Announcements

Dear friends, After nearly 17 years away, I am thrilled to be back in the Pacific Northwest and to serve as ACRS’ new executive director. I want to take a moment to thank Diane Narasaki who [...]

Stories are being written every day at ACRS – stories of hope and opportunity, stories of recovery and healing, stories about building a new life in a foreign land, stories of immigrants and [...]

Dear Friends, Happy holidays! As we near the end of 2017 and the beginning of 2018, we can all take pride in where we have stood, met, rallied and marched in this challenging year. For many of [...]

With each passing day, many of us find ourselves asking what the standard for the “new normal” is. But just when we get to a point where we think a line has been established, it inevitably gets [...]

Dear Friends, The battle between the better angels of our nature and our worst impulses has been waged since our nation’s founding. We have aspired to the prospect that all people are created [...]

Act now to stop S. 354, the RAISE Act! Senators Tom Cotton of Georgia and David Perdue of Arkansas have introduced the RAISE Act to cut legal immigration by half, reduce green cards to family [...]

Thank you to everyone who contacted our senators, and friends in key states, to urge their opposition to the Senate healthcare bill or “Better Care Reconciliation Act” (BRCA), the heartless [...]

By Andria Keirn, Americorps Employment and Self Sufficiency Aide May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. It is an opportunity to celebrate the contributions that Asian Pacific Americans [...]

ACRS is joining the May Day rally at 11 a.m. in Judkins Park on Monday, May 1, and the march at 1 p.m. to demonstrate our support for the rights of immigrants, refugees, workers, people of color, [...]

Like many other immigrant and refugee communities and communities of color, our Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community faces challenging times ahead. Our AAPI community includes a [...]