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AJSOCAL Summer Service 2024: A Day of Collective Impact
On August 15, 2024, AJSOCAL’s downtown Los Angeles office buzzed with the energy of volunteers, staff, and community partners who came together for our annual Summer Service event. This year’s event powerfully demonstrated what we can achieve through collective...
Nisei Week 2024: An Exploration of the Japanese American Experience
By Communications Intern, Skyler Pak Resilient. Gracious. Community-oriented. Proud. Respectful. Hard-working. Japanese Americans are this, and more. In honor of Nisei week, I connected with Japanese American family, friends and community members to talk about...
Don’t Be Fooled by the Fearmongering Around the Border: Part 3
What is the border really like? And what can we do to help address ongoing issues? By Martin Kim and Paul Estuar “A border is a dividing line, a narrow strip along a steep edge. A borderland is a vague and undetermined place created by the emotional residue of an...
Don’t Be Fooled by the Fearmongering Around the Border: Part 2
Funding enforcement will not help our communities By Martin Kim and Paul Estuar We were looking for the area where hundreds of Chinese immigrants had been kept at a time, without shelter or food...as we walked along the steel bollard fencing that made up this...
Don’t Be Fooled by the Fearmongering Around the Border: Part 1
National security rhetoric has historically been used to target Asian Americans By Martin Kim and Paul Estuar There were three cars of us, a mix of advocates and lawyers who had driven up a dusty road to the border wall near San Diego. We were on public land. We...
It’s Time for Equity! College4ALL’s 2024 Advocacy Day
This June, the College For All (C4A) coalition traveled up to Sacramento for our annual Advocacy Day trip. This year was especially important as the College For All Coalition is a co-sponsor of AB 1780 (Ting) Prohibiting Legacy Admission. Additionally, we had two new...
AJSOCAL Hosted Its First LGBTQIA+ Event, Jade Jubilee
We are excited to announce that AJSOCAL hosted its first LGBTQIA+ event this year in partnership with API Equality-LA and Viet Rainbow of Orange County (VROC)! On June 5th, over 70 attendees joined us in the Lavender District of Sacramento for Jade Jubilee, a...
Heritage Month Sacramento 2024
On May 14, Advancing Justice Southern California celebrated AAPI Heritage Month in Sacramento with over 60 guests in the Capitol Community! AAPI Heritage Month bears a significant meaning especially for Sacramento. In the 1850s, Chinese workers arrived in the...
Join AJSOCAL in Empowering Communities
In celebration of AAPI Heritage Month, Asian Americans Advancing Justice Southern California (AJSOCAL) proudly announces some new videos that can help address some of the most pressing concerns from our community – citizenship and access to healthcare. ...
YOUR HEALTH COVERAGE QUESTIONS ANSWERED
Navigating health coverage just got easier! We’ve created a new video series in eight Asian languages (Cantonese, Mandarin, Vietnamese, Korean, Hindi, Khmer, Thai, Tagalogs) covering almost everything you would want to know about Medi-Cal and Covered California. ...