Building A Giving Garden

The University of Washington Tacoma is an urban campus located in downtown Tacoma, and is eager to give back to its community. This project is the construction of four raised bed gardens which will grow organic vegetables to be harvested and donated to Tacoma’s Good Neighbor Café, a facility providing breakfast and dinner to homeless and low-income individuals. The Greater Tacoma Community Foundation has provided grant money to fund the project, including all supplies for the volunteer as well as snacks and beverages.

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Asian American LEAD and MD AAPIs for Obama MLK Volunteer Day

Event will take place at 11141 Georgia Ave., Suite 515, Wheaton, MD 20902 from 1 - 3pm.

Homeless shelters in D.C. are in need of packages that contain sanitary and health care items. Volunteers are needed to donate the individual-sized toiletries and to package them to be delivered to homeless shelters. The items we need can be seen from the following links:

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Friends,

Listed below is a compilation of AAPI specific activities during inauguration week. These are not put together by the PIC and are not official PIC events. I just wanted to make sure you all had this to participate in events as you will.

For more information on the Presidential Inauguration Committee, please visit www.pic2009.org.

Happy New Year!

Charmaine Manansala

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Asian Pacific Americans for Progress (APAP) is gathering any images that you may have from the 2008 campaign season, whether it was Obama or any other progressive candidate or proposition. We’ll be putting together a highlight reel, to be played at the AAPI Grassroots Gala on January 20th in DC. Please send your images (jpgs or tiffs) or videos (wmv) to Matt Chea at mattchea@gmail.com ASAP. Note - please zip large files and include information on where and when the pictures/video is from with some information about the event or activity where the picture/video was taken. Deadline - January 3rd. If we use your image, you will receive a copy of the commemorative DVD.

Asian Americans for Obama will be a featured organization, and many of our members are also active in APAP.

President-Elect Obama’s Christmas/New Year message has been enhanced with our karaoke English captioning, and subtitled in Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, Tagalog, and Spanish. We’re also hoping for some additional languages.

You can see it at these locations:

* On Youtube at www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXHdvgHM6fI and www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPyi4mI80WU
* On the web at www.captionedmediaforobama.com/prez/Obama_Christmas_iphone.mov
* at 720p resolution at www.captionedmediaforobama.com/prez/Obama_Christmas_720p.mov
* With the subtitles below the video at www.captionedmediaforobama.com/prez/Obama_Christmas_iPhone_large.mov
o This is our preferred format, as there is more than enough room with letterboxing for both the video and captions to show well on a 4×3 television.

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CAGP After School Program 7th Annual MLK Day of Service

Project Description: The Cambodian Association of Greater Philadelphia After-School Program will host its 7th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service. On this day, volunteers will work alongside youth to beautify blocks in South Philadelphia. There will be a community clean-up effort in the neighborhood where the After School program is located. Volunteers are encouraged to join our youth at this event honoring Dr. King’s Legacy.

Contact Person: Eddy Sacksith, eddy@cagp.org  

Address: 2416-18 S. 7th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19148

Neighborhood: South Philadelphia

Start Time: 9:30 AM

End Time: 2:30 PM

SAALT Special Reception - Inauguration weekend

Sunday, January 18th from 7pm - 9pm
K&L Gates
1601 K St. NW
Washington DC

Join community leaders and individuals from all over the country who are in DC for Inauguration weekend for a special evening event on Sunday, January 18th at the Foundry Gallery.

$40 Admission (includes one-year membership to SAALT)
We encourage you to purchase tickets in advance as space is limited.
Click here to purchase your ticket today: https://co.clickandpledge.com/advanced/default.aspx?wid=23757

To download a PDF of this invitation, click here.

This story has been making the rounds - it’s been reported that President-Elect Barack Obama kicked off his vacation in Hawai’i on Sunday with a game of golf, accompanied by political aide, Eugene Kang. According to the President-Elect, Eugene’s got game! Read more here and here from The Washington Post! (And find out what Eugene’s nickname is here. )

Our thanks to Gautam Dutta of AAA-Fund for bringing us this news and for giving us permission to cross-post!

Judy Chu for Congress

It’s official: AAA-Fund Honorary Board member Judy Chu is running for Congress. If elected, she would become the first Asian American Congressmember to represent Southern California since 1998.

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Dear Asian American & Pacific Islander Leaders:

Merry Christmas Eve, Eve. I wanted to make sure you saw today’s announcement about key White House Senior Staff appointments. In particular, please note that Semonti Mustaphi, a South Asian American will serve as Press Secretary for First Lady-in-Waiting Michelle Obama.

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