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Find out more about our organizing structure and specific programming you can plug into here.

Check out our merch store and other opportunities to sustain our work for the long-run here.

 

Organize With Us

AARW develops progressive movement leaders with the skills, strategy, and analysis to work toward liberation and self-determination for the AAPI community and communities of color. Deep conversation in our programs is a critical part in moving people along the identity spectrum. Through this work and identity formation, the AARW builds grassroots power against various forms of displacement.

Interested in learning more or have questions? Please email Olivia N at olivia@aarw.org!

Urgent Campaign Requests

Lan’s Fight to Stay: Click the image above to learn more about our community member Lan, and how you can help her.

Free Sal!: Click the image above to learn more about our community member Sal, and how you can help them.

Member-led Working Groups

  • Two organizers holding a sign that reads "Dorchester is not for sale" in several different languages.

    Housing Justice

  • The EJ working group members are proudly showing off their zines at a farm event.

    Environmental Justice

  • Organizers are holding a rally with signs and banners that read "Stop Deporting Southeast Asian Refugees"

    Immigration and Deportation Defense

  • Organizers are holding signs in support of clemency for incarcerated women. Their signs read "#FreeHer"

    Prison-Industrial Complex Abolition

Leadership Programs

  • A group selfie of the ATI cohort. Everyone is smiling by the beach.

    Activist Training Institute (ATI)

    The Activist Training Institute (ATI) is a training and leadership development program founded in 2005 as a collaborative effort between API Movement and the Asian American Resource Workshop.  ATI hosts learning opportunities for activists who identify as Asian Pacific American (APA) to develop political analysis and organizing skills within the context of building an Asian American social movement for justice.

  • picture of 3 dot- i participants and dot-i program coordinator

    Dorchester Organizing Training Initiative (DOT-I)

    The Dorchester Organizing and Training Initiative (DOT-I) seeks to develop community leadership for Vietnamese-identified people in Dorchester. Our focus is to build capacity and a nurturing safe space for young adult Vietnamese-Americans with the desire to create social change in the community by engaging in social issues such as civic engagement, housing justice, and anti-deportation organizing.

Merch

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