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Amid a citywide reckoning with the urgent lack of affordable housing and a growing movement of tenants forced to organize to protect their rights, eight Chinatown Single-Room-Occupancy (SRO) tenants at 1350 Stockton and 371 Broadway and the Community Tenants Association (CTA) have won an unprecedented settlement that asserts their right to live peacefully in the neighborhood and buildings they call home.
Contending with systems designed to wear them down and shut them out, a small group of low-income Chinese immigrant tenants, all but one of whom are seniors, have won a collective fight to remain in their long-time rent-controlled homes, free from discrimination and harassment by one of San Francisco’s largest SRO management corporations.
'Transforming How We Look at Who is an Employer'
In celebration of our 50th anniversary, former and current ALC workers’ rights staff spoke about our history representing and organizing with immigrant workers who are too often denied good pay, safe working conditions, and respect at work. The panelists’ work at ALC spans from 1983 to today. One theme resonated from decade to decade: immigrant workers’ campaigns to hold accountable those with the most power to decide wages and working conditions.
Watch their discussionTeacher and Advocate Sophea Phea Returns Home from Deportation After 11 Years
Sophea Phea, who was deported to Cambodia in 2011, came home to her loved ones and community in Long Beach. While these are rare victories in a system designed to keep families apart, each homecoming underscores why California must end ICE transfers and keep families together.
Read moreAsian American Civil Rights Orgs: We Need Affirmative Action to Counter Systemic Racism in Education
Asian Americans Advancing Justice is calling on the Supreme Court to affirm the constitutional right to affirmative action, a long-held precedent that is still needed to counter systemic racism and white supremacy in our education systems.
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