Karen Ung has been a part of CPA since 2015, first with Youth MOJO, and now with CPA Activist Network.

Yumei Lu immigrated to the United States last year with her husband and child, and moved to the southeast part of San Francisco. Since then, she has grown as a leader with CPA this past year.

My name is Calvin, I’m 15 years old, a sophomore at International High School and a new member of CPA this year. My first exposure to CPA was when a good friend of mine requested for me to join a fundraiser event hosted by MOJO as a guest.

This past summer, 12 youth from CPA and PODER embarked on a transportation summer, living into environmentally just transportation, youth agency, and transformation.

TWC recently wrapped up a workers outreach fellowship with four amazing grassroots leaders!

November 5, 2024 Elections are Coming Up! Vote Early!

For 52 years, the Chinese Progressive Association (CPA) has educated, organized and empowered low-income and working class Chinese immigrant communities in San Francisco to build collective power and win better living and working conditions for all people.

Dear community,

Happy Lunar New Year! Over the weekend, we welcomed members, their families, Activists, OGs and elders, and friends of CPA to celebrate the new year and warm our new office space.

Through our CHS (Community Healing & Solidarity) work over the past two years, we have developed out resources & materials! We hope can be useful to you:

In Summer 2023, Youth MOJO leaders launched the “Ama-Zine Mental Health” – sharing mental health awareness and resources for San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) students. The zine aims to create youth solidarity around mental health and promote collective healing through sharing personal stories, statistics and resources regarding youth mental health, and more.

Forging Our Futures is CPA’s platform envisioning a world where we can live in our full dignity. We build this vision from our lived experiences, with our community members, and our past and future generations.

In 2019, five organizations founded the Coalition for Community Safety and Justice (CCSJ) — Chinese for Affirmative Action, Chinatown Community Development Center, Chinese Progressive Association, Community Youth Center, and New Breath Foundation.

All over the country, communities are shifting decision-making power to neighborhood residents, students and teachers, workers and tenants, and introducing real accountability to make sure that governing institutions uphold everyone’s fundamental human rights. Partners for Dignity & Rights and Race Forward are excited to announce the release of our new report, Co-Governing Toward Multiracial Democracy, featuring powerful models of collaborative governance led by communities of color across the country.

by lauren liu 劉寶恩, lcsw – jan. 2023 As our communities continue to grieve, mourn, and heal, we wanted to make this offering to our community members. We hope these frameworks, reminders, and practices can give you tools to process grief in these hard times.

CPA condemns Board of Education Commissioner Ann Hsu’s racist remarks on a candidate questionnaire. Not only are such remarks inaccurate and wholly false, but they also promote a racist stereotype about Black and Latinx families that obscure the broader inequities impacting communities of color across our city.

The Chinese Progressive Association mourns the loss of a community leader, visionary trailblazer, social justice warrior, mother and grandmother, Wilma Chan. We extend our deepest condolences to her family and loved ones grieving her sudden passing.

SAN FRANCISCO –– Twenty-two servers, bussers, cooks, and other kitchen staff at Z & Y, a Chinatown restaurant on the Michelin Bib Gourmand list, won a settlement of $1.61 million for stolen wages, tips, penalties and interest, joining a wave of low-income, immigrant workers standing up for their rights and an equitable restaurant industry in the Bay Area.

On Thursday, July 15th 2021, twelve Chinatown residents and leaders spoke with workers at the Return 2 Work outreach blitz hosted by the Chinese Progressive Association. Over 400 “Know Your Rights” flyers with a checklist of workplace rights including minimum wage, mandatory breaks, paid sick leave, and COVID-19 health and safety guidelines were distributed to immigrant workers in Chinatown.

Our hearts are hurting for the victims in Georgia whose lives were claimed too soon. We hurt for our Asian American community and families who have continued to experience violence.

In response to the recent surge in COVID-19 related violence against Asian American communities throughout the greater San Francisco Bay Area, the Coalition for Community Safety and Justice (CCSJ) in San Francisco joined forces with a coalition of organizations in Oakland to organize two parallel Days of Action this past weekend, both entitled “Love Our People, Heal Our Communities.” On the first weekend of the Lunar New Year, and a few days after more than 70 Asian American organizations issued a press statement condemning the violence, these two events brought together a multiracial and multigenerational coalition to stand against racism, xenophobia, and violence, and to offer space for healing the grief and pain that Asian communities feel in light of recent events.

133 restaurant workers, including cooks, dishwashers, servers, and hosts, have won a $2.6 million settlement from former employer Kome Japanese Seafood Buffet (Kome Buffet). With the organizing and legal support of the Chinese Progressive Association and the Asian Law Caucus, in partnership with the Labor Commissioner’s Office, the workers will receive amounts representing unpaid minimum wage, overtime, required split shift premiums, related penalties, as well as money owed for closing the restaurant without proper notice.