by TEAM APEN | Dec 27, 2020 | Media, Oakland, Richmond, Stories
SF Gate: How The Asian Pacific Environmental Network Built Trust Through Decades Of Organizing By Kate Selig A few years ago, the Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN), a Bay Area environmental justice organization focusing on Asian immigrant and refugee...
by TEAM APEN | Nov 20, 2020 | Media, Richmond, Standing Up to Big Polluters, Stories
Yes! Magazine: Can California’s Cap and Trade Actually Address Environmental Justice? Since California’s program launched in 2013, questions have swirled about whether cap and trade has helped or hurt people living in the shadow of the state’s largest emitters. By...
by TEAM APEN | Sep 18, 2020 | Media, Richmond, Safe, Stable, and Affordable Housing, Stories
Richmond Pulse: They Lost Their Homes to War. Now, Richmond Laotians Fear Being Pushed Out Again. “I interviewed some people who said they would move, but they wouldn’t be comfortable because Richmond is home,” said Brandy Khansouvong, holding a piece of traditional...
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 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 TEAM APEN | Dec 10, 2019 | Media, Richmond, Standing Up to Big Polluters, Stories
The Real News Network: Bill to Ban Coal in Bay Area City Tabled by Mayor, Maybe Permanently Photo Credit: Lance Yamamoto, with permission from Sunflower Alliance By Steve Horn A Dec. 3 meeting of the Richmond City Council ended suddenly, and without explanation,...
