Event: Building AAPI Political Power from the Ground Floor

Monday, August 11, 2008

Sounds like it could be pretty cool, so if this up your alley, you'll want to check it out:

Building AAPI Political Power from the Ground Floor
Monday, August 18th, 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
The Wine Room, 520 Ramona Street, Palo Alto.
Suggested donation of $10-$20.


Eric Mar, Evan Low, Levin Sy, Michael Chang invite you to a fundraiser for the Asian American Civic Project (apapipeline.org), a new political training and placement program for Asian American and Pacific Islander recent college graduates. The project is run by the APA for Progress PAC under the leadership of Clarence Tong.

The event is on Monda y, August 18, from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. at The Wine Room, 520 Ramona Street, Palo Alto. Suggestion donation of $10-$20. Join the Host Committee for this event at $100 give/get. Contact Keith Kamisugi at keith@keithpr.com.

In collaboration with Emily's List and Annie's List, the Asian American Civic Project funds and trains five Campaign Fellows and places them with campaigns in communities throughout the country with AAPI communities in battleground states such as Illinois, Minnesota, Nevada and Washington State.

Part of the barrier to AAPIs achieving our full political potential is the shortage of AAPI political campaign managers, legislators and civic leaders and as well as the lack of a strategic pipeline to encourage, facilitate and support political participation within AAPI communities.

The Asian American Civic Project is intended to serve as one of those pipelines to give recent graduates or those i nterested in a second career in politics an introduction into the political process.

For more information on the project, visit http://www.apapipeline.org.
h/t Asian Americans for Obama