The Massachusetts Superior Court has upheld an earlier decision by the American Arbitration Association ordering three veteran Lowell school teachers reinstated with full back pay, seniority, and benefits.
On Nov. 30, Justice Christine McEvoy ordered the Lowell School Committee to immediately compl...
Dallas Morning News, November 16, 2006
“…According to the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, Asian-American voter turnout was high for the midterm elections.
Margaret Fung, the New York-based fund’s executive director, said: ‘We are heartened by the growing Asian-American voter turno...
Aired 6:30pm, on November 9, 2006, on Pacific Time on KQED-NPR
According to exit polls in eight states by the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, Asian Americans came out in greater-than-ever numbers in Tuesday’s midterm elections. Their votes had significant effects on some of the cou...
A Toolkit for Grassroots Leaders
The anti-affirmative action ballot Proposal 2, proposed by out-of-state California businessmen, received a No vote of 42% and a Yes vote of 58% among all Michigan voters on Tuesday, Nov. 9th. But three in four of approximately 300 Asian American and Arab American vo...
AALDEFs Election Protection 2006 efforts were made possible by many groups that mobilized volunteer attorneys, law students, college students and community activists.
National Co-Sponsors
Asian Pacific Islander American Vote
Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
National Asian Pacific Ame...
Ann Arbor News, November 6, 2006
“Affirmative Action Does Help Asians”
To the Editor:
Carl Cohen’s claim, in his Nov. 1 Other Voices essay, that affirmative action benefits blacks and Latinos to the detriment of Asian Americans is baseless and irresponsible. Affirmative action, in addition to hel...
Outlook is the biannual newletter of the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund. To receive every edition of Outlook in the mail, please consider an AALDEF membership.
Click to read the FALL 2006 EDITION as a PDF.
In this issue:
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Jewelry Factory Worker Awarded
$70,000 in Back Wag...
“Tracked in America: Stories from the History of U.S. Government Surveillance,” a newly launched online documentary, marks the most comprehensive effort to examine the history of surveillance in America. Featured on the site are the personal stories of 25 individuals affected by surveillance and six...
The New Jersey Asian American Legal Project (NJ-AALP) is an initiative of the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) to address the unmet legal needs of Asian Americans in New Jersey.
Although there are over half a million Asian Americans living in New Jersey, few resources are av...
Join us for an informational session on Tuesday, September 26th to discuss:
Recent incidents in Edison and impact on South Asian community
Exercising your civil rights and accessing benefits as an immigrant
Policies and laws affecting immigrants locally and nationally
Legal resources and service...
Venue: The Nave of the Riverside Church in New York City
490 Riverside Drive
New York, New York 10027
212-870-6700
6:30 p.m.
Breakthrough: building human rights culture and Mission and Social Justice of The Riverside Church present:
Why Cant America have Human Rights?
A Public Forum to streng...
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) has launched a new Youth Law Project offering resources and legal representation to Asian youth and youth groups.
What issues do we focus on?
Fair treatment in public education, including:
Discrimination by school officials
School di...
Volunteer Sign-Up Forms Now Available Online
In past elections, Asian Americans have faced a series of barriers in exercising their right to vote. For example, poll workers were rude, hostile, or racially discriminatory, poll sites had too few interpreters and so Asian American voters were turned a...
PRESS CONFERENCE & RALLY WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6 12 NOON @ GROUND ZERO (corner of Liberty St. & Church St.)
TRAINS: Fulton St.: 2/3/4/5/J; Broadway/Nassau: A/C; Cortlandt St.: R/W; World Trade Center: E
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WE DEMAND that the government make reparations and immediately:
ADMIT that gov...
The Queens Museum of Art presents
Suitcases on Tour: Chanika Svetvilas & the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF)
a program of Fatal Love ’06
Saturday, August 19, 2006
3:15 p.m.
Within the performance/installation Suitcases on Tour, red, orange, and yellow plexiglass suitcas...
New York Times, August 18, 2006
“The civil rights leader Andrew Young, who was hired by Wal-Mart to improve its public image, resigned from that post last night after telling an African-American newspaper that Jewish, Arab and Korean shop owners had ‘ripped off’ urban communities for years, ‘sellin...
Volunteers from the Lehman Brothers will partner with AALDEF on July 22 in Flushing, Queens, to educate Asian Americans about their legal rights and to register new voters. Asian American communities often do not have access to free, in-language legal advice, and represent an emerging electorate as ...
Where: Silk Road Mocha, 30 Mott Street
Fee: suggested $8/general admission; $5/AALDEF member
RSVP: Please call MoCA at (212) 619-4785
The RSVP list is currently full. To be placed on the waitlist, please call (212)619-4785.
Golden Venture tells the story of four Fujianese immigrants who came to ...
On June 13, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) submitted to Congress a comprehensive report on the Voting Rights Act, in which it finds that voters continue to face pervasive racial discrimination, harassment, and institutional barriers in the electoral process.
AALDEFs re...
