by Vivian Yi Huang | Dec 8, 2022 | 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 | Los Angeles, 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 Marie Choi | Oct 24, 2022 | Media, Press Releases, Standing Up to Big Polluters, Statewide
For Immediate Release Monday, October 24, 2022 Contact: Alexandra Nagy, (818) 633-0865, alexandra@sunstonestrategies.org 80+ Groups Slam California Climate Plan’s Reliance on Carbon Capture for Fossil Fuel Infrastructure Advocates say putting carbon...
by Ashley Phuthama, APEN Youth Intern | Oct 7, 2022 | 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, 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...