Category: Political Power

Political Power can be understood as the ability to create societal change. PANA operates on the philosophy that the interests of the majority are not being served due to the imbalance of power wielded by an ultra wealthy minority, popularly identified in broad terms as “the one percent” during the Occupy Wall Street movement and further popularized by the Bernie Sanders presidential primaries of 2016 and 2019. Change in the U.S. towards the goal of full equality and justice has been won primarily by the accumulation and wielding of grassroots organizing power. While PANA engages in electoral arena politics, we understand the importance of building “outside game” organization and power as being primary, and that this includes strengthening solidarity with allies.

PANA Endorses AD52 People’s Action ADEMS Slate

Assembly District Election Meetings (ADEMs) are biannual caucuses where each Assembly District elects fourteen delegates to represent their district in the State Democratic Party Conventions and Executive Meetings. These delegates make up roughly one-third of the 3300 total Democratic Party Delegates and are supposed to represent their community’s interests. Voting progressives into the State Party […]

PANA Endorses AD41 People’s Action ADEMs Slate

https://www.ad41peoplesaction.org/ PANA members engage in Assembly Delegate representative elections in an attempt to influence the California Democratic Party leadership composition, rules and platform, every two years. These delegates vote on Party legislative positions and who and what gets Party endorsements at the state level for the platform. Two-thirds of the CA Democratic Party votes are […]

Lessons from the 2022 Midterms

On December 4 and 11, PANA held conversations with some progressive candidates who ran in the 2022 Midterms. From these conversations, we drew lessons from the experience to help us continue the work to win progressive political power in Southern CA and beyond. Click on the images below to jump to the video replays of […]

JOIN OUR LANGUAGE JUSTICE NETWORK!

Language justice is essential in our efforts to fight for full equality and political power. It is not supported adequately by the status quo and eventually we would like to build an infrastructure than can pay translators (written and in-person) for their valuable work. We think that if properly implemented, language justice can be the […]

Lessons from the Midterms

The 2022 midterms elections were about Gen Z flexing their political muscle but also the continued rise of the fastest demographic in the U.S. into higher representation in the electoral arena.

PANA Endorsements and Recommendations for the November 2022 Midterm Elections

ith far-right-extremists still threatening to destroy what remains of democratic society, this may be the most important midterm election of our lifetimes and for the planet.

PANA Members Advancing in the Electoral and Political Representation Arena!

From the work of two Presidential primary cycles since 2016, members and close allies of PANA have not only been stepping up, but winning! Many lessons for ground game political campaigns to be consolidated and replicated!

Members of the “Defenders of Justice” Slate Advance to the November Run-offs Election

Four PANA-endorsed judicial candidates advance! Nationally, we see the damage judges in the highest court can do. Locally, this November, let’s elect judges that will do the right thing in the service of the public interest! Congratulations to the “Defenders of Justice!”

PANA Members Join “Knit the Revolution” Podcast on Medicare-for-All

Tsukuru Fors, Reggie Wong and Taiji Miyagawa share experiences from their work to win healthcare-for-all, including AB 1400 in CA. How efforts by PANA to address the larger issue of inequality faced by Asian and Pacific Islander Americans are an example of how to build a broader, more diverse and powerful grassroots movement to win […]

Asians Uniting Against Anti-Asian Violence

Trauma and Trump make Asian American voters a more cohesive bloc, new poll reveals Ahead of the 2022 midterms, the POLITICO/Morning Consult poll found that Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders are significantly more likely to be mobilized by a shared fear of violence and discrimination than before the pandemic. From Politico.com, by Rishika Dugyala and Beatrice Jin […]

Join the Asian and Pacific Islander Language Justice Network

Translators and Interpreters Needed! We have a dire need to gather our multilingual capacity in order to build political power in our communities. We cannot continue to concede the Asian language spaces to the Right Wing as we have been doing. We must commit to valuing ALL voices in our communities and not fall prey […]

Don’t Sleep on Asian American Voters

Don’t Sleep on Asian American Voters The bloc’s power is growing fast. That could be bad news for the GOP. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/05/asian-american-voters-trump-covid/618935 When Kamala Harris, Hillary Clinton, and other prominent Democrats appeared online at a major fundraiser last night, they spotlighted one of the least discussed lessons of the 2020 election: Asian Americans are poised for […]