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Based in Washington, D.C., the National Council of Asian Pacific Americans is a coalition of 34 national Asian Pacific American organizations that serves to represent the interests of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) communities and to provide a national voice for our communities’ concerns. Our communities are the fastest growing racial/ethnic group in the United States, currently making up approximately six percent of the population.

See this on the NCAPA website. 

​Washington, DC – Over two hundred organizations, ranging from national organizations to university student groups with a variety of focus areas from economic justice to health advocacy groups, have signed onto a statement of principles detailing their commitment to resist the Trump administration. Among the most recent signers are the National Education Association (NEA) Asian and Pacific Islander (API) Caucus, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) API Caucus, and the California API Legislative Caucus, signaling broad support from labor and government affinity groups.
 
“With the union representing the most AAPI members throughout the country, we’re not backing down,” declared SEIU API Caucus Chair Maria Castaneda. “The threat that Trump poses is a danger to us all, and we need to send a message loud and clear to the administration and to all who support such backwards policies and who remain complicit in extending hate, that our collective organizing makes us strong.”
 
“For us working in unions, let this be a reminder that our labor movement is not a monolith just as AAPIs are not a model minority,” Charmaine Banther, Chair of the NEA API Caucus. “AAPI workers and our broader community are voicing grave concerns that we as leaders in our local unions cannot overlook, and it’s time that the rest of labor took a stand for all working people, which includes people of color.”
 
APALA National President and Assistant Executive Director of the United Domestic Workers, AFSCME Local 3930 Johanna Puno Hester commented: “Allies within local governments and local labor unions will be key players in blocking hateful policies and protecting our communities. We look forward to collaborating and co-conspiring with these caucuses to defend our friends, families, and communities from the xenophobic, racist, misogynistic, and hateful attacks coming from the Trump administration and its cronies.” 
  
California API Legislative Caucus Chair and Assemblymember Rob Bonta (D-Oakland) concluded: “California is home to millions of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. As Chair of the API Legislative Caucus, I will vigorously stand up and defend those who are most vulnerable in our communities. We know an attack on one of us is an attack on all of us.  We will draw upon our strength, resolve and unity to fight and prevail against this dangerous administration.”
 
To see the full resistance statement and list of signatories, please visit: bit.ly/AAPIsResistTrump. To have your organization sign on, please fill out the form: bit.ly/AAPIStatementOfPrinciples. 

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​Washington, DC – Following last Friday’s inauguration of Donald Trump as President of the United States and one of the largest weekends of protests, including the Women’s March on Washington and sister marches around the world, over a hundred Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) organizations have committed to resist Mr. Trump and his Administration. The signatories feature a variety of national organizations, local groups, and student organizations that focus on a range of issues from worker rights and economic justice to health and racial justice advocacy.
 
The joint statement rejects making racism, hate, xenophobia, and sexism normal, and details principles by which organizations will advocate, mobilize, and organize their respective constituencies together in our collective resistance and solidarity efforts. 
 
Johanna Puno Hester, National President of the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance, AFL-CIO and Assistant Executive Director of United Domestic Workers of American/AFSCME Local 3930, said: “It is so dangerous for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders – and any other communities of color and marginalized communities – to engage with the Trump administration. With an administration full of right-wingers and white supremacists whose statements and track records already have proven to be toxic for the new American majority and the planet as a whole, we need to lean on each other, collaborate, and co-conspire in the dark times ahead. Millions marched this weekend, including APALA members across the country, and we are ready to continue resisting.”
 
Fahd Ahmed, Executive Director of DRUM: Desis Rising Up and Moving, stated: “The communities – organizers, family, and friends – that are impacted the most by national and state policies ground this larger movement and vision for a just society that’s free from repression, bigotry and hate. Our collective activism and organizing are necessary not only to disrupt unjust systems, but also to build power from the ground up. Otherwise, we shortchange our communities if we don’t stand our ground now.”  
 
Sung Yeon Choimorrow, Interim Executive Director of the National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum, added: “All of us who have felt Trump’s attacks personally and communally know there is so much at stake. We need to come out in full force and resist this new administration, which has already promised to dismantle the rights of AAPI women and our communities. Now more than ever, we need to reaffirm our solidarity with all who are fighting for justice, whether that’s across the street or across the nation.” 
 
Sarath Suong, Executive Director of Providence Youth Student Movement and a member of the Southeast Asian Freedom Network, commented: “This is more than just ‘getting through’ the next four years: this is about survival. As Southeast Asians, we know the full cost of survival when fascism rises to power. We have already seen increased attacks on our communities and organizations even before the inauguration, and we can expect nothing less during the upcoming years. We will not participate in silencing the trauma and struggles we’re facing. We must defend each other and build our collective resilience.”
 
Below please find the statement in full and the complete list of signatories. We continue to welcome new co-conspirators to our collective resistance. To sign on, please visit: bit.ly/AAPIStatementOfPrinciples.

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