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APAP/Boston - Meet Leland Cheung

Wednesday, March 3 at 7:30 pm
Boylston Hall, Harvard Yard
rsvp to michelle at apaforprogress.org

APAP/Philadephia - Potluck

w/ Austin's first AA judge, Ramey Ko
Sunday, March 7 at 11:00 am 
at a downtown lawfirm (email for exact details)
rsvp to farzin at apaforprogress.org

AAPI Empowerment Dinner - St. Louis

Sunday, March 14 at 6:00 pm
Buffalo Brewing Co., 300 Olive Street
rsvp to curtis @ apaforprogress.org

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Items tagged: asian americans

Did Nobel Winner Obama forget about Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders?

Thu, 03/11/2010 - 14:09

This just in! President Obama is generously donating his Nobel Peace Prize award money to a bunch of charitable organizations. Hooray! Congrats to the following orgs: Fisher House ($250,000), Clinton-Bush Haiti Fund ($200,000), College Summit ($125,000), Posse Foundation ($125,000), United Negro College Fund ($125,000), Hispanic Scholarship Fund ($125,000), Appalachian Leadership & Education Foundation ($125,000), American Indian College Fund ($125,000).


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Asian Americans Lean Left Politically

Wed, 02/03/2010 - 18:31

Here's a report that just come out from the esteemed Gallup Organization. It just confirms something that we at APAP have known for some time:  Asian Americans are more liberal and progressive than the stereotypes.


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CAPAC's State of the AAPI Community

Wed, 02/03/2010 - 14:17

Washington, DC – Today, Congressman Mike Honda (D-CA) issued the following statement on the State of the Asian American and Pacific Islander community:


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2010 Census Outreach to Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders

Mon, 01/04/2010 - 09:10

Happy New Year! It's 2010, and no matter how you say it -- "two thousand and ten" or "twenty-ten" -- the new year brings one very important matter -- THE 2010 CENSUS!!!

Over the holidays, I noticed a good number of press releases and news items about efforts by AAPI community organizations to encourage, but I'm thinking that most of us were in the holiday mood, and could use a reminder of what's happening!


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Join us on Mon., 11/23 -- Stand Strong for Inclusive Health Reform (SF)

Mon, 11/30/2009 - 07:58

Communities of color from across California are gathering at the health reform table because we are part of this country. Back in Washington, DC, people like Rep. Joe Wilson represent America’s worst. On Monday, November 23, in San Francisco, we will assert ourselves as immigrants because we are America. We are disappointed about how public conversations about who immigrants are have led to the exclusion of immigrants in health reform legislation.


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Making Room for Everyone at the Health Reform Table

Mon, 11/30/2009 - 07:54

The reality is that as we come closer to the passage of health reform, many immigrants are going to be left out.


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India & US Agree on Climate Change

Wed, 11/25/2009 - 13:31
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"President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh have launched what the White House is calling a green partnership, affirming the countries' commitment to combating climate change and ensuring energy security and clean energy." The hope is to create more jobs, investment and growth for each country through this partnership - while also combating climate change, of course.


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Kiran Ahuja appointed E.D. of White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders

Sat, 11/14/2009 - 01:11

Ever since President Obama signed the Executive Order to reinstate the White House Initiative on AAPIs (WHIAAPI) back in October, I've been waiting on pins and needles to see whom the administration would appoint as the new executive director.  I wondered whether President Obama would appoint someone whose been around in the "mainstream" of AAPI leadership or whether he would appoint someone whose leadership has been about the em


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Asian Caucus meets with Cabinet Secretaries

Mon, 11/09/2009 - 21:12

Here's an editorial in today's the Hill written by Congressmember Mike Honda. It's entitled, "Asian Caucus meets with Cabinet Secretaries: Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders have voice under Obama leadership." It really shows the difference between the current administration and the previous one. 


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Asian American voting report released by APALC

Tue, 10/27/2009 - 13:24

Here's an article in the Los Angeles Times on a press briefing that the Asian Pacific American Legal Center held earlier this morning. Executive Director Stewart Kwoh opened the briefing and staffers Dan Ichinose and Eugene Lee reported on the findings in the report.


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