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April 21st, 2008 Meet Saleem, a superstar volunteer from Pittsburgh who has been doing an amazing job recruiting volunteers for the Obama campaign.
“My motto is any person who speaks or walks is fair game to try to convince them to work for Barack Obama.”
April 21st, 2008 Casperr, a Daily Kos diarist, has given our Philly grassroots team a terrific shout out by posting a diary about the diverse group of volunteers that worked out of the Chinatown office the last couple of days.
Again, a big thanks to our very own Nina Ahmad, Matt, and Anna Perng who have been leading the grassroots effort our in Philly (and are pictured in the diary), as well as the inestimable Van Tamom, Pennsylvania AAPI Outreach Director for the Obama campaign, who I had the distinct pleasure of working with in Texas. Connecticut State Rep. Bill Tong was also on hand to help campaign for Sen. Obama.
Let’s help our folks in PA make the final push! Make calls today through the online phone banking tool! Show Obama that AAPIs support him by making a contribution through the Asian Americans for Obama MyBO page.
Here’s a cool photo of Anna at the Chinatown Office from casperr’s post:
Read the rest of casperr’s post here.
April 20th, 2008 Chinese-language daily World Journal profiles Chris Lu in their April 20, 2008 edition. [Originally, this was presented as a PDF but is now available after the jump] Lu was Barack’s Harvard Law School classmate and serves as a trusted advisor on the campaign and in his Senate office.
Lu is also quoted on Obama’s ‘wonkishness’ in this November 2006 article in the Washingtonian.
April 20th, 2008 Chinese-language daily World Journal profiles Chris Lu in their April 20, 2008 edition. Lu was Barack’s Harvard Law School classmate and serves as a trusted advisor on the campaign and in his Senate office.
Download world_journal_profile_of_chris_lu_chinese.pdf
Download translation_of_world_journal_article_on_chris_lu.pdf
Lu is also quoted on Obama’s ‘wonkishness’ in this November 2006 article in the Washingtonian.
April 19th, 2008 It may not be the type of fervor we see in Obama, Japan, but some Taiwanese would prefer to see Barack Obama as the next US president. This is the island, after all, where the majority of Democratic American expatriates voted for the Illinois senator. Either way, many Taiwanese, despite support from Republican administrations in the past, now feel that it’s in their best interest to have a Democrat in office.
See: http://www.theworld.org/?q=node/16878
Here’s a picture from Flikr titled "Obama in Taiwan"
And a closer view
And one of the last places where you’d expect to find him. Also from Flikr.
April 18th, 2008 Rediff.com, an India-based web portal, did an interesting profile on an Obama advisor:
"If Obama’s amazing run can be credited to his team, it is heartening to note that the second in command in the area of immigration is an Indian American, Preeta Bansal. The 42-year-old lawyer is a partner at Skadden, Arps, slate, Meagher & Fom in New York City…
Preeta Bansal advises Obama on international human rights, legal issues, foreign policy, women’s issues, and outreach to Asian-Americans. He is ‘able to advance progressive principles, but he’s not one of those starry-eyed liberals,’ Bansal told the publication, National Journal. ‘With him, two plus two equals five, not four. The whole is greater than the sum of the parts."
See the whole story at: http://www.rediff.com/news/2008/apr/15look.htm
April 18th, 2008 For young AAPIs seeking to be delegates to the Democratic National Convention in Denver, the DNC Youth Council is holding a series of teleconference trainings. The information from the Council and a downloadable document on the process are available below:
One
of the goals of the DNC’s Youth Council is to increase the number of
young delegates (those under 36) to the Democratic National
Convention. We have already held several conference call trainings on the
process to be a delegate. The trainings were extremely successful and we are
eager to get underway with our next round of calls.
Below
one will find a listing of some of our upcoming calls. Please spread the word
to as many people as possible about these. On each call we will be joined by a
member of that respective state’s party to go over the process to be a
Congressional District, PLEO, or At-Large delegate to the Democratic National
Convention. In addition to the specific training, we will be sure to
provide information on how to get more involved with the State Party and
other youth organizations. (If you or your organization have specific
information you would like to have mentioned, please email me and let me
know as soon as possible.)
April 18th, 2008 April 17th, 2008 
Have a spare room? Need a place to crash for the convention? List what you have or what you need at http://www.texansforobama.com
Remember: You are the ones you have been waiting for, so please do not wait for us to match folks. Do as much followup and contacting as you can. When you have made a match, email housing@texansforobama.com so we can take you off the list.
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