NY, NJ, CT Tristate chapter meeting -- Christmas Meeting

[anurakt]

Tristate chapter meeting

CT state chapter invites its CT members and members in
NY and NJ areas to attend the chapter meeting this
Sunday 24 Dec, 11 AM in Stamford, CT mall.

We would like to meet and discuss our agenda and
action items.

Venue- Stamford Mall central area. (there are steps,
piano and christmas decorations). You can easily find
it. 100 Greyrock Place Stamford, CT 06901
Directions:

http://www.shopstamfordtowncenter.co...irections.html

It is also accessable by trian from New York city. You
can take the metro north train to Stamford. It takes
40 minutes by train from NYC Grand Central Station.

Date and Time: 11 AM, sunday 24 Dec.

Organizer: Anurakt, CT state chapter. Contact phone : Please send me a private message for phone number.


Several CT and NJ members have already told us they
are attending. It will be great to meet everyone. I
look forward to seeing you there.

Anurakt

[studmvr]

Instead i will donate the travel expenses to IV...........

Good Luck Every one

[pappu]

Originally Posted by studmvr

Instead i will donate the travel expenses to IV...........

Good Luck Every one

Thanks.
Pls contribute for the campaign we are running
http://immigrationvoice.org/forum/sh...t=2630&page=16 (IV campaign: $20/member marathon!)

[pappu]

I will also be attending this meeting. IV members from Tristate area are welcome to join.

[anurakt]

I promise ... last bump of the day !! or may be not......

[pappu]

Bumping it up again:
Pls. try to come for this meet and you will know more about our current I485 push and our upcoming plans. We urge all NY, NJ and CT members to try to make it to this meet. PM Anurakt in advance so that you can confirm your attendence and get his contact.

[anurakt]

REMINIDNG EVERYONE ABOUT THE MEETING THIS SUNDAY IN STAMFORD MALL..... PLEASE PM ME FOR THE CONTACT PHONE NUMBER ......

[pappu]

Originally Posted by anurakt

REMINIDNG EVERYONE ABOUT THE MEETING THIS SUNDAY IN STAMFORD MALL..... PLEASE PM ME FOR THE CONTACT PHONE NUMBER ......

Thanks Anurakt.
Im bumping up your thread and hoping for many members to show up in your Tri-state chapter meeting.

[srk49]

Hi,
I am a new member based in CT. I am glad I attended the december 25th meeting at Stamford, CT. Himanshu presided over the meeting and gave us lot of new information about what's going on in the immigration world and how Immigration Voice is helping out.
I think instead of fighting our battle alone if we come together and voice our problems there is a better likelihood of a positive outcome. Immigration voice can help us channelize our efforts and get the necessary immigration status.
I don't want to wait half my life getting my green card. Life is short and there is no guarantee about anything but I urge everyone affected to join this movement. We are in a capitalistic country and nothing ever happens without necessary funds so I urge you to please donate generously. If you never buy a lottery you can never win it . It's a bad analogy but I hope you get the point

[anilsal]

http://tinyurl.com/yew4e3

I am sure someone from NJ has already contacted this person?

[anurakt]

Hi Everyone,

Just wanted to give an update of the tri state meeting on 12/24 happened last sunday. Eight to Nine members attended this meeting and folliwing were the discussions points :

Pappu gave us an update and insight in to IV's working and what is going on. This changed lot of members thinking about IV , i.e. members learnt on how much political capital the core and IV has gained in the past 1 year. How without much money and only with grass root operation we have acheived so much . Also Pappu gave us na update on where is everyhting currently. I cannot give those details for obvuious reasons , but the members present at the meeting know what I am talking about. We further discussed that how important it has become that instead of just concentrating in DC , we need to energize ousrselved in each and every state. This is very important as we have time only till Aug 2007 to acheive whatever we can, after which the presidential campaign would take over everyhting.

Members were informed about on how the contribution has been used currently %ge wise. Also at the meeting it was dicussed that the whole face of the IV looks very Indian ad other ethinic communities who too are retrogressed are not involved. Thus it was urged to those members especially from other ethinic communities to please come forward and get more faces in,this would make IV a complete representation of the current retrogression.

Also in the dicussions we told members that we need to be riding on our own identitiy and should not mix our goals with illegals. Anytime we talk about IV we should maintain phrases like "High Skilled Legal Immigrants" "paying taxes" etc etc. This is very importnant for meet the lawmakers program , as this will create our own identiity and political capital.

Meet the lawmakers is a very important program and members are urged to please participate in numbers as much as possible, there may be a chance that people from a particular state may have to show up in hundreds near some senators office who may be very important for our goals. Please do not ask the names , if interested please join state chapeter meeting and if you don't have one, please start one and ask a core to join you.

The JOB of IV is just not CIR, CIR would be the first win and there are more fights after CIR. IV wants to be the face of any legal immigrant issue resolution in this country and wants to make sure that the political capital and efforts we created doesn't go wasted after retrogression is finished.... We want tobe an organization which can be effective in country and help all those who are or who may be facing similar situation in coming years. The job won't finish with CIR, IV may need to work further on things like USCIS inefficiencies... FBI name check and other issues. To accomplish all this we need to be bigger stronger and grsass root level organization.

I urge members from other state to please keep contributing and attend state chapter meeting.... Friends beleive me when you meet in the chapter meeting , the kind of updates you get is 1000 times more than what you see on the online forum.

I would also request other members who attended this meeting to please write there post meeting views.

Last but not the least , I would like to thank every member who participated to make it a sucesses and other members who could not participate due to personal issues, I am sure they will make it next time (Please get up early )