Articles for Asian American Justice Center

Between our battle to make health-care reform as inclusive as possible and our efforts to build momentum toward long overdue immigration reform, 2009 has been nothing short of exhilarating for immigrants’ rights advocates. And 2010 promises to require even more engagement from the field to promote and advance our common cause. Join AAJC Sunday-Tuesday at the 7th National Low-Income Immigrant Rights Conference so we can learn from each other, ...

Though we are on the brink of historic change regarding our nation’s haphazard health care system, it is stunning that even these sweeping reforms continue those policies that exclude legal immigrants.

At the closing ceremony, Karen K. Narasaki, president and executive director of the Asian American Justice Center, thanked everyone for making time to participate in the Advancing Justice Conference and invited everyone to Washington, DC, June 24 and 25, for next year’s conference. She noted, “We are coordinating with a number of AAPI organizations that will host concurrent events in the hope of creating a massive presence of AAPIs in the nation’s capital.”

A UCLA study found that Asians get the fewest local, state and federal contracts through government minority business programs. The study, commissioned by the Asian American Justice Center, focuses on San Francisco, Chicago and Atlanta to get a picture of what happens in metropolitan areas and national trends.

Asian American Justice Center Census 2010 Campaign  ...

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Everyone who works with adult ELL programs (otherwise known as ESL or ESOL) is invited to participate in this survey. This includes teachers, administrators, advocates, volunteers, researchers, supervisors, and everyone else who works to make sure that adults in the U.S. have the opportunity to learn the English language.

Untitled Document AAJC’s Narasaki Named to Most Powerful List  ...

AAJC's Aarathi Haig, staff attorney, featured in September issue of Asian Avenue magazine discussing Asian American contracting at the Burea of Land Management.

AAJC President and Executive Director Karen Narasaki and other Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community leaders attended the 2009 AAPI Summit on June 3, 2009.

AAJC President Karen K. Narasaki quoted in a USA Rise Up article

AAJC President and Executive Director Karen K. Narasaki's commentary about the first-ever Asian Pacific American Week of Action to drum up support among Asian Pacific Americans for comprehensive immigration reform in New American Media.

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By Alice Dong For Northwest Asian Weekly Aug. 6, 2009 The Asian American community has long borne the “model minority” myth which has contributed to concealing the major health concerns that face members of this community. There is currently a lack of access to linguistically and culturally competent care. Rising costs create major barriers to effective, quality health care. These barriers contribute to and exacerbate health conditions such as Hepatitis B, obesity in youth, ...

AAJC's Aarathi Haig quoted in Richmond Times-Dispatch discussing minority contracting.

By Terry M. Ao Sunday, May 3, 2009 Discrimination persists at the polls, so the Supreme Court should not retreat on this issue. We still need special protections for minority voters. On Wednesday, the Supreme Court heard the case of Northwest Austin Municipal Utility District Number One v. Holder. At issue is Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which requires certain states with egregious histories of racial discrimination to obtain Justice Department approval before ...

Five leading civil rights groups have created a partnership urging Congress to pass legislation that provides all children with affordable, quality health insurance by the end of the year, representatives of the groups said Friday at a Capitol Hill briefing. The National Council of La Raza (NCLA), the Asian American Justice Center (AAJC), the National Association for the Advancement for Colored People (NAACP), the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) and the Children’s Defense Fund ...

Activists and government officials say fears about immigration enforcement and government snooping are making people more reluctant to share their information. The economic meltdown and Bush administration budget cuts have slowed funding for the census. Millions of laid-off renters and foreclosed homeowners are on the move. There are more immigrants here, speaking more languages, than ever before. Some of those immigrants may not know what a census is, or may come from countries where such

Impressions of Karen K. Narasaki, President and Executive Director of AAJC on President Obama's Inauguration Speech reported by the Wall Street Journal.