OCA - Orange County Chapter

Hello Everyone,
Welcome to the second OCA-OC newsletter. I would like to start by thanking everyone who came out to our Asian Game Night Fundraiser for making it a success. Also, congratulations to Vincent on being the grand prize winner as well as all the others who won consolation prizes. We hope to see all of you as well as those who missed this event at our upcoming events.
As a kind reminder to our members, OCA-OC officers are here to help you so feel free to contact us anytime. I am easily accessible through e-mail at yaolee@gmail.com. I am open to hearing from you regarding any topic: from our website and newsletters to suggestions you may have for our organization to how you can get more involved with OCA-OC. We are always looking for energetic individuals to help achieve our mission in empowering the Asian American voice in the Orange County and national community. The information found on this newsletter can also be found on our website here..
Upcoming OCA-OC Events
Friends and Family Day at the Huntington Library’s Chinese Garden

June 21, 2008

1:00pm
1151 Oxford Rd
San Marino, CA 91108

Please join OCA’s Greater Los Angeles Chapter and Orange County Chapter at our Friends and Family Day at the Huntington Library’s Chinese Garden.

Visit the Huntington Library and Chinese Garden at your own pace and join us for some tea and light fare at the Freshwater Pavilion. Given the discounted Admission Fee offered to our group, space is limited. Click here for additional information or to RSVP.

Admission
Adult $15
Children (ages 6-11) $6
Children under 5 Free

For question, please contact us at: contact@oca-oc.org

Upcoming Community Events
Hate Crime Network Meeting
Review of the 2007 Hate Crime Report

When: April 17th, 2008
Where: OC Human Relations
1300 S Grand Building B
Santa Ana, CA 92705
Conference Room A/B

A group of Civil Rights Leaders will discuss the 2007 Hate Crime and Incidents Report.
Panelists include:

Rev. Mark Whitlock - COR AME Church, Irvine

Dr. Kevin O’Grady - Regional Director, Anti Defamation League

Hussam Ayloush - Executive Director Council on American-Islamic Relations L.A.

Scott Steiner - Orange County Deputy District Attorney

Antonio Cruz - Lifeguard Program Coordinator, The Center OC

Chief Paul Henisey - University California at Irvine Police Department

Edgar Medina, Senior Human Relations Specialist, OC Human Relations

For more information on the event, contact James Armendaris by phone at (714) 567-5117 or by e-mail at rusty@ochumanrelations.org
For more information on OC Human Relations, please visit their website at http://www.ochumanrelations.org/

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YGAP Spring Speed Dating Event for Charity
by YGAP

When: Saturday, April 19th, 2008
Where: Sutra Lounge
1870 Harbor Blvd
Costa Mesa, CA 92627
Cost: $10 YGAP members
$15 ladies non-member; $20 men non-member before April 14th
$20 ladies non-member; $25 men non-member after April 14th

YGAP is hosting its 2008 Spring Speed Dating event at the Sutra Lounge in Costa Mesa. All of this year’s proceeds from this event will be donated to charity.

Check-in at 1:00-1:30pm
Wait-listers who have checked in will fill any missing seats at 1:40pm
Speed dating from 1:45pm to 4:30pm (with breaks in between)
Dress Code: Dress to Impress
First Paid-First Served! Don’t delay!
No entries or payments will be accepted at the door.

For more event details, click here

Questions, Concerns, Group Rates or Issues? Contact William at william@ygap.org

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Refugee Day 2008

When: May 3rd, 2008; 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Where: Le-Jao Center
14120 All American Way
Westminster, CA 92683
Cost: Free

Refugee Forum of Orange County would like to extend an invitation to join them at the Refugee Day celebration. This year’s event will be co-sponsored and hosted by Coastline Community College. The event is free and open to all.

The Refugee Forum is a membership organization composed of representatives from agencies and groups that work with refugees in Orange County. The purpose of the Refugee Forum of Orange County is to assist in the successful resettlement of refugees in Orange County, and to enable them to obtain the resources necessary to become self-supporting and contributing members of society. Through coordination, planning, advocacy and outreach, the Refugee Forum works to assure the most efficient use of available resources to accomplish the purpose of the organization.

The tentative agenda for Refugee Day consists of recognitions of individuals and organizations that have contributed to the county’s refugee community, speakers, entertainment, and, of course, sumptuous ethnic foods. Also included in the day’s event is a “resource fair,” allowing organizations to provide service-related information to the attendees.

The Refugee Forum of Orange County hopes you will attend this special event and support the activities of the Forum through your participation. Thank you!

If you or your organization would like to take part in the resource fair, please contact nnguyen@apalc.org, or 714-530-9155, on or before April 18, 2008.

Members of the Refugee Forum of Orange County include the Asian Pacific American Legal Center, the Red Sea Social Services, Inc., CSP Orange County Human Trafficking Task Force, Catholic Charities of Orange County, the Cambodian Family, Saint Anselm’s Cross-Cultural Community Center, UCI Library Southeast Asian Archive, American Red Cross, CalOptima,World Relief, Orange County Social Services Agency, Orange County Health Care Agency, East African Community of Orange County, California State University, Fullerton, and the State of California Employment Development Department, as well as representation from local elected officials.

