Gotham Gazette – With the preliminary redistricting maps to be announced next week, tensions are rising in Queens, where communities are split along legislative lines and rival plans to redraw them.
Many Asian-American groups, joined by some Latinos, have pushed for State Senate and Assembly border
Inside City Hall — A panel of civil rights attorneys who have created a Unity Map–a proposal to redraw the city’s legislative districts to better represent growing ethnic communities–discussed their project on Inside City Hall.
Queens Tribune – A map is sometimes a piece of greenish paper with pretty red lines, or an innocuous portrayal of your hometown on Google’s bright screen. After the U.S. Census, a map becomes something else entirely–a fight for just representation, or more simply, a fight for survival.
The magic fo
Brooklyn Ink – Asian-American civic groups are pushing for redistricting in Brooklyn that would give growing Asian ethnic groups a district and representation of their own.
Claiming that the Asian vote is too diluted across many districts, the groups are hoping to splice together sections of Sunset
Race Talk – Arizona’s SB 1070 has left a path of destruction in its wake - harming families, immigrant communities, and various state economies, especially agribusinesses and farms. Georgia, Utah, Indiana, South Carolina, and Alabama have attempted to follow Arizona’s example with their own laws tar
Village Voice – As the political games of redistricting heat up this week, civil rights groups are staying focused on the prize: good maps. A coalition of advocacy groups teamed up yesterday and released what they call the “Unity Map,” which contains specific recommendations for Senate, Assembly, an
New York Daily News – A coalition of Asian-American, Latino and African-American groups has released a new set of redistricting maps it believes will give the city’s large ethnic populations a greater voice in future elections.
The so-called Unity Maps are just one proposal being sent to state lawm
Newsday – There are 1.4 million Asian-Americans who now live in New York. In New York City alone, our community grew 32 percent over the past decade, to over 1 million people. Half a million Asian-Americans live in Queens, where the Asian-American population grew 300 times faster than the rest of th
Village Voice – This week, the redistricting drama continues. In case you forgot, redistricting is that complicated process every 10 years when states across the country redraw congressional and state legislative boundaries based on Census data.
Well, there’s been a lot of controversy in New York t
Queens Chronicle – From Assemblyman Mike Miller (D-Woodhaven) potentially losing almost all of Glendale to Woodside and East Elmhurst possibly being carved from Assemblyman Michael DenDekker’s (D-Jackson Heights) district, Queens residents could soon be looking at a dramatically different political
Capital Tonight – As the proposed maps for new state and federal offices remain a closely guarded secret in Albany, the Asian American Legal Defense Fund filed a complaint in U.S. District Court to push for an independent process.
The group argues that with the growing Asian population in New York
New York Daily News – The Senate Democrats are joining the legal battle to force independent redistricting.
Following up on Erica Pearson’s story in today’s Daily News about the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund’s lawsuit, Senate Democrats revealed Friday that they too have filed pape
Brooklyn Daily Eagle – The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), together with pro bono counsel Kaye Scholer LLP, Thursday filed a complaint on behalf of four Asian American voters urging the U.S. District Court in Brooklyn to adopt a redistricting plan that provides Asian Americ
New York Daily News – Asian-American voters in Queens and Brooklyn sued the governor and other state officials this week, saying their voting power is unfairly limited by the way the state’s legislative districts are drawn.
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund filed a complaint Wedne
Huffington Post — Last week the Justice Department blocked a South Carolina law that would require voters to produce photo identification at the polls. Now a similar Texas voter ID law could very well be next to face a legal challenge. Under the Voting Rights Act, Texas numbers among a few states,
Voices of America News — Eight years ago, “Mrs. Kim” came to the United States from China “to pursue her American Dream,” but thanks to unscrupulous business practices familiar to many Asian immigrants working in low-wage industries, things went horribly wrong. Kim, who did not want to use her rea
Nichi Bei Weekly — Protesters gathered at the “Stand for Freedom March and Rally” in New York City on Dec. 10, the United Nations Human Rights Day.
A coalition of more than 150 civil rights and community organizations led the rally in response to the recent national sweep of proposed voter identi
Diversity_Plus_ Magazine – Thousands took to the streets of midtown Manhattan on Saturday, December 10th – United Nations Human Rights Day – to Stand for Freedom, part of an aggressive campaign to fight back against attacks on voting rights in states across the nation that would threaten the freedom
Brooklyn Ink — Eighth Avenue was a natural destination for the first Chinese entrepreneurs who came to Sunset Park three decades ago and created Brooklyn’s bustling Chinatown. Eight is a lucky number in Chinese culture.
But stuck with an old zoning code capping the expansion of commercial activit
News India Times – The Asian-American Legal Defense and Education Fund will honor journalist and TV host Fareed Zakaria with its 2012 Justice in Action Award at its annual Lunar New Year Gala on Feb. 8 at Pier Sixty at Chelsea Piers here.
According to the AALDEF website, the awards recognize except
