Free Legal Immigration Clinics for Young People
The Chinese Progressive Association continues to hold free immigration legal clinics to help young immigrants learn about Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals and see if they are eligible. Interested young people or their parents and family may come to the clinic to speak with a lawyer and get help in filing an application. The next clinic will be on Saturday December 8. Please let your members and clients know about the legal clinics. See below for more information.
- Get Information about “deferred action for childhood arrivals” – the new policy for certain immigrants who came to the US as children
- Talk to a lawyer
- Find out if you qualify for deferred action and a work permit
- Get help in filling out application
When: Saturday December 8 – 10:30 am to 2:30 pm
Where: Chinese Progressive Association, 83 Canal Street, Room 304 , (near Eldridge Street), New York, New York
Where: Chinese Progressive Association, 83 Canal Street, Room 304 , (near Eldridge Street), New York, New York
Please preregister
Contact us at 212-274-1891 or irp@cpanyc.org to preregister and for more information
Contact us at 212-274-1891 or irp@cpanyc.org to preregister and for more information
KALAGNY’s Annual Holiday Party
KALAGNY’s 2012 Holiday Party will take place at MK Karaoke Lounge in the heart of Koreatown. This year’s party will be held on Tuesday, December 11, 2012, from 6-9 p.m. We have reserved the entire lounge for our special, private event, so we hope you will join us as we ring in the holidays. We will provide delicious finger food and unlimited karaoke in both private rooms as well as the main lounge. This free event is open to KALAGNY members and guests (non-lawyers are encouraged to attend). We look forward to celebrating with you while looking forward to another great year of KALAGNY events.
Details:
Tuesday, December 11, 2012 from 6-9 p.m.
MK Karaoke Lounge
11 West 32nd Street, 5th Floor between 5th and 6th Ave. (map)
RSVP required. Click here to rsvp. Please rsvp by 5 p.m. on Monday, December 10, 2012. Click here to view pictures from last year’s event.
At the party, we will also collect donations for post-Sandy recovery efforts. Stay tuned for details.
NYIC Holiday Party Dec. 13
You’re Invited to
The New York Immigration Coalition
Holiday Party
and Annual Meeting
Thursday, December 13 at 6pm
Korean-American Association of Greater New York
145 W. 24th Street, 6th Floor
Join us for the election of the NYIC Board of Directors to reflect with friends
on the year past; and to re-energize ourselves for the year ahead.
Please RSVP at events@thenyic.org or by calling and leaving a message at 212-627-2227 x 242 with all your information by December 10, 2011
New date: Responding to Disaster in Working-Class New York: Housing and Community After Hurricane Sandy
Seen on the NYU A/P/A Institute website:
This event takes place on December 3, from 7 pm to 9 pm, at 8 Washington Mews, New York, NY, 10003.
Photo credit: Yuko Torihara
Join longtime activists, advocates, writers, and photographers to discuss the effects of natural disasters and poverty on low-income communities of color in New York City.
Panelists include:
Jason Chan, Organizer, CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities
Bethany Li, Staff Attorney, Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund
Alisa Pizarro, Public Housing Resident and Organizer, Red Hook Initiative
Damaris Reyes, Executive Director, Good Old Lower East Side
Garrett Wright, Staff Attorney, Community Development Project at the Urban Justice Center
With introductory remarks by Suketu Mehta, author of the critically-acclaimed Maximum City, and photographs by Open City magazine contributors Gina Chung, E. Tammy Kim, and Yuko Torihara.
Curated by E. Tammy Kim.
Cosponsored by the Asian/Pacific/American Studies Program in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities, Community Development Project at the Urban Justice Center, Good Old Lower East Side, Open City magazine of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, and Red Hook Initiative.
This event was originally scheduled for Wednesday, November 7, 2012 and was entitled New York for Sale: Housing Struggles in Chinatown and the Lower East Side. It was rescheduled and reframed due to Hurricane Sandy.
CUP Holiday Party Dec. 10
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On Monday, November 19, the AABANY Trial Re-enactment Team, led by the Hon. Denny Chin and Kathy Hirata Chin, presented for the second time this year a re-enactment of the Vincent Chin Murder Trial. The Hon. David F. Bauman, Presiding Judge, Civil Division, Superior Court of New Jersey, Monmouth County, saw the performance at the Eastern Super Regional in Atlantic City back in June and was so moved and riveted by it that he invited the team to present it at the New Jersey Judicial College, held at the Marriott Glenpointe in Teaneck, N.J., before an audience of New Jersey state court judges.
In the cast were the Hon. Denny Chin, John Bajit, Vincent Chang, Yang Chen, Francis Chin, Kathy Hirata Chin, Vinny Lee, Concepcion Montoya, Yasuhiro Saito, Vinoo Varghese, Ona Wang and David Weinberg.
The performance proved powerful yet again, with an especially moving turn by Ona Wang as Jimmy Choi, who held the dying Vincent Chin in his arms that fateful night thirty years ago in Detroit.
The Vincent Chin re-enactment script has been reprinted in a special edition of the AABANY Law Review that includes all the AABANY Trial Re-enactment scripts except for Heart Mountain, which was just performed at the NAPABA National Convention on November 17. (Photos here.) To find out how to obtain your copy go to http://lawreview.aabany.org/current-issue/.
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