Posted by 4U on September 21, 2001 at 22:43:35:
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Subject: WTC & the Asian American community
> Dear Friends,
>
> I hope this message find you and your loved ones safe and sound.
>
> I was thinking that we should get all the different APA groups together
for
> an event to help out with the WTC tragedy. We could raise money and
> awareness for the need of tolerance between all cultures. Especially in
> regard to Arab Americans and other muslim communities. The money raised
could
> be divided between the victims of the tragedy and help for the victims of
the
> backlash. Spearheaded, I believe, by AALDEF and CAAAV.
>
> We'll need a venue like a corporate auditorium or something similar. And
> we'll need people willing to perform. And a bunch of volunteers. And we
> could try to do this by the week of October 1st.
>
> I'd like to get a response on how interested people are in something like
> this. And if so, send me any information on resources we can use, like an
> auditorium and performers and groups who are interested in participating.
>
> Tolerance & Peace,
>
> Ramon Gil,
> President,
> Coalition of Asian Pacific Americans
> tel: 646-840-1118
> www.capaonline.org
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