Asian Americans For Democracy

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All In PA:  Delaware County Organizational Meeting (Weekly) ** Sign-up/Useful Links ** Central/Western Delco Canvass (Saturdays 12pm and 3pm) - https://www.mobilize.us/dashboard/allinpa/event/470691/ Eastern Delco Canvass (Saturdays 11am and 2pm) - https://www.mobilize.us/dashboard/allinpa/event/471958/ 100-days out Weekend of Action canvass (Saturday 7/30 11am and 2pm) - https://www.mobilize.us/allinpa/event/478991/ "Scanlon" Scoops, Canvass and Ice Cream social with MGS (This Sunday 1-4, ice cream after) https://www.facebook.com/events/765401084476367/ Weekly Phonebank (Thursdays 5:30-7pm) - https://www.mobilize.us/allinpa/event/465249 Weekly Org Meetings (Wednesdays 7-8pm) - https://www.mobilize.us/dashboard/allinpa/event/469163/ All in PA Text bank ** https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/445934/ Candidates information: DelcoDems.com

Invited Speakers for the UCA 2022 Youth Convention Donate to Support the Youth Join us to meet the outstanding youth leaders and speakers of the Youth Convention Yuh-Line Niou has served as a member of the New York State Assembly for the 65th district in lower Manhanttan since 2016. Yuh-Line is the first Asian-American elected to the State Assembly for this district. Yuh-Line has spent her career working on legislative and advocacy campaigns starting in college. She has become a powerful progressive leader for low-income, immigrant, and working families. Her work has become a watershed for young people — especially women, the LGBTQ+, the AAPI community, and people of color — to become civically engaged and to run for office to build a government that works for the people. She is a candidate for Congress in New York's newly redrawn 10th congressional district in 2022. Yuh-Line is of Taiwanese heritage. Stephanie Hu, an incoming freshman at Harvard University, is the Founder and Exe...

Committee of 100 Publishes New Research on the Status of K-12 AAPI Curriculum Adoption Across the United States Research reveals that seven states have statutes that require AAPI studies, with 10 more states and the District of Columbia requiring areas of AAPI studies through other means – more than previously reported New York, New York (June 30, 2022) -- Committee of 100, a non-profit membership organization of prominent Chinese Americans, today unveiled a state-by-state analysis of the prevalence of existing and potential legislation requiring the teaching of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) history in K-12 social studies curriculum. The research revealed that 19 states have some form of AAPI studies in place, compared to the two or three states often highlighted in recent media stories. “AAPI and Ethnic Studies Requirements for K-12 Students in America’s Public Schools” can be downloaded from the Committee of 100 websites  here . A Committee of 100 researchers analy...

Follow-up on  AADC 2022 Midterm Election Kickoff Zoom Meeting Dear friends, We thank you sincerely for attending our event AADC 2022 Midterm Election Kickoff Zoom Meeting last Thursday, June 23, 2022. We are especially grateful to our Keynote speakers, DNC AAPI Caucus Chair Bel Leong-Hong and Congresswoman Grace Meng. They show us how power is built over time, and how it could be used to uplift the community and protect our democracy. The elected officials and guest speakers we were so fortunate to be able to highlight for you last Thursday represent the future of our community, as well as America. We love this country, we belong in this country, and we will fight to protect this country. Please consider supporting these candidates fighting the good fight, especially if they are in your local areas. With all the awful rulings coming down from the SCOTUS, it’s not hyperbolic to say that we must be fighting at every level of government to ensure the survival of our country. We hope t...

What’s Behind the Violence Against Asians in America By Tsiwen Law, Esq. Only a few weeks ago, a video captured a young man knocking down three elderly Asians in Oakland Chinatown. Those attacks came on the heels of an 84-year-old Thai gentleman knocked down and killed during his daily walk in San Francisco and a Filipino elder slashed in the face while on a New York Subway. In its statement about anti-Asian violence, the Philadelphia Mayor’s Commission on Asian-American Affairs announced, “Unfortunately, even here in Philadelphia, there have been verbal and physical attacks, as well as other displays of racism, directed at Asian Americans. In 2020, the Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations (PCHR) received 28 reports of acts of hate against members of the AAPI community —19 were confirmed as incidents of hate or bias, representing 34 percent of the 56 total hate or bias incidents confirmed by the agency.”