Los Angeles Times - Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign on Thursday will unveil its effort to organize Asian Americans in the San Gabriel Valley, an area with one of the densest concentrations of those voters in the state…
2015
NewsWorksWHYY - There are requirements at polling places, but help doesn’t reach everyone who needs it. Elections have been hectic for Cesar Liriano for most of the nine years he’s lived in the city of Lebanon…
AALDEF has filed a new wage and hour case in Manhattan federal court on behalf of two Chinese American delivery workers who were employed by Hamachi Sushi restaurant in Lower Manhattan. The workers combined were employed for five years at the restaurant, where they were grossly underpaid and subject...
Reporting Texas - When Saurabh Das heads to the polls this election season, he’ll be able to do more than vote. He can be an interpreter for any Bengali speaker who needs help reading the ballot, as long as he’s not that person’s boss or union leader…
In 2015, is there a bigger story for Asian Americans than Islamophobia?
What? You’re not Muslim? Aren’t you a big-beach-umbrella-Asian American? You don’t have to like sand.
What about a golf umbrella?
It amazes me how I still hear comments from people who should pick up a history book and unders...
Next to Santa getting stuck in a chimney due to an overly large body part, can one imagine a tragedy worse than what unfolded live at the Miss Universe Pageant on the Sunday before Christmas?
Oh, you didn’t see it? You, the sane one, above it all, who doesn’t partake in such light bon-bons as beaut...
If the fifth Republican debate made you feel fearful and anxiety ridden, here’s something to celebrate instead.
On Dec. 17, 1943, 72 years ago this week, President Franklin Roosevelt signed the Magnuson Act, which repealed the Chinese Exclusion Laws. They were those nasty laws that came out of hate...
MEDIA ADVISORY
What: Workers, Tenants, Small Businesses, Students and Groups from across NYC voice opposition to Mayor de Blasio’s Citywide Rezoning
When: December 16, 2015, 4pm – 6pm
Where: Gracie Mansion, 88th Street at East End Avenue, Manhattan
Details:
Workers, tenants, home owners, small ...
A Texas federal court has ruled that AALDEF’s lawsuit on behalf of Asian American voters seeking language assistance under the Voting Rights Act may proceed.
The case, OCA – Greater Houston v. State of Texas, challenges a provision of the Texas Election Code that requires interpreters to be registe...
It’s a coincidence that the President should give his standup Oval Office terrorism talk on the eve of Pearl Harbor Day, Dec.7, the day that lives in infamy.
Unless you’re Asian American, of course, because Dec. 7 simply started the clock that would bring us to Infamy Day’s domestic companion momen...
As the investigation continues in the San Bernardino mass shooting case, I’m wondering if the search for a hard terrorist connection will result in the general terrorizing of innocent Muslim Americans.
And if anyone is wondering about the innocent South Asian American child left behind by the two S...
Brief Filed Urging High Court to Hear Landmark Immigration Case on Expanded DACA and DAPA
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) joined a coalition of 223 civil rights, labor, immigrants’ rights, and social service groups in an amicus brief filed today, urging the U.S. Supreme...
Even on Sunday, I was still in a post-Thanksgiving Day stupor–watching football with the sound turned down. But when the news came on, I was wide awake.I saw a picture of a woman who was unmistakably Asian. She was one of the three victims of the Planned Parenthood shooting in Colorado: Jennifer Mar...
Does it feel like 1942 to you yet?
America, if you haven’t noticed, isn’t feeling like itself these days.
Instead of large, gracious and visionary–the bastion of freedom and liberty—our country and its leaders are feeling puny and small. Donald Trump “Put up a Wall” small.
And it all changed on N...
Today is the first anniversary of President Obama’s announcement of the expansion of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and the creation of a new deferred action program for parents of U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents who have been in the U.S. for at least five years (DAPA). A...
For Asian Americans, two issues always give us the moral high ground: the WWII incarceration of Japanese Americans and the fight over equity pay for Filipino American veterans of WWII.
But just because you have the moral high ground doesn’t mean you are guaranteed victory.
That’s been true for the...
I’m still trying to understand the events of this week in the red part of the blue state, California.
The news was jarring on Wednesday morning. A stabbing at UC Merced? Is that Berkeley? No, more like three hours away. Merced is in the deepest part of the least populated and most underserved part ...
On Nov. 2, 2015, AALDEF filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin II, in support of UT’s race-conscious admissions program. Our co-amici included two Asian American groups at UT-Austin: the Asian Desi Pacific Islander Collective and the Asian/Asian Am...
It’s Election Day today, and AALDEF is monitoring the 2015 elections in Texas, Pennsylvania, and Louisiana:
Houston, TX – AALDEF is working with OCA-Greater Houston and local volunteers to ensure that poll sites in Harris County provide language assistance to limited English proficient Asian Americ...
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), Asian Americans Advancing Justice (Advancing Justice), and the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA), have filed three separate amicus briefs urging the nation’s highest court to uphold University of Texas at Austin’s (...
