Patriot Ledger - Federal and independent election monitors observed Tuesday’s elections in Quincy, making sure the polls are accessible to the city’s large Asian population. City clerk Nicole Crispo said monitors for the United States Department of Justice…
Filipino Reporter - AALDEF is among the 18 Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) immigrant advocacy, labor, civil rights, community health, service provider, and undocumented youth groups calling for a new organizing coalition…
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Boston Globe - An Asian-American civil rights group said it is sending attorneys and volunteers to monitor polling places in Boston on Tuesday, following reports that Chinese-speaking voters were pressured to vote absentee for candidates they didn’t support…
Raw Story - Fox News announced on Thursday that racial provocateur Jesse Watters would be the host of a new weekly hour-long show. In a statement, Fox News Programming EVP Suzanne Scott said that the “Watters’ World” segment…
Where do you stand politically on anything in 2017? Judging from the first days, no one knows for sure, not even the professional pols.
If you’ve been following what a Trump World would be like, we all got a taste of how chaotic politics will be as we witnessed the quick about-face of Republicans w...
News India Times - The Asian American Legal Defense Fund, a civil rights advocacy group for Asian Americans, has announced the names of the two recipients of its 2016* Justice in Action Awards, including civil rights activist Deepa Iyer…
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Newsweek - A case is headed to the Supreme Court in December that centers around Jack Phillips, the owner of the Colorado-based Masterpiece Cakeshop, who refused to make a cake for a same-sex wedding…
As we end the year and prepare for the dreaded 2017, I must thank you for reading my weekly musings on the pressing Asian American issues of the day.
Based on your clicks, the election and general representation issues were among the most-read columns of the year.
Leading the way was a piece on Be...
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) praised the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s announcement that it will dismantle the discriminatory National Security Entry-Exit Registration System (NSEERS) program, which required men from 25 predominantly Muslim countries in Asi...
With the inaugural in less than a month, and Christmas just days away, this is a special year.
Despair looms ahead.
And that requires a special holiday treat.
In the spirit of solidarity, I feel compelled to offer you the gift of perspective!
Look at it this way. What’s before us won’t be all th...
The 2016 presidential election results sent shockwaves to immigrant communities throughout New York City. As a response to the election, a broad coalition of nonprofits, advocacy organizations, direct service providers, and New York City government agencies is offering free immigration legal clinics...
If you don’t have enough to argue about during the holidays with your family and friends (I mean, the Trump thing might get old before the inaugural), maybe it’s time after Pearl Harbor Day to dredge up the controversy over “Allegiance.”
Just a musical? Or a dangerous revision of history?
George T...
This week, the Census Bureau released an updated list of counties that are required by the federal Voting Rights Act to provide translated ballots and voting materials for specific language minority groups.
In 1975, Congress amended the Voting Rights Act to include protections for language minori...
This year on the day before Pearl Harbor Day, President Obama, said in his final address on national security that terrorists can kill innocent people, “but they don’t pose an existential threat to our nation.”
He wasn’t talking Jean-Paul Sartre.
Before Trump-Think becomes official, the outgoing p...
Filipino Americans in California are wondering about real estate transactions being initiated by Filipinos on tourist visas, who are selling retirement condos in Manila as unlicensed sales agents.
It may even be a case of human trafficking.
The story is important because of the man whose propertie...
President Obama may not be able to place Merrick Garland on the Supreme Court. But he’s doing what he can in his final days. Like giving the Presidential Medal of Freedom to luminaries like Maya Lin, the creator of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
And of course, he pardoned his last turkey the day ...
Poll shows bipartisan Asian American support for gun control and police reform
New York City…New data shows an Asian American electorate whose members reacted to the racist and anti-immigrant rhetoric of the 2016 campaign cycle in casting their ballots for President. The nonpartisan exit poll of 13...
After the Nov. 8 presidential election, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) remains as committed as ever to fight for the rights of Asian American and Pacific Islander immigrant communities in the face of the new administration’s proposal to deport millions of undocumented i...
If you haven’t noticed, we live in a time where the political trend is quite simple.
Things that would never happen before, that were once thought to be downright “inconceivable,” are happening right now, and with stunning regularity.
And it’s not fake news, it’s real.
We’re seeing it in the U.S....
New York City…American Muslim voters were specifically targeted by poll workers with requests for additional identification at poll sites in Michigan and New York. In Michigan, some poll workers required American Muslim women to remove their niqabs and fully reveal their faces in order to vote, and ...
