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11.03.2015
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Advancing Justice | Chicago disappointed over McCarthy’s non-action

Contact:
Brandon Lee
773-271-0899 x200
blee@advancingjustice-chicago.org

Advancing Justice | Chicago disappointed over McCarthy’s non-action

Supt. McCarthy absent from scheduled meeting with community groups

Asian Americans Advancing Justice | Chicago is disappointed in Superintendent Garry McCarthy’s absence from a scheduled meeting with community organizations on October 28. Representatives from his staff, including his Chief of Staff James Roussell, General Counsel Ralph M. Price, and First Deputy John Escalante attended in his absence and informed community members that the Chicago Police Department would not be meeting the community’s demands to fire the officers involved with the abuse of Jessica Klyzek, an unarmed resident. (more…)

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10.06.2015
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Dr. Kathleen Yang-Clayton and the Asian American Movement 2.0 — at DePaul and UIUC this October

Kathleen-Yang-ClaytonDr. Kathleen Yang-Clayton, Advancing Justice | Chicago’s Acting Director is a collection of opposites. Her master’s degree is in natural resource and agricultural economics but her doctorate is in sociology. Yang-Clayton has worked in Chicago’s urban sprawl and sub-Saharan Africa. But held within her person, those disparate characteristics are clearly interwoven parts of the same narrative. In the same way, Yang-Clayton will connect three public narratives of multiethnic organizing through her years of research and experience.

She will present two lectures, at Depaul University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The first will be at 6 p.m. on Oct. 7 in Depaul’s Arts and Letters building. The second is at 4 p.m. in the Illini Union at the University of Illinois. Both programs are free and open to the public. (more…)

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KINETIC Art Gallery – October 8

Join us at the KINETIC Art Gallery on October 8, from 6-8pm at Royal Coffee.

At this gallery, KINETIC will share artwork we have created about our immigrant & refugee youth experiences. We will also share early results from the research we did this summer on the experiences of English Language Learner immigrant & refugee students in Chicago Public Schools. (more…)

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10.02.2015
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Rejecting the senior discount

By David Lee and Clare Ling

A faint scent of citrus wafts through Hanul Family Alliance in Albany Park, where orange slices are being passed around to awaiting seniors who have finished their Miyeokguk–a traditional Korean seaweed soup. In one corner, a huddle of older men flip through Korean newspapers and try to fend off the heat with small handheld fans. Others, sitting on plastic folding chairs with canes in arm’s reach, chat in their native tongue as they wait for their daily English lesson to begin.

Senior-DiscountFounded in 1987, Hanul, a Korean American senior center, is just one of the many organizations in Illinois that provides services to older adults with limited English proficiency. The daily lunches and English classes are augmented by paperwork assistance, cultural programming, and homecare nursing. (more…)

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09.10.2015
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Advancing Justice-Chicago & SAAPRI joint statement on hate crime against Sikh American man in Darien, IL

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 10, 2015

CONTACT:
Brandon Lee
Asian Americans Advancing Justice | Chicago
773-271-0899 x200
blee@advancingjustice-chicago.org

Reema Kapur
South Asian American Policy and Research Institute
773-373-9750
reema@saapri.org

ASIAN AMERICANS OUTRAGED BY XENOPHOBIC ATTACK ON SIKH AMERICAN MAN IN CHICAGO SUBURB

Asian Americans Advancing Justice | Chicago and South Asian American Policy and Research Institute (SAAPRI) are outraged by the heinous, xenophobic attack on Inderjit Singh Mukker, a 53 year old Sikh American resident from the Darien Suburb of Chicago. (more…)

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