July 2008

4th of July Message
Call your Senators: Imp Vote
RACE Profiling AGAIN!
DNC PAKPAC Mtng
PAKPAC Luncheon pictures
PAKPAC Board of Directors
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"The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant."

— Max DePr
 

 

Senate Vote on WIRETAPPING: FISA Amendment ACT July 8th:
See How your Representatives voted on this ACT

On June 20, the House of Representatives voted 293-129 to pass the FISA Amendments Act, which effectively legalizes the Bush administration's warrantless wiretapping program and grants immunity to telecommunications companies that broke the law. See how your rep voted HERE. If your Rep says he supports your rights and has voted YES, they need to hear from you.
Call tomorrow July 8th and ask your Senator for the Senate part of the Bill to Say NO to the Bill. Even if the Senate strips telecom immunity from the bill, it will not protect the privacy of Americans' calls, emails and Internet traffic.
ACTION : Ask your Senators (Call the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121 and ask the operator to connect you to both of your senators' offices)  that you are calling re H.R. 6304: Ask tem to support:
A: Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold and Connecticut Senator Chris Dodd amendment to strike retroactive immunity from the bill
B: Say NO to the Bill
Check your Senator's Stance

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 PAKPAC's Call to community to be better organized:

Pakistani American Public Affairs Committee asks the Pakistani American community organizations leadership to develop strategies for better organizing itself. Time has come and past for us to be organized. We need to wait no longer. There is a nee to develop mechanisms for a nationwide coordination. We need to organize our organizations. This can occurs as a Federation of Pakistani Americans Groups or a set up of Nor Resident Pakistanis group. The model of everyone doing everything is not sustainable. Developments of organizations skills for specific roles is needed. The community needs to function as a functional body with different organs and specialists doing specific functions but working on coordination with each other... READ MORE


DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION
If planning to attend the DNC, please send us the following information:
A) Your name and people in your party
B) People attending
C) Citizenship status
D) Your address
E) Email
F) Phone number
Please send this information to us

 

 
 
 
 
 
 

July 4th Message

Declaration of OUR TIMES

PAKPAC Joins many organizations & individuals across United States

for a New York Times Advertisement

On "The Declaration of our times"
 

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

To see the full advertisement and read the content click here

 

Racial Profiling
AGAIN!!

The Justice Department is considering letting the FBI investigate Americans without any evidence of wrongdoing, relying instead on a terrorist profile that could single out Muslims, Arabs or other racial and ethnic groups
To read information from the AP News please check the link
Please ask your Members of Congress about this information.

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 PAKPAC
Luncheon

More pictures and reports to follow
 

Meet the PAKPAC Board of Directors

Pakistani American Public Affairs Committee
Board of Directors
 
M. Saud Anwar- President 2008- 2009
Hassan Bukhari- International Event Coordinator-Exec Committee Member
Raza Bokhari-Immediate Past President
Saquib Khan-Exec Committee Member
Shahid Ahmed Khan-Board of Director
Ray Mahmood- Board of Director
Ijaz Mahmood-Exec Committee Member
Irfan Malik-Board of Director
Salman Malik-Board of Director
Rafiq Rahman-Exec Committee Member
Pervez Shah-Treasurer- Exec Committee Member
Mushtaq Sheikh-Exec Committee Member
Mohammed Suleman-Exec Committee Member
Zafar Tahir-Board of Director
 
PAKPAC has more openings for active community members to join in and become Board of Directors.  

 

Save the Date

PAKPAC &
American Muslim Democratic Caucus

Democratic National Convention
Monday August 25th, 2008

1130 AM to 230 PM
Sheraton Hotel

Denver Colorado

Majestic Ballroom in the tower building of Sheraton Hotel in downtown Denver
1550 Court Place, off of the beautiful 16th street Pedestrian Mall near Colfax Ave., 1 mile from the Convention Center, on the opening day of the 2008 Democratic National Convention