Get Involved: Opportunities, Events and Actions
Apply for the APIs CAN Speak Bureau Program!
APIs CAN will be launching our first ever Speaker Bureau program this Spring 2025. Please consider applying or sharing this with your networks. The deadline to apply is February 28, 2025.
This program will provide coalition organization staff members and community leaders the opportunity to be trained formally as public speakers, advocates, and policy experts. The training curriculum will focus on supporting working class, AAPI, and immigrant leaders with media training, message development, and storytelling skills building to incorporate community voice in the launch of the coalition’s policy agenda.
Through the program, 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
Program Timeline:
Applications due February 28, 2025 by 5pm ET
Selected participants will be notified by March 12, 2025
Program will start in April and end in May 2025
Program will include 3 full-day events over the spring, culminating in an legislative education day at the MA State House in May 2025
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Action to Defend Our Communities from Deportation and Criminalization!
Friday December 13, 2024
Rally at 3:30p
JFK Federal Building
We we are coming together for an important action to unify our movement, mobilize our communities, and demand protection for refugees and immigrants at all levels of government. We need you there!
In the wake of Trump’s election, we’re facing a critical moment where deportation and criminalization policies will ramp up, putting our community at risk. Though we need to prepare for Trump’s term, there is so much that current political leaders can be doing. This is our moment to push for policies that go beyond fear and punishment and offer real, tangible support for immigrants and refugees. This action is a direct call to MA Governor Healey and President Biden before January – we need their action NOW!
What’s on My Ballot? - Learn about the 2024 MA Ballot
Wednesday, October 9, 2024
6:30p
Zoom
Are you a MA voter? Are you confused by the many ballot amendments that will be on the ballot this fall? Join APIs CAN and Massachusetts Voter Table for an in depth conversation about the 2024 Massachusetts Ballot Amendments. Learn about the four ballot initiatives and have the opportunity to ask questions directly to the groups championing initiatives related to worker equity, supporting unions, expanding medical treatment for mental healthcare, and education justice.
Interpretation for AAPI languages will be provided.
Right to Shelter Vigil
Monday, August 8, 2024
1p
MA State House
Join us tomorrow, August 8, at 1pm for a vigil and action outside the MA State House calling on Governor Maura Healey to reverse the Administration's new inhumane policy limiting many families to only 5 days in overflow shelter. The clock is ticking, and more and more families will be forced to sleep on the street every day.
APIs CAN Advocacy Day on Beacon Hill
Thursday, May 12025
11a-12:30p
Massachusetts State House
Join APIs CAN on Thursday, 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.
Additional Resources
Immigrant Rights Resources >
Click here to download our KYR flyers, request trainings, or to access our immigration hotline. Support in select Asian languages is available, additional ones will be made available upon request.
Partner Organizations >
Connect with our coalition of AAPI and working class-serving organizations.