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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]
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.
Nearly 3,800 incidents of hate crime or discrimination against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders were reported between March 2020 and February 2021. 11 ways to support Asian American, Pacific ...
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) is a New York-based national organization founded in 1974 that seeks to protect and promote the civil rights of Asian Americans. By combining litigation, advocacy, education, and organizing, AALDEF works with Asian American communities across the country to secure human rights for all.
A U.S. appeals court has blocked Florida from enforcing a ban on Chinese citizens owning homes or land in the state against two Chinese nationals who were in the process of buying property when ...
Asian Americans have long had the fastest-growing undocumented population, tripling over a 15-year period, from 2000 to 2015, and the number of Chinese nationals crossing into the U.S. has ...
Su started her legal career at the Asian Pacific American Legal Center (later known as Advancing Justice Los Angeles), a non-profit civil rights organization, where she served as a Litigation Director. Su was the lead attorney for the El Monte Thai garment slavery case. [15]