Julie Yip-Williams, Writer of Candid Blog on Cancer, Dies at 42→
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March 22, 2018
From The New York Times: Julie Yip-Williams, whose candid blog about having Stage IV colon cancer also described a life of struggles that began with being born blind in Vietnam and her ethnic Chinese family’s escape in a rickety fishing boat, died on Monday at her home in Brooklyn. She was 42.
Share Your Viet-Am Story
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March 8, 2018
PIVOT presents Viet Amp Stories, a storytelling project representing voices of Vietnamese/Vietnamese Americans across the nation. The project consists of a series of interviews and narratives collected from participants of the initial Young Vietnamese American Survey distributed in 2016 by PIVOT as well as other young, Vietnamese Americans to understand and explore civic and voter engagement trends. The information collected from the interviews will be compiled in a qualitative report as well as published on Medium as way of displaying the complexity and diversity of the Vietnamese narratives. If you are interested in participating in the interviews, please sign up using the link on the flier and a staff member will be in contact with you shortly.
For more information, email: vietampstories@gmail.com
To sign up, please fill out this form.
Read MoreWe See Your Divisive Tactics, GOP
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February 9, 2018
Congratulations to community health centers for the great victory on Friday when Congress passed legislation to fix the Health Center funding cliff. Health Centers can now count on two years of extended funding. It would have been better to have longer stability for these health centers, which are the mainstay primary care for underserved populations, including undocumented immigrants.
PIVOT Endorses Dr. Mai Khanh Tran for Congress in California's 39th District
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February 5, 2018
PIVOT is extremely pleased to announce its support for Dr. Mai Khanh Tran in her race for California’s Congressional District 39. Dr. Tran is not a career politician, and her path reflects that of so many immigrants and refugees to this country, those who have overcame great odds to succeed and then to give back.
PIVOT Disappointed About Temporary Funding Solution
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January 22, 2018
PIVOT, the nation’s first progressive Vietnamese network, expressed deep concern that Congress today passed a temporary funding bill that does not include the following: a permanent solution to regularize the status of certain immigrant youth (sometimes called DREAMers); funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP); and critical funding for community health centers (Federally Qualified Health Centers rely on this appropriated funding to serve low-income and vulnerable populations).
What I’ve Learned from My 4-Year-Old→
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January 20, 2018
By Viet Thanh Nguyen, as published in The New York Times
A bathroom at 4:45 a.m. is quiet. I try to wake at this time, three hours before my 4-year-old son does, so I can write, even in a hotel bathroom. I have not checked email, Twitter or Instagram, and last year I got off Facebook.
The United States of America→
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January 13, 2018
By Dr. Tung Nguyen, as published in The Huffington Post
On the occasion of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, I have been thinking about what it means to be an American. We are clearly a divided country, and it is important for us to work together to sustain what, in my opinion, has been the most important social undertaking ever conducted. Can a country that arose out of revolution against oppression not regress into it? Can people of different races and ethnicities co-exist without killing each other? Can human beings truly have an equal society? Can we celebrate what makes each of us unique and yet maintain respect for or even support each other’s humanity? These questions have not been resolved. Really, they can never be resolved because such a society will have to be constantly evolving. But are we still trying?
PIVOT Candidate Endorsement for Hoan Dang for Montgomery County (MD) Council
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January 7, 2018
We are very pleased to report that the PIVOT Board has, on the recommendation of the Candidate Support Committee, unanimously voted to endorse Hoan Dang in his candidacy for an at-large position on the Montgomery County, MD Council. Hoan’s campaign Web site is at: http://votedang.com/. You are strongly encouraged to donate whatever you can at the ActionNetwork website.
Five PIVOT Resolutions for You in 2018
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January 2, 2018
This past year, Vietnamese progressives felt bruised, assaulted, and downright insulted by attacks on our most cherished values and policies. We were defeated in many ways. (See #taxscam #refugeeban #transgendermilitary #enddeportations). Yet, we also triumphed in others (See #metoo #YesBeeCan #KathyTran #norefugeebanever). Here are some tips to help you amp up your activism in 2018.