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
 
Sounds very good. How ever based on the experience in this forum, not many people will take active part in these crucial activities. How ever, once we collect the fund, let us first focus on providing some incentives for people who take part in these activities. That will surely bring some people into these activities.
 
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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good effort

Originally posted by karma_yoga
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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Keep the effort up. Even if everything fails, which i do not believe, at least some people learnt how to fight and in theie future lives they can use this .. even when they might be alone.
 
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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NEW JERSEY

checkthisout, rajum

Are you the NJ leaders?? I need to know if anybody is in DISTRICT 13. This used to be where I lived for years..still have bonds and family there. The Congressman is Rep. Robert Menendez. he is HISPANIC and also president of the DEMOCRATIC CAUCUS and member of the HISPANIC CAUCUS.
Did anybody send him a letter and the petition?

Note: I met the guy a couple of times and also I know people who have direct access to him..

Let me know.
 
Cinta,
I am ready to volunteer.
My congressman is Frank Pallone who is democrat and hold pro-immigration views.
I never contacted any senator or congressman till now. But I can contact one. I will find out about Robert Menendez.


-rajum
 
good show rajum.

I also will be contacting congressman Pete stark from 13th district.
CA.
Soon we will come up with a more clear and standard procedure to follow for such efforts and to report our reports at a common place.

keep up the good work.

Karma_Yoga.
 
Karma_yoga,
Thanks.

As said by you, before we contact we have to go with a more clear and standard one to follow. I totally agree with you.
I think we all need to work swiftly to get this out.

Cinta,
Once we are ready with how to present our case, may be we need to pull your resources to contact Congressman Robert Menednez.


-rajum
 
Originally posted by rajum
Karma_yoga,
Thanks.

As said by you, before we contact we have to go with a more clear and standard one to follow. I totally agree with you.
I think we all need to work swiftly to get this out.

Cinta,
Once we are ready with how to present our case, may be we need to pull your resources to contact Congressman Robert Menednez.


-rajum
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I will closely work with kashmir from CA 14th district, to get this doc/procedure out as soon as possible. He has been very active on this front.

Thanks,
karma_Yoga
 
Originally posted by rajum
Cinta,
I am ready to volunteer.
My congressman is Frank Pallone who is democrat and hold pro-immigration views.
I never contacted any senator or congressman till now. But I can contact one. I will find out about Robert Menendez.


-rajum
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rajum,

Use the facilities provided by Edison and kashmir and others. "www.congress.org". can send e-mails, can use priority hand-delivered service, can write a cover letter and sign it and mail it registered.

Please do it and encourage others to do it as soon as possible. I am planning a visit to NJ. Let me just say this and stop here. I know people there. But I want the NJ people to write FIRST, so when I do whatever I will do, I want the Representative to already know about it from HIS OWN CONSTITUENTS. I left NJ in 96. Most of my family live in NJ.
Rep. Menendez is President of the Democratic Caucus, and the Hispanic Caucus.
Any HISPANIC from anywhere should also contact him at this moment.
 
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Originally posted by rajum
Karma_yoga,
Thanks.
As said by you, before we contact we have to go with a more clear and standard one to follow. I totally agree with you.
I think we all need to work swiftly to get this out.

Cinta,
Once we are ready with how to present our case, may be we need to pull your resources to contact Congressman Robert Menednez.
-rajum
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Hi, rajum,
As karma_yoga wrote, I am working with him and we will show you our way soon.

However, you don't need to wait it, and I strongly encourage you to act today like allsucks in PA.
We need more actions at first right now.
The standard way will follow.
-kashmir
 
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