“What Does This Election Mean For Asian Americans?”<\/p>\n
Monday, Oct. 13
\n3:00 p.m.
\nAddams Hall #207<\/p>\n
Why should Asian Americans care about this election? Does my vote really
\nmatter? Learn more about the issues that impact Asian Americans in this
\nelection cycle and the need for Asian American political leaders. Also
\nlearn about the voting power of Asian Americans and how to make your voice
\nheard in our political process.<\/p>\n
Panelists:
\n* April Lewton, Community Organizer for the Asian American Institute of
\nChicago who, in collaboration with community leaders, developed the 2008
\nAsian American Issues Platform for Illinois, a guide to Asian American
\nissues important to this year’s election.
\n* Ann Kalayil, founder of the South Asian American Policy and Research
\nInstitute who has been involved in a variety of political campaigns and
\nAsian American political organizations.<\/p>\n
Sponsored by UIC’s Asian American Resource and Cultural Center. For more To see some fun announcements about why Asian Americans should vote, Note: the deadline to register to vote in Illinois is Tues., Oct. 7.<\/strong> To Corinne M. Kodama, Associate Director “What Does This Election Mean For Asian Americans?” Monday, Oct. 13 3:00 p.m. Addams Hall<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asian-news","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143,"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions\/143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\ninformation, contact ckodama@uic.edu<\/a> or 312-413-9653, or visit aarcc.uic.edu.<\/p>\n
\nvisit: http:\/\/www.sdaff.org\/reelvote2008psa.php<\/a> . Get inspired and vote!<\/p>\n
\nregister (including changing your address), pick up a form at the UIC
\nLibrary or visit
\nhttp:\/\/www.elections.state.il.us\/votinginformation\/Register.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n
\nAsian American Resource & Cultural Center (MC 203)
\nUniversity of Illinois at Chicago
\n826 S. Halsted St., Rm 101 (Taft Hall)
\nChicago IL 60607-7029
\n312-413-9653 ph, 312-413-9732 fx
\nckodama@uic.edu<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/www.uic.edu\/depts\/oaa\/AARCC\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"