Today, AALDEF and other members of the Coalition to Protect Chinatown and the Lower East Side presented its Special District Rezoning plan to a meeting of the Chinatown Working Group.
The Coalition formed in 2008 to address the gentrification and displacement that is changing the working class, imm...
On March 2, 2011, AALDEF sent a letter to town officials in Bridgewater, NJ, expressing its support for the application to create the Al Falah Islamic Center. The letter urged the Township Council to reject a proposed zoning ordinance that would deny Muslims in Bridgewater a place to practice their ...
AALDEF is seeking volunteers to conduct land use surveys of Chinatown in Boston as part of a multi-city project focused on the health and sustainability of Chinatowns and surrounding communities.
Volunteers will survey all the addresses on specified streets – generally 3 to 4 city blocks. Using the...
According to a new report released today by the Sikh Coalition, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) and the New York Civil Liberties Union, the New York City Department of Education is providing teachers insufficient resources and training to protect students from bullying a...
AALDEF and the Southeast Asia and Action Resource Center (SEARAC) have submitted joint comments to the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) regarding its agency plan to improve the quality of life of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders as specified by Executive Order 13515. Our comments, submitted o...
AALDEF has joined other education advocates to develop a white paper focusing on the No Child Left Behind Act’s (NCLB) role in pushing students, especially students of color and students with disabilities, into school discipline, juvenile justice and criminal justice systems. NCLB is the most recent...
Workers Lured to the U.S. After Hurricane Katrina and Subjected to Abusive Working Conditions Seek Class Certification
Lawyers for Indian guestworkers who are suing Signal International, LLC along with its co-conspirators and other entities for human trafficking and racketeering, filed for class ce...
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) is a 37-year old New York-based national organization that protects and promotes the civil rights of Asian Americans through litigation, advocacy and community education. AALDEF has a 20-person staff and is supported by foundations, corpor...
Nineteen civil rights and civic engagement organizations, including AALDEF, issued the following statement regarding the Census Bureau’s recent release of reapportionment data:
The organizations listed below are civil rights and civic engagement organizations that intend to have significant involve...
AALDEF today applauded the congressional passage of the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act of 2010 as a major step to rebuild the lives of heroic first responders and community residents in Lower Manhattan, including Chinatown and the Lower East Side. This legislation will provide long t...
The U.S. Justice Department today announced that it filed a settlement agreement in federal district court with the School District of Philadelphia in order to address the severe harassment against Asian students at South Philadelphia High School (SPHS). Today’s development is the result of an admin...
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund’s New Jersey- Asian American Legal Project (AALDEF NJ-AALP), announced a major victory for seven Korean restaurant workers in their hard fought campaign for unpaid wages. After months of leafleting and picketing Dokdo Sarang Restaurant, the workers...
Today, AALDEF called for Senate passage of The James Zadroga Health and Compensation Act of 2010 (H.R. 847). President Obama has made a commitment to sign the bill if the Senate passes it intact before the end of December.
This legislation would fund for 10 years clinical programs that currently sc...
Asian Americans Demonstrate Strong Approval for Dems in Northeast, Support for Republican Govs in the South
New York…While Asian Americans strongly supported Democratic gubernatorial candidates in New York, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania, Asian American voters in Georgia and Texas mirrored the bro...
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), a 36-year old New York-based national civil rights organization, announced that it will dispatch 400 attorneys, law students and community volunteers to over 50 poll sites in New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Georgia, and Texas to do...
UPDATE: On Sept. 29, the House of Representatives passed the 9-11 health bill by a vote of 268-160. We will be urging the Senate to take action soon on the bill.
AALDEF calls for passage of the Zadroga 9-11 Health and Compensation Act, which will address the health care concerns of the many individ...
by Jeff Gammage and Kristen A. Graham
Federal investigators have informed the Philadelphia School District that they found merit in the claims of Asian students who said they were abused at South Philadelphia High School.
The school exploded in racial violence on Dec. 3, when 30 Asians were attack...
Today, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) released a new report evaluating the Census Bureau’s programs and outreach to Asian Americans in the 2010 Census and providing recommendations to improve census operations for 2020. A copy of the report can be downloaded here.
Over...
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), with pro bono co-counsel Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP, has intervened in Georgia v. Holder, a lawsuit to approve the State of Georgia’s new voter verification procedures. The matter is pending in federal court in Washington, DC.
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Save the date: On Thursday, August 12, the Asian Pacific American Lawyers Association of New Jersey (APALA/NJ) sponsors its 5th annual Golf Classic and Dinner at the Wild Turkey Golf Club, Hamburg, NJ 07419. A portion of the proceeds will support AALDEF’s New Jersey-Asian American Legal Project, whi...
