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...
Full disclosure right up front: Years ago before the first tech crash, I worked with David Chiu at Grassroots.com. I was a mere VP of webcasting. One of the big benefactors said I would be the next Larry King.
I guess he hadn’t yet heard of Piers Morgan.
The real problem was the iPod hadn’t been i...
by Meredith Kolodner
Only 14% of teachers believe the city’s program targeting bias-based bullying and harassment is effective, a new survey shows.
And about two-thirds of the 200 teachers surveyed from 117 schools said they had witnessed students being harassed based on their race, ethnicity and ...
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...
If you’ve been following what’s going on in state houses in Wisconsin and New Jersey, it’s just the beginning of a major catastrophe that will soon spread to my home state, California.
There used to be red states and blue states.
Now there are just red-ink states.
The problem is, red leadership s...
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...
Flying into New York last week on a jet enabled for TV, it was a treat to watch democracy in action throughout the world. On one channel, Egypt was in full democratic eruption seeking a new modern future. On another channel was Arizona State Senator Ron Gould, advocating yet another backward step ch...
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...
Attorneys for Indian guest workers who are suing Mississippi-based marine and fabrication company Signal International along with its co-conspirators and other entities for human trafficking and racketeering have filed for class certification to include hundreds of additional workers in the lawsuit....
Asian Americans usually never miss the boat. But maybe we have when it comes to Rush Limbaugh. (That would be a big boat, too.)
If you haven’t heard Limbaugh try to sound like your Asian ancestors, that’s good. You’ve been spared the slur.
But to hear it may be different.
Just a few weeks back wh...
by Derek Beres
Farhan Ezad was living what most would consider a fairly typical American life in June 2010. At 35 years old, he had three sons and a decade-long marriage to a loving wife. But the economic downturn had taken its toll in Canadensis, Pennsylvania, and he had just lost his job. He was ...
As an Asian American and the longtime writer of a column called “Amok,” I felt a strong spiritual obligation to be at the inaugural celebration of Fred T. Korematsu Day held last Sunday, Jan. 30, in Berkeley.
Now here’s a guy who went amok in the most metaphorical sense of the word.
Sunday would h...
by Meredith Kolodner
Almost a year after the state found that thousands of city students were not getting the language help mandated by law, the city still does not have a plan in place to fix the problem.
And this year’s budget cuts have made the situation even worse, teachers and parents say, as...
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...
If you feared that this State of the Union address would be a sharp right turn from hope and change, relax.
It was the best speech our first bi-racial president searching for middle ground could make.
President Obama was purposefully in the key of C all night. No sharps. No flats. No real exciteme...
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...
The final list isn’t official yet. But if San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee and Oakland Mayor Jean Quan are among the guests at tonight’s state dinner for Chinese President Hu Jintao, then surely someone in the Obama administration can make space for Tiger Mom.
Tiger Mom?
Unless you’ve been living in a m...
On Dec. 14, two Asian American civil rights organizations, the Asian Law Caucus (ALC) and the Asian American Legal Defense Fund (AALDEF), asked the federal government to reveal how Customs and Border Protection agents single out individuals at the border based solely on their national origin.
The t...
by Ivy Suriyopas
The 250-year legacy of slavery continues to permeate throughout contemporary United States. However, these days, the images we see are likely to be those of immigrants from the global South. Instead of state-sanctioned ownership and exploitation of workers inside the home or out in...
It’s official. And in Asian American history, it’s a big deal.
San Francisco’s new mayor is named Lee—Ed Lee, the first Asian American of Chinese descent to hold that position.
Anyone who jokes that he’s mayor because they lowered the height requirement, you’ve got to like. Then again, you might j...
