MinKwon Center presentation for KASCON
Transcript of MinKwon Center presentation for KASCON
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The MinKwon Center for Community Action…
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…to meet the needs and concerns of the Korean American community through our five program areas:
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The common misconception is that Asian Americans community is generally well off and do not need social services.
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The common misconception is that Asian Americans community is generally well off and do not need social services.
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There are more than one million Asian Pacific Americans in New York City
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There are more than one million Asian Pacific Americans in New York City
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50 of the 200+ languages spoken in NY are Asian languages
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28% live in linguistic isolation
50 of the 200+ languages spoken in NY are Asian languages
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1 out of 5 does not have health insurance
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4 out of 5 are foreign born
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1 out of 2 is born in poverty
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.4% of the foundation dollars went to the APA community.
credit: Asian American Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy (AAPIP)
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.24% of the social service contracts went to the APA community in NYC.
credit: Shao Chee Sim, Asian American Federation
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We can’t advocate for a bigger budget just by ourselves.
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Neither can these organizations.
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Neither can these organizations.
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That is why the 13% and Growing Coalition was born.
Kickoff Press Event at City Hall
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Asian-led groups received $987,825 in Council discretionary funding
Press briefing at City Council
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Asian-led groups received $987,825 in Council discretionary funding
Press briefing at City Council
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Asian-led groups received $945,303 in Council Initiative funding
Rally for fair share of the budget
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Asian-led groups received $945,303 in Council Initiative funding
Rally for fair share of the budget
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Click here to see our work with 13% and Growing!
http://vimeo.com/7071337
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Our community faces several challenges in being engaged.
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There is a severe lack of representation.
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Voters are not engaged.
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We don’t turn out the necessary numbers.
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Total Seats Number of APA Officeholders
Percentage of the seats held
Percentage of the population
House of Representatives
29 1 3.4% 7.3%
NYS Senate 62 0 0% 7.3%
NYS Assembly 150 1 0.7% 7.3%
NYC Council 51 2 3.9% 12.6%
Total 292 4 1.4% -
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Same community, three different ways
of representation
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To address these problems, ACCORD was created
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Collectively, we held our government accountable.
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Only ONE majority Asian district
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FOUR new majority Asian districts
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We educated our voters so that they knew the candidates…
NYS Assembly District 6 Candidate Forum
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…and the issues. Multilingual voter guides
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We also made sure that our community was registered to vote…
GOTV Efforts
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…and actually got out there to vote!
Phonebanking registered voters
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(we made sure that they didn’t have issues voting either)
Asian Voter survey
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32%
25% 29%
54%
NYC NYC No Outreach Grassroots
Outreach
2010 General Election Voter Turnout Results
Flushing/Bayside
Korean American voters
All voters
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We started fighting against anti immigrant sentiments
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The push for immigration reform started up
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September 11 brought everything to a grinding halt
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2001
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2005
Anti-immigrant efforts intensified.
Rally against the Sensenbrenner bill
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But we pushed back!
Rally for McCain-Kennedy Immigration Reform Bill
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We have continuously fought for immigrants’ rights on local level as well.
Human chain around Gov. Cuomo’s office
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2012
On June 15, Obama administration announced the deferred action policy.
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2012
We are legally representing 7% of the total Korean American applicants.
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KORE – MinKwon’s immigrant youth-led organizing group
We’re making our path for a brighter future for all!
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Presentation by Steven Choi
& Tony Choi M.K.
Made for MinKwon Center for Community Action
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