Sunday, October 26, 2014

A huge cemetery will be built in Irvine.

Asian culture and location of the cemetery


Asian culture and location of the cemetery

In Asian culture, the location of the cemetery is very important. It is a taboo to place cemetery next to homes or close to urban area. Even the emperor's tomb is built far away from urban areas.

Veterans fight for us, die for us, we absolutely respect them, but I am pretty sure they fight so that we can have freedom to voice our opinions, so that we can live happily on this land of free, and the home of the brave. I am sure once they really understand Asian cultures and know it is a taboo to put cemetery to homes or close to urban areas, they will work with us to find a better location for everyone.

Saturday, October 25, 2014

州眾議員韋格納:公墓地點未確定

州眾議員韋格納:公墓地點未確定
http://la.stgloballink.com/LANEWS/2014/1024/147129.shtml

【爾灣小分隊在行動】


【爾灣小分隊在行動】        

爾灣是我家,豈能不愛她?維護美家園,就靠你我他!护家小分队出发吧!我们大家一起来扫街发传单,揭露建公墓的真相,通過助選的方式,阻止提案的通過。        

傳單覆蓋地區:Great ParkPortola Spring, Woodbury, Stone Gate, Northwood, Northwood Pointe, El Camino, North Park 區內所有學校。.                          

傳單覆蓋公共場所Zion Market99 Ranch Markets, H Mart, 85 Degree Area, 以及所有孩子課外活動的場所。                    

傳單發放方式:晚飯前後遍掃所在小區鄰居;上學放學前後接觸所有家長;午飯前後突擊超市及餐飲地區;空閒時間發電子郵件給爾灣所有朋友。志願参與發傳單的義工請看下面链接, 可下载傳單:

Saturday, March 22, 2014

To scare the Democratic Party, we should register as Republicans.

 To scare the Democratic Party, we should register as Republicans. If
       10,000 more AsAms register as Republicans than Democrats
       before June 3, both parties will compete to serve our rightful
       interests. 

See link:
http://80-20initiative.blogspot.com/2014/03/updating-80-20s-call-to-action-on-sca-5.html

If you cannot open the link above. Here is the full text:

UPDATING 80-20’s “Call To Action” on SCA 5



 CONGRATULATIONS & THANKS to many organizations & individuals
who rose and acted against SCA5: Silicon Valley Chinese Association
(SVCA), United Asian American for Activism (UAAFA), the Backbone
Foundation, the Civil Rights WeChat Group, San Diego Asian American for
Equability, Assemblyman Ed Chau, and many others.

   Thanks to you, great progress was made toward the 2 goals for which
80-20 issued a CALL TO ACTION about 20 days ago.

              The 2 Goals stated in 80-20's "Call To Action"
 
Goal 1: Stop SCA 5 - an immediate need.
 
Goal 2: Make Asian Am elected officials accountable to our rightful
       interests. That will EMPOWER our community permanently.
                             
                       Updating our Progress
 
Goal 1: SCA 5 is dead. All who understand politics know that. The
       Republican Party is exploiting the SCA 5 issue in hopes of
       defeating Dem. candidates in the coming June 3 Primary and Nov.
       4 General Election. The Dem Party is scared; and wants to get rid
       of SCA 5 ASAP to avoid a disaster in this year's elections. What
       should we do?
Using one political party to scare the other for its
       hurtful act against us is in the BEST democratic tradition. Keep
       on using this tactics!

Goal 2: Will we get rid of SCA 5 permanently? NO! Unless we work to
       truly empower ourselves - register more AsAm voters to increase
       our voter-share in CA from the current 8% to 10%.
      
       To scare the Democratic Party, we should register as Republicans. If
       10,000 more AsAms register as Republicans than Democrats
       before June 3, both parties will compete to serve our rightful
       interests. Officials from both parties SHALL become our public
       servants. (Note: You can vote Democrat as a registered Republican. 80-
       20 will like the privilege of making a recommendation to you
       when the elections occur.)

       To truly empower ourselves, we need to PUNISH 2 AsAm elected
       officials, one Dem senator and one assemblyman, for their failure
       to defend our interests during this SCA 5 episode. 80-20 will
       advise, when the time comes. 

                             How to Rise & Act
 
(1) Want to help to REGISTER Asian Ams to vote? Email me via
    sbw@udel.edu. We'll announce the participants; report the number of
    AsAms who have been registered, broken down to Ds, Rs & Unaffiliated.
    A cash prize of $1,000 shall honor the AsAm org. having registered
    the largest number of AsAms by Oct. 21, 2014 (Tuesday).

