Executive directors of the ALC, APALC, AAJC, and AAI come together to discuss the growing needs and challenges of the Asian American community, and the advantages of bringing their regional civil rights groups together to better effect change.
Executive directors of the ALC, APALC, AAJC, and AAI come together to discuss the growing needs and challenges of the Asian American community, and the advantages of bringing their regional civil rights groups together to better effect change.
“A DREAM A Part” is a short film about five Asian undocumented students and their lives living in the United States. These students are actively fighting for the passage of the DREAM Act, a piece of pending bi-partisan legislation that would provide undocumented students that arrived in the US before the age of 16 a pathway to legalization if they attend two years of college or serve two years of the military. These students are involved in ASPIRE (Asian Students Promoting Immigrant Rights through Education), the first and only undocumented Asian Pacific Islander youth group.
ASPIRE is a program of the Asian Law Caucus. The Asian Law Caucus is the nation’s first legal and civil rights organization serving the low-income Asian Pacific American communities. Its mission is to promote, advance, and represent the legal and civil rights of the Asian and Pacific Islander communities.
a film by Evan Jackson Leong
From the mass internment of Japanese Americans during World War II to the ongoing post 9/11 virtual internment of Muslims, Arabs and South Asians, the United States government has long used war time hysteria and racism to institutionalize the persecution of entire communities.
The Asian Law Caucus was born from an urgent need to unearth the individual voices of these victims, capture the experiences of the communities, and elevate the truth into the light of justice. From our fight to overturn Fred Korematsu’s conviction for evading internment to our present advocacy to end the racial profiling of Muslim communities, the Asian Law Caucus has a sustained history of protecting civil rights in the wake of national security concerns.
This film gives a glimpse into the unfortunate repetition of history and the Asian Law Caucus’s work to support communities and individuals in condemning their dehumanization, voicing their stories and challenging the injustice.…
A film by Evan Jackson Leong
As the nation’s first legal and civil rights organization serving low-income Asian Americans, the Asian Law Caucus has a special place in America’s historical landscape. Its rich legacy includes the landmark decision in civil rights, Korematsu v. United States, along with hundreds of victories concerning racial profiling, housing, community development, labor, employment, and national security.
Empowering Communities: Asian Law Caucus in Action
is a short film that captures the history of the Asian Law Caucus and how it continues its role as the champion of civil rights in the Asian American community and in other diverse communities with whom the Caucus stands in solidarity. The film includes a polyvocal mosaic of former and current Executive Directors, staff attorneys, community leaders and partners who have been integral in accomplishing the Caucus’ mission: to promote, advance, and represent the legal and civil rights of Asian and Pacific Islander communities.
Advocates who serve the Southeast Asian community in Northern California gathered in Oakland to make sure their communities are counted in the 2010 Census.
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