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TEMU TAHUNAN KE-10 KESEHATAN PAYUDARA PEREMPUAN ASIA-AMERIKA M SABTU, 31 MEI 2014 • 8:30 AM – 12:00 PM SHERATON PHILADELPHIA DOWNTOWN HOTEL 17TH & RACE STREETS, PHILADELPHIA, PA 19103 Pengetahuan tentang Pikiran & Tubuh, Kekuatan & Harapan bagi Generasi. Temuilah orang-orang yang Anda cintai dalam acara tahunan gratis, yang diselenggarakan untuk memandu berbagai generasi perempuan Asia-Amerika dalam tema kesehatan payudara dan kelangsungan hidup kanker payudara. Acara: • Sarapan gratis • Hiburan inspirasi • Lokakarya pendidikan dalam 12 bahasa • Berbagi sumber daya dari komunitas lokal Asia • Pendaftaran gratis mammogram bagi perempuan yang memenuhi syarat Pendidikan & Saling Berbagi dalam 12 Bahasa • Benggala • Tiongkok Kanton • Kamboja • Inggris • Tiongkok Mandarin • Persia