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Bay Area APAP House Party - Features APA Emerging Leaders

Sat, 05/15/2010 - 12:34

The San Francisco Bay Area APAP House Party took place in Berkeley, CA. We were fortunate to have an impressive group of attendees including many emerging APA leaders from UC Berkeley, local public officials, national & state program directors/coordinators, an APAP board member and our special guest, Jennifer Pae, who is running for Oakland City Council.


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Jean Quan continues exploring race for mayor

Sat, 10/10/2009 - 16:25

Here's a positive article on Oakland City Councilmember Jean Quan in her uphill battle to become Mayor of Oakland. It's from Oakland North and it's entitled, "Jean Quan embraces "underdog" status in mayor's race: "Im not intimidated.""


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Last night at the Planning Commission ....

Thu, 10/08/2009 - 17:21

Last night I was at the Planning Commission. I got to play the role of egghead. The other neighborhood residents who spoke really spoke to my heart. Some of them:


Racist and Sexist "Geisha" Bar Gets Permit to Operate in Oakland Chinatown

Wed, 10/07/2009 - 23:54

Outrageous news out of Oakland from my good friends and community organzers and the work they're doing up there: Diana Pei Wu, Jenn Pae, Angelica Jongco, Xiaojing Wang, and Jen Mei Wu. [Please note: This is NOT an APA for Progress campaign, like some have mis-portrayed it.]


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Carrying on the Legacy of Lau v. Nichols: Chinese Immigrant Youth Organize for College Access

Wed, 06/03/2009 - 08:50

It's always great to hear stories about youth learning to be empowered community organizers and leaders.  In Oakland, the Asian Immigrant Women Advocates youth group is doing something about the disparities experienced by immigrant youth and college readiness.  They've been lobbying to make all high schools in Oakland and San Francisco require that all students complete college prep courses required by the University of California and Cal State University systems.  They've even made a gu


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Facing Race Conference Kicks off in Oakland, CA

Fri, 11/14/2008 - 10:03

Largest gathering of racial justice activists in the country

 

The Applied Research Center’s national conference ‘Facing Race’ kicked off yesterday in Oakland California to explore the innovative strategies and successful models of racial justice activism and to “outline a vision for the future of racial justice.” 

 

The Facing Race conference is purportedly the largest gathering of racial justice activists in the country, and the packed ballroom of over 500 people clearly showed the continuing power of the racial justice movement in the 21st century, and the renewed importance of the movement after the election of Barack Obama as President of the United States.  APA for Progress is here to screen the documentary film “Vincent Who?” and to give those of you who couldn’t make it (or who couldn’t afford the $350 registration fee…ouch) a play-by-play of the conference, which features some of the nation’s leading all-star progressives (Jeff Chang!  Rinku Sen!). 

 

Last night, in the ballroom of the Oakland City Center Marriot downtown, the conference opened with a welcome from host Daisy Hernandez, Editor of “Colorlines” magazine, followed by a raucous, knee-slapping-hilarious keynote address by Native American writer and activist Sherman Alexie,


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