Upcoming events
Community Event - Self Defense Class in Vietnamese
Upcoming Bi-lingual Self-Defense Workshops in Fields Corner!
In response to the growing need for community safety practices, APIs CAN is offering free self-defense workshops for APIA community members. These experiential sessions provide tools to de-escalate and respond to threats—all in a trauma-informed, identity-affirming space. This Vietnamese-English bi-lingual class will be offered by Sifu Mai Du, chief instructor of Wah Lum Kung Fu and Tai Chi Academy in Quincy.
📍 Vietnamese American Community Center (42 Charles Street, Dorchester)
🕙 Saturday, September 27 from 1-4PM
🈶 Bi-lingual in Vietnamese
🎟️ Free with RSVP – space is limited: http://bit.ly/AAPIsStaySafe
📩 Email Leena at leena@massapiscan.org to reserve your spot
AAPI Story Telling Training Series
APIs CAN is bringing together a new cohort of Asian & Pacific Islander changemakers to share our stories, challenge stereotypes, and build the skills to advocate for our communities.
Over three days, participants will:
☕ Learn powerful storytelling techniques
🎤 Practice public speaking in a supportive environment
💬 Connect advocacy to action on key issues
🤝 Build community with other AAPI leaders across Massachusetts
Interpretation will be offered in Vietnamese.
Whether you’re new to advocacy or a seasoned organizer, your story matters — and now is the time to tell it.
Applications due September 12 by 5pm ET!
Apply today: https://bit.ly/pourthetea2
Community Even: Self Defense Class
Upcoming Bi-lingual Self-Defense Workshops in Chinatown!
In response to the growing need for community safety practices, APIs CAN is partnering with IMPACT Boston to offer free self-defense workshops for APIA community members. These experiential sessions provide tools to de-escalate and respond to threats—all in a trauma-informed, identity-affirming space.
📍 The Metropolitan Community Room (1 Nassau St., Boston)
🕙 Saturday, October 25 • 10AM–1PM
🈶 Cantonese & Mandarin interpretation available
🎟️ Free with RSVP – space is limited!
📩 Email Leena at leena@massapiscan.org to reserve your spot
Take Action: Massachusetts AAPI Communities Against Deportation
MA Asian and Pacific Islander immigrant communities are being targeted by an escalating deportation crisis. We must come together to fight back.
Join us virtually for a powerful evening of community education and direct action.
APIsCAN Training: Guidance for Traveling Abroad with AOC
As new federal immigration policies continue to come down, it is critical that advocates who work with impacted communities be careful about maintaining data confidentiality and privacy, even if advocates are not planning on traveling abroad.
The training will cover potential threats to data privacy that organizations and advocates should be aware of and highlight the steps that can be taken to minimize risk. We will also discuss special considerations for traveling abroad and the current rules/trends around device searches at the border. This training will be helpful in getting advocates to consider what best practices they can incorporate into their day-to-day work to best protect their own and their community members' privacy.
Register today: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/T71Qse3mTLGra_Wl5OZXvw#/registration
APIs CAN Advocacy Day @ MA State House
📣 Calling all AAPI & immigrant rights advocates in MA 📣
Join APIs CAN on May 1 for our Advocacy Day at the Massachusetts State House. Meet members of the Massachusetts House AAPI Caucus, the AAPI Commission, and other state leaders.
During the first half of this issue advocacy day, participants will hear from our speaker bureau graduates, state law makers, AAPI leaders, and our core advocacy issues. The second half will give attendees the opportunity to meet with their representatives to discuss critical issues impacting working class, AAPI communities here in MA, including immigration justice, language access, education, housing, data equity, and more.
Interpretation for AAPI languages will be provided.
RSVP required:
Protecting Our Organizations: 501(c)(3) Nonprofit Compliance Virtual Training
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
Know Your Rights: Immigrant Rights
📣 Calling all AAPI & immigrant rights advocates in MA 📣
Join APIs CAN, Asian American Legal Defense Fund, and the Asian Outreach Center at GBLS for a Know Your Rights training geared towards AAPI and immigrant justice advocates on Tuesday, February 4 at 4:00pm via zoom ✊🏽⚡
In this training, you will:
🚨 Learn the changes in the immigration legal landscape under Trump 2.0
📚 Be updated on local and state policies
💪🏽 Understand your rights as community organizations with law enforcement
Registration required: https://bit.ly/aapikyr_feb4
Speaker Bureau Cohort Application Deadline
Apply to participate in APIs CAN’s first ever Speaker Bureau Cohort!
Deadline to apply: February 28, 2025
Through the Speaker Bureau, participants will learn to engage effectively with mainstream media sources and include their lived experiences in public narratives around AAPI safety and racial wealth equity as evidenced by an increase in the number of speaking engagements and earned media placements secured for working class AAPI community members by APIs CAN and its coalition members.
You should apply for this program if you want to:
Deepen your legislative advocacy skills
Improve your public speaking
Build and activate your own organizing campaign
Learn how to leverage strategies and tactics for meaningful change
Email us at info@massapiscan.org if you have any questions!