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This Asian Pacific Islander Heritage Month, we invite you to imagine a more just and joyful future with us. A future where we all have the power and resources to thrive in safe and welcoming communities. Where we can shape the decisions that affect us. Where we take care of each other.For many of us, the past year has been defined by rapid response, as we showed up to support each other in the face of COVID-19, individual and systemic acts of anti-Asian violence, the deportation of community members and other crises. Yet at CAAL, we know the work doesn’t end when the headlines move on. In the midst of calls to rebuild and return to “normal,” we need leaders who can build from crisis moments toward our long-term work fighting for our shared future.

Through the month of May, CAAL is looking to our community to reach our goal of 150 donors to sustain our ongoing work; any contribution you make, whether it be $1 or $1000, will make a difference. Will you join us?

Communities Rally Against Anti-Asian Violence

“Love Our People, Heal Our Communities” Cross-Cultural Healing Events took place in Oakland and San Francisco

San Francisco & Oakland, CA — “In response to the recent surge in COVID-19 related violence against Asian American communities throughout the greater San Francisco Bay Area, the Coalition for Community Safety and Justice (CCSJ) in San Francisco joined forces with a coalition of organizations in Oakland to organize two parallel Days of Action this past weekend, both entitled “Love Our People, Heal Our Communities.”

On the first weekend of the Lunar New Year, and a few days after more than 70 Asian American organizations issued a press statement condemning the violence, these two events brought together a multiracial and multigenerational coalition to stand against racism, xenophobia, and violence, and to offer space for healing the grief and pain that Asian communities feel in light of recent events.

Together, they called for community-centered solutions to keep diverse communities safe. These include culturally-competent multilingual victim services, cross-racial education and dialogue, prevention-based programs (such as community patrols), and more.”

Read the rest of the statement here.

Resources:

  • Asian Organizations Across the Bay Area Join Forces to Demand Action Against Violence: Click here for more information.
    Yamuna Hopwood, Communications Manager; 415-274-6760 x319 [email protected] (English); Jin Xia Niu, Chinese Language Media Specialist; 415-274-6760 x313 [email protected] (English, Mandarin)
  • For those who wish to contribute to victims and survivors, please visit here.
  • CAA Responds to the Attacks in Atlanta Area

Both the Oakland and San Francisco events were also live-streamed to Facebook with ASL interpretation, where more than 300 people tuned in. The Oakland event can be viewed here and the San Francisco event here.

 

APANO Responds to Tragedy in Atlanta

APANO unites Asians and Pacific Islanders to build power, develop leaders, and advance equity through organizing, advocacy, community development, and cultural work. We envision a just world where Asians and Pacific Islanders and communities who share our aspirations and struggles have the power, resources, and voice to determine our own futures, and where we work in solidarity to drive political, social, economic, and cultural change. Learn more at www.apano.org.

How you can help:
Donate.. All donations will go directly to support the victims and their families and to support crisis intervention across the Asian American community.

Here are more ways to support efforts in Georgia.

AAAJ– Atlanta | A Community-Centered Response to Violence Against Asian American Communities

Collective Statement– A Community-Centered Response to Violence Against Asian American Communities in English, Chinese (中文), Korean (한국어), and Vietnamese (Tiếng Việt).

 

WAYS TO SUPPORT

Sign on to our collective community statement to stand in solidarity with us as we develop our community-centered response and denounce the misogyny, white supremacy, and systemic racism that motivate violence against Asian American communities and other communities of color.

A link to the full statement and individual and organizational sign-ons are here.

Donate to the victims of the violent acts and their families here.
All donations will go directly to support the victims and their families.

Share the resources you can offer to the victims and their families, other impacted community members, and community organizations involved in crisis response here.
The resources you might offer can include but are not limited to: mental health services (counseling, healing), other medical services, immigration legal services, interpretation or translation in Asian languages, victim advocacy/case management, assistance with fundraising for victims and their families, childcare, and/or food assistance. Share this link widely so others can add their community offerings as well.

National Bail Fund Network | Directory of Community Bail Funds

The National Bail Fund Network is made up of over sixty community bail and bond funds across the country. We regularly update this listing of community bail funds that are freeing people by paying bail/bond and are also fighting to abolish the money bail system and pretrial detention.

Note that this directory is currently limited to community bail funds that are regularly paying bail/bond within the criminal legal or immigration detention systems for community members as their central action.

The directory does not include the many legal defense funds that allied organizations hold that may include bail support and the numerous community-based organizations that periodically pay for bail and bond.

The community bail and bond funds that are part of the Network are dedicated to being an organizing tool aimed at ending pretrial and immigration detention.  As such, funds may end or suspend their activity at times when local dynamics and capacity change.  This directory is regularly updated as local community funds make choices about their role in organizing.

To access and share the NBFN directory → bit.ly/localbailfunds 

 

CPACS Food Pantry

CPACS has expanded our food pantry program to provide produce and pantry staples to the community! Our CPACS team is passing out food at the CPACS Main Office Parking Lot on Monday – Friday from 11 AM – 4 PM. Please practice social distancing guidelines when picking up food. Please call 770-936-0969 if you have any questions or in need of other assistance.

CPACS Main Office – 3510 Shallowford Rd. N.E., Atlanta, GA 30341

Visit their website for more information and updates: https://cpacs.org/

FAJ | Bayanihan Relief Fund

Filipino Advocates for Justice’s Bayanihan Relief Fund will help provide rapid response relief and assistance to those most impacted by COVID-19. Now more than ever we must come together as kapwa to support one another to get through this challenge. Our communities are on the front lines of this outbreak, from health workers to service workers, so let’s do our part to care for ourselves and for each other as each person’s health depends on everyone else’s.

Read more about the Bayanihan Relief Fund here

We are currently supporting elders, domestic workers, and low-income individuals and families living in Alameda or Contra Costa counties. We are currently offering up to $500 per individual/$1000 per household in direct cash assistance.  Please apply if you qualify. Due to a high volume of applications, this initial round of funding aims to make between 100 to 200 awards to be distributed in several rounds beginning in May. Please contact [email protected] for more info. 

You can donate today and support the fund here.

 

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