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AJSOCAL was founded in 1983 as the Asian Pacific American Legal Center (APALC). AJSOCAL is a legal and civil rights organization for Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders (NHPI). AJSOCAL is located in Los Angeles, California, and also has satellite offices in Orange County and Sacramento. [2]
Stewart Kwoh (born September 16, 1948) is an American attorney, educator, and civil rights leader. Kwoh is the founding President and Executive Director of Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Los Angeles, formerly known as the Asian Pacific American Legal Center of Southern California (APALC). [1] [2] [3] [4]
Following the passage of the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act, representatives from Central American Resource Center (CARECEN), Asian Pacific American Legal Center (APALC) now known as Asian Americans Advancing Justice, [3] Los Angeles Center for Law and Justice, and Dolores Mission and other voluntary agencies and local legal service ...
A new survey released Wednesday shows a staggering 49% of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders were victims of a hate act in the U.S. last year, much of it happening under the radar amid a drop ...
NAPAWF has been advocating for Asian American Pacific Islander women since 1996, raising the alarm in the past year to the fact that Asian American women are more likely to be attacked in public ...
Founded in 1972, the Asian Law Caucus (ALC) is the United States' first legal aid and civil rights organization serving low-income Asian-Pacific American communities. [2] The ALC focuses housing rights, immigration and immigrant rights, [3] labor and employment issues, student advocacy (ASPIRE), [4] civil rights and hate violence, [5] national security [6] and criminal reform.
She has a long history of civil rights activism. Under Narasaki’s leadership, AAJC – which is affiliated with the Asian American Institute in Chicago, the Asian Pacific American Legal Center in Los Angeles, and the Asian Law Caucus in San Francisco – led the passage of the reauthorizations of key provisions of the Voting Rights Act of ...
In 2003, Chinese for Affirmative Action, the Asian Pacific American Legal Center, and the Asian Law Caucus jointly launched Asian Americans for Civil Rights and Equality (AACRE), a Sacramento, California–based organization doing progressive Asian American state-level political advocacy. [1] [2]