This past Saturday, August 4, 2007, the Asian American Journalists Association held a town hall in Miami on the potential impact of the emerging immigrant vote on the 2008 election.  Marlon A. Hill, Esq., past president of the Caribbean Bar Association and a member of the Florida Finance/Political Team for Obama for America was a panelist.

C-SPAN will be rebroadcasting this town hall event in the weeks to come.  Check your local listings for more information.

To see the original announcement, download the PDF below.

Download aaja_town_hall.pdf

Thanks to our awesome friends over at New York Asian Americans for Obama, we now have one page flyers on Sen. Obama and API issues in traditional and simplified Chinese.

These flyers discuss Sen. Obama’s proposals to:

*Reform and Fund No Child Left Behind
*Give More High Schoolers Access to College Courses
*Increase Federal College Aid
*Free Up Money for Student Aid
*Invest in Small Businesses
*Build Framework for East Asian Cooperation
*Reforming H-1B Visas

We also have an English language API Fact Sheet that includes the above issues and more.

Print ‘em out, copy ‘em, and start distributing ‘em at events, festivals, churches, community centers, and even supermarkets!  Let’s spread the word!

Download chinese_flyer.pdf

Download chinese_traditional_flyer.pdf

Download fact_sheet_asian_americans_and_pacific_islanders_final.pdf

As many of you may know, Sen. Obama recently came under fire for unapologetically stating that in an Obama administration, dialogue with other nations will always be a part of foreign policy.  Instead of back pedaling, Sen. Obama has stood firmly by his words, and reminded his critics that the American people want a change from the obstinate, misguided policies that have mired us in Iraq and have caused us to lose ground in the real fight against Al Qaeda and other true threats to our national security.

America has real enemies, and the last thing we need is to be distracted from the real dangers.

Join Sen. Obama’s call for a real plan to fight terror, and spread the word.  From the Senator: 

America must stop fighting the wrong war and start fighting the war we need to win: barackobama.com/newleadership

After September 11th, we had a calling to write a new chapter in American history. 

Americans
were united. Our friends around the world stood shoulder-to-shoulder
with us. We had the opportunity to devise new strategies, build new
alliances, safeguard our values, and serve a just cause. 

If only we had seized that opportunity. 

Unfortunately,
we did not finish the job against al Qaeda in Afghanistan. We did not
capture or kill Osama bin Ladin. And this administration drove us into
war on the wrong battlefield with no appreciation of how many enemies
we would create and no plan for how to get out.

Now,
six years later, we are overdue for a major change of course in our
foreign policy. America must stop fighting the wrong war and start
fighting the war we need to win. 

The next president must end
the war in Iraq, refocus on Afghanistan and the Taliban resurgence, and
pressure Pakistan to root out al Qaeda once and for all. 

Most
importantly, the next president must make sure that Osama bin Ladin and
al Qaeda’s core leadership are captured or killed. If Pakistan or any
other nation won’t act against bin Ladin and his cohorts, we will. 

Sign on to my plan and spread the word: 

http://action.barackobama.com/newleadership

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