Racial Justice Toolkit

Racial Justice Toolkit

This toolkit represents the work and thinking of 15 grassroots organizations with Asian American bases living in the most precarious margins of power: low-income tenants, youth, undocumented immigrants, low-wage workers, refugees, women and girls, and queer and trans people. It reflects their experiences with criminalization, deportation, homophobia, xenophobia and Islamo-racism, war, gender violence, poverty, and worker exploitation. All of the modules are designed to begin with people’s lived experiences, and to build structural awareness of why those experiences are happening, and how they are tied to the oppression of others. By highlighting the role of people’s resistance both past and present, the toolkit also seeks to build hope and a commitment to political struggle. In these perilous times, it is an intervention by today’s Asian American activists to restore our collective humanity across our differences through a practice of deep democracy, by looking first to history and then to one another to build a vigilant and expansive love for the people.

The Toolkit is a project hosted by Asian American Pacific Islanders for Civic Empowerment, which is a California statewide formation whose purpose is to advance state politics, campaigns and other issues that support low-income AAPIs by building statewide AAPI civic engagement infrastructure and serving as a resource for emerging AAPI organizations. The founding organizations are APEN, CPA, KRC, and FAJ.

 

 

The Toolkit project includes the following organizations:

Asian Pacific Environmental Network – Chinese Progressive Association SF  Korean Resource Center – Filipino Advocates for Justice  

CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities – PrYSM – DRUM  

Khmer Girls in Action – 1Love Movement – AYPAL: Building API Power  VAYLA New Orleans – Freedom Inc 

Korean American Resource and Culture Center – Mekong NYC – VietLEAD

Download the toolkit here.

#AAPIPower2018 CA June Primary Twitter Townhall!

#AAPIPower2018 CA June Primary Twitter Townhall!

Join us on May 21st at 1PM PST for a Twitter Townhall discussing #AAPIPower2018 and the issues we’re deciding on in the CA June Primary election. Participate in the live conversation withJenny Yang, Comic/Writer, Timmy Lu from AAPIs for Civic Empowerment Education Fund, Amy Horn from Khmer Girls in Action, Cha Vang from Hmong Innovating Politics (HIP) and Seng So from Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN)