Calling All Asians/Pacific Islanders!

I am setting up the "East Coast/West Coast Asian / Pacific Islander Exchange" -- a network going between the coasts to "rally the troops together" so to speak, since we're much more powerful as a collective than as a fragmented mass of pocket Asian groups. What I plan to do with this is to get people communicating about their ideas, and ultimately, get us all to realize that we need to get our shit together, and that we have a lot toÊ learn from each other.

And when I say Asians and Pacific islanders, I mean the whole shebang! Yellow, Brown, Pilipino, Southeast Asian, East Indian, Oceanic, East Asian, Micronesian, Hawaiian, Cambodian, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Thai, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Malaysian, Singaporean, etc., us mutts in between the lines (or should I say, cultures?), and everyone else I forgot to mention but am not leaving out purposely...

What I need from y'all to get this in motion:

1.) Fill out the form

2.) Send it in to me: via snail mail: POB 507, NY, NY 10159-0507, or email: BambooGirl@aol.com (email's best so I can cut n' paste info.)

3.) I'll be putting out a "directory" of sorts for all of us after a while of compiling info. The comp will address the revolutionaries amongst us, as well as the regular folk out there who just want a resource of fellow Asians/Pacific Islanders to contact.

LOTSA thanks!

(Everything below is optional, but the more info you give, the more people can know about you for networking purposes)

Name:
Contact address:
Email:
Phone number:
Fax number:

Your Cultural Asian/Pacific islander/Other identity(ies) (no "check one box" here):

Are you a member of any active pro-Asian/Pacific Islander organizations? What are they?

What other organizations or collectives are you a part of (Asian, Pacific Islander or otherwise?)

Your issues as an Asian/Pacific Islander : -What stereotypes piss you off?

Have you grown up in an environment accepting of your cultural heritage(s)? How has that affected you?

What component(s) of the Asian/Pacific Islander community do you want to be more involved in (i.e. politics/ activism, queer asian visibility, Asian female empowerment, literary, visibility through art, writing, music, etc.)?

How do you plan to do that, and are already working towards that now? How?

Can people who are interested in the same things you are contact you?

Hobbies/stuff you like to do:

Anything else you want to include:

Things you want me to keep confidential about the info you've just completed (to protect privacy, just in case):