PROGRESS REPORT (9/1/08-9/15/08)
In this e-mail:
APAP NEWS
1. Nevada anyone?
2. "Vincent Who?" to hit Austin, Houston, Atlanta and more!
3. APAP establishing a Lawyer's Committee
APAP CALENDAR OF EVENTS
1. September 12-14 – Reno, Las Vegas – Road trip to Nevada
2. October 2008 - Austin, Houston, Washington DC and Atlanta. More details in the next progress report. If you are at a school in the area, please contact us if you would also like us to visit your school.
COMMUNITY NEWS AND CALENDAR
1. September 5 – Select cities – Ping Pong Playa Opening and LA After Party
2. September 11 – NYC - Foreign Policy Discussion @ 3PM
3. September 13 – LA – Screening of Renee Tajima-Pena’s Calavera Highway
4. November 15 – LA – Kelly Hu and alivenotdead.com: Win a trip to the Reef Rescue Gala.
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APAP NEWS
1. NEVADA, ANYONE? Asian Pacific Americans for Progress, Chinese Americans for Obama, South Asians for Obama and Filipinos for Obama are teaming up to organize a road trip to Nevada on the weekend of Sept. 12-14th. Volunteers in Northern California will be heading to Reno, while volunteers in Southern California will be targeting Las Vegas. See more under the Calendar of Events.
2. Plans are just shaping up, but it promises to be a busy fall for "Vincent Who?" We've already been invited to eight film festivals and countless colleges in the fall. If you are in/around Austin, Houston, Atlanta, Oakland, Washington DC or Boston, we'll be in your area in October. Please let us know if you would also like us to come visit your school or community group. (Specific details to come in the next Progress Report)
3. APAP is in the beginning stages of establishing a Progressive Lawyers Committee. If you have an interest in policy and fundraising, please send us an email.
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CALENDAR OF EVENTS
1. September 12-14 – Reno, Las Vegas – Road trip to Nevada. Asian Pacific Americans for Progress, Chinese Americans for Obama, South Asians for Obama, Filipinos for Obama, and Asian Americans for Obama are teaming up to organize a road trip to Las Vegas on the weekend of Sept. 12-14th. Please let us know if you'd like to join us. Please contact Oiyan Poon at
oiyan.poon@gmail.com A limited number of free housing will be available in Las Vegas. Please rsvp about Vegas by Monday, 9/8. NORTHERN CALIFORNIA - please contact Anhoni Patel at
anhoni@yahoo.com or Diana Olin at
garnetorchid@gmail.com
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA - please contact Oiyan Poon at
oiyan.poon@gmail.com
To RSVP to the Vegas Roadtrip, please go to our Evite.
http://www.evite.com/pages/invite/viewInvite.jsp?event=VMKBJAUONTNYGLCINDYN&inviteId=OFJOANMFRRKETBAMLXYQ&showResponse=&sortOrder=&responseToExpand=maybe
Also stay connected on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/n/?event.php&eid=23512307263
Please tell everyone you know.
2.October 2008 - Nationwide - Vincent Who? We are starting to confirm screenings in Austin, Houston, Oakland, Boston, Atlanta and Washington, DC. Email us for more details at
apafp@apaforprogress. To donate to the film, please go to:
http://apaforprogress.org/wordpress/?page_id=6
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OTHER EVENTS IN THE COMMUNITY
1. September 5 – Select cities – Ping Pong Playa Opening and LA After Party,
Jessica Yu’s Ping Pong Player opens in select cities today! See
http://www.pingpongplaya.com/ for showtimes and tickets.
LA After Party
10PM – 2AM
Central, 1710 Las Palmas, Hollywood, CA. E-mail:
contact@pingpongplaya.com. Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=31682467591
2. September 11 – NYC - Foreign Policy Discussion @ 3PM
The Century Foundation, 41 East 70th Street, New York City
Please join Ambassador Thomas Pickering and Governor Thomas Kean (R-NJ) and Ted Sorensen (President Kennedy's Counsel and Advisor) for a public dialog on finding bipartisan foreign policy consensus. To RSVP please e-mail your name and organization to
rsvp@psaonline.org.
3. September 13 – LA – Screening of Renee Tajima-Pena’s Calavera
Highway@5pm
Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival
Mann Chinese 6 Theaters
Hollywood & Highland, 681 Hollywood Blvd.
http://www.latinofilm.org, 323-469-9066
PBS national broadcast on P.O.V.:
Tues, Sept. 16, 10pm (check local listings) / Thurs, Sept. 18, 8:30pm on KCET
4. November 15 – LA – Kelly Hu and alivenotdead.com: Win a trip to the Reef Rescue Gala. Kelly Hu and alivenotdead.com want to take you on a Los Angeles vacation to help save the world's oceans and coral reefs. Enter the contest now for free and you can win a full vacation package to join Kelly in Los Angeles at the Reef Check Foundation's annual Reef Rescue Gala. The trip includes a roundtrip ticket to Los Angeles, three days/two nights hotel accommodation and a VIP ticket to the star-studded gala featuring a live scuba exhibition, hula dancers and cuisine from reef nations around-the-world. Check out the contest at
http://www.alivenotdead.com/action_reefcheckcontest.html
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