by kace
www.kavc.orgFrom September 26-27, 2009, the Korean American Voters’ Council (KAVC) organized a massive voter registration drive at the “Chu-suk” Festival in Flushing Meadows Park, NY. Through the course of the campaign KAVC registered 97 new Korean American voters for New York, and 6 new voters for New Jersey. KAVC also took in applications for 9…
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On September 18, 2009, the Korean American Voters’ Council organized a massive voter registration campaign for the upcoming General Elections at the “Chu-suk” Festival in Overpeck Park, NJ. In 2009, the upcoming elections are especially important as many vital positions are up for re-election, such as the County Freeholders. Through the course of the campaign,…
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On September 15, 2009, the Korean American Voters’ Council (KAVC) conducted a Phone Bank Hotline service where voters could contact trained professionals at the office with questions regarding voting rights, poll site locations, non-partisan candidate information, or report abuses or issues at the poll sites. The hotline service was held from 6 PM and ended…
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On September 9, 2009, the Korean American Voters’ Council (KAVC), in conjunction with various other local Korean ccommunity-based organizations, conducted a “Get Out the Vote” march down Union Street in Flushing as part of an effort to help educate and bolster voting turnout for the upcoming elections on September 12. The rally began on the…
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On September 15th, candidates are still vying for major pockets of votes before the election. More than just a few of these are Korean Americans, who are well known to be qualified workers, running this year. Although all these candidates are more than qualified, there is not a position for everyone, it is not as…
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On September 4, 2009, The Korean American Voters’ Council (KAVC) celebrated the graduating members of the 2009 summer internship session at the Open Center, located in Korea Village in Flushing. The KAVC Summer Internship Program is an annually run 6 week program which began on June 29th and ended on August 4th this year. This…
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On August 27, 2009, the Korean American Voters’ Council (KAVC) Staff Attorney, Chejin Park, Esq. explained the issues and hardships the Korean community goes through regularly to Governor John Corzine who attended the NJ Census Task Force Ceremony. On example he cited dealt with the Korean American Dry Cleaners Association, (KADCA) and their recent fight…
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On Thursday, August 27th, 2009, the Korean American Voters’ Council Summer Interns and Student Volunteers received community service citations from the offices of Assemblywoman Grace Meng for their hard work and dedication to the betterment of the community, especially through the two main projects the interns have been working on this summer, the Alternate Side…
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On August 21, 2009, the Korean American Voters’ Council made a final delivery of the new voter registrations to the Queens County Board of Elections along with the President of the Korean American Empowerment Committee of New York, John Park. Today is the deadline to be registered and eligible to participate in the upcoming Primary…
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On Tuesday, August 18, 2009, the Korean American Voters’ Council was honored to host a brief grassroots strategy session with Lee, Cheng-yi, Director of the Department of Social Movement, Democratic Progressive Party of Taiwan. Set up through a special program from the US Department of the State, Mr. Lee was visiting various grassroots and civic…