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- 7-8-2015
Twenty Years after Slavery in LA: The Stage Reading of the Play Fabric
(Photo Slideshow) The Thai Community Development Center (Thai CDC) and The Pasadena Playhouse presented Henry Ong’s play, Fabric, on August 6th and 7th to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the landmark El Monte slavery case where seventy-two Thai nationals were freed from slavery. The theme for the 20th anniversary commemoration is “The Road to Freedom: Continue Reading
- 5-8-2015
Twenty Years after Slavery in LA Symposium
(Photo Slideshow) The Thai Community Development Center (Thai CDC) and the Museum of Tolerance hosted the Anti-Trafficking Symposium: “Learning from the Past to Forge the Future” as part of the twentieth anniversary of the landmark El Monte Thai Garment Slavery Case. Government officials, academicians, community leaders, and survivors discussed the status of human trafficking and Continue Reading
- 3-8-2015
2015 Asian Small Business Expo
The 2015 Asian Small Business Expo will be on Saturday, Sept. 19, 2015 at the Almansor Court Conference Center in Alhambra from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m FREE Admission, FREE Workshops, FREE parking [embedplusvideo height=”517″ width=”650″ editlink=”http://bit.ly/1OTQOVl” standard=”http://www.youtube.com/v/kFiRDcs5Yio?fs=1&vq=hd720″ vars=”ytid=kFiRDcs5Yio&width=650&height=517&start=&stop=&rs=w&hd=1&autoplay=0&react=0&chapters=¬es=” id=”ep6208″ /]
- 28-7-2015
Twenty Years after Slavery in LA
(Photo Slideshow) El Monte, CA—Representatives from Thai Community Development Center (Thai CDC) stood with elected officials and community leaders and former slaves in front of El Monte City Hall to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the landmark case that freed seventy-two Thai nationals from captivity in a makeshift garment factory in El Monte. “These past Continue Reading
- 15-7-2015
Thai Community Development Center Joins Other Housing Rights Advocates to Demand Protections of Long-term Renters and Affordable Housing from Airbnb Short-Term Rentals
Together with other housing rights advocates, Chanchanit Martorell, Thai CDC Executive Director, stood in front of a beautiful late 1920 era building on Cherokee Avenue reminiscent of Hollywood glamour and now own by Lance Robbins who is allowing Airbnb to use the units as short term rentals, and spoke at a press conference urging more Continue Reading