Let’s Use up the $10,000 Matching Fund Quickly

Thanks to you, 80-20 took in $10,000 in lump sum in the last 2 days.  But half  of the $10,000 in matching fund provided by  Joseph H,  and  T.-W. Wang is STILL AVAILABLE.   Let's take advantage of that quickly so that 80-20 can go and raise more matching funds to help reach the $1,000,000/yr for 5 years goal.

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Click here to see the progress in SELF.

S.B. Woo, a volunteer

President, 80-20 Asian Am. National Educational Foundation, Inc.

www.80-20EF.org

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PS:    Our Best and Brightest

    So many asked me who was the generous donor who gave $240,000 to SELF.  So I begged the donor to let her name be known.  She finally agreed.  

    She is Alice S. Huang.  She was a professor of microbiology and virology at Harvard and later at California Institute of Technology.  He was a Board member of 80-20 PAC for many years, as well as that of many big corporations and foundations.  She was the President & Chairperson of AAAS,   American Association for the Advancement of Science, which is  world's largest general  scientific society.  Her spouse is Dr. David Baltimore, a Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine.  Alice pilots her own airplane.  :-)

    80-20 likes to use this opportunity to salute one of our community's best and the brightest.   Together, we shall overcome.

         

80-20 Mission Statement

Frequently Asked Questions

80-20's Top 10 Accomplishment , published 3 years ago.  

The Clock is Ticking!

Good News Regarding SELF

(1)  Donation to SELF will be matched up to a lump sum of $10,000, until the 

matching fund is exhausted.  The generous matching is provided by Joseph H, 

and T.-W. Wang.

                                 Click HERE TO DONATE to SELF.

(2) The most generous donor to SELF has poured in $240,000, thereby

      paying up ALL 5-years of her commitment!   Click here and look for 

      Anonymous, Pasadena, CA  at the top of the page to verify.

(3) THANKS TO ALL DONORS, SELF's total received will soon exceed 

      $1,000,000, which is in an escrow account.  If SELF fails, all donations

      will be refunded in full.

             Good News on Seeking Justice for Officer Liang of NYPD

(a) 80-20 and Officer Liang' lawyer Steve Worth have connected.

(b) There was a demonstration of an estimated 3,000 participants on 3/8/2015 in NYC to support Officer Liang.  A demonstration is a group display of opinion. It could be used to express support for a cause, or display anger in public or both.

                      80-20 PAC Is Dying

     SELF is way behind its target to reach $1,000,000 per year for 5 years by Oct. 25, 2015.   The current commitment is only $415,900/yr for 5 yrs.  

     The old war-horses at 80-20, all volunteers, are retiring soon.  They hope to train a new generation of leaders, who owing to different times, understandably look for financial security while serving the Asian Am community.  That is why 80-20 must raise $1 million per year for 5 yrs. before the current leaders retire.  If the goal is NOT reached, 80-20 PAC will likely demise.   

    Are you willing to donate $100/yr or $1000/yr for 5 year to protect your rights and those of your children?

                                     Click HERE TO DONATE to SELF.

S.B. Woo, a volunteer

President, 80-20 Asian Am. National Educational Foundation, Inc.

www.80-20EF.org

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80-20 Mission Statement

Frequently Asked Questions

80-20's Top 10 Accomplishment, published 3 years ago.  

Do your share to make it IMPOSSIBLE!

