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Obama Campaign Staff List

Hey just wanted to share this info, in case anyone was looking to get a job in the campaign. These are the people to talk to.


Asian American Institute Seeks Leadership Coordinator

FULL-TIME POSITION: LEADERSHIP COORDINATOR

Job Posting: March 18, 2011

Located in Chicago, Illinois, the Asian American Institute (AAI) was
established in 1992 as a pan-Asian, not-for-profit organization. Our mission
is to empower the Asian American community through advocacy, by utilizing
research, education and coalition building. AAI is a member of Asian
American Center for Advancing Justice along with our affiliates, the Asian
American Justice Center (Washington, DC), Asian Law Caucus (San Francisco,


University of Illinois Seeks Associate Director of Asian American Resource & Cultural Center

New closing date: March 7, 2011

Visiting Associate Director of Asian American Resource and Cultural Center, University of Illinois at Chicago


APAP PAC Endorses Dan Seals for Congress (IL-10)

Dan Seals was a Presidential Management fellow and worked as an aide to the Assistant Secretary of Commerce. He also served an Economic Fellow in the U.S. Senate and is currently a lecturer at Northwestern University. Seals is committed to immigration reform and has collaborated with Congressman Mike Honda and the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR).


Federal government may not co-operate with Arizona immigration law

Marching for My Mother

By Karn Saetang, Youth Organizer at Korean American Resource & Cultural Center (KRCC)


Asian American Businesses and Discrimination in Public Contracting; Affirmative Action Helps Asian Firms

See video

A new report* to be published by the Asian American Justice Center will summarize an analysis of Asian American business participation in public contracting activities by the cities of Atlanta, Chicago, and San Francisco.  Bottom line: Asian American owned businesses in the industries of construction, IT/technology, and architecture/engineeing (the above video features one Asian American design firm - DScheme in San Francisco) are not getting thei


The life of an 88 year old Chinese American man tells us more about immigration than we can imagine

From the Restore Fairness blog:

Even as we skirt the issue of immigration, our museums and movies are seeing to it’s life and soul. A network of 13 U.S. museums has hit upon a unique idea - to craft a new vision of immigration in locations connected to history by understanding how previous generations have faced and tackled these issues before us.