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Village Voice: Advocates Look Toward Next Redistricting Frontier: City Council Lines

Village Voice: Advocates Look Toward Next Redistricting Frontier: City Council Lines

Third article about ACCORD’s March 20 press conference.  Here’s an excerpt:

ACCORD, along with other advocacy groups, has devoted a lot of its energy to the rapidly-growing Asian population in Queens, which has skyrocketed 300 times faster than the rest of the borough’s population over the last ten years. In this local redistricting process, Hong said he would like to see an increase in Asian-American majority Council districts in Queens.

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Capital New York: Council Redistricting Bearing No Resemblance to Albany’s

Capital New York: Council Redistricting Bearing No Resemblance to Albany’s

Capital NY: ACCORD

Second of two articles reporting on ACCORD’s March 20 press conference at City Hall.  Here’s an excerpt:

But as the fastest growing population in New York, the city’s Asian-American population is poised for the biggest gains. Originally focused on the state-level redistricting, a number of groups formed Asian-American Community Coalition on Redistricting and Democracy, or ACCORD, to address the concerns. Now looking at city council lines, members of ACCORD said that along with Flushing, already a majority-Asian district, Elmhurst and Sunset Park could potentially produce “Asian” districts.

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Dear Members and Supporters:

The Puerto Rican Bar Association (PRBA) Scholarship Fund, Inc. is pleased to announce the availability of its applications for the 2012-2013 PRBA Scholarship Awards Program for Latino law students. All Latino law students residing permanently or attending law school in New York State are eligible to apply for the Scholarship Awards, which range between $2,000 to $2,500, subject to availability and certain restrictions.

All applicants will be reviewed based on academics, financial need and community involvement. The scholarship awards will be presented during the 55th PRBA’s Annual Scholarship Gala to be held on May 10, 2012, at the New York Hilton, and photos of the recipients and their biographies will be published in our Scholarship Gala Journal. All recipients will be notified prior to the gala by the PRBA Scholarship Committee. For more information visit our website atwww.PRBA.net and/or to apply click here
http://www.prba.net/main.cfm?actionId=globalShowStaticContent&screenKey=cmpContent&htmlKey=scholarshipprocess&s=prba

The deadline to submit your applications is April 13, 2012. Please review and follow all directions as only completed applications will be considered.

The PRBA, founded in New York in 1957, is one of the oldest Latino bar associations in the United States. Today, the PRBA continues its tradition of breaking down barriers to the legal profession with active members throughout the United States and Puerto Rico. Please spread the word of this worthwhile Scholarship program.

Thank you,

Javier E. Vargas, Esq.
PRBA Board Member & Scholarship Selection Committee Chair
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Chinatown Community Development After 9/11

Chinatown Community Development After 9/11

Julie Huang shared this event with us.  Here’s an excerpt:

You are invited to join your neighbors on Tuesday, March 27, beginning at 7:00 pm at Mariners’ Temple Baptist Church, to share your personal perspective on Chinatown’s development.  Did the events of 9/11 change the direction of this neighborhood forever?  Have some things improved?  What has been neglected?  Is there a unified vision of Chinatown that we can all set our sights on and work toward?

PROGRAM

– Overview of post-9/11 Chinatown, presented by Wendy Cheung, Beyond Ground Zero Network

– Audience discussion of Chinatown concerns

– Reflection and Perspective offered by:

Bethany Li, Staff Attorney, Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund

Jan Lee, V. P. Exec. Board of Dir. Hamilton Madison House

JoAnn Lum, Executive Director, National Mobilization Against Sweatshops

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Getting Appointed to a Criminal Justice Act

The City Bar’s Minorities in the Courts Committee presents Getting Appointed to a Criminal Justice Act (“CJA”) Panel for the 2nd Circuit and the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York

Date: Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Time: 6:30 pm to 8:30 p.m.
Location:  New York City Bar Association, 42 West 44th Street, New York, NY
Cost: There is no charge for this program

Members of the CJA panel represent persons charged with federal criminal offenses who are financially unable to obtain counsel. Panelists representing the CJA Panels for the Eastern and Southern Districts and the 2nd Circuit will discuss the appointment and application process; the prestige of being appointed; the need for to further diversity; mentorship programs, which were created to assist in increasing the number of minority and women applicants and panel members; and other available resources to get on these panels.

REGISTER HERE.

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AAARI presents: Chinese and Native American Connections

Please join the Asian American / Asian Research Institute (AAARI) for a talk on, Chinese and Native American Connections, on Friday, March 23, 2012, from 6PM to 8PM, at 25 West 43rd Street, 10th Floor, Room 1000, between 5th & 6th Avenues, Manhattan. This talk is free and open to the general public.

Dr. Wen Jin will provide an analysis of Chinese/American poet-scholars Alex Kuo and Aku Wuwu, with a focus on their poetry, fiction, and critical writings that bring together Native American culture and the cultures of ethnic minorities in contemporary China. Dr. Jin shows the broader implications of the two authors by discussing the ways in which ideas of “ethnicity” and “indigineity” function in Chinese and American contexts and sketching a short history of Chinese-Native American contact in recent decades.

To RSVP for this talk, please e-mail [email protected] with your name, phone number, e-mail and zip code, or call our office at 212-869-0182. Please be prepared to show proper ID when entering the building for security purposes. 

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Grace Meng to Run for Congress

Grace Meng to Run for Congress

Following the re-drawing of Congressional lines by a Federal court earlier this month, Congressman Gary Ackerman announced his retirement last week.  Assemblywoman Grace Meng was then tapped by Queens Democratic leaders to run in the newly-created CD6.  If elected, Meng will be the first Asian American member of the House of Representatives from New York.  With primaries coming up in June, she would need to start campaigning immediately.  Congratulations and best wishes to Grace Meng!