La Opinion
El asambleísta Gil Cedillo, el activista Stewart Kwoh, los trabajadores de lavado de autos que lograron formar un sindicato y los 34 abogados que conforman una red de defensa de inmigrantes fueron los homenajeados la noche del jueves durante la gala anual de CHIRLA que este año fue bautizada como "Caminos a la promesa".
Asian Journal
LOS ANGELES – The Asian Pacific American Legal Center (APALC), a member of the Asian American Center for Advancing Justice, is expanding its free citizenship application clinics to help more immigrants become American citizens. Through these clinics, APALC hopes to empower future citizens by giving them the tools to make a difference in their communities.
Latinos will be a key to November’s election – we’ve heard that over and over. But Latinos aren’t the fastest growing minority group in America. That distinction belongs to Asian Americans, who grew by nearly 50 percent between 2000 and 2010.
University of California Irvine Law School Website
IRVINE, Calif. -- UC Irvine School of Law students will host a conference on strengthening the
Asian Pacific American identity on March 15, 16.
Rafu Shimpo
WASHINGTON — Members of the Asian American Center for Advancing Justice (Advancing Justice) — Asian American Institute, Asian American Justice Center, Asian Law Caucus and Asian Pacific American Legal Center — are outraged by former Michigan congressman Pete Hoekstra’s 30-second advertisement that aired Super Bowl Sunday in Michigan.
California Progress Report
Last week, at a press briefing co-hosted by New America Media (NAM) and Common Cause, civil rights lawyers and advocates representing California’s largest ethnic communities spoke of the need to work together to ensure that 2012 elections are open and accessible, in light of a rash of state laws that they say are being deliberately designed to suppress the vote of ethnic minorities and the poor.
Asian American Press
LOS ANGELES — The Asian Pacific American Legal Center (APALC), a member of the Asian American Center for Advancing Justice, welcomes civil rights litigator Laboni Hoq as its new Litigation Director.
New American Media
The Asian Pacific American Legal Center condemns derogatory remarks against Korean Americans expressed by co-host John Kobylt (KFI 640) during the Jan. 5 broadcast of Clear Channel’s “The John and Ken Show.”
Culver City Patch
On Jan. 18, the 14-member California Citizens Redistricting Commission held a public input meeting at Culver City Council Chambers to hear possible amendments to the California Government Code sections 8251-8253.6.
The Progressive
By Karen Narasaki and Stewart Kwoh
As the race to the presidency goes full throttle, candidates should not ignore the best-kept demographic secret in politics: the rise of Asian-American voters.
Our ranks have swelled by 46 percent over the past decade, making us the fastest growing racial minority in the nation and ready to wield power and influence in the 2012 election.
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