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With the onset of the pandemic, we were ordered to stay home & everything has drastically changed how we do things at SEACA. Because we are living in unprecedented times, no one told us how [...]

Lower-income communities notoriously lack greenspace due to a history of disinvestment. But the addition of greenspace can pave way for increased rent and displacement. Here’s a few [...]

April signifies spring and welcoming not just the superbloom but also the voices of residents, workers, business owners, and stakeholders of Chinatown. This month our Youth Organizers are able to [...]

This was me and my brother soon after we arrived in the US as refugees and I’m probably only a little bit older than the little girl at the border whose photo went viral last week. Leaving [...]

SEACA’s Feast of Resistance is back again. This year, we are bringing in tasty foods, such as banh mi, tamales, budaejjigae, and donuts, for our YLP students. We opened up the space to discuss [...]

SEACA, in conjunction with our partners at The Asian American Resource Center of Pomona College, recently took students from across all of our programs on a weekend retreat to the Claremont [...]

It’s been a busy month at SEACA with Renter’s Day, May Day, the culmination of our Rise Up program for the year, and our fundraising dinner! In the midst of this busy season, we wanted to share a [...]

A lot of the work at SEACA is to learn more about our community in order to better advocate for it’s needs. Though we often turn to the Census and other public data sources, sometimes it just [...]

CREATING A CITY FOR ALL A youth group based in Chinatown and Lincoln Heights helped to create what the L.A. Times’ editorial board called “A Model of L.A. Planning.” Click on this link to read [...]

Starting February 15th, the LA State Historic Park (aka the Cornfields Park) will be closed for a year while the park undergoes an $18 million renovation.Despite widespread community opposition, [...]