by TEAM APEN | Feb 19, 2020 | Mobilizing the Power of Asian Voters, Power to the Frontlines, Standing Up to Big Polluters, Statewide, Stories
This week, The James Irvine Foundation announced that our Executive Director, Miya Yoshitani, was named a 2020 Leadership Award recipient. The award comes with a grant of $250,000 to support APEN’s work to mobilize Asian immigrants and refugees to win groundbreaking...
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....
by TEAM APEN | Feb 12, 2020 | Climate Resilience, Events, Power to the Frontlines, Statewide, Stories
The time is now to #ReclaimOurPower! For years, our communities have borne the brunt of a corporate utility that values profit over our lives. Together, we are fighting to put an end to the power shutoffs, fires, multibillion-dollar bailouts for investors and...
by TEAM APEN | Oct 24, 2019 | Climate Resilience, Issues, Statewide, Stories
There is a need to better characterize and promote the notion of community resilience as part of broader adaptation strategies toward a vision that is deeply rooted in climate justice and equity. Various sectors are already implementing climate adaptation programs,...
by TEAM APEN | Oct 8, 2019 | Stories
Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN) grew from a seed of an idea at the First National People of Color Environmental Justice Leadership Summit in 1991. For decades, working class communities of color around the country had been organizing locally to stop big...
by TEAM APEN | Aug 28, 2019 | Richmond, Standing Up to Big Polluters, Stories
Remembering the 2012 Richmond Refinery Fire Seven years ago this month, in August 2012, a massive fire at the Chevron refinery in Richmond covered the city in toxic smoke and sent 15,000 local residents to the hospital. APEN’s Political Director, Laiseng Saechao, was...
