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...
The replacement in 2004 of democratically elected Community School Boards (Boards) with appointed Community and Citywide Education Councils (CECs) has significantly reduced Asian American representation within New York City’s public school governing system. In 1999, 15 Asian Americans sat on old Boa...
New York, NY—The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) today announced the filing of a new lawsuit under state environmental laws to challenge the barricades around New York City Police Headquarters. These barricades, put in place almost three years ago after September 11, 2001, h...
New York, NY—With less than 30 days remaining until his scheduled deportation date, Mr. Malik Muhammad Akbar‘s request for deferred action was granted by the Department of Homeland Security on May 27, 2004. Mr. Akbar, age 66, and suffering from a multitude of physical illnesses, was placed in deport...
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) regularly monitors elections for compliance with the federal Voting Rights Act, specifically Section 203, which requires Chinese- and Korean- language voting assistance, and to document other voting problems. We observed first-hand a numbe...
New York, NY—Mohammad Belayet Hossain, a hard-working Brooklyn resident and father of a 10 year-old daughter, believed that February 19th would be his last day in the U.S. Instead, by asserting his right to remain in the United States, Mr. Hossain was granted an emergency stay from deportation by a ...
Asian Groups form JUSTICE FOR JAMES YEE
WHO: Justice for James Yee (David Wong Support Committee, Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, Organization of Chinese Americans-Long Island Chapter, Blue Triangle Network, Flushing Greens and Refuse and Resist) cosponsored by the Islamic Circle o...
Mira Nair, Alice Young, and Open Society Institute to Be Honored
Mira Nair, the internationally-acclaimed filmmaker and director of “Monsoon Wedding” and “Mississippi Masala;” Alice Young, partner at Kaye Scholer LLP and chair of the law firm’s Asia Practice; and Open Society Institute, the foundat...
