Thousands gathered for an all-day celebration of Taiwanese culture, food, activities, and more. Author: Julia Yu This May, the West Coast’s largest celebration of Taiwanese American culture, the Taiwanese American Cultural Festival (TACF), returned to San Francisco’s Union Square. From lion dances to musical performances, visitors gathered for a day of exhibitions, cultural activities, food,

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Taiwanese American Citizens League (TACL) is outraged by the Supreme Court’s ruling to overturn Roe v. Wade and revoke 50 years of the constitutional right to an abortion.  Since Roe v. Wade took place prior to the founding of TACL, there were no official statements from TACL about our stance on abortion rights as an

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For the month of May in honor of AAPI Heritage Month, LACMA hosted a virtual film series called Dreaming Impossible Dreams – Taiwanese-Language Films from the 1960s. Curators Hanna Huang and Joshua Martin selected six restored films from the Golden Age of Taiwanese language cinema, covering a wide range of genres from fantasy to martial

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Taiwanese American Citizens League and Taiwanese American Professionals – Orange County are heartbroken to hear about the senseless shooting yesterday at the Irvine Taiwanese Presbyterian Church. It is always difficult to find the right words in a situation like this, but our thoughts go out to the loved ones of the victims and to everyone

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Using IPUMS 2020 American Community Survey Data, we see the top five metropolitan areas where Taiwanese/Taiwanese Americans reside are – Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, San Jose, and Seattle area: The 2020 American Community Survey, also showed some continued encouraging and positive trends in areas of education, health insurance access, U.S. Citizenship integration, and

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Can you believe it? We had our first convention in two years since Atlanta in January 2020. A little over two months ago from February 18th to 21st, we finally had a chance to have a #taclfam reunion, and we were beyond excited to Reunite, Reconnect, and Rediscover – this time, hosted in Los Angeles!

Resources to Report Acts of Hate: Asian Pacific Policy and Planning Counsil self reporting website – http://www.asianpacificpolicyandplanningcouncil.org/stop-aapi-hate/  Asian Americans Advancing Justice self reporting website – https://www.standagainsthatred.org/ Stop AAPI Hate website – StopAAPIHate.org  California’s Office of the Attorney General – https://oag.ca.gov/hatecrimes Georgia’s Office of the Attorney General – https://law.georgia.gov/contact-us Massachusetts’s Office of the Attorney General –

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Today is 228, the anniversary of the 1947 massacre which began the “White Terror” period in Taiwan and martial law. It is estimated that between 10,000 and 30,000 people lost their lives, and thousands more were disappeared or imprisoned. In 1995, the events of 1947 were finally acknowledged by the heads of state, and February

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Dear Taiwanese American Community, I am urging you all to join me in calling your U.S. Senators and U.S. Representatives.  To many of you, I am known as the Census Campaign lead and/or as the Director of Civic Engagement for Taiwanese American Citizens League (TACL), but I am writing to you all today also as

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Undercount remains an issue for Taiwanese in the 2020 ACS data. See the following image for the population of Taiwanese around the United States according to the 2020 American Community Survey. Click for an interactive map source – IPUMS Online Data Analysis System, 2020 ACS Race and Ancestry Data Counting by Race vs Counting by

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