by kace
On Wednesday, August 11, 2010, the Korean American Voters’ Council and the outreach team for the New Voting machines came together, with the help of the Korean American Senior Voters’ Federation Branch of Jamaica, to demonstrate the new voting machines to many seniors at St. Pius V Senior Apartment, located in Jamaica. That day, the…
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Metro Supermarket Congregation (President Peter Park) supported the Korean American Voters’ Council with funds from previous golf tournament. Supermarket Congregation’s President Peter Park, Senior Vice President Dae-Geun Yu, Vice President Wally Park visited the Korean American Voters’ Council on August 10th, registered to vote and questioned and explained about the new voting machine. The…
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On August 7th, 2010, the Korean American Voters’ council had a demonstration, at a senior apartment in Corona, with Senior Voters Association (President Choi, Sung-Mo) about the new voting machine. At the demonstration, Korean residents from the apartment, as well as Chinese, Hispanic, and English, were all involved. For approximately one and a half hours,…
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On July 27th, 2010 NY KAVC interns visited Assemblywoman Grace Meng’s office. The interns discussed with the assemblywoman about the recent issues of the local community and learned about the functions of the local government. Grace Meng and the interns began the discussion with the issues regarding the Flushing Commons. Grace Meng said…
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On Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010, State Senate candidate Isaac Sasson took time out of his busy schedule to visit the KAVC interns at New York office to answer questions. Yoonsun Na (Stuyvesant, 12) asked Sasson the reasons for him running for State Senator. Sasson replied that he has been a resident…
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On August 1st, KAVC interns and volunteers held a voter registration drive at Cho Dae Church in New Jersey. Students received 60 new voter registrations from 10:00 AM to 3:30 PM, 55 of them for New Jersey and the rest for New York. Some people did not know that they were required to register before…
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Congressman Eni Faleomavaega , who is a member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the House Committee on Natural Resources, released a statement that was recorded as a congressional record on July 28th. The statement urged the Japanese government to comply with House Resolution 121 that was passed three years ago by making…
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On Thursday, July 29th, Kathleen Donovan, the Bergen County Clerk visited the New Jersey office of Korean Voters’ Center and spent time with the interns. On this day, the interns were able to ask questions to Kathleen Donovan about local government and administration works. The New Jersey office’s intern coordinator, Brian…
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On Wednesday, July 28, 2010, the 2010 KAVC summer interns had a chance to meet with Cha, In-Pyo who is a famous actor in Korea at the office in New Jersey. On this day, the interns and Cha, In-Pyo were able to discuss the summer intern program, and had time to discuss their impressions and…
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On July 26, 2010, Korean American Voters Council’s 2010 summer internships visited Washington D.C. and obtained appointments from the House of Foreign Affairs Committee for subsequent actions of the Japanese Comfort Women resolution that was passed on July 30, 2007. This day’s trip is a part of the Korean American Voters’ Council’s summer…