By Vikrum Aiyer
This month we celebrate an American community whose cultural heritage is so diverse that it has gilded the mountain tops of the Himalayas and soared down the shimmering rivers of Laos.
Small Business Calls for End to “Gotcha Government”
By Dan Danner
There’s one less bureaucrat at the Environmental Protection Agency now. The arrogant senior official slipped, publicly expressing the Obama administration’s view that punishment akin to ancient Roman crucifixion awaits any business that dares oppose the powerful bureau.
The AAPI Experience from One Older Woman’s Perspective
By Frances E. Francis
WASHINGTON (May 7, 2012) — Fifty years ago, I began my legal studies as a woman of Japanese American descent.
During my student years, I read, for the first time, the text of the Supreme Court decisions upholding the Government’s actions resulting in the internment in 1942 of the Japanese Americans on the West Coast on the grounds of national security. I also remember the strong dissents of the minority Justices and weeping because of what not only my family and other Japanese Americans lost, but also what every citizen in this Nation lost as a result.
Condemn NYPD’s Warrantless Spying & Religious Profiling
WASHINGTON (May 10, 2012) — U.S. Rep. Judy Chu (CA-32), Chair of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, joined with Reps. Rush Holt (NJ-12), Keith Ellison (MN-05), Michael Honda (CA-15), and Jesse Jackson, Jr. (IL-02) today to introduce a resolution condemning the New York Police Department’s ethnic and religious profiling and warrantless surveillance of Muslim Americans. Following the bill’s introduction, Congresswoman Chu and Representative Holt released the following statements:
Learning From Our Past & Strengthening Our Future
By DAPHNE KWOK
WASHINGTON, D.C. (May 2, 2012) — In 1990, Congress voted to have the month of May designated as Asian Pacific Heritage Month.
That means that for the past twenty two years, the accomplishments, the tragedies, and the triumphs of this vibrant and diverse community have been recognized as essential to the identity of this great nation. As Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month turns 22, it is an opportunity for us all to reflect on other notable milestones that define our past, informed our present, and will shape our future.
APIA White House Initiative, Editorial
Learning From Our Past & Strengthening Our Future
Daphne Kwok
By DAPHNE KWOK
WASHINGTON, D.C. (May 2, 2012) — In 1990, Congress voted to have the month of May designated as Asian Pacific Heritage Month.
That means that for the past twenty two years, the accomplishments, the tragedies, and the triumphs of this vibrant and diverse community have been recognized as essential to the identity of this great nation. As Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month turns 22, it is an opportunity for us all to reflect on other notable milestones that define our past, informed our present, and will shape our future.
Editorial, Government, Immigration
Voter ID Requirements: Death of One-Man-One-Vote (Part II)
Rawley Soberano, Ph.D.
By Rawlein G. Soberano, Ph.D.
Germantown, MD (May 1, 2012) — In WI, a Dane County judge issued an injunction barring the state from using its new voter ID law. A hearing began April 25 with both sides presenting their opposing arguments to the Supreme Court. In the meantime, because the state did not successfully appeal the injunction, the new voter ID law was not in effect for the April 3 presidential primary.
If Gov. Jan Brewer wins this, Mitt Romney and many GOP candidates lose in the general elections in November. His entitlement claim to the presidency (by wife Ann), that it’s now his turn, will crumble to dust. SC has filed an appeal over DOJ’s denial of pre-clearance for its new voter ID law. DOJ found the law discriminatory because the state’s minority voters are 20 percent more likely than white voters to lack a photo ID that meets the standard. Thirty-one states require all voters to show ID before voting at the polls. In 15 of these, a voter with ID must include a photo of the voter; in the remaining 16, non-photo forms of ID are acceptable.
APIA White House Initiative, Editorial, Education, Government
AAPIs to be Impacted if Congress Fails to Act
By Francesca L. Covey
WASHINGTON (April 25, 2012) — The President on Wednesday delivered remarks at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and continued his call for Congress to stop interest rates on student loans from doubling in July.
Editorial, Government, Immigration
Tri-Caucus immigration forum speaks out on Arizona SB 1070
WASHINGTON (April 24, 2012) — The Chairs and members of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, Congressional Black Caucus and Congressional Hispanic Caucus joined with the National Immigration Forum to release the following statements regarding the hearing of United States v. Arizona before the U.S. Supreme Court this week:
When Did Immigrants Become the Enemy?
Andrew Lam
By ANDREW LAM
New America Media
SAN FRANCISCO (April 20, 2012) — Recently, in front a packed crowd at Duke University, former Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice regretted the failure of passing the comprehensive immigration reform act and the shift in Americans’ attitude toward immigrants.
Accepting and welcoming immigrants “has been at the core of our strength,” she said. “I don’t know when immigrants became the enemy.”
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San Diego, my kind of town
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Heritage Dinner and Awards
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Reading Corps creates meaningful memories
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- National APIA support for voter empowerment
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Refugee Women’s Childcare Business Entrepreneurship Program
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