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A pay-per view worthy debate featuring our own Ramey Ko (Obama) and Shandon Phan (McCain) in the heart of Austin, TX. Austin is the most democratic city in the most republican state in the world. With the backdrop of the Texas Capitol and the surroundings of the University of Texas at Austin!
UPDATE: As of right now, the AACC is planning to go ahead with the festival, but we will be working closely with them to monitor the situation. Please e-mail eugenia_beh@yahoo.com if you have any questions.
Capital Area Asian American Democrats (CAAAD) will be holding a voter registration drive on Saturday, September 13th at the Asian American Cultural Center on 11713 Jollyville Road (north of Duval Road), during the AACC's 8th Anniversary Celebration and Harvest Moon Festival on from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. State Representative Elliott Naishtat will be in attendance to present an award to three-year-old Joel Griffin, who has been selected to receive the Asian American Cultural Center's new "Exceptional Character Award" for children under the age of five.
Update: The hotline is 512-476-2002. (This is for ALL of Texas.)
Greetings Everyone -
I hope everyone has had a chance to relax after Election Day & recover from Spring Break. As many of you know, this Saturday there will be nearly 300 County and State Senate District Conventions throughout the state of Texas. These conventions will serve as an opportunity for us to solidify Barack Obama's delegate lead here in Texas.
We need your help.
We are setting up a Help Line for delegates, alternates, and volunteers to call into on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday to ask questions, report potential problems/rule violations, etc. and we need your help staffing the hotline. There will be shifts starting Thursday at 3 PM, Friday at 9 AM, and Saturday at 7 AM:
If you can help with any of these, please email me at mgoedman@barackobama.com. There will be a training for hotline staffers before your shift. You will be working out of the Austin HQ (816 Congress).
One tip: Please call and ask for their vote. A surprising number will say yes.
Over 1500 calls have been made to Asian voters in Texas via the Asian phone banking lists. We would've had a lot more but servers were down
multiple times this weekend.
Although the campaign would have liked to target even more ethnic communities for the TX call program, limitations in the two voter databases we received for TX prevented meaningfully identifying more ethnic groups to target for this specific call program.
The most extraordinary things happen at the personal level, when you can make that personal connection to a voter and discover that you
share a common vision of what ought to be.
The campaign has set up a terrific online phone banking tool for calling AAPIs in Texas. The South Asian tool is up and running, and the Chinese, Vietnamese, and Korean tools will be available shortly.
Thanks to the heroic efforts of numerous volunteers, Asian Americans for Obama has put together a set of videos about Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, and Maya Soetoro-Ng (Barack's sister), as well as supporter created videos of grassroots AAPIs for Obama and the popular Si Se Puede Cambiar music video, with Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, and Spanish subtitles. These videos have been assembled into a DVD that will be distributed by grassroots supporters throughout the AAPI community, but you (and anyone else) can watch them online now on YouTube at this page:
Thanks to the cool system of subtitling used by our technical mastermind, Michael Novak, the subtitles are presented below English captions that highlight each English word as its spoken. So now, people can be inspired by Barack and Michelle and others and improve their language skills at the same time.
Please share these videos with your friends, family, colleagues, neighbors, etc.
For those interested in helping with AAPI targeted efforts in Texas, please contact the appropriate Texas AAPI (Asian American and Pacific Islander) Volunteer Coordinator:
Austin Area - Ramey Ko, ramey.ko@gmail.com, 512.577.5729
Dallas Area - Philip Shinoda, shinoda114@gmail.com
Houston Area - Mark Lee, mark_lee@aigag.com
Ramey Ko
Asian Americans for Obama
www.AsianAmericansforObama.com
Music video for Obama in Spanish, written and performed by Andres Useche and directed by Eric Byler from 9500 Liberty (director of Americanese, Charlotte Sometimes, and most recently TRE). Special appearances by Sen. Gil Cedillo, Kelly Hu, Ken Leung, Kal Penn, Wendy Carrillo, and Annabel Park.
Please forward widely - let's make this another "Yes We Can"!
Because student tickets for the actual debate are limited, they will be distributed by a random lottery system. You can enter your name for the lottery at http://deanofstudents.utexas.e...
For those interested, questions received via the Univision.com website will be considered by CNN and may be posted to the candidates during the debate.
The Senate is hosting the University's official debate watching party on Thursday, February 21. The screening will take place in the Union Ballroom and will start at 5:30pm. Food and drinks will be served. Only UT students, faculty and staff are welcome. Senators Clinton and Obama have also been invited to attend the event after the debate, but neither have confirmed their attendance at this time. Since this event falls on the last day of IntegrityUT Week, the Senate members have decided to tie in the debate with their IntegrityUT Week efforts. The theme for the watch party is: "Where Integrity and Democracy Intersect: 2008 Clinton-Obama Debate."
If anyone is interested in helping prepare for the debate watching party, please contact Senate President, Steven Meyers (UT students, please look up his contact info in the directory).
According to an update from the UT School of Information's representative to the UT President's Council for Senate, the Dean of Students office is currently deciding how to select students to fill the remaining seats for the debate. A decision will be made before next Tuesday because the Secret Service must have Names/IDs/SSNs from every student who will be attending before Wednesday. Please see here for more details:
In addition, for all the students who are unable to attend the live debate, the Senate will be holding a live debate-watching party somewhere on Campus (yet to be decided). There will be FREE FOOD AND DRINKS and they are currently negotiating with the candidates to get them to stop by the party after the debates are over (around 9-9:30 pm).
The School of Information representative is going to update us when she finds out more - when she does, I will post an update.
Here's a link to a story from the Daily Texan about tickets:
Please see the following links for flyers and DIY signs and posters to reach out to the AAPI community. The first link contains material that has been translated into Chinese (simplified and traditional), Vietnamese, and Korean, and the second link includes many great Texas-specific items that a supporter in D.C. generously shared with us.
(I'm posting this on behalf of Ramey, who forwarded the message to the Asian Americans for Obama listserv. Please use the contact info below to get more details - thanks!)
Workers Needed to Open Fort Worth Obama Offices
Workers are needed tomorrow on the North Side and East Side of Fort Worth at office sites for the Obama campaign. You will move furniture, clean, and paint, so wear your grubs. DONE!
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