Project “Symphony”

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Project “Symphony”

Objective: To Organize employment based immigrant community all over USA for
Political Awareness and Action.
Action Items:
1. Identity and list active volunteers to work in each State and each Congressional
District. Target is to identify at least 2 people to work with each individual
Senator and congressman. Volunteer are expected to spend about 2-4 hours per
week for this project. Activities involves attending town hall meetings, visiting
offices, requesting and follow up for personal meetings and sending updates from
your area to Project “Symphony”, etc. Once we get organized and have volunteers to
work with different districts, we can push Project Ocean and immigration related
other upcoming projects, activities etc.
2. Go to www.congress.org
3. Put in your 9 digit Zip code.(where you live). And get your senator and Representative info.
4. click on the photo of your representative, and you will get info of your district.
For e.g. Representative Fortney Stark (D-CA 13th)
Here, the district is 13th of CA.
5. If you will like to volunteer, please add your info in this format.

“yourid” “state” “district number”

For e.g. For me the zip is 94538-3010. So district info is as follows,

Karma_Yoga CA 13

Please use this very format to send your availability. That will make it easy to summarize it in a list. Comments are welcome.

Thanks,

K_Y


Please follow the original thread at CSC to post your userid or comments.

http://www.immigrationportal.com/sh...threadid=103382
 
Agree with tombaan

we seem to have too many of these kind of initiatives that get started, but unfortunately none of them have been taken to completion.

All the best, but frankly I dont see a point.
 
I am in

TX-21

My guess is that this face to face initiative will work better than just sending mails.

Don’t give up just yet. No one gives a damn about legals. So we have to keep on plodding, making noise until someone hears and does something about it. The other alternative is to just wait and we know how much TSC is capable of making us wait.
I have already tried to meet with Lamar Smith but looks like the next townhall meeting that he will have is in Spring time (too long for my liking) for the general public to meet. I will try for Cornyn and Hutchison. If there are any ideas floating around as to if there are other avenues to meeting with these folks I am willing to give it a shot.

Hope the other fire breathing, I am tired of this TSC S*** folks will join this effort as well.
 
In my limited knowledge from the last 10 years I know Lamar Smith is a bad guy for immigration. He was against the H1B increase during Clinton's time. He went on to write his own thesis (no one gave a damn to that though) about how the H1 destroyed america. If for his thesis, H1 would not have risen from 60,000 to 195,00 or something during Clinton's time. Avoid Lamar Smith.
 
most of the republicans

are against us:o thanks to clinton atleast we have ac21 otherwise so many of us would be packing bags by now:( :(

god bless him for that
 
Re: most of the republicans

Originally posted by tombaan
are against us:o thanks to clinton atleast we have ac21 otherwise so many of us would be packing bags by now:( :(

god bless him for that
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It was just Clinton happened to there at the right time. Without Republicans support the AC21 bill would not have crossed the floors of Congress.

Mostly Republicans support legal immigration due to their connection with corporate world but Democrats support illegal immigrants.
 
dis agree

i think it makes more sence for us to be on democratic than republicans which is a south white boys club
 
Re: dis agree

Originally posted by tombaan
i think it makes more sence for us to be on democratic than republicans which is a south white boys club
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I know most of the immigrant community support Democrats assuming that they support immigrants.
Yes, Democrats support immigrants like illegal immigrants, Religious workers, TPS, ..... Family immigration, but Republicans actually support Employment based immigration since they have lot of support from large corporates and large corporates support employment based immigration. Just do some research you'll accept this view since I think you are EB based GC applicant and not other immigrant community which Democrats support.

P.S: karma_yoga and others , please apologize me for deviating from main objective of this thread.
 
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Why we need something like project “Symphony” ?