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UC Irvine Symphony Orchestra:
Violin Spectacular!
presented by UC Irvine Claire Trevor School of the Arts

When: May 3rd, 2008; 8:00 PM
Where: Irvine Barclay Theatre
4242 Campus Dr
Irvine, CA 92612
Cost: $12 general; $10 senior; $8 student

The University of California, Irvine is holding its’ first annual benefit for UC Irvine Symphony Orchestra. The purpose of this benefit is to provide scholarship support for the student members of UC Irvine Orchestra. Jean Aldrich, the founding First Lady of UC Irvine will be attending as the honorary chair.

The program will include the following:

- Dimitry Shostakovich - Festive Overture

- Tan Dun - Violin Concerto - Cho-Liang Lin, soloist

- Pietro Mascagni - Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana

- Mozart - Violin Concerto No. 4 in G Major - Cho-Liang Lin, soloist

Opportunities available for sponsorship:

Principal Sponsor: $10,000

Sponsors: $1,000 - $5,000

Special VIP ticket: $100

Sponsors are invited to the following private events:

Master Class with Cho-Liang Lin

Reception after the Master Class

Post Concert Reception in Jade Room

For information on becoming a sponsor, please contact Melissa Hernandez at melissh@uci.edu

For more information on this event, please visit the Irvine Barclay Theatre website.
For more information on the UC Irvine Claire Trevor School of the Arts, please visit their website at http://www.arts.uci.edu/

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“The Paradoxes Of Race, Law And Inequality In The United States”
A Conference To Be Held At The University Of California, Irvine

Dates: May 2-3, 2008
Friday: 9:30a.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Saturday: 9:30a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Location: Humanities Instructional Building, Room 135

Topics:
- How Do Legal Discourses About Race Reproduce Racial Inequality?
- How have racialized inequalities in the United States been reinforced or exacerbated in recent decades?
- How do discursive shifts in crime policy and the unprecedented expansion of imprisonment since the 1960s affect investments in racialized forms of governance?
- How have institutionalized inequalities been sharpened even as few admit to being racist?
- What are the global impacts of American racial policies and practices?

Organized by the Law & Society Review and the UCI Center in Law, Society and Culture
Co-sponsored by the Department of Criminology, Law and Society, the Department of Sociology, the School of Humanities, the School of Social Ecology, the School of Social Sciences, the UCI Office of Research, and the Law and Society Association

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION AND A LIST OF SPEAKERS GO TO
http://socialecology.uci.edu/node/1831

Additional Information
Innovative APIA Youth Vote Grant

Are you an 18-25 year old youth with an innovative idea on how you would mobilize your Asian and Pacific Islander American community to vote? Well here is your chance!

Create a voter education and mobilization project that will get your APIA community to vote for the June 3rd Elections - and receive one of six $1,000 grants from OCAPICA’s Project API Vote to do it.

Project ideas:
Tabling at ethnic markets
Class raps/dorm storming w/ Easy Voter Guides
APIA ‘Why I’ll Vote’ community survey
Create a viral video
Develop a TV public service announcement
Create an in-language voter song for ethnic radio play
APIA Voter education forum
Get out the vote door hangers in APIA neighborhoods
In-language posters for ethnic businesses
Guerilla theatre
T-shirt campaign
Bhangra the Vote/Luau the Vote Parties
… and much more! The innovation is up to you!

What Do I Have to Do?

If you are a youth leader, apply for the grant today! Project must be affiliated with a campus or community organization for the funds to be dispersed to. This would be a great fundraising opportunity for your organization!

Project idea must be:

Non-partisan and support no candidate or ballot initiative
Educate and mobilize the Asian and Pacific Islander community of Orange, Riverside, or San Bernardino community
Have a bilingual component, preferably in Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, Samoan, Hindi, or Tagalog
INNOVATIVE! Only you know what will best mobilize your peers to vote!
In turn, we ask that you support OCAPICA’s larger Project APIA Vote by:

recruiting bilingual volunteers to our bilingual phone bank
Attending Project APIA Vote press events
Distributing Project APIA Vote education materials into the community

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To apply, submit the following to Tanzila Ahmed, Policy Manager at tahmed@ocapica.org:

One 500 word proposal

One weekly work plan leading up to June 3rd

One budget of how the $1,000 grant will be spent

Developed by the Orange Country Asian and Pacific Islander Community Alliance (OCAPICA) for Project API Vote. OCAPICA is a non-partisan 501c3 organization. Materials are created with support from The James Irvine Foundation.

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Call for petition

Dear community members,

I would like to bring attention to you on a pressing matter affecting Chinese citizens across the world. The Voice of America (VOA) Cantonese Service is one of the few Cantonese radio stations broadcasted around the world that is free of censorship by the Chinese government. Unfortunately, VOA is facing cancellation this year due to budget cuts by the U.S. government. For decades, the VOA Cantonese Service has been the major news source for audiences in southern China. More than 130 million Cantonese-speakers in mainland China rely heavily upon their access to foreign media to obtain accurate and fair news coverage. In light of recent protests against the Chinese authorities, this could not have come at a more inopportune time.

