Fwd: Urge Governor Jerry Brown to sign AB 1088

[Connie Choi]

Please support this very important bill.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Quincy Surasmith <qsura...@apalc.org>
Date: Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 2:11 PM
Subject: Fwd: Urge Governor Jerry Brown to sign AB 1088
To: Staff <st...@apalc.org>

Urge Governor Jerry Brown to sign AB 1088 to more accurately count Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders. Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Dear APALC supporter:   We need your help. AB 1088 (Eng), a California bill that would require two state agencies to disaggregate ethnic group data for Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders, is headed to the desk of Governor Jerry Brown – who has the power to approve or kill the bill.  Help us to make this bill a reality – sign the petition below to urge Governor Brown to sign the bill!   Current state law requires state agencies to disaggregate data for major Asian ethnicities, including Chinese, Vietnamese, and Korean, and Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander ethnicities, including Native Hawaiian, Samoan, and Guamanian.  AB 1088 would require the Department of Industrial Relations and the Department of Fair Employment and Housing, to collect the same ethnic data as the U.S. Census, by adding the following ethnic groups: Bangladeshi, Fijian, Hmong, Indonesian, Malaysian, Pakistani, Sri Lankan, Taiwanese, Thai, and Tongan.  In addition, AB 1088 would require data on AA and NHPI ethnic groups to be posted online and easily accessible – currently, that data is nearly impossible to find.   The costs to implement AB 1088 are minimal but the benefits are tremendous – they would give legislators, policy makers, foundations, government agencies and community groups access to critical information to better and more effectively serve Asian American, Native Hawaii, and Pacific Islander communities. Please sign the petition at change.org here   Please join Assemblymember Mike Eng and the bill’s co-sponsors (Asian Pacific American Legal Center, AACRE and APIsCAN) in signing on your support on this change.org petition.  Thank you!   For more information about this bill, read this great article by California Watch here.  follow on Twitter | like on Facebook | forward to a friend  Copyright © 2011 Asian Pacific American Legal Center, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you have subscribed to receive APALC updates. Our mailing address is: Asian Pacific American Legal Center 1145 Wilshire Blvd, 2nd Floor Los Angeles, CA 90017 Add us to your address book  unsubscribe from all APALC emails | update subscription preferences

--
Connie Choi
Staff Attorney/Citizenship Network Manager, Immigration & Citizenship Project
___________________________________
ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN LEGAL CENTER
Member of Asian American Center for Advancing Justice
1145 Wilshire Blvd, 2nd Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90017
T (213) 977-7500 x 267
F (213) 977-7595
cc...@apalc.org
www.apalc.org


CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail (and any attachments) is sent by an attorney. It may contain information that is privileged, confidential, or otherwise legally protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended addressee, you are not authorized to read, print, retain, copy, or disseminate this message or any part of it. Additionally, review of this e-mail by anyone other than the intended recipient does not waive attorney-client privilege, work product doctrine, any evidentiary privilege, or proprietary rights. If you have received this message in error, please notify me immediately by e-mail, discard any paper copies, and delete all electronic files containing this message. Thank you.