Attorneys, Law Students, and Volunteers to Review Federal Voting Rights Laws and Documentation of Voting Rights
Boston, MA—The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), a 32-year-old civil rights group, will train volunteers for its Massachusetts Election Protection 2006 efforts on ...
For more information, contact:
Joel Magallan, Asociación Tepeyac: (212) 633-7108
Shirley Lin, AALDEF: (212) 966-5932 x213
Carolyn de Leon, CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities (718) 478-6849
Miguel Ramirez, Centro Hispano Cuzcatlán (718) 298-5083
Walter Sinche, NYUIR: (347) 684-7340
Representatives ...
Press Conference and Presentation of Border Wall of Remembrance and Resistance” on Monday, Oct. 16th at Union Square
NEW YORK UNITED FOR IMMIGRANT RIGHTS
In the face of recent anti-immigrant legislation passed by Congress, New York United for Immigrant Rights (NYUIR)—a coalition of more than 60 im...
Multilingual Asian American Exit Poll Survey Expands in Eight States
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), a 32-year-old civil rights group, today announced the details of its Election Protection 2006 efforts on Election Day, Tuesday, November 7. More than 625 attorneys, law...
New York—The Chinese Staff and Workers Association and the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) announced today a settlement of a lawsuit against the New York State Department of Labor (DOL). The federal lawsuit (Chinese Staff and Workers Association v. New York State Department ...
Arguments Highlight the Need for Racially Integrated Classrooms
Washington, D.C.—Today, the civil rights groups Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) and Asian American Justice Center (AAJC), with educational and advocacy groups nationwide, filed amicus briefs in the United State...
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...
Ground Zero clean-up workers, Lower Manhattan residents and other workers devastated by the toxic fallout of 9/11 speak out at Ground Zero
For Immediate Release
Contact: Karah Newton (212) 358-0295
WHAT: Rally and Press Conference where hundreds of Ground Zero clean-up workers, Lower East Side and...
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...
We, the undersigned organizations, issue this public statement to express our deep concerns about the recent incidents in Edison, New Jersey that have led to the arrest of an Indian man at a public rally, and have strained tensions in Edison among members of the South Asian community, the Edison com...
For 11-Hour Days, Nearly No Overtime and Hundreds in Unpaid Wages
New York—Mr. Xiao Wei Lu, an immigrant from China, has received $1,400 from his former employer, a Brooklyn-based Chinese food manufacturing company, in a settlement reached by his attorney Steven Choi of the Asian American Legal Def...
Flushing, NY—With placards reading “Pay the unpaid wages!” and “Shame on you, Chong Min Mun,” seven former employees of the closed Flushing banquet hall Young Vin Kwan and its parent company, Seoul Plaza Ltd., protested outside the office of owner Chong Min Mun today in Flushing, Queens. Mr. Mun owe...
Washington, D.C.–Today, President George W. Bush signed into law the Fannie Lou Hamer, Rosa Parks, and Coretta Scott King Voting Rights Act Reauthorization and Amendments Act of 2006. The Act extends vital protections for minority voters under the Voting Rights Act for twenty-five years, through 203...
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 ...
