by Isaiah Thompson
By now, you’ve heard the story: On Thursday, Dec. 3, more than 20 Asian students were attacked on their way home from South Philadelphia High School (SPHS) by a mob of as many as 100 of their peers, most of them African-American. The incident — which is still under investigation ...
New York, NY–The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) applauded the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) for translating federal voter registration forms into several Asian languages.
AALDEF Democracy Program Director Glenn Magpantay said, “AALDEF has been advocating for tr...
By Kristen A. Graham and Jeff Gammage
Inquirer Staff Writers
Having seen many of their classmates punched and beaten all day long, a group of Vietnamese students told teachers they feared walking home.
At the end of the school day Dec. 3, they left South Philadelphia High, backed by a group of adu...
Inquirer Staff Report
An Asian civil rights group said today it filed a complaint with the Justice Department charging the Philadelphia School District discriminated against Asian students at South Philadelphia High School.
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund alleges the District a...
By Haya El Nasser, USA TODAY
The words dieu tra jumped out at Quyen Vuong as she perused the 2010 Vietnamese-language Census form online.
“It’s a very scary connotation in the sense that there is a crime and the government needs to investigate,” says Vuong, a member of two Census outreach committe...
Today, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) released findings from its six-month assessment of the Census Bureau’s programs and outreach to Asian Americans, which recommends that the Bureau must be more focused to ensure a full and accurate count of Asian Americans. A copy of...
More Assurances Needed That Data Will Be Confidential, Says Legal Group
By the Associated Press
WASHINGTON – The government is fumbling some efforts to assure immigrants that U.S. census data will not be used against them, including gaps in outreach and foreign language guides that refer to the de...
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) today filed a complaint for civil rights violations with the U.S. Department of Justice charging the School District of Philadelphia and South Philadelphia High School (SPHS) with discrimination against Asian students on the basis of race ...
Two prominent Asian American civil rights organizations today asked the federal government to reveal how Customs and Border Protection agents may single out individuals at the border based solely on their national origin. The Asian Law Caucus (ALC), based in San Francisco, and the Asian American Leg...
District’s Failure to Remedy Rampant Anti-Asian Violence at South Philadelphia High School Prompts Action
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) announced today its intention to file a complaint for civil rights violations with the U.S. Department of Justice against the Philad...
New York, NY–The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) will honor Larry Tu, Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Dell Inc., and Juan Gonzalez, Staff Columnist with the New York Daily News and Co-Host of Democracy Now!, with the 2010 Justice in Action Awards at its Annual L...
In New York City’s historic Nov. 3 General Election, John Liu became the first Asian American to win citywide office as Comptroller, and two Asian American candidates, Margaret Chin and Peter Koo, were elected to the 51-member City Council.
Two Asian American Democratic candidates were defeated in ...
New York City General Elections — Tuesday, November 3, 2009
In past elections, Asian Americans have faced a series of barriers in exercising their right to vote. For example, poll workers were hostile and made racist remarks, poll sites had too few interpreters to assist Asian American voters, and ...
By Jonathan Saltzman
The state’s highest court yesterday struck down a provision in a Lowell ordinance that made it a crime for children under 17 to violate a curfew, a ruling expected to affect other Massachusetts communities that have adopted or are considering similar local laws.
The Supreme Ju...
Positive Impacts Expected for Cambodian American Community
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) applauded today’s Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts (SJC) decision in Commonwealth v. Weston W., which struck down part of the City of Lowell’s juvenile curfew ordinance as ...
Finds that Many Asian Americans Need Bilingual Ballots to Vote
On Tuesday, September 22, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) monitored the Preliminary Municipal Elections in Boston, Massachusetts. In light of the expired U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) settlement order tha...
By Sarah Fitzpatrick
Special to The Washington Post
When Lauro L. Baja Jr. returned to his native Philippines in 2007, he had just finished a four-year stint as ambassador to the United Nations that included two terms as president of the Security Council. A storied diplomatic career that began in ...
By JIM DWYER
Behind the gray curtain of a voting booth in Chinatown, Fun Mae Eng pulled a slip of paper from her pocket. She had never voted for president before. She did not read or write English. But on the paper, she had drawn the letters that represented the candidate’s name.
First was a C.
S...
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New York City–The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), a 35-year old national civil rights organization, announced that it will dispatch over 75 attorneys, law students and community volunteers to poll sites in 4 City Council Districts t...
August 20, 2009
Brooklyn, NY–Two long-time Sunset Park residents, five local churches and a community group, Chinese Staff and Workers’ Association (CSWA), have filed a lawsuit in New York State Supreme Court challenging the Department of City Planning’s (DCP) proposed rezoning of 128 blocks in Sun...
