Make Change
This is an extraordinary time in the push for collective justice and shared liberation; with the upcoming elections there is an urgent need to educate, engage and mobilize AAPI communities like never before. Below you can read more about the policies impacting communities and active campaigns you can participate in.
Take Action
Action Alert: Save Your NOLA Library Campaign
Help protect public libraries in New Orleans from a 40% budget cut by voting in Louisiana’s runoff election on December 5, 2020! VAYLA New Orleans has joined the Save Your NOLA Library coalition and a growing number of diverse organizations,
Action Alert: Drop the Charges Against SEAA Organizers
VietLead’s Executive Director, Nancy Nguyen, and a group of Freedom Fighters were targeted for speaking out publicly against ICE Director Tony Pham for using his Viet refugee status to spearhead their terror campaign against Black and Brown immigrant and refugee
Support Community Organizing and Power during COVID-19
Despite the challenges that the COVID-19 pandemic have raised, our network partners have adapted and continued to organize and respond to the changing needs of their community members with their community outreach and engagement services, programming, and campaigns. As our
Advocacy and Policy
Expand Opportunity and Equity with Prop 16 in California
In California, voters have an opportunity this November to remove the state ban on affirmative action which has contributed to employment and education discrimination. Proposition 16 would permit government policies to consider race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in
Challenging the Primary Ballot Initiative in Florida
A proposed constitutional amendment on Florida’s Nov. 3 ballot would create an open-primaries system of voting. Amendment 3 would change Florida’s primary elections for state legislators, the governor and lieutenant governor, and elected cabinet members from a closed election to
Protecting the LGBTQ Community in Michigan
A campaign to protect the LGBTQ community in Michigan from discrimination with an amendment to a state law is one step closer to the ballot. Fair and Equal Michigan submitted 483,461 signatures to the state on October 13, 2020 in