Original post written by Oiyan Poon at Asian Americans for Obama

I'm recovering from a long day in Orange County yesterday.  Driving down there from Los Angeles yesterday with my friend Jennifer, we both commented on how rare we ever spend time in the "orange curtain."  It takes something special to get us Angelinos to the OC, but to be honest we were also a bit skeptical about the "APIA Presidential Town Hall," by APIA Vote, because there are 2 important primary elections coming up on Tuesday making this weekend a critical GOTV weekend.  So we were pretty sure that none of the candidates would make a personal appearance, but we were looking forward to seeing old friends and meeting new people.  Plus, there was a "Unity" event scheduled later that evening at a local lounge, to bring together AAPI's supporting Clinton and Obama.  Yes folks, we need to unify in time for the November general election... for Obama! That's right, I said it :)

As usual, all credit goes to Jenn and the Weekly Web team - thanks, guys!

Asian Americans for Obama have worked tirelessly over the last several weeks to try and spread Senator Barack Obama’s appeal to the Asian American voting constituency. In this final pitch email, we will wrap up several posts written by Asian Americans detailing our support for Senator Obama. We hope that you will help spread the word to your blog readers and/or forwarding this email to your friends.

Cross-posted at Asian Americans for Obama. Props to Jenn and the Web Team for putting this together!

Asian Americans for Obama is a grassroots organization of concerned Asian Americans from all over the country who are working to help elect Senator Barack Obama as the next president of the United States . Though our coalition includes members of diverse ethnic, cultural, linguistic, class and gender backgrounds, we are united in the belief that Senator Barack Obama is the best candidate to bring this country together and enact change for all Americans.

Part of our mission has been to communicate the support for Senator Barack Obama within the Asian American community, particularly through new media/blog outlets. You have received this press release because we believe you are a powerful voice on the blogosphere and we hope you will find in this release writings, news stories, and link of interest to your readership.

We hope that you will post on your blog some or all of the links included in this release.

Cross-posted from Asian Americans for Obama - thanks to Jenn Fang of reappropriate for her hard work in putting this together!

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Asian Americans for Obama is a grassroots organization of concerned Asian Americans from all over the country who are working to help elect Senator Barack Obama as the next president of the United States.

Thanks to the heroic efforts of numerous volunteers, Asian Americans for Obama has put together a set of videos about Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, and Maya Soetoro-Ng (Barack's sister), as well as supporter created videos of grassroots AAPIs for Obama and the popular Si Se Puede Cambiar music video, with Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, and Spanish subtitles.  These videos have been assembled into a DVD that will be distributed by grassroots supporters throughout the AAPI community, but you (and anyone else) can watch them online now on YouTube at this page:  
http://www.youtube.com/...

Hi - This was forwarded to the Asian Americans for Obama listserv. Please contact Mark Greene at the link below for more details. (Also cross-posted at Texans for Obama.)

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SAALT (South Asian American Leaders of Tomorrow) has put together a document listing examples of racist rhetoric, aimed generally at South Asian, Muslim, and Sikh communities as a whole, or targeted specifically at South Asian candidates running for elected office since 9/11.

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