Asian Americans Advancing Justice-AtlantaCivic Engagement & Organizing
We aim to build a sustainable, community-centered movement to affect deep, long-term shifts in power, behavior, and culture through community-building and education, leadership development, issue-based and electoral campaigns, and multicultural, multiracial coalition building.
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Our team works with community partner organizations to make sure Georgia’s Asian American and immigrant communities have all of the in-language information and support they need to register and vote successfully.
Our team provides on-the-ground voter support in order to protect voting rights and make the voting process as accessible as possible. In addition to monitoring the polls, we provide transportation, interpretation, and hotline assistance.
Our organizing work focuses on building a strong and principled community that mobilizes for immigrant rights, racial justice, queer and trans justice, and more. We do this through political education, autonomous organizing, issue organizing, and leadership development.
Policy AdvocacyWe defend, protect, and advance the rights of Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders, Native Hawaiians and other immigrants at all levels of government.
Impact LitigationOur litigation team combines civil rights litigation with other strategies to expand legal protections for…
Legal ServicesSliding scale based on household income for legal services; certain humanitarian forms of relief and removal defense are free of charge; Know Your Rights presentations and citizenship application workshops are freeAsian Americans Advancing Justice-Atlanta’s legal services department provides comprehensive, high-quality direct immigration legal services to immigrants in Georgia.