...
by TEAM APEN | Feb 18, 2020 | Mobilizing the Power of Asian Voters, Oakland, Statewide, Stories
APEN Civic Engagement Coordinator Karen Yeung supervising an APEN canvasser My name is Karen, and I am APEN’s Civic Engagement Coordinator. When I first began volunteering for APEN, I learned that a lot of people are unable to live in a safe and healthy environment....
