CPA in the News
2009
Everyone Has a Right to Healthcare
by Wing Huang, www.thewip.net 11/5/09
30% Unemployment, Pre-Recession: Immigrant Communities Need Real Recovery (article)
Click Here For Video featuring Shaw San Liu, Lead Organizer
by Seth Freed Wessler, Huffington Post, 8/25/09
California Cuts Health Care Services
by Associate Press, 7/28/09
Healthy Families is Me! Video
by Youth MOJO, 6/1/09
Race and Recession: How Inequity Rigged the Economy and How to Change the Rules (Short Video)
by Applied Research Center, 5/18/09
Immigrants Granted Back Pay
The City Star, 2/23/09
2008
Hope for the Holidays
New America Media, 12/23/08
Economic Edge: Chinatown SRO
KALW 12/17/08
Greedy CEO's and Wage Theft
Marc Norton Online/Beyond Chron, 12/17/08
Common Roots Toxic Tour
KRON Aug 2008
Chinese and Latino Youth Team Up to Clean Up
New America Media, 8/3/08
2007
Progressive Convention Calls to Asian Americans Asian Week 6/8/07
First Official Day of Paid Sick Leave Finally Arrives BeyondChron 6/6/07
Boycott Monster Cable! Rally/Concert Photos Indybay, 5/17/07
Organizing Documented Immigrants to Fight for the Rights of the Undocumented Migrant Diaries Blog, 5/3/07 Chow Instigates Change Asian Week, 4/6/07
Monster Mashed SF Weekly, 3/7/07 Letters: Ed Jew on Monster Cable San Francisco Bay Guardian, 2/28/07 Fighting the Monster: City supports boycott of company that outsourced 120 jobs San Francisco Bay Guardian, 2/21/07 SF Chinatown Food Workers Get Thousands In Back Pay KTVU-TV, 2/15/07 Remembrance: PON, Lilley San Francisco Chronicle, 1/14/07
2006 Monster Cable's laid-off workers protest for more severance pay San Francisco Chronicle, 12/23/06
Laid-Off Monster Employees To March KGO-TV, 12/16/06 Stanford Today - Hundreds of Asian Student Activists & Workers Unite to Challenge Corporate Globalization Educational Justice Blog, 11/11/06 California’s ‘Elite Voter’ Syndrome: Slim Segment of State Population to Decide Next Week’s Election U.C. Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, 11/3/06 San Francisco Spotlights Workers' Stakes in Midterm Elections One World US, 11/1/06 Restaurant must pay $1 million to workers San Francisco Chronicle, 10/7/06
Fog City Journal, 8/10/06 Coalition for Paid Sick Days Presents Case BeyondChron, 8/7/06 Immigrant rights groups put unity in action People’s Weekly World, 7/20/06 Supervisors Enact Minimum Wage Enforcement Ordinance Street Sheet, 7/19/06 Mayor Newson Swears in Members of the Newly Established Sweatfree Procurement Advisory Group Office of the Mayor, 6/26/06 Workers want pay from Dragon: Back wages claimed as restaurant reopens under new name San Francisco Chronicle, 5/11/06 Immigrants boycott in their own ways... Legal Blog News, 5/2/06 Asian immigrant groups mobilize Oakland Tribune, 4/23/06 Minimum Wage Enforcement Ordinance placed on hold Fog City Journal, 4/13/06 Garment workers to get severance pay San Francisco Chronicle, 1/13/06
2005
‘Worker Centers’ Pick Up Where Unions, Govt. Leave Off The New Standard, 12/30/05 ECONOMY: China's Growth Bypassing Workers Inter Press Service, 12/21/05 Activists Ready For WTO Meeting David Louie Reports From Hong Kong KGO-TV, 12/12/05 Dislocated Chinese Garment Workers Exchange Across National Borders Bay Area WT-No Blog, 12/14/05 Our fraying garment industry: City ponders how to deal with job losses that might only get worse San Francisco Bay Guardian, [date?] Casual workers find wages going unpaid: 50,000 have filed complaints with the state this year San Francisco Chronicle, 11/18/05 S.F. Chinese garment workers retrain for new jobs Oakland Tribune, 9/27/05 Housing riddled with violations: Neighborhood survey shows rampant problems in single-room occupancy units San Francisco Chronicle, 9/23/05 EDITORIAL: Chinatown's slums San Francisco Chronicle, 9/22/05 Sweating slave labor: As state agents conduct sweeping raids, San Francisco is poised to pass the country's strongest anti-sweatshop law San Franisco Bay Guardian, [date?] EDITORIAL: Sweatshop crackdown San Francisco Chronicle, 6/30/05 Garment workers protest layoffs San Francisco Chronicle, 4/13/05 Underground Chinatown: The Bayview's cheap rents and factory jobs have made it a hub for Chinese immigrants San Francisco Bay Guardian, [date?] Chinese Immigrant Workers Protest Loss of Jobs to China ModelMinority, 4/12/05 Workers Tame Golden Dragon Restaurant Asian American Movement Ezine, 4/1/05 EDITORIAL: Long-overdue paychecks San Francisco Chronicle, 3/25/05 Restaurant files for bankruptcy, workers file claims for back wages Oakland Tribune, 2/22/05
OPEN FORUM: No sitting down on the job San Francisco Chronicle, 2/9/05 Lifting of import quotas a blow to garment factories: Bay Area apparel industry tattered by overseas competition -- immigrant workers try to start over after layoffs San Francisco Chronicle, 1/18/05
2004
Ben Davis signs worker contract: S.F. garmentmaker ends yearlong dispute over minimum wage San Francisco Chronicle, December 16, 2004 Employees say firms using bankruptcy to not pay wages San Francisco Chronicle, 11/4/04 Less than minimum: Enforcement of the city's new wage law is lax in immigrant communities like Chinatown San Francisco Bay Guardian, [date?] Welfare to exploitation: City cheats workers out of minimum wage in order to balance its budget San Francisco Bay Guardian, [date?] Low-Wage Workers Celebrate Groundbreaking Minimum Wage Victory Asian American Movement Ezine, 3/16/04
2003
Minimum wage jump welcomed: Increase can mean a lot to those earning a little San Francisco Chronicle, 11/6/03 Chinese-American Workers Campaign Hard for Higher Wage Northgate News Online, 10/29/03 S.F. program to fight SARS San Francisco Chronicle, 5/7/03 APAs Speak Out on War Community, like nation, divided on the issues Asian Week, 3/28/03 Chinese, Koreans in U.S. Fear War's Effect on Economy, Wonder Who's Next Pacific News Service, 3/25/03 A Big Hat to Fill What the APA community is saying about SF’s mayoral candidates Asian Week, 2/28/03 OPEN FORUM: Counting demonstrators or momentum? San Francisco Chronicle, 2/25/03 Bay Area anti-war coalition building the beginnings of a rainbow: Anti-war movement galvanizing minorities San Francisco Chronicle, 2/17/03 Garment pact called a rip-off San Francisco Chronicle, 1/15/03
2002
State labor commissioner pays nearly $1 million in back wages to garment workers California Labor & Workforce Development Agency, 10/9/02 Getting the max from the minimum: The drive for a minimum-wage hike should put poor people's needs first, advocates say San Francisco Bay Guardian, 7/16/02 Lock Box Lock Out: Wins of California owes over $1 million in back wages Asian Week, 3/22/02
2001 Monolingual Workers Want Justice Asian Week, 9/21/01 Chinese workers protest abrupt firings San Francisco Chronicle, 9/11/01 S.F. Plans Head Count Inside Its Squalid Hotels: Unknown number of resident families San Francisco Chronicle, 2/16/01
