by kace
On Wednesday, May 27, 2009, the Korean American Voters’ Council student volunteer group continued their voter registration initiative at a local H-Mart located on Union Street in Flushing. KAVC student volunteers have been going out every Wednesday and Friday to local community hotspots to register voter and inform the citizens about upcoming elections. In in…
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Using the data from the recent 2005-2007 ACS, we can see the standards and the changes of the Korean community within Queens County of New York. In terms of total population of the county, there has been a slight increase since 2000 of 2,229,379 to a total of approx. 2,263,858, a gain of 40,000. However…
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/23/us/politics/23rivals.html?ref=usOn Wednesday, during a round-table discussion with reporters at the Capitol, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she had been briefed as part of a routine process in which Congressional leaders are informed whenever a lawmaker is picked up on a wiretap. Ms. Pelosi said she was given no details and was not allowed to inform…
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/23/world/asia/23korea.html?ref=asiaSouth Korea’s relations with the North are at one of their lowest points in years as tensions between the two continue to grow after an unsuccessful meeting session to discuss the future of their joint industrial complex in Kaesong. While discussions on when and where this meeting would take place took over 11 hours, the…
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Over the last eight years (2000-2008), the Korean American voting populace has been growing by leaps and bounds, especially within the Council Districts 19 & 20 in Flushing. By 2008, there were more than 3,000 registered Korean American voters in District 19 and more than 5,000 registered Korean American Voters in District 20. Although this…
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AFL-CIO (American Federation of Labor ? Congress of Industrial Organization) is the largest labor organization in the United States of America. Because of its size and influence, the chairman of the AFL-CIO also possesses enormous power and influence. For instance, usually new elected chairman of the organization presents new direction and strategy for the…
by kace
Over the last eight years (2000-2008), the Korean American voting populace has been growing by leaps and bounds, especially within the Council Districts 19 & 20 in Flushing. By 2008, there were more than 3,000 registered Korean American voters in District 19 and more than 5,000 registered Korean American Voters in District 20. Although this…
by kace
I attended, as an observer, an annual general meeting of AIPAC (American-Israel Public Affairs Committee) in March of 2005 for three days. As a precedent, the participants meet with current federal Congressmen/women on the last day of the meeting. I sat with two Congressmen: Bob Websler of Florida and Rahm Emanuel of Illinois, who now…
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On Wednesday, February 25, 2009, the Korean American Voters’ Council (KAVC) student volunteers traveled to a local H-Mart in an effort to help educate and reach out to the community pertaining to the upcoming elections in 2009, especially the important Mayoral Elections for NYC. The student volunteers also helped register a new voter and answered…
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/15/nyregion/15kirsten.html?ref=asiaIt is customary for politicians eager to connect with ethnic voters to butcher a few words in Spanish, Chinese or other foreign tongues. But Ms. Gillibrand is no ordinary politician when it comes to linguistic and cultural comfort: as an Asian studies major at Dartmouth, she studied for six months in China and Taiwan, becoming…