This is where you can help. We have started a petition urging the U.S. government to continue the Cantonese service of VOA. We are not asking for money, just signatures. Here is the link of the online petition which also provides more details on the situation.
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/savecantoneseVOA

I hope that you can lend your hand in this matter. Thank you in advance for your help.

Regards,
Ms. Evan Woo
evchau2001@yahoo.com

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From Emma and the City Clerk’s Office

Dear Community Partner:

The City or Irvine would like to introduce you to the Irvine Democracy Project: Vote 2008 campaign that has been implemented by the City Council to encourage all eligible residents to register to vote and to participate in elections at all levels of government. There are two more opportunities for voters to exercise their right to vote in 2008. On June 3rd the City of Irvine will hold a Special Election to present Measure H to Irvine voters. To learn more about Measure H, the “Irvine City Council Ethical Public Service Ordinance” please visit the City’s website at www.cityofirvine.org. The Special Election will be held concurrently with the Statewide Primary election on June 3rd. The next General Election will be held on November 4th. You will have the opportunity to vote on local measures and initiatives, as well as National, State, County and local elected officials. Please note that the deadline to register to vote in the June 3rd election is May 19, 2008.

We encourage you to publish this information in your newsletters and websites or forward this email to your colleagues and members prior to the May 19 voter registration deadline. Also attached is detailed information concerning voter registration and upcoming elections that can be distributed or posted to your website. Your assistance to help encourage greater civic and voter participation is appreciated. In addition, the Orange County Registrar of Voters is always seeking volunteers to staff the polling sites on Election Day. Bi-lingual poll workers are always needed, and poll workers receive a stipend for their service. You can also access election and voter information in several languages by visiting the Orange County Registrar of Voters website at www.ocvote.com or call 714.567.7600.

For additional voter information, registration cards or to learn how you can get involved in the Irvine Democracy Project: Vote 2008 effort, contact the City Clerk’s Office at clerk@cityofirvine.org, 949.724.6205, or visit www.cityofirvine.org.

Thank you,

Emma

JOB POSTINGS
Orange County Asian and Pacific Islander Community Alliance (OCAPICA)

Job Titles: Voter Education Coordinator, Vietnamese Voter Educator & Voter Outreach Coordinator

Title: Voter Education Coordinator (full-time temporary)
Division: Orange County Asian and Pacific Islander Community Alliance, Inc.
FLSA: Non-Exempt Supervisor: Policy Manager
Pay Range/Rate: 40 hrs/wk, $13-$15 an hour

OCAPICA’s Project Asian and Pacific Islander Vote is educating and mobilizing voters in Orange, Riverside, and San Bernardino County around the June 3rd and November 5th Elections in 2008. The Voter Education Coordinator will help to implement the outreach component of the project as well as supporting our project partners in the community. Under the supervision of the Policy Manager, the Coordinator will be responsible for coordinating, training and recruiting for our multilingual phone banking non-partisan get out the vote efforts.

Essential Functions
Primary point person in the coordination of Project API Vote’s multilingual phone banking operation.
Work with community partners to recruit, train and coordinate volunteers for the phone bank
Maintain the day to day operation of the phone bank
Assist Policy Manager in managing the community partners in Project API Vote’s network and maintaining communication
Provide outreach training and support to our community partners
Assist Policy Manager in developing materials for the phone bank and outreach efforts, as well as assist in the project’s media outreach.
Support administrative work for the project such as the documentation of efforts for future evaluation.

Title: Vietnamese Voter Educator (part-time temporary)
Division: Orange County Asian and Pacific Islander Community Alliance, Inc.
FLSA: Non-Exempt Supervisor: Policy Manager
Pay Range/Rate: 20-30 hrs/wk. $12-$14/hr.

The Vietnamese Voter Educator is responsible to implement the Vietnamese outreach component of the project in the local community. Under the supervision of the Policy Manager, the Educator will be responsible for coordinating voter education and voter mobilization in the Vietnamese community in Orange County. Educator will work with Vietnamese press, translating materials for the Vietnamese community, and working innovatively with the community on best practice get out the vote efforts. This position is a part-time (20-30 hrs/wk), temporary position that will end November 2008.

Title: Voter Outreach Associate (part-time temporary)
Division: Orange County Asian and Pacific Islander Community Alliance, Inc.
FLSA: Non-Exempt Supervisor: Policy Manager
Pay Range/Rate: 20 hrs/wk, $11-$12/hr

The Voter Outreach Associate will help to implement the in-language outreach component of the project. Under the supervision of the Policy Manager, the Associate will also assist in training and recruiting for our multilingual phone banking non-partisan get out the vote efforts. This position is a part-time (20 hrs/wk), temporary position (eight weeks between April and June).

Application Process:
Application deadline: ASAP, Open until filled
Please e-mail a cover letter, resume, and 2 references (past supervisors including e-mail address and phone number) to: Hiring Committee

E-mail: careers@ocapica.org