I had dinner there a number of times. I’d seen the view. I just can’t imagine people leaping from the World Trade Center towers.
For me, that’s the lingering and most horrific image of 9/11. A distressed person in silhouette, taking wing, dropping from the sky in free fall, praying for a soft landi...
There’s a hard way and an easy way.
And in the end Goodwin Liu took the easy way.
Who could blame him after the nearly two years of being a political football in Washington?
Today, Liu, the embattled yet eminently well-qualified Asian American legal scholar who couldn’t get a fair shake at the U....
NEW YORK, Aug 30 (Reuters) – A group of Chinese workers who say they were forced to take meal breaks in bathroom stalls are suing their former employer for discrimination and retaliation.
In a lawsuit filed Friday in state Supreme Court in Manhattan, thirteen employees who were fired from the kitch...
Sam Levin | New York Daily News
August 25, 2011
As the city pushes the U.S. Census Bureau to up its head count of Queens, a coalition of Asian-American groups is trying to make sure they don’t get short-changed, either.
Led by the Flushing-based MinKwon Center for Community Action, 11 groups jo...
This week began with rebels taking Tripoli. From the sound of it, President Obama loves a revolution:
“Your courage and character have been unbreakable in the face of a tyrant,” Obama said to the Libyan people on Monday. “An ocean divides us, but we are joined in the basic human longing for freedom...
David Chiu, president of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, is in New York Friday to seek funds for his San Francisco mayoral run.
I’m actually surprised he’s doing it.
He’s already raised more money than any other candidate to date by far.
Maybe he’s just getting in sync with being a career...
By Aline Reynolds
Why are there two different geographical parameters within the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act? And, if post-traumatic stress disorder is recognized by the U.S. Army, then why doesn’t the U.S. Department of Justice consider it to be a compensatory illness for 9/11 v...
New York -Since 2003, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has practiced a policy unjustly targeting and detaining thousands of Muslim immigrants, said the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) and the Asian Law Caucus (ALC), as they released today their analysis of hund...
Peter L. Zimroth
New York Law Journal | August 10, 2011
Arnold & Porter is leading a pro bono effort–together with Archer & Greiner, the Brennan Center, and the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund–to challenge a newly enacted zoning law in Bridgewater, N.J., which was designed to block...
New York, NY…The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) has filed a second lawsuit in Manhattan federal court against Gold and Silver Aging Home Care Inc. (“Gold and Silver”), which failed to pay nine weeks of wages to a Chinese worker, Ms. Q. M. Chen. The new lawsuit seeks to obta...
If you’re depressed over the debt downgrade from Standard & Poor’s, relax.
America needn’t act like an Asian American student who got her first B in math.
You still got into Brown, right? See, it’s not even that bad. And you’re still great in violin AND piano.
Time for a little perspective.
Keep...
After the debt ceiling deal was announced, I kept thinking about a phrase that is said about Asian Americans, a minority in every sense of the national political calculus, especially after our concerns aren’t addressed.
That phrase: “Where are they going to go?”
So after the deal was announced, I ...
Asian Americans as a group are known both for their political anonymity and scarcity. So anyone who can claim to be the first Chinese American to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives is a big deal.
Someone should have told that to David Wu.
Maybe he could have hit on Tiger Mom and not her ki...
Rupert Murdoch’s in a fog.
These days, at least from his testimony, the guy can’t tell the difference between a phone hack and a hack writer.
But we do know for some time now he’s been suffering from a kind of Deng-y fever. That would be Deng-y as in Wendi Deng, the 80-year-old tycoon’s wife of tw...
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) has filed a lawsuit in Manhattan federal court against Gold & Silver Aging Home Care Inc., which failed to pay nine weeks of wages to a Chinese worker and no overtime pay at all. The lawsuit seeks to obtain the back wages owed to the plain...
To this day, affirmative action as public policy–giving qualified minorities a chance to compete for college admissions, public jobs, and contracts–is not just a sentimental throwback. It remains the noble, magnanimous, and right thing to do.
But in a time with 14 million unemployed, few jobs in ge...
Al Falah Center continues challenge to zoning laws that would block mosque.
A New Jersey federal judge has ruled that the Al Falah Center and Muslim community residents can proceed with their legal challenge to a hastily-concocted zoning ordinance that would bar construction of a mosque in Bridgewa...
As I set off my Chinese fireworks on the Fourth of July, thinking about freedom and independence and what it means to be American, I also had Jose Antonio Vargas on my mind.
I hope he was celebrating the freedom of the truth with some vigor.
Just over two weeks ago, Vargas, 30, set off some firewo...
My 14-year-old daughter marched with the PETA float in San Francisco’s Pride parade Sunday, wearing a “Vegan Pride T-shirt” and passing out stickers and pamphlets to the thousands of onlookers.
Not all of them were gay, of course. But most were and it had a real impact on my daughter.
“Boy, there ...
Advocates for Children of New York (AFC) and the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) filed a lawsuit late yesterday in Supreme Court, New York County against the Department of Education of the City of New York, seeking an order compelling the Department of Education to release c...