Political awareness is very much needed in order to get any attention. There are several individual attempts in 4 service centers.
• Raj Chandra - Massachussets MA
• checkthisout - New Jersey NJ
• YJay - Virginia VA
• manumahi - Conneticut CT
• Edison - Michigan MI
• Kashmir – Project “Ocean” CA.
And many that we don’t know as not everybody hangs in here. Such attempts are very much appreciated for individual contribution. But we need is a resonant effect, where we hit the issue little bit from every angle in sync.
So when our congressman from “NJ district X” meets, congressman from “CA district Y” at a some informal meeting, they talk a little bit about us. In this forum elsewhere we are organizing to for a law suite. Law experts can tell us how much steam we have against the system. Nevertheless, It will give us lots of attention which is very good to shake the system. While we fight against the system with law suite, Project “Symphony” aims to organize volunteers, so that we can push petitions to congress, to improve the laws that affects us. One such petition is project Ocean.

http://www.immigrationportal.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=99973

Once we organized, there are limitless options that we can try.
For e.g. We can think of generating funds for political contribution. Even if we donate one dollar per person contribution for each petition (requested law change) that we submit, It will make the political community to *think* about us. Not because of the money, but the fact that this one dollar per person is coming from a Professional wizard who is in this twenties and thirties (average) and political aware/active. Not to mention rich compare to average American. Only a fool can afford to take us lightly for our potential when we unite.

Personally, I do not have any political affiliation and would like to work with all parties and all members. In my opinion: A Politician’s views and orientation depends on “several” things. Once we unite, we will be a potential “vote bank” and did I mentioned that we are rich? Those who are against us on immigration issues will think again.

Your comments, support, critics, opposition, humor ….every thing is welcome.

Regards,
Karma_Yoga
From 13th district of california.
 
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Lamar Smith might be an anti-immigrant a while ago but he is in the immigration committee (a committee that is supposed to provide direction to the CIS) folks. Looking at his records he has atleast supported several immigration bills. But whatever the case may be my address falls under his district so he is the only one I can approach.

As far as contributing to politics. International folks (foreigners/us) cannot give monetary contributions to political campaign. I have checked the campaign funding rules. But we can provide unlimited amount of volunteer work for the campaigns.
 
tr22,
Thanks for info.

Did you mean only natural born citizens can contribute funds?
Not even naturalized citizens or permanent residents?

Karma_Yoga
 
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I should have been more clearer. Non Resident Aliens cannot provide funds. Permanent Resident (GC Holders) and naturalized citizens can. There is also a $2000 or $2500 limit per person per election (whether it is a primary, presidential etc.) limit.

Hello where are the TSC folks to join this effort. Only meeting with people face to face will produce results.
 
tr22,

Thanks for info.
One more reason why we seek greencard and citizenship. Able to provide Monetary contribution and Right to Vote.

Karma_Yoga
 
FYI:


On 22 April 2003, Rajiv Khanna replied at the following thread.

http://boards.immigration.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=77368

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My thoughts - time to act is now!!!
Folks, here is what I have learnt and done:

1. Visited a couple of key senators last Friday. The sense I am getting is that they listen best when their own constituents participate.
2. Grass roots advocacy (without any fancy organization behind it) still has a big place in American Politics.
3. We need to get organized immediately.
4. I have asked my colleagues to invite participation from two (or many more) people from every State who are willing to visit their Members of Congress to discuss matters. We will coach everyone about how, what, where etc.
5. If any of you readers wish to be directly involved, please send an e-mail to me or to advocacy@immigration.com with your phone numbers and address so we can contact you.
6. Within the next week or two, I would like us to have a list of appx. 100 volunteers covering every state in USA.
7. I will prepare an agenda and the list of things we should start doing.
8. Siva and Eduardo, I can provide Server Space if you folks want to set up some kind of software for this.
9. In the mean time, keep doing what user webigy suggests.

Any other suggestions?
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Rajiv S. Khanna; Law Offices of Rajiv S. Khanna, PC - Your Host
rskhanna@immigration.com; http://www.immigration.com
703-908-4800 Extension 110
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Update of actions at 4 service centers.

As we are trying to gather as many volunteers as possible to push Project Ocean, I have started this thread at 4 service centers.( so that we don’t miss few potential candidates who don’t visit other service centers threads.)
We will be keeping a consolidated list at CSC center thread at below, Please note that project “Symphony” at CSC is the main thread. Please visit the following thread to see what is happening latest at project symphony.

http://www.immigrationportal.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=103382

Also visit this relevent thread, 'who wants to be in action team" at VSC.

http://www.immigrationportal.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=100429

karma_yoga
 
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