(2) Focus on
   
   ( a) Assemblyman Paul Fong of the 28th District (Campbell), who will
    be term-limited out. He'll run for City Council 1, San Jose. He has
    been very reluctant to help his own people.
   
   (b) Assemblyman Bob Wieckowski of the 25th district (Fremont)
    which has 49.6% AsAm voters. Kansen Chu has just declared to
    run for his seat.

                     If you Appreciated 80-20's work, 

please donate to 80-20 Educational Foundation's SELF project, which is
tax deductible. Acting is important! Click on 

Respectfully,
S. B. Woo, a volunteer
President, 80-20 Initiative.

PS:                 FORWARD this email please.
 

Monday, March 17, 2014

Affirmative action bill SCA 5 'dead for the year'


众议院议长暂时停止这个法案的继续发展,SCA5应该不出现今年的选票上。但我们会继续努力,让美国政客看到亚裔不再是永远沉默的良民”-- the invisible model minority

 

See link:


 

The safest bet is to put more Republicans in both the state senate and assembly to eliminate the Democrat supermajority to balance them, so that no party would come up with another SCA 5, SCA 6...plus, SCA 5 is not dead yet and can come back in the future, keep your eyes open.

 

Thank you all for spending your precious time to make the phone calls, sending the faxes and e-mails. We need to unite and work together to make sure our kids, grandkids and future generations will never be treated as second-class citizens because of their race. They can have equal opportunities like everyone else, and have no limit to their dreams, and can be what they want to be: a president, a governor, a superstar or...

 

If you cannot open the NPR article at above link, her is the full text:

Affirmative action bill SCA 5 'dead for the year'

SCA-5

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The SCA 5 legislation was aimed at bringing race-conscious admissions and recruitment to California's public universities, such as UCLA.
A legislative plan to ask California voters whether they want affirmative action reinstated at public universities is not going forward this year.
Assembly Speaker John Pérez on Monday returned SCA 5 — short for Senate Constitutional Amendment 5 — to the Senate without the Assembly vote required to get the question placed on the November ballot.
Pérez said he did so at the request of the bill's sponsor, Sen. Ed Hernandez, D-West Covina.  Hernandez's office has said he's more focused on placing the measure on the 2016 ballot.
During a press briefing in Sacramento, Pérez said SCA 5, did not have the two-thirds vote needed in the Assembly to get on the ballot.
Pérez and Senate President Pro-Tem Darrell Steinberg are instead calling for a task force that will look at ways to expand "student access" to the public university system. Pérez said he and Steinberg would work over the next two weeks on crafting "language dealing with the specific charge of the task force" and who would be on it.
"It is important we engage in a very broad conversation with all interested stakeholders, with academics and with leaders of our institutions of higher education to understand where we are and where we’d like to get as a state to have the broadest access to our public university system as possible," Pérez told reporters.
Hernandez had said the point of SCA 5 was to admit more students of color from groups underrepresented at University of California and Cal State schools, including African-Americans, American Indians and Latinos.
Supporters of SCA 5 say that campus diversity has declined under Proposition 209, the ballot initiative voters passed in 1996 that barred the use of race, ethnicity or gender in college admissions. It took effect in 1998.
But some Asian-American groups are worried that allowing race-conscious recruitment and admissions would cost college placements for Asian-Americans, the most-represented racial minority of the UC freshmen class.
Organizations such as the Joint Chinese University Alumni Association of Southern California have pressured Asian-American Assembly members to oppose SCA 5.
Olivia Liao, leads the 40,000 member-strong organization, and said she was "happy" to hear SCA 5 was not advancing this year. But she worried about it coming back in 2016 - the soonest SCA 5 could get on a ballot.
"I think we need to continue to monitor this bill and continue to influence our legislators," Liao said. "And we are going to be talking about this to see what we can do to encourage all the Asian voters to make sure they get registered and get them to vote."
The Senate's three Asian-American members had all voted for SCA 5 in late January. Under fire from SCA 5 critics, they've been distancing themselves from SCA 5, saying in joint statements that they were not aware of the opposition to the bill until after the vote.
One of them, Sen. Ted Lieu, D-Torrance, put out a statement Monday, praising Pérez's decision to return the bill to the Senate.
"Without action in the Assembly, SCA 5 is dead for the year," he said.
This story has been updated.