Throughout 2023, we will remember and celebrate the people and moments that have led to the API movement as we are living it today. We will gather periodically throughout the year at events in person and virtually so that leaders, neighbors and change-makers can be further seen, better known, and even more solidly unified.
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The Monterey Park Lunar New Year Victims’ Fund (“the Fund”) was established by Asian Americans Advancing Justice Southern California (“AJSOCAL”) in coalition with local AAPI-serving community-based organizations and philanthropies, to raise funds in support of the families who lost loved ones and survivors who were physically injured during the January 21, 2023, shooting at the Star Ballroom Dance Studio in Monterey Park, CA (“the Shooting”). The Fund will distribute funds as gifts to victims and survivors of the Shooting. The funds may be used however the recipients wish.
From the start, the Fund has been guided by a local Steering Committee comprised of representatives from AJSOCAL and the various organizations that launched the Go Fund Me fundraiser immediately following the Shooting. Decisions about eligibility and distribution are made by the local Steering Committee with intentions of transparency, integrity, compassion, and fairness. This Final Protocol contains the rules which govern this Fund and was created with guidance from National Compassion Fund (“NCF”), which has led numerous similar efforts after mass casualty events.
Asian Americans Advancing Justice Denounces Supreme Court Decision on Affirmative Action
In response to the Supreme Court’s decision today in SFFA v. Harvard and SFFA v. UNC striking down the race-conscious admissions policies at both schools, Asian Americans Advancing Justice (Advancing Justice) denounced the decision as an attack on civil rights and called for an increased commitment from universities and policymakers to ensure equitable opportunities for all students and diversity in higher education.
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In partnership with local community organizations, Asian Americans Advancing Justice Southern California hosts free citizenship application workshops where our staff and volunteers help verify eligibility for citizenship, complete the citizenship application, and prepare a fee waiver request for individuals who qualify.
BYSTANDER INTERVENTION TRAININGS
In these virtual workshops hosted on Zoom and co-sponsored by Asian Americans Advancing Justice Southern California and Right To Be (formerly known as Hollaback!), you’ll learn how you can intervene effectively as a bystander without ever compromising your safety.
