by TEAM APEN | May 11, 2023 | Richmond, Standing Up to Big Polluters, Stories
Flowers for our Families Chanh and Manh’s family pose together for a photograph in Richmond, California. Chanh stands second to top right; her brother Manh stands closer to center, holding his son. This May, APEN elders and youth will unveil a mural that pays tribute...
by TEAM APEN | Feb 2, 2023 | 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 Seng So | Dec 13, 2022 | Los Angeles, Stories
Why I came back to Southern California Over the last five years as an organizer with APEN, I’ve worked tirelessly to fight for justice for California’s Asian immigrant and refugee communities. At the heart of my work have always been three principles: community, love,...
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 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...
