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A still of a historical photo from CAA's documentary Block by Block featuring two elders seated on school desks with open workbooks while their classmates, also elders, are writing in their books.

CAA | Documentary on Advancing Education Equity in San Francisco’s Chinatown

Chinese for Affirmative Action (CAA) has a long and storied history of advancing education equity for low-income, working class, and immigrant students. CAA is now announcing their new short documentary Block by Block: The Struggle to Bring Community College to San Francisco Chinatown. This documentary constitutes the first activity of the CAA Oral History Project in collaboration with UC Berkeley Asian American Research Center and Ethnic Studies Library.

Read more about it here.

In-person public and private showings of Block by Block are currently being scheduled and if you’d like updates as they are available, or to consider hosting a screening, please fill out this form.  

Watch the trailer below.

Bystander hate incident intervention trainings for community members

To combat the current rise in harassment and discrimination and to also proactively prepare for the future increase of hate incidents, Advancing Justice | Chicago is partnering with New York-based nonprofit Hollaback! and CAIR-Chicago to plan and implement an aggressive scaling up of locally-led bystander hate incident intervention training for community members.

Attend a Training

Thursday, April 1, 4:00PM: Register here
Wednesday, April 7, 10:00AM: Register here
Thursday, April 8, 1:00PM: Register here
Tuesday, April 13, 5:00PM: Register here
Wednesday, April 21, 3:00PM: Register here
Thursday, April 22, 4:00PM: Register here
Wednesday, April 28, 2:00PM: Register here
Thursday, April 29, 2:00PM: Register here

If your organization or community group would like to learn more or sign up for a training, please email [email protected].

 

 

EmergenSEA Corps | COVID-19 Community Needs Request & Volunteer Form

EmergenSEA Corps is a small rapid response pod of young (healthy!) community members who are ready to help! We understand things can change at any time and want to assess and meet the needs and requests that come in. We are volunteer-led so please be patient with requests.

Fill out the form here

To be efficient and effective with our response, we are only able to assist the following.

COMMUNITIES:
-Minneapolis, Saint Paul, and surrounding Twin Cities metro area within 10 mile radius.
-Southeast Asian, Asian American, Pacific Islanders who are refugees, immigrants, displaced, and/or vulnerable communities (elderly, immunocompromised, medically fragile, and frontline medical workers).

SEAD’s current resources that are provided from our team for free:
-Masks: Reusable hand sewn cloth masks
-Sanitizer: Mini spray bottles for travel only
-Saturday May Meals: Saturdays only for month of May (individually prepared meals, up to 6 meals per household)
-Essentials Transporters: Pick or drop off for essentials such as groceries, medications, etc
-Telehealth Line: General medical help via phone/video call by licensed nurse and physician assistant (currently English or Lao only)
-Care package [PENDING]: Limited digital + physical care packages in-language for Southeast Asian communities.

TIMELINE:
As a first rule of thumb, check in with your neighbors and loved ones if they already have resources to help. We try to respond within 24 hours of receiving each request and fulfill them within 2-7 days. If we don’t have the resource, we will direct you to the appropriate organizations and individuals who are able to help.

This is currently a growing community-led group hosted by The SEAD Project. If you have any questions, email [email protected] or call 612-987-7313.