by TEAM APEN | Aug 17, 2020 | Climate Resilience, Media, Richmond, Stories
EaterSF: For Laotian Refugees in Richmond, Food Is Part of the Community’s Survival Story Wontons and ho fun noodles from Tracy’s Home Cooking Tracy’s Home Cooking By Luke Tsai This Sunday, August 16, more than 50 elders within Richmond’s Laotian refugee community...
by Marie Choi | Aug 13, 2020 | 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...
by TEAM APEN | Jun 23, 2020 | Richmond, Stories
Photo by R.D. Lopez/Shots from Richmond The following list of demands was developed by the Richmond Our Power Coalition. Together, we are calling on the city of Richmond to Defund the Police and Invest in Black Lives. Historical Context Ku Klux Klan...
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 | Mar 17, 2020 | Media, Richmond, Standing Up to Big Polluters, Statewide, Stories
Gizmodo: If You Live With Air Pollution, You’re Already More Vulnerable to Covid-19 By Yessenia Funes A remarkable thing about covid-19, the coronavirus-caused disease spreading around the globe, is that it induces severe and deadly illness in some people, while other...
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...