Cause and Effect !      80-20 was and still is the first & only Asian Am national org. to oppose the "race-preference" college admissions.  See its 5/12/2012 e-newsletter, entitled "Battles Have Begun."          2.5 years later, the following BiGGEST & MOST PRESTIGIOUS periodicals published articles pointing to the unfairness of "race-preference" college admissions against AsAm students.    (1) Nov. 9, 2014, USA  Today, "Asians Get the Ivy League's Jewish Treatment ", (2) Nov. 9, 2014 , Wall Street Journal, "Harvard's Asian Problem", (3) Nov. 10, 2014,  NY Times, "Is Harvard Unfair to AsAm?", (4) Dec. 26, 2014, Atlantic Magazine, "Do diversity indirectly discriminate against Asian Americans?"        Read the words used in these titles: "Jewish Treatment", "Problem," "Unfair" and "discriminate" .                     A Widening Rank -- LA Times Joins                                             "How can this be possible?"        LA Times is headquartered in LA, where 2 million AsAms make their living.  Its article on the unfairness of "race-preference" college admissions against AsAm students is most welcome.    (5) Feb.21, 2015, LA Times, "For Asian Americans, a changing landscape on college admissions"        Here is AN EXCERPT from Frank Shyong's article.  To read the full article click here.       " "Let's talk about Asians," she (an instructor for college applicants)  says.           Lee's next slide shows three columns of numbers from a Princeton University study that tried to measure how race and ethnicity affect admissions by using SAT scores as a benchmark. It uses the term "bonus" to describe how many extra SAT points an applicant's race is worth. She points to the first column.          African Americans received a "bonus" of 230 points, Lee says.She points to the second column.  "Hispanics received a bonus of 185 points."             The last column draws gasps.  Asian Americans, Lee says, are penalized by 50 points - in other words, they had to do that much better to win admission . . . .             "Zenme keyi," one mother hisses in Chinese.  How can this be possible?   . . . . "      (All emphasis added by S. B. Woo)                                          Do Your Share!       Ask not "How can this be possible?",  ask if you've done your part to MAKE IT IMPOSSIBLE!                                                                DONATE to SELF till it hurts. Forward this e-newsletter! S.B. Woo, a volunteer President, 80-20 Asian Am. National Educational Foundation, Inc. www.80-20EF.org Help us spread the word, like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter !          80-20 Mission Statement Frequently Asked Questions 80-20's Top 10 Accomplishment, published 3 years ago.

Our Only Interest : JUSTICE for Officer Peter Liang

Indictment Against Peter Liang Politically Motivated? Some made the above charge.  80-20 is not ready to believe it yet.  However, 80-20 must be ready to act, when called for.  In the event that politics is interfering against justice, 80-20 shall play a counter-balancing role.  So we looked into politics in Brooklyn and the track record of District Attorney (DA) Kenneth Thompson.                   The Demographics of Brooklyn        The demographics, shown in the table below, project a rapidly rising political role for Asian Ams in Brooklyn elections. Racial composition 2010 1990 1950 1900 White  49.5%  46.9%  92.2% 98.3% -Non-Hispanic  35.8%  40.1%  n/a n/a Black or African American  35.8%  37.9%   7.6% 1.6% Hispanic or Latino (of any race)  19.8%  20.1%   n/a n/a Asian  11.3%   4.8% 0.1% 0.1% From 1990 to 2010, the population of non-Hispanic Whites, blacks and Hispanics  all decreased.  In contrast, that of Asian increased by 135%, or approximately 5% per year.   By Spring of 2017, when the next Democratic primary for Brooklyn DA will occur, the Asian population will be about 16%.  A primary in which one constituent has an emotional grudge is where a PAC like 80-20 can play a pivotal role.             The Track Record of DA Ken Thompson DA Thompson was elected in 2013 after a very bitter election against a 6-term  former  Brooklyn DA Charles Hynes. Thompson was sworn in as DA on 1/1/2014.  He seems to be doing a respectable job.  Being a public servant in a city like Brooklyn is not easy.  80-20 wishes him luck.                                       However, in 1.2 years, DA Thompson has generated much negative publicity.   See some Newspaper headlines about him below: DA's detective driver is former drug dealer | New York Post - Oct 29, 2014, and Brooklyn DA treats detectives like personal errand boys - only 4 days ago. One quote in the above article says, ""He's a psychopath," the source said. "There is no DA I know of in the state who has his own ­advance team."     Shopping for a DA Candidate for the 2017 Election? No, no, no!  80-20 will focus its effort on fact finding* to advance justice.  Politics should never interfere with justice.   Let the word go forth that if 80-20 must use politics to counter-balance politically           motivated scapegoating against Officer Peter Liang of NYPD, we will!                          Forward this e-newsletter!                                                                    DONATE to SELF till it hurts. S.B. Woo, a volunteer President, 80-20 Asian Am. National Political Action Committee, Inc. www.80-20Initiative.net Help us spread the word, like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter ! * Facts that 80-20 is very interested in verifying:  i) Were Liang and his partner explicitly ordered not to do vertical patrolling in that building by their boss? ii) Had Liang admitted that his finger was on the trigger?  Or, did he state that his finger was along the     gun barrel but slipped when his right shoulder hit a door? iii) Is there any physical evidence that the bullet hit the wall and ricocheted?  Has the physical evidence     been protected and/or photographed? iv) Did Liang and his partner call the Police Union first and 4 minutes later call 911?  v) Some articles describe the stairwell as being "pitch black."  Is it true?  The jury could easily be      convinced that Officer Liang would feel threatened in this dangerous public housing project area      where the stairwell is pitch black. Would it then have been reasonable for him to keep the finger       on the trigger? vi) What other police shooting or assault cases has the Brooklyn DA prosecuted recently? vII) What role did Liang's partner play in this incident?  Is he under investigation or being disciplined?          80-20 Mission Statement Frequently Asked Questions 80-20's Top 10 Accomplishment, published 3 years ago.

Position on Officer Peter Liang's arraignment

80-20 will fight  for YOU & Officer Peter Liang

Have you heard about the arraignment against Officer  Peter Liang of the NYPD?   80-20 has received many emails  from Asian Ams pleading for us to look into this matter.     After a Board meeting, 80-2O Initiative takes the  following positions:  1) It shall not let Officer Peter Liang be the victim of political      scapegoating, if indeed we conclude this is the case, after      our thorough fact-finding.  2) It advises Asian Ams. not to join or participate in petitions      and movements that only expose our community's political      ignorance/immaturity which makes us even weaker.   Take      the recent White House petitions as examples.  The      initiators and signers are great people who yearned for      justice.  80-20 thanks them and shares their goal.  However,      those petitions ignore the legal environment in the USA.       Keep in mind that the President of the U.S. has no legal      authority over an indictment in Brooklyn. Nor is Pres.      Obama likely to make a statement on an ongoing legal case.       In America, we need to practice politics the American way.       Remember the Jimmy Kimmel "kill every Chinese"      episode? 80-20 got the first and ONLY written apology from       ABC soon after the event.  Weeks after a White House       petition, which asked Pres.Obama to interfere, had reached       100,000 signers, and long after the matter has been       satisfactorily resolved, there was a White House statement       on this matter. Did anyone remember what was said?        (Please note that this was not a reflection on the White       House, but a reflection on the silliness of that petition.  Pres.       Obama is not the equivalent of a Chinese Emperor.  He has       no authority over ABC, a private enterprise.)      "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to        repeat it"   -    George Santayana.       However, if there were a petition to 80-20 to help Office       Liang and it quickly gathers 100,000 signatures, it would be        much more effective.  Why?   Because 80-20 would be        greatly empowered by the apparent yearning for its        leadership, thereby enabling it to do even more.  3)  80-20'll strive to create a win-win situation to ensure justice      for Officer Liang. This part of 80-20's effort requires tactical       maneuver in the future.  Hence, we'll only summarize the       essence.  The indictment of Officer Liang could be partially       politically motivated. Hence 80-20 will act with politics in       mind as well, while stressing fact finding.  Our aim is to       create a win-win situation for District Attorney Thompson of       Brooklyn, the African American community, and Officer       Peter Liang, while upholding justice! 4) 80-20 will be doing much fact findings and fact checkings in     matters* shown below my name .   I encourage all to      volunteer your effort to help.                  Forward this e-newsletter!                      Step by Step We Will Strengthen Ourselves!      WANT SERVICE?  Pay for it, although I and many others  have worked for YOU for free for the last 16 years.                                       DONATE to SELF till it hurts. S.B. Woo, a volunteer President, 80-20 Asian Am. National Educational Foundation www.80-20EF.org Help us spread the word, like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter ! *  Facts that 80-20 is very interested in verifying:  i) Were Liang and his partner explicitly ordered not to do      vertical patrolling in that building by their boss? ii) Had Liang admitted that his finger was on the trigger?       Or, did he state that his finger was along the gun barrel      but slipped when his right shoulder hit a door? iii) Is there any physical evidence that the bullet hit the wall       and ricocheted?  Has the physical evidence been protected         and/or photographed? iv) Did Liang and his partner call the Police Union first and 4 minutes later      call 911?  v) Some articles describe the stairwell as being "pitch black."  Is it true?      The jury could easily be convinced that Officer Liang would feel       threatened in this dangerous public housing project area where the       stairwell is pitch black. Would it then have been reasonable for him to       keep the finger on the trigger? vi) What other police shooting or assault cases has the Brooklyn DA      prosecuted recently? vII) What role did Liang's partner play in this incident?  Is he under       investigation or being disciplined?          80-20 Mission Statement Frequently Asked Questions 80-20's Top 10 Accomplishment, published 3 years ago.