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Highlights from APEN's History

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    APEN history

  • 1st National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit, sparked APEN idea

    1st National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit, sparked APEN idea

  • Memo sent to API leaders to form API EJ Network

  • APEN founded!

  • Conducted community needs assessment & demographic research

  • Laotian Organizing Project (LOP) launches in Richmond

    Laotian Organizing Project (LOP) launches in Richmond

  • Asian Youth Advocates (AYA) launches in Richmond

  • Launched first education campaigns: lead in Asian dishware, seafood contamination, & military toxics in Base conversions

    Launched first education campaigns: lead in Asian dishware, seafood contamination, & military toxics in Base conversions

  • Served on the National EJ Advisory Council (NEJAC)

  • LOP opened Community Garden

  • Seafood Consumption Report released

    Seafood Consumption Report released

  • LOP launched Multi-Lingual Warning System campaign

    LOP launched Multi-Lingual Warning System campaign

  • AYA wins student advisory program in Richmond high schools

    AYA wins student advisory program in Richmond high schools

  • LOP wins county Multi-Lingual Warning System

    LOP wins county Multi-Lingual Warning System

  • LOP helps pass one of the highest living wages in the country

    LOP helps pass one of the highest living wages in the country

  • Power in Asians Organizing (PAO) launches in Oakland

    Power in Asians Organizing (PAO) launches in Oakland

  • PAO helps win Oakland Just Cause Ordinance to protect renters

  • 2nd National EJ Summit: helped draft Youth EJ Principlers & Principles of Working Togethe

  • PAO & allies stop Chinatown Pacific Renaissance Plaza evictions

    PAO & allies stop Chinatown Pacific Renaissance Plaza evictions

  • With the EJ Working Group, incorporates EJ program in CalEPA

  • LOP helps launch Richmond Just Cause Ordinance campaign

    LOP helps launch Richmond Just Cause Ordinance campaign

  • PAO launchs the Oak-to-9th Community Benefits campaign

    PAO launchs the Oak-to-9th Community Benefits campaign

  • PAO launches AXT Worker Health & Justice campaign

    PAO launches AXT Worker Health & Justice campaign

  • LOP helps Richmond implement nation’s first multi-lingual warning system

    LOP helps Richmond implement nation’s first multi-lingual warning system

  • PAO wins AXT campaign for lifetime health monitoring of workers

    PAO wins AXT campaign for lifetime health monitoring of workers

  • PAO wins landmark Oak-to-9th Community Benefits Agreement

    PAO wins landmark Oak-to-9th Community Benefits Agreement

  • PAO & coalition win Pacific Renaissance campaign to keep & add affordable housing

    PAO & coalition win Pacific Renaissance campaign to keep & add affordable housing

  • LOP launched campaign against Chevron refinery expansion

  • LOP & coalition filed lawsuit against Richmond & Chevron expansion for flawed EIR

  • PAO launched Lake Merritt BART Development Project campaign

  • LOP & coalition win lawsuit against Chevron’s expansion EIR

  • Launched the Asian Pacific American Climate Change Coalition (APACC)

    Launched the Asian Pacific American Climate Change Coalition (APACC) to organize a power APA voice on climate change policy. After training over 100 organizations serving the diverse APA population in California on climate change and environmental justice, APACC has been educating advocating for equitable climate and energy policy in Sacramento.
  • Stopped a $1 billion expansion of Chevron’s Richmond oil refinery

    Stopped a $1 billion expansion of Chevron’s Richmond oil refinery

    Stopped a $1 billion expansion of Chevron’s Richmond oil refinery – California’s largest industrial source of greenhouse emissions – to refine dirtier crude oil, preventing the emission of an additional 900,000 tons of greenhouse gases and other toxic pollutants.

  • Organized the only Asian language voter ID and GOTV field program to defeat Proposition 23

    Organized the only Asian language voter ID and GOTV field program to defeat Proposition 23 – the most important climate, clean energy and jobs victory in the nation in 2010. APEN had one-on-one conversations with over 15,000 Chinese immigrants in Cantonese and Mandarin in California.

  • Played a leadership role with Communities United to Defeat the Dirty Energy Proposition (Proposition 23)

    Played a leadership role in formation and on the executive committee of Communities United to Defeat the Dirty Energy Proposition (Proposition 23).
  • APEN begins annual participation in annual Oakland Running Festival

    APEN begins annual participation in annual Oakland Running Festival

  • APEN leaders voted on and selected the organization’s first joint statewide campaign on renewable energy and jobs.

    At a historic APEN leader retreat in October 2011, APEN leaders voted on and selected the organization’s first joint statewide campaign on renewable energy and jobs.

  • Leads the development of a model Transit-oriented Development Project in Oakland’s Chinatown

    Leads the development of a model Transit-oriented Development Project in Oakland’s Chinatown to demonstrate how to successfully reduce land-use related greenhouse gas emissions and create healthy and thriving communities that include existing low-income residents.
  • CEJA Convening and Lobby Day

    CEJA Convening and Lobby Day