Recent Updates
Happy Women’s Equality Day and CEDAW!
Seen as Women’s Equality Day, August 26, 2010 marks the 90th anniversary of the 19th amendment–granting women the right to vote. Please join us in observing Women’s Equality Day by commemorating the passage of the historical 19th amendment and celebrating the victories that we have accomplished together for our API communities. Women’s Equality Day also [...]
Honoring a Founding Sister’s Life: Joannie Chang
Joannie Chang, civil rights attorney, loving partner to Luna Yasui, mother to eight week-old twin girls, and NAPAWF Founding Sister, passed on Saturday, July 31st at the age of 41 of stomach cancer. NAPAWF has been deeply touched by Joannie’s life and work. She was a fierce activist and friend to many. Please join us [...]
CYWC Fullerton “NAPAWF Boyz” Rap for API Women’s Health
The students from our California Young Women’s Collaborative have done it again! The “NAPAWF Boyz” composed and performed an amazing rap for the CYWC Girls to raise awareness of sexual health issues in the API community. Informative and real, this rap highlights our community’s (surprising) choice of contraceptives, unplanned pregnancies, and more. Find out more [...]
Support Goodwin Liu’s Nomination to the Ninth Circuit!
NAPAWF supports Professor Goodwin Liu’s nomination to serve as a federal appellate court judge on the Ninth Circuit. Anti-choice Senators have indicated that they are gearing up for a fight to oppose his confirmation. As Senator Sessions (R-AL) said, “We’ll not confirm somebody like that.” Come again? Professor Liu has an impressive academic and legal [...]
Titan Radio features CYWC Fullerton!
ASAM 330 Interview – API Reproductive Health California Young Womens Collaborative NAPAWF Hey, hey, hey, I’ve got something to say CYWC was interviewed by Titan Radio today! Congrats to our Titan Radio team: Stephen, Yvonne, and Juliane for representing our CYWC class! Congrats to CYWC Fullerton’s Titan Radio Team: Stephen, Yvonne, and Juliane for representing [...]
NCIWR Statement in Opposition to AZ Anti-Immigrant Law
Arizona Law Hurts Women And Families – Today, the National Coalition for Immigrant Women’s Rights released a statement condemning the anti-immigrant Arizona law. You can read the statement here. To learn more about the coalition and immigrant women, please click here.
NAPAWF Opposes Anti-Immigrant AZ Law
On Friday, Governor Jan Brewer of Arizona signed a rabidly anti-immigrant bill that would require law enforcement officials to question people about their immigration status if the officer has a “reasonable suspicion” that the person is in the U.S. illegally. We believe that this new law legalizes and encourages racial profiling. “This bill is an [...]
NAPAWF Statement in Support of Goodwin Liu Nomination
April 26, 2010 Washington, DC – In late February, President Obama nominated Goodwin Liu to the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Liu, currently a professor at the University of California – Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law, would be the youngest judge on the court by 16 years, if confirmed by the Senate. [...]
How would you spend YOUR $10,622?
April 20 is Equal Pay Day, which marks the day of the year a woman stops working for free. You read that right! The average American woman works nearly four months more to be paid the same as a man working a comparable job. According to the National Women’s Law Center, the average American woman [...]
We did it, but we’re not done.
Today, the President signed the historic health reform bill. This is truly a momentous day–and it would not have happened without the voices of API women and girls. Thanks to your support, your letters, your emails, your calls, and your legislative visits, the health insurance industry that has not worked for our communities will be [...]
