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...
by Diana Chan | Jun 6, 2022 | Blog, Climate Resilience, Oakland, Safe, Stable, and Affordable Housing, Stories
Chinatown is so important. Photo courtesy of Jonathan Fong and Friends of Lincoln Square Park. For Chinese immigrant families in Oakland like mine, Chinatown is so important. Most seniors in our community don’t speak English, and Chinatown is the only place we can...
by Marie Choi | Mar 10, 2022 | Blog, Stories
In every change there is opportunity. In 2021, Miya Yoshitani, Executive Director of Asian Pacific Environmental Network, announced that she would be transitioning out of her role as E.D. As we celebrated Miya’s leadership, we took this opportunity to consider moving...
by Christine Cordero | Feb 3, 2022 | Stories
by Christine Cordero, APEN Co-Director ** I first encountered APEN’s work 15 years ago. At the time, I was volunteering at an environmental health organization based in Oakland, working with communities in the Philippines fighting for the removal of a dangerous and...
