Category Archives: News on Thai Community
- 3-2-2022
Asian Justice Rally Uniting to End Racial Hatred Against the Asian Community
This rally is part of a national movement in which rallies in five other cities were being held synchronously, including San Francisco, Atlanta, Chicago, New York and Philadelphia to speak out with one voice against hate and for the inclusion of Asian Americans in all facets of American society. As rally attendees were filing in shortly before Continue Reading
- 25-1-2022
Thai CDC Receives the Presidential Award for Extraordinary Efforts to Combat Trafficking in Persons
Thai Community Development Center is excited to announce that on January 25th, 2022, it was presented with the Presidential Award for Extraordinary Efforts to Combat Trafficking in Persons. This prestigious award from President Biden was presented online instead of in-person at our nation’s capital due to COVID. The presentation of the award took place during the annual cabinet-level meeting of the President’s Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking Continue Reading
- 11-10-2021
Save Thai Town in the LA Redistricting
Thai CDC was in the news on its efforts to Save Thai Town in the LA redistricting. Here’s the link to the article:https://laist.com/news/politics/las-latest-redistricting-plan-makes-koreatown-whole-but-troubles-other-asian-hubs
- 23-9-2021
Thai CDC Commendation
On September 21, 2021, the Mayor of the City of El Monte presented Thai CDC with a commendation in the city’s council chambers recognizing us for our work to liberate 72 Thai garment workers in 1995 from the makeshift garment factory that enslaved them. The factory was located in the City of El Monte. The Continue Reading
- 15-9-2021
California Humanities Interview
Check out The California Humanities interview with Thai CDC Executive Director, Chancee Martorell and Directing Attorney, Panida Rzonca regarding Thai CDC’s exhibit on the El Monte Thai Garment Slavery Case that ran between June 10th, 2021 and September 5th, 2021 at the Museum of Social Justice . https://calhum.org/thai-el-monte-garment-workers-interview/
- 13-9-2021
Thai CDC Mobilizes the Community
Thai CDC mobilized the community again ten years later as we did ten years ago after the outcome of each census to testify at the City of LA redistricting hearing. This time, it was for this past Saturday on 9/11/21 at the Sanamluang Cafe in Thai Town in an effort to again SAVE Thai Town Continue Reading
- 13-9-2021
Thai CDC’s Vaccination Clinic in Thai Town
Thai CDC’s vaccination clinic in Thai Town has been administering 3rd shots of either the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines to the immunocompromised since mid-August 2021 and Siam Town USA News covered it here in two different segments of their news.
- 19-7-2021
Bet Tzedek and Thai CommunityDevelopment Center Recover $300,000 in Stolen Wages for Nine Restaurant Workers
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thai Community Development Center Contact: Panida Rzonca, panida@thaicdc.org Bet Tzedek Contact: Vincent Cummings, vcummings@bettzedek.org North Hollywood Sanamluang Café Pays Criminal Restitution for Labor Violations JULY 16, 2021, LOS ANGELES, CA — Sanamluang Café, a popular Thai restaurant and late-night spot in North Hollywood, paid $300,000 in criminal restitution to nine workers who had filed claims for wage theft. This case sends a powerful message to restaurants throughout Los Angeles: Pay the Continue Reading
- 19-7-2021
Congressman Adam Schiff Announces Budget for Thai Town Marketplace
Congressmember Adam Schiff announced on July 15th, 2021 that the proposed federal budget for fiscal year 2022 will include $1,000,000 in funding to support the remaining construction and operations of the Thai Community Development Center’s business incubator and social enterprise, the Thai Town Marketplace. Chanchanit Martorell, Thai CDC Executive Director, received a phone call from Continue Reading
- 31-5-2021
Asian Pacific Heritage Month
Before Asian Pacific American Heritage Month comes to a close at the end of the month of May, our Thai CDC Executive Director, Chancee Martorell, was one of the API individuals recognized for her work on behalf of disadvantaged and vulnerable members of the Thai community on a program that aired on May 28th, 2021, Continue Reading