NEW World Cinema in the Post Crescent

Foreign film series brings the world to Menasha theater | Postcrescent.com | Appleton Post-Crescent

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NEW World Cinema, the Fox Cities' foreign language film series, celebrates two years on screen this summer.

Multicultural Center sponsors China conversation

From Fox Cities Rotary Multicultural Center:

Our first Current Community Conversation event will be held on Thursday, July 10, 2008 at 5:00 PM at Fox Cities Rotary Multicultural Center.

The topic is China: A Developing Country or an Emerging Power?

Our featured Panelists are

• NEWCA (Northeast Wisconsin China Association) --Dr. Xie is a professor and Co-Chair of the Department of Chemistry at University of Wisconsin Oshkosh will be representing NEWCA.
• Appleton Boychoir - Shana Shallue, Executive Director of Appleton Boychoir and the families, who visited China would share first hand details about the preparation for 2008 Olympics.
  

There will be time for Q&A.

This event is open to the public and is free. Please share this information with your family, friends, and colleagues.

If you have any questions, e-mail Kamal Varma, Education & Outreach Committee at kvarma@new.rr.com

Post Crescent Silver Pen letter: Hard work ahead, yet change is already here

Published in the Post-Crescent, June 15, 2008

June 3 was a historic day in the history of our nation. I listened to the speeches of (senators) John McCain, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama. They promised to bring changes in the country, and they all defined their perception of the change.

For me, the change is already here. It has happened. When I heard Barack Obama, a young African-American, declaring that he was the presidential nominee of the Democratic Party for 2008, change was already there.

When Hillary Clinton, a very strong woman, stood on the stage and said that she was our presidential candidate, this was the change we have been waiting for.

I came to this country several years ago with an image of America, an America with equal opportunity for everyone, an America where everyone would be accepted.

Today, I feel we have taken several steps toward completing that image. I see an America where one could achieve one's dreams irrespective of the color of skin or gender. I see an America where the next generation would be colorblind. We would only see a human being.

I'm thinking of all those leaders who made many sacrifices and gave their lives to bring us to this day.

Finally, their dream has been fulfilled. Every individual who has worked hard to educate and celebrate diversity and equality, every community that has worked hard to accept each and every human being with open arms should be very proud.

It's their victory and it's their vision that has brought this history-making day to this nation, which we all are very proud of.

However, we aren't quite there. We have to continue the hard work and keep moving toward the path that's right in front of us.

Kamlesh Varma
Appleton

Fox Cities Earthquake Relief Benefit

二零零八年五月十二日下午7.9级大地震无情地袭击了以汶川县为中心的四川省许多县市，已有五万多人遇难，二十多万人受伤，五百二十多万人流离失所。朋友，请您伸出援手，奉上爱心，支持中国抗震救灾。东北威州华人协会，福谷中华舞蹈团，福谷中文学校，福谷华人基督教会将六月七日晚上七点在Lawrence University Memorial Chapel共同举办赈灾捐款义演。届时将有多位艺术家登台献艺。我们热诚的邀请全体东北威州的华人，华侨，和各界友人共同参加，踊跃捐款，尽我们最大的努力帮助我们的同胞重建家园。

Northeast Wisconsin Chinese Association along with Fox Valley Chinese Dance Group, Fox Valley Chinese School and Fox Valley Chinese Christian
Church are hosting a benefit performance at Memorial Chapel, Lawrence
University at 7:00 PM on June 7, 2008. Tickets are $10, and proceeds from the performance will be donated to the China's earthquake victims.

In case you can't attend the performance, but would like to make a
donation:

1) Make check payable to "FVCCC"
2) Indicate "CAF-China Red Cross" in the check memo, and
3) Send to:
Shiming Zhuang
1037 Garda court
Menasha, WI 54952

Celebrate International Children's Day

Casa Hispana is having a FREE event this Sunday June 1, 2008 at Telulah Park in Appleton from Noon until 4:00PM to Celebrate International Children's Day.

Feel free to pass this information to your friends a family. If you wish to volunteer, call Hispana 920 968-6880.

Mark your calendar: MLK service

The 18th Annual MLK Celebration will be held at the Lawrence University Chapel on Monday evening, January 19, 2009 -- theme & speaker to be announced

The service will feature children's essays, a choir presentation, and the singing of "Lift Every Voice and Sing."

Mark your calendar and watch for details!

Immigration: Look into a mother's eyes

Letter to the editor: Post Crescent, May 21, 2008

Look into the eyes of a mother who faces the agonizing decision of choosing between her children. Two who made the difficult decision to leave their homeland of Mexico in search of an escape from poverty, and the other who chose to stay and try to eke out a living in a country whose poverty rate escalates, as does the cost of living, due to their policies and ours.

Either decision she makes, she loses a child. In this case, she chose to come to America, facing the untold terrors of crossing a border and coming to a strange and often unfriendly land. She joins her son and daughter and struggles every day to make a living and send money back to her family.

She has not seen her beloved son for two years; she does not dare return to Mexico and he, like most Mexicans, cannot get a visa even to visit her here.

She does not see her son, her mother or her brothers, and knows that she may not see them, ever again. I've looked into her eyes and, as a mother, felt her grief.

When you look into her eyes, thank whatever higher power you believe in that you were fortunate enough to be born here, where you don't have to make decisions that break your heart and realize that it is indeed only fortune that separates you from her.

Look into her eyes when you think about how we will solve the issue of immigration. I hope you can feel compassion for her and urge our politicians to make just and fair decisions as they ponder this issue.

Help them make decisions that will no longer tear families apart but allow paths to citizenship for those already here and opportunities for their loved ones to join them.

Connie Raether,
Appleton