Organizing

Written by Youth Organizer, Angelique Hurtado (Edited by Danna Carrera & Helene Sov) September 12, 2019 I have just recently come back from New York with SEACA (Southeast Asian Community [...]

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 past Monday new and old  youth organizers (YO) came together to open up a new year of programming. With our forces united, we were able to set a foundation of community agreements, YO goals, [...]

May Day Collective Poem Everyone’s life has an important story No story is lesser than the others We work and work to live With our sisters & brothers But we don’t realize that we need each [...]

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 [...]

Most high school students look forward to spending their Spring Break with their friends, hanging out at the beach or the movies. SEACA youth chose to go to City Hall instead. On Wednesday, March [...]

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 [...]

Last week, under a brutal 100 degree sun, hundreds of union members, Walmart workers, and a few SEACA members (most were still in school) marched through downtown LA to protest the Chinatown [...]

Three years ago, SEACA embarked upon the impossible campaign. A campaign where we had no prior knowledge, relationships, or experience. But we did it because our group of teenagers insisted that [...]

They say that Wal-Mart is coming to town but please don’t let that get you down. Find a grocery store that is nearby, and find someone who works inside. Please make sure they are not too busy, [...]