CHINESE PROGRESSIVE POLITICAL ACTION

CPPA focuses on engaging Chinese voters in-language in Boston, Malden, and Quincy. We communicate with voters in Cantonese, Taishanese, Mandarin, and English on a platform of fighting for the public good, using a combination of in-person canvass, phone, text, and direct mail.

A proudly endorsed political candidates and ballot initiatives aimed at advancing equality in our community, and we're thrilled to share that our efforts contributed to key wins. Our members mobilized through in-language outreach - engaging their neighbors with door-to-door conversations, text messages, and mailings.

Political Endorsements - Reelected

Elizabeth Warren, U.S. Senator

Ayanna Pressley, U.S. Rep (MA-07)

Lydia Edwards, State Senator (3rd Suffolk)

Aaron Michlewitz, State Rep (3rd Suffolk)

John Moran, State Rep (9th Suffolk)

Since 2011, CPPA has trained and developed dozens of working class Chinese immigrants to be leaders in their communities, mobilizing their neighbors and networks to win concrete changes that will improve their own lives and build solidarity with communities of color.

https://www.cppaboston.org/what-we-do

Community Political Clout

Formerly seen as a newcomer community with few votes, Boston’s Chinese community has increased its voter turnout and political clout. Today, Chinatown is one of the city’s highest-turnout neighborhoods.

Chinatown, while it represents less than one-quarter of the area’s Chinese American population, has the highest concentration of Chinese American voters and is a strategic base from which to organize for political visibility, representation, and clout. At the same time, Chinese Americans need to expand our influence and participation in other neighborhoods and communities in which we live.

Our goal is to organize for grassroots democratic participation of ordinary Chinese community members in the political decision-making process in order to build collective community power.

Our strategy is to combine participatory issue-based organizing with broad-based voter education and registration, expand our local political base, organize for election reform and voting rights, and build coalitions with other disenfranchised communities.

https://www.cpaboston.org/en/programs/political-empowerment