Category: Announcements
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Chinatown Calls for Eviction Protections at R Visions Tour and Rally
The chants and drums resounded as the R Visions People’s Tour wound its way through the streets of Chinatown. About a hundred residents and community activists joined a march and rally today to call for increased action by city government to protect working class neighborhoods. Stopping at different sites marked by community art installations, community…
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CPA Joins President at Labor Day Breakfast
CPA’s honorary president Suzanne Lee, and staff members Karen Chen, Lydia Lowe, and Fiona Yu joined home health care workers Lingzhu Cao and Yan Li at the Greater Boston Labor Council’s Labor Day Breakfast on September 7, when President Obama came to speak about the need for paid sick days and family leave for all…
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CYI Holds “Aim to Reclaim: Chinatown Library Campaign” Event
As their final project, the 8 CYI summer interns held a public community event at the Chinatown Gate to promote the need for a Chinatown Library. Over the course of two days, youth provided free storytime, books, activity packets, and information about the campaign, replicating many of the services a library would provide.
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CPA Holds Its 11th Annual Bike-A-Thon
On June 20th, the Chinese Progressive Association held its annual Bike-A-Thon with almost 100 riders. The Association raised over $20,000 for its youth leadership development program, the Chinese Youth Initiative.
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Over 300 People Attend the Right to Remain Block Party
On July 25 we co-sponsored a Right to Remain Block Party on Johnny Court and Maple Place with the Chinatown Residents Association! Participants learned about tenant rights, affordable housing, and talked about how to preserve the historic row houses. There were tables featuring information on the library campaign, the CPA workers center, a public parcels…
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Chinatown/South End Collaborative Graduates Its Inaugural Occupational Skills Training for Supermarket Employment Class
The Occupational Skills Training for Supermarket Employment graduated its first class of seven students. The class was provided by the Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center (BCNC), the Chinese Progressive Association (CPA), BEST Corp., and the Massachusetts Worker Education Roundtable as part of the Chinatown/South End Collaborative. Students received training in customer service, English relevant to the…
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Medical Resources Workers Win Union Victory!
After winning the union election overseen by the National Labor Relations Board, the Medical Resources employees become the first private home care agency employees to form a union in Massachusetts as part of the growing Fight for $15 movement!
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Displaced Tenants and Supporters Hold Tent City in Quincy Center
Hudson Street tenants and supporters set up a “tent city” in front of the office of First Suffolk LLC, owner of 101 and 103 Hudson St. based in the law offices of Matera Vopat Matera & Johnson in Quincy Center. Tenants are calling for First Suffolk LLC to stop the water shutoff, no demolition of…
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All Police Who Kill Innocent Victims Should Be Indicted
“Over the past half year, mass protests have erupted throughout the country. Protesters chant: Black lives matter! Hands up, don’t shoot. I can’t breathe. Enough is enough! What are these protests about? This past August in Ferguson, Missouri, police killed an 18 year-old black man named Michael Brown with an excessive use of force. He…
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Residents Call for Just Cause Eviction Policy
BOSTON (April 8, 2015) – “Up with the wages, down with the rents!” rang the shouts of tenants and community activists as they marched into City Hall Plaza this afternoon. Led by tenants who have been forced out of their homes by speculative developers, the march began on Hudson Street in Chinatown, where protesters called…