An injured Korean worker who worked 72 hours a week at a New York City store won a major settlement today, receiving $28,000 to settle his claim for his unpaid overtime wages.
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) Korean Workers Project, with help from YKASEC—Empowering the K...
Multilingual Exit Polls Show Many Asian Americans are First-Time Voters and Share Common Concerns Across Ethnic Lines
Washington, DC—Asian American voters, despite their diverse backgrounds and languages, voiced common concerns across ethnic lines, citing the economy/jobs as the most important fact...
With analysis about Indo-Caribbean, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, and Indian Voters
Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund Releases New Exit Poll Results
New York—In celebration of Asian American Heritage Month, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund released new findings from its ...
Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund Releases New Exit Poll Results
New York—The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund released new findings from its national multilingual exit poll of almost 11,000 Asian American voters in the November 2004 Presidential Election, the largest n...
Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund Releases New Exit Poll Results
Boston, MA—The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund released new findings from its national multilingual exit poll of almost 11,000 Asian American voters in the November 2004 Presidential Election, the largest...
New York–The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund released new findings from its national multilingual exit poll of almost 11,000 Asian American voters in the November 2004 Presidential Election, the largest nonpartisan survey of its kind in the nation.
AALDEF’s new 17-page publication, ...
A Korean worker who worked 84 hours a week at a New York City grocery store for 12 years won a major settlement today, receiving $73,000 to settle his claim for his unpaid overtime wages.
The Asian American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (AALDEF) Korean Workers Project, with help from YKASEC—Em...
Civil rights legend Fred Korematsu, who was an AALDEF Justice in Action awardee and longtime friend of AALDEF, passed away at age 86 in California on March 30th. He is survived by his wife Kathryn, daughter Karen, son Ken, and son-in-law Donald Haigh. The AALDEF staff and board extend their deepest ...
YKASEC and AALDEF announced the launch of a ground-breaking new study aimed at collecting information about low-wage Korean workers in New York City—the first such study of its kind.
There are over 200,000 Korean Americans working in the New York City area, many of them working poor such as waiters...
YKASEC, AALDEF, and the Korean-Chinese Association of New York announced the launch of a comprehensive new initiative today aimed at protecting the rights of workers in New York City’s growing Korean-Chinese community.
Over the past decade, the population of Korean-Chinese (defined as ethnic Korean...
New York—Robert T. Matsui, a 14-term Congressman from Sacramento, California, passed away on January 1 after a brief illness. Rep. Matsui, 63, was head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and one of the highest-ranking Democrats in the House. A former AALDEF Justice in Action honoree,...
The AALDEF Korean Workers Project (KWP) is the only project in the East Coast designed specifically to serve the needs of low-income workers of Korean descent.
The Project provides traditional direct legal services, and also works in conjunction with YKASEC—Empowering the Korean American Community ...
Voters Express Greatest Concern about Jobs and the Economy
New York—The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) today announced preliminary findings from its multilingual, nonpartisan exit poll of almost 11,000 Asian American voters in eight states. Asian American voters responded ...
Longtime Voters Improperly Required to Show ID; Many Cast Provisional Ballots; Shortage of Bilingual Poll Workers Contributes to Long Lines
New York—A heavy turnout of Asian American voters in today’s Presidential election, especially among new citizen and first-time voters, was marred by complaint...
New York City Chinatown residents, small business owners and elected officials joined the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) on today in applauding the New York State Supreme Court decision in Chatham Towers, Inc. et al. v. Bloomberg et al., which found that the City violated s...
The Asian American Legal Defense & Education Fund (AALDEF), a 30-year-old New York-based civil rights organization, announced that Steven Choi, a Harvard Law School graduate and 2004-05 Skadden Fellow, has joined the AALDEF staff to launch the Korean Workers Project, designed to meet the critical le...
New York, NY—On September 17, 2004, CBS News reported that the FBI was planning to conduct rounds of interrogations, surveillance and possible detentions to deter possible disruptions around the Presidential elections. The FBI agents will be aggressively conducting surveillance of persons identified...
TESTIMONY TO SUPPORT HEALTH CARE AND MEDICAL RESEARCH FOR RESIDENTS OF LOWER MANHATTAN
SUBMITTED TO THE HOUSE SUBCOMMITTEE ON NATIONAL SECURITY.
EMERGING THREATS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS ON SEPTEMBER 8, 2004
BY STANLEY MARK, PROGRAM DIRECTOR
Good afternoon. My name is Stanley Mark and I am th...
Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund Announces National Voter Complaint Hotline (800.966.5946), Election Day Poll Monitoring and Multilingual Exit Polls in Five States
Washington, DC—On August 6, the 39th anniversary of the federal Voting Rights Act, the Asian American Legal Defense and ...
Contact:
Wayne Lum
Kwong Eng, OCA, kwong_eng(at)yahoo.com
Who: The parents of Chaplain James Yee along with the Justice for James Yee Ad Hoc Committee and Council Member John Liu will host a press conference on Chaplain Yee’s resignation from the U.S. Army
What: Statements will be presented in sup...