VIA Times – July 2014 Issue Vital News, Vibrant Views for Asian Americans in Chicago & Midwest
Dear Media Partner, I am the new Citizenship Coordinator and new point person for media contacts for our Immigration Legal Services department at World Relief DuPage. I am thrilled to announce our July 26th Citizenship Workshop. This is a great opportunity to love and serve our foreign-born neighbors in a tangible way since they receive a free legal consultation and free assistance completing the application for naturalization. The workshop will take place on Saturday, July 26th at St. Rita’s Catholic Church located at 750W. Old Indian Trail, Aurora from 8:30am-2:30pm. I have attached a flyer with the complete information. As you are able, please distribute this information among your organization, readers and listeners, and immigrant communities who could greatly benefit from this service. In addition, as you may know, two years ago President Obama gave administrative relief to certain qualified immigrant youth. Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, better known as DACA, allows immigrant youth to apply for Deferred Action as well as employment authorization. DACA applicants have to renew their application every two years. Because of this requirement, many DACA eligible applicants are currently preparing to go through the renewal process in addition to those still applying for the first time. To meet this need, I am excited to announce that WRDA has prepared several workshops that will take place during this summer in anticipation of the two year mark. I have attached a flyer with the month of August dates. Once again, please be so kind as to distribute this information among communities that you think could benefit from this program. If you have any questions, please contact me. I am so thankful for your partnership with SUBSCRIPTION World Relief in serving the most vulnerable.
Ruth Velazquez
Citizenship Coordinator
World Relief DuPage
ON Delano Manongs: The Forgotten Heroes of the United Farm Workers
“It should be noted, however, that Filipinos have actively participated in the farm labor movement in Hawaii and on the West Coast for over 60 years…..And it was, after all, the Filipino farm workers– and not the Mexicans as is more commonly believed– who with courage and unity sat down in the grape fields of Delano, California, in 1965 and started the strike which became the impetus for the most successful chapter in the history of farm labor struggles in California.” Source: Philip Vera Cruz, a Personal History of Filipino Immigrants and the Farmworkers movement, by Craig Scharlin and Lilia V. Villanueva, 1992,
JERRY CLARITO
AFIRE FOUNDER
(As posted on FACEBOOK)
ANOTHER FLAK FOR PIWC CHAIRMANSHIP OF ANITA ROSA
Dear Editor, Another commotion started at the recently held 2014 PIWC’s appreciation dinner/awards night when the official photographer & long-time PIWC member, Ms. Edna Pavel, was single-handedly skipped not to be given an appreciation certificate/ plaque by the chairman, a sole decision by the overall chair herself, according to some reliable sources. The big question of WHY came from many members/ committee chairs mouths. Another doo-doo/bad decision or mishandling of PIWC affairs from the most unpopular chair the PIWC has ever had?
SILENT OBSERVER
