Bay Briefs
September 29, 2006
Filipino Veteran Equity Campaign
EVENT: Filipino Veteran Equity Community Campaign
DESCRIPTION: Student Action for Veterans Equity sponsors day of action to write letters, postcards and e-mails to nation representatives to campaign for full equity for Filipino WWII veterans before end of second congressional year, with dinner and snacks provided.
DETAILS: RSVP by Sept. 30, Oct. 7, 3-7 p.m., Bayanihan Community Center, 1010 Mission St., San Francisco.
CONTACT: (415) 255-2347, fullequitynow@yahoo.com
Leveraging Our Diversity
EVENT: Leveraging Our Diversity — 3rd Annual Multi-Cultural Business Forum
DESCRIPTION: Forum about engaging minorities in business in Sacramento, where 34% of businesses are minority-owned and the population is 16.6% Asian. There are also networking opportunities with workshops on business strategies.
DETAILS: $55, Oct. 5, 12-7 p.m., Sheraton Grand Hotel, 1230 J St., Sacramento.
CONTACT: www.multicultrualbusinessforum.com
UC Berkeley Yongmudo Competition
EVENT: 2nd Annual UC Yongmudo Championship
DESCRIPTION: Mixed martial arts competition featuring full-fledged sparring competition called kyukkido. Matches divided into four rounds of separate techniques in grappling, punching, kicking and throwing.
DETAILS: Free – $5, Oct. 14, 8 a.m., Field House at UC Berkeley, 2301 Bancroft Way, Berkeley.
CONTACT: (510) 642-3268, www.ucmap.org
Carjacking Can’t Make a Dent in Aid To Homeless
Despite a carjacking in April, Gloria Kim, 65, an emigrant from South Korea, continues to feed the homeless of Los Angeles.
"We’ve done this for many, many years," Kim said. "This never happened."
For 20 years, Kim, known as "Mama" to those whom she helps, rises each day at 2 a.m. to cook vegetable soup and gather fruits and bagels, which she gives to 200 people living under bridges, in parking lots and on street corners. It is a lot of work for someone who has cataracts and cannot drive too much on her own. But Kim said she is getting on with her mission.
Nowadays without her 1998 Toyota pickup with license plate 5R12164, she relies on volunteers with vans to drive her around to MacArthur Park, Lafayette Park, Koreatown, Griffith Park and downtown.
Human-trafficking Victims Fight for College Funds
COSTA MESA — The daughter of a Vietnamese woman who was a victim of the largest human trafficking case in U.S. history, finally received federal financial aid money she was promised for college.
Ngoc Bich Nguyen, 20, attended one semester at an Orange County college under the special T-visa before learning her request for aid had been denied and she had been reported to a collection agency. The T-visas granted to trafficking victims and family members provide refugee-like status to cooperative witnesses whose lives would be endangered if returned to their home countries.
But bureaucratic confusion and indifference has kept dozens of eligible applicants from getting the money promised for college.
Under the newly enacted Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act, the victims and their families could apply for permanent U.S. resident status. guaranteed housing, money and financial aid to attend college are also provided.
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