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Formosan Association for Public Affairs Los Angeles(FAPA-LA)

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Formosan Association for Public Affairs Los Angeles(FAPA-LA)

Formosan Association for Public Affairs Los Angeles(FAPA-LA) (台灣人公共事務會-洛杉磯分會) is listed as a group member of the |Taiwan Center Foundation of the Greater Los Angeles.

Identity Snapshot

  • Chinese: 台灣人公共事務會-洛杉磯分會
  • English (as listed): Formosan Association for Public Affairs Los Angeles(FAPA-LA)
  • Relation: Taiwan Center group member (official listing)
  • Source: https://www.taiwancenter.org/group-members · taiwancenter-org-group-members.md

Source Notes

  • Content priority A: Name on Taiwan Center group-members page
  • Hub: |taiwancenter.org
  • Content priority C: Independent history not expanded from listing alone

Community Record (from corpus memoirs)

  • FAPA as a whole was founded in Los Angeles on 1982-02-14 with 蔡同榮 (Tron-Rong Tsai) as founding president, as an organized grassroots-lobbying body for Taiwan’s democratization — see the memoir Our Journeys 197. The LA chapter’s own TAH story-corpus record is FAPA 台灣人公共事務會加州洛杉磯分會 (published 2015-12-28).
  • HOLD: the corpus records FAPA’s founding in Los Angeles (1982-02-14) but does not state when the LA chapter was separately organized; chapter founding date remains unknown.
  • LA community mobilization: the 1987–1990 US-Census campaign was coordinated in Los Angeles out of the TACL office after the 1987-01-02 Southern California Taiwanese-group coordination meeting, with FAPA among the groups that jointly funded and staffed the effort (Our Journeys 253).
  • FAPA lobbying record held as movement primary material: the 1983 public statement claiming credit for Taiwan’s 20,000 immigration quota (Our Journeys 59) and the FAPA NEWS 通訊 newsletter (FAPA NEWS 通訊).
  • Sister chapter page: FAPA Orange County.
  • Chapter activity in the taiwanjustice.net community-news corpus: FAPA 洛杉磯分會 co-organized the 2022 第六屆跨族裔「二二八防止政府暴行研討會」with 全美台灣人權協會 (FAHR), with community representatives from Taiwan, Hong Kong, Burma, Thailand, Uyghur, Rohingya, Cuba, Dominican and Puerto Rico (FAPA、FAHR共同主辦：二二八防止政府暴行線上研討會); the chapter is also listed as 主辦單位 for the 2-28 台灣介心靈日 74週年紀念音樂會 in the 大洛杉磯台灣會館 228 series (大洛杉磯台灣會館 228 追思系列活動).
  • Coalition footprint in LA: FAPA 洛杉磯分會 jointly hosted 郭建國 at the 大洛杉磯台灣會館 (2018-01-27) with 台獨建國聯盟 (WUFI) 洛杉磯支部, FAHR, and 自由台灣黨美國後援會 (郭建國在大洛杉磯台灣會館分享).
  • Corpus re-check (2026-09-21, deepen-x slice 09201500-1, vault-only): grep of works + articles for FAPA-LA/洛杉磯 hits are the LA TAA/TAP/WUFI chapter records plus the taiwanjustice.net items absorbed above; chapter founding date still unknown (HOLD above).
  • 2021-05 — the chapter’s named public presence in the Pew-identity response: 「Ken Wu, FAPA Los Angeles」 appears among the signatories of the community statement 「Response to Pew Research Reports Hiding Taiwanese Identity: We made it count. Now tell our stories.」 (Pew response statement, 2021-05) — the chapter’s first named-representative record in the corpus after the 2018/2022 event items above.
  • Founding detail from the EN account of the founding memoir ( Patrick Huang): the 1982-02-13 LA meeting that produced FAPA was convened after WUFI president 張詹朝洪 (Tsan-hung George Chang) wrote (1982-01-10) to twenty colleagues worldwide inviting them to Los Angeles; the push to put national-diplomacy work on the agenda came most insistently from Joshua Yapp, and 蔡同榮 confirmed it by express mail 1982-01-27. Attendees (15): Charles Ting, Kenjohn Wang, Ming-an Chou, Ming-che Lin, Chien-hui Hsu, Philip Chen, Tan-Sun (Mark) Chen, Tu Chen, Yu-hsin Kuo, Ming Min Peng, Jen-Tai Tsai, Chia-yu Yang, Tsung-chang Yang (C.C. Yang), Fu-Chen Lo, and 蔡同榮 — the radio-station plan was shelved after ~1–2 h and the meeting pivoted to founding a diplomatic-affairs organization; same founding account in 蔡同榮’s own memoir The Birth of FAPA.
  • Later lobbying record at movement scale: FAPA first pushed the Taiwan Travel Act in 2007 (HCR 136 / SCR 48) and its 台灣倡議週 grassroots lobby (100+ Taiwanese Americans visiting 100+ congressional offices in one day, ~20 co-sponsors) carried HR 535 / S 1051 over the line — 35+ years of FAPA organizing, per 2017-10; FAPA’s own 2018 communique is held at TAIWAN COMMUNIQUE (2018-05-15). National-level context for the LA chapter’s advocacy lineage; no new LA-chapter-specific facts.

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