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Our group Twitter account is at http://www.twitter.com/aa4o
To properly send Twitters to other Asian Americans for Obama, in your
Twitter client, type "d aa4o #aa4o [your message here]".
Those of you already adding the #aa4o hashtag did a great job during the last debate.
The results are below.
Obama Shout-outs
Latest on Fri, 00:59
EFFIE: Howdy! Wonderful idea, but might this truly work?
nincchulk: Hi,
i can say, that Teak Furniture Refinishing will be this year best!
regards!
Ramey: Don't forget to vote today!
hafizi: yes we need a change!
Ramey: The words in my mind as we remember Sen. Kennedy: "It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here [...]
Listening
to the many pundits after Obama’s speech on the economy, I thought I was
listening to the proverbial six blind men arguing over whether an elephant is a
snake, spear, wall, tree, fan or rope. (Just
like an elephant is not its trunk or tail, the Obama candidacy is larger than his
individual support for a specific piece of legislation). Most missed the thread holding both his
speeches on race and the economy together into one coherent vision. For Asian American / Pacific Islanders, the
emerging worldview reveals how we are not a monolithic community but do share a
common agenda with the wider bottom 80% of the nation. It further nuances the promise of an Obama presidency
for us.
Supporters
of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton debated live in Mandarin last Friday, March 28, on Bay Area Sing Tao radio, 96.1 FM.
Roger Hu, Albert Wong, and Darcy Paul represented Obama. I met Roger, a computer chip designer, at
a lunch with AAPI Obama supporters at the California Democratic
Party Convention. He was part of a team of
enthusiastic Obama supporters that attended Camp Obama in Chicago. He helped
open the still-functioning Palo Alto office and is running for a pledged delegate spot for
Obama in the highly competitive Congressional District 14. Elections for the coveted seats are on Sunday, April 13, 2pm at a location in your district.
Yesterday, March 29, 284 district conventions were held across the State of Texas. On March 4, precinct conventions elected delegates to the district conventions, who then, in turn, elected delegates to the state convention yesterday. Since the Texas Democratic Party chose to stop compiling and reporting precinct convention results with less than half of the results in, no one really knew who won the Texas Caucus or by how much until after the district conventions.
With 56.34% of the conventions reporting, comprising 86.51% of the state delegates, Sen. Obama leads 55.91% to 44.09%, with 3,708 delegates to Clinton’s 2,924 delegates. The biggest chunk of outstanding delegates will come from the two districts in Collin County (Plano, McKinney, Frisco), which had to hold their convention today because they could not book a large enough venue for Saturday. Collin County, a suburban Dallas county, went strongly for Obama on March 4. Projections indicate Obama will net 9 delegates from the Caucus, as previously predicted by CNN and others. With Clinton’s net of 4 delegates from the Texas primary, this confirms Obama’s overall win by 5 delegates. For updated results, visit Burnt Orange Report’s report.
Filipino American entrepreneur and Obama supporter Teri Dimalanta found time between running her two children’s design companies, kukunest and giddygiddy, to turn her daughter into an Obama girl. Thanks to Stella Ngai for sending us this photo!
A group of AAPIs for Obama attended the California Democratic Party state convention yesterday in San Jose. We were there specifically to attend the Asian American Pacific Islander caucus Friday afternoon and the caucus reception that evening to ensure that Obama supporters were visible at both.
In addition to Obama supporters Hacienda-La Puente Unified School District (LA) school board member Jay Chen, Curtis Chin of APA for Progress and Wayne Nishioka (who were both already attending planning on attending the convention), our group included Angelica Jongco, Brian Wang, Riya Kuo, Roger Hu, Arnold Kawano and Michelle Yuen who drove up from LA.
The Obama grassroots office opened on March 22 in Philadelphia Chinatown due to the generosity of building owner and Obama supporter Lee Deng, and the efforts of United People for Obama, Asian Americans for Obama, South Asians for Obama and many other groups.
Anna Perng and Matt of United People for Obama, Nina Ahmad of APA for Progress, HaiPei Shue, Andy Toy and others led scores of Pennsylvanians and out-of-state volunteers in an incredible voter registration drive. The volunteers, who all together spoke 14 languages, registered hundreds of new Asian and Latino voters. The volunteers also canvassed churches, mosques, markets and businesses, reaching an estimated 3,000 people over three days.
Christopher Nguyen directed several English and in-language video PSAs shown on YouTube for Vietnamese communities in Pennsylvania. The videos featured film director Ham Tran, actor-signer Cat Tien and director Timothy Linh Bui.
The weekend started with New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson’s endorsement of Sen. Obama, calling his former opponent a “once-in-a-lifetime leader” and someone who “will be an outstanding commander in chief.”
Pinay columnist Anne Cardenas Branigin writes of Obama’s speech that it "wasn’t just the audacity to discuss race in a thoughtful and meaningful way that was exceptional." But that "[m]ost importantly, the speech rang true." What I really appreciate about this piece is that she offers her unique perspective as and Asian American woman, a Filipino immigrant, someone who is privy to closed conversations among friends of different racial backgrounds, and also as an enthusiastic participant in a Southern black church. Read her column here.
Pinay columnist Anne Cardenas Branigin writes of Obama’s speech that it "wasn’t just the audacity to discuss race in a thoughtful and meaningful way that was exceptional." But that "[m]ost importantly, the speech rang true." What I really appreciate about this piece is that she offers her unique perspective as and Asian American woman, a Filipino immigrant, someone who is privy to closed conversations among friends of different racial backgrounds, and also as an enthusiastic participant in a Southern black church. Read her column here.
"The lesson that we should take from [Obama's] speech is this: even though
people experience racism individually, the origins of racism are
actually structural. That is, it’s our public policies that create bad
schools, unemployment, poor health care, and deadly wars." Rinku Sen, president of the Applied Research Center, explains in this clip. "Our best chance to change our attitudes towards each other, to transform anger and resentment into unity and progress, is to change the rules that govern society."’
Hat tip to John Delloro’s blog for highlighting this clip.
"The lesson that we should take from [Obama's] speech is this: even though
people experience racism individually, the origins of racism are
actually structural. That is, it’s our public policies that create bad
schools, unemployment, poor health care, and deadly wars." Rinku Sen, president of the Applied Research Center, explains in this clip. "Our best chance to change our attitudes towards each other, to transform anger and resentment into unity and progress, is to change the rules that govern society."’
Hat tip to John Delloro’s blog for highlighting this clip.
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