The Times Picayune – Two groups are set to file a federal complaint that several eastern New Orleans schools are violating civil rights law by failing adequately to serve non-native English-speaking families. VAYLA and the national AALDEF…
China Daily – Asian-Americans are the fastest-growing ethnic group in the United States, and politicians are increasingly scrambling to reconcile a need to appeal to them with a lingering anti-China sentiment that reached a climax in the 2010 midterm elections…
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) is urging the Supreme Court to review a Second Circuit statute of limitations holding in a discrimination lawsuit filed by the Asian Jade Society on behalf of Asian American Port Authority officers in New York and New Jersey. The lawsuit ...
The formal name for it is the “American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012,” but I don’t know anyone who feels all that relieved after what informally should be named “The Imperfect Compromise to Avoid the Fiscal Cliff of 2012.”
The president signed H.R.8 yesterday, but it could have been so much more.
W...
National Journal – An analysis of the Chinatowns in Boston, New York City, and Philadelphia show the Asian populations there are in decline, partly because of rising rental costs and median housing value. A joint report…
So how does anyone really understand the GOP’s side on the Fiscal Cliff talks?
I wouldn’t get too wrapped up with it, if I were you.
Imagine John Boehner as Grandmaster Flash rapping, “Don’t push me cause I’m close to the edge.”
And then maybe, because you know he’s really doing some form of poli...
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) announced that Filipina immigrant worker Elizabeth Ballesteros, represented by AALDEF’s Anti-Trafficking Initiative, has been awarded $1.2 million in damages in a human trafficking civil suit against Colonel Arif Mohamed Saeed Mohamed Al-...
Washington Examiner (AP) – A naval officer from the United Arab Emirates has been ordered to pay $1.2 million to a former domestic worker who accused him of imprisoning her and forcing her to work long hours for little pay…
As the details of Newtown come trickling in, now is the time for a little perspective and personal reflection.
Once upon a time, I wrote a satirical piece on gun violence in America.
I’m a typical common sense American. (You can tell by my commentaries, can’t you?) When it comes to guns, I love th...
This week, President Obama said right-to-work laws were actually “the right to work for less money.”
I can relate.
Emil For Real knows the power of right-to-work laws.
That was my DJ name circa 1974 in Texas, a classic right-to-work state.
But I wasn’t in some burg outside of George Bush’s ranch...
A Caribbean immigrant of South Asian descent, “Sarah,” represented by the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), recently reached a settlement with her former employers, a Long Island couple who paid her as little as $2 dollars an hour to work as a live-in housekeeper and nanny fo...
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, along with other anti-trafficking advocacy organizations, submitted an amicus brief in support of the plaintiffs in ACLU of Massachusetts v. Kathleen Sebelius and U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). USCCB, a subcontractor for the Departme...
If a picture tells a thousand words, maybe it’s good that we have that photo of Ki Suk Han desperately trying to pull himself off a New York subway track as a train approached him.
It’s really all you need to know about American society right now.
You don’t need the metaphor of a fiscal cliff. Tha...
This morning, the NYC Districting Commission withdrew the proposed NYC Council redistricting plan that it submitted to the NYC Council on November 16, 2012. The Commission then unexpectedly voted on two changes to the map, an alteration to the Brooklyn districts 34 and 37, involved with the Vito Lop...
California’s Asian Americans seem in synch with an approach that would tax the wealthy. A new post-election poll this week showed that 65 percent of Asian American voters supported an initiative that would raise taxes on those over $250,000 in income to fund public education. Another 76 percent supp...
If you’re one of the fantasists out there salivating over the Thanksgiving trailers of the upcoming film, “The Hobbit,” then you’re probably turning a blind eye to the news that 27 animals died in the production of the movie.
Twenty-seven. That’s 3 horses, 6 goats, 6 sheep, and 12 chickens.
The mo...
This evening, the New York City Council Districting Commission released its proposed map for new NYC Council district lines to the City Council for approval. The Commission announced that the map would be submitted directly to NYC Council, without further hearings.
On August 30, 2012, the Asian Am...
Hmmm….Petraeus rhymes with “Betray us”?
I don’t think he did, but it sounds like the mindset of the highly decorated, super-achieving general who found himself undressed in e-mails.
It’s reported he’s so guilt-ridden for his lack of discretion that he has done the honorable thing in his mind.
He’...
Preliminary data from exit polls released by the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) reveal that approximately 80% of Asian American voters in the battleground states of Nevada and Virginia voted for President Obama and Democratic candidates.
“As the fastest growing minority gr...
For the GOP, election night on Tuesday was like a political version of Hurricane Sandy.
It left a Romney-led party trounced and bewildered, staring at a brand new landscape it had failed to prepare for —
a totally new American electorate, rich in diversity and growing in number.
Politics isn’t ju...
