Topic: Newsroom

Friend of Educational Opportunities In Chinatown and City College Chancellor Don Griffin to Announce Fundraising Campaign To Raise $400,000 to Furnish Chinatown Campus in Last Leg of Construction (Media Advisory)

Posted on October 26, 2011 by susan

Friends of Educational Opportunities in Chinatown (FEOC), along with City College Chancellor Don Griffin and presidents of Chinese Six Companies will announce a community fundraising campaign to raise $400,000 to furnish the new Chinatown/North Beach Campus that is scheduled to open in Fall 2012.MEDIA ADVISORY
For Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Contact: Susan Hsieh, [...]

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VIDEO: API Equality “Flash Mob” Wins Hearts and Minds on LGBTQ Acceptance

Posted on October 24, 2011 by susan

The flash mob dancers in Portsmouth Square. This action was made possible with the help of 2011 Summer Interns Patty Chen, Alyssa Tison, Phuong Tseng, and Emily Wang and Lead Organizer Vanessa Coe.
Visitors and longtime residents in the heart of San Francisco Chinatown were treated to a spectacle on an August weekend afternoon when [...]

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VIDEO: Mayoral race heats up at campaign event in Chinatown (KTVU)

Posted on September 30, 2011 by susan
Mayoral Candidates Heat up Race at Chinatown Forum - KTVU

SF mayoral race heats up at campaign event in Chinatown — Amber Lee reports
Click on image to watch the video at www.ktvu.com/video/29335596/index.html

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Chinese for Affirmative Action Mayoral Debate: Central Subway, Bruce Lee, and Zynga (Huffington Post)

Posted on September 30, 2011 by susan

Matthew Harrison Tedford
9/30/11
The mayoral debate presented by Chinese for Affirmative Action on Wednesday September 28th heralds the beginning of the end for the sixteen candidates vying for the executive office. The event, held at the Chinese Culture Center in Chinatown, was a raucous affair, replete with booing, hissing, Mayor Ed Lee’s late entrance in the [...]

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SF Mayoral Candidates Forum Tomorrow Night in Chinatown (Media Advisory)

Posted on September 27, 2011 by susan

Chinese for Affirmative Action (CAA) will host a bilingual English and Cantonese forum for the 2011 San Francisco mayor’s race. With the election less than two months away, this is an opportunity for candidates to speak directly to the community and articulate how they will represent San Francisco as mayor.For Release [...]

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VIDEOS: Interviews with the 2011 SF Mayoral Candidates

Posted on September 27, 2011 by susan

Note: all candidates were invited to interview with CAA, but not all participated. The videos are featured in order of their film dates from first to last.
David Chiu:

Ed Lee:

Emil Lawrence:

Wilma Pang:

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Bill May Improve Services for Asian Populations (KQED Radio)

Posted on September 19, 2011 by susan

CAA Executive Director Vincent Pan talks about the need for disaggregating data among the Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander populations through California bill AB 1088.

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Redrawing district maps for supervisors kicks off (SFGate.com)

Posted on August 17, 2011 by susan
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Jenny Lam, director of community initiatives for Chinese for Affirmative Action, will serve as vice chair of the Redistricting Task Force.By Rachel Gordon
Aug. 17, 2011
San Francisco’s decennial redistricting exercise officially got under way when the nine-member panel which will redraw the lines for the 11 supervisors’ districts got briefed on the momentous assignment.
”You’ll find yourselves [...]

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VIDEO: City College Chinatown Campus “Topping Out” Press Conference & Tour

Posted on July 25, 2011 by susan
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The 14th and final floor of the City College Chinatown/North Beach Campus is finished! This is a major milestone in the long story and struggle that brought this new campus to Chinatown. To celebrate and announce this milestone, Friends of Educational Opportunities in Chinatown (a coalition that CAA is a part of) hosted a press [...]

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VIDEO: SFGate’s “Changemakers 2011″ profiling Executive Director Vincent Pan

Posted on July 3, 2011 by susan
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