by TEAM APEN | Feb 2, 2023 | Blog, Climate Resilience, Featured front-page updates, front-page-updates, Los Angeles, Oakland, Richmond, Standing Up to Big Polluters, Statewide, Stories
In 2022, we organized and hit the streets demanding justice. We won real changes for neighborhoods like ours throughout California. We expanded our organizing in working-class Asian immigrant and refugee communities, including to a new base in Los Angeles, while...
by Ashley Phuthama, APEN Youth Intern | Oct 7, 2022 | Blog, Featured front-page updates, front-page-updates, Power to the Frontlines, 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 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 Marie Choi | Aug 13, 2020 | Featured front-page updates, front-page-updates, Richmond, Safe, Stable, and Affordable Housing, Stories
Over the past year, APEN member leaders Brandy Khansouvong and Sary Tatpaporn interviewed Laotian Americans in Richmond through the RichmondLAND Building Power Fellowship. Richmond is Home: Preventing a Second Displacement of Laotian Americans documents their...
