{"id":515,"date":"2022-10-31T23:37:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T03:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amenforamerica.org\/blog\/?viewDetailed=202210312337"},"modified":"2026-10-15T15:54:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T19:54:00","slug":"speech-from-the-founder-president-of-amen-at-the-equal-education-rights-for-all-rally-on-october-30th-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amenforamerica.org\/?p=515","title":{"rendered":"Speech from the Founder &#038; President of AMEN at the Equal Education Rights for All Rally on October 30th, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/amenforamerica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Education_Rally_Group_Picture20copy203.jpg\" alt=\"Speech from the Founder &amp; President of AMEN at the Equal Education Rights for All Rally on October 30th, 2022\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-open-sans-font-family wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#000000;line-height:1.7\">The Equal Education Rights for All&nbsp;Rally was held on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court on Sunday, October 30th, 2022 from 1:30PM &#8211; 5:00 PM (EST). The Rally was hosted by a coalition of Asian-American activists including the Asian-American Coalition for Education (AACE) (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianamericanforeducation.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.asianamericanforeducation.org<\/a>), community leaders, students, and supporters of the cause.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-open-sans-font-family wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#000000;line-height:1.7\">Anh Tu Do, the Founder &amp; President of the American Minority Engagement Network (AMEN) (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amenforamerica.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.amenforamerica.org<\/a>), was one of the speakers who strongly spoke out against the mistreatment of Asian-American students through Affirmative Action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-open-sans-font-family wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#000000;line-height:1.7\">On Monday morning, October 31st, 2022, lawyers from Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.studentsforfairadmissions.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.studentsforfairadmissions.org<\/a>) stepped through the doors of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington D.C. to present the case against the racial discrimination that Asian-American students have faced for years at Harvard University and other higher education institutions across the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-open-sans-font-family wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#000000;line-height:1.7\">Please see <a href=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/AnquY8jZ7Qsnw3iL9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>&nbsp;for some pictures from the rally.&nbsp; Below is the speech from AMEN\u2019s Founder &amp; President.&nbsp; For the rest of the speeches, please click on this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1m6nmE1Jnao\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">link<\/a>..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Speech from the Founder &amp; President of AMEN for the Equal Education Rights for All Rally\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WbhqIzLlyD4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Equal Education Rights for All Rally was held on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court on Sunday, October 30th, 2022 from 1:30PM &#8211; 5:00 PM (EST).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":495,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community-outreach"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amenforamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amenforamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amenforamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amenforamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amenforamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/amenforamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":540,"href":"https:\/\/amenforamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions\/540"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amenforamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amenforamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amenforamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amenforamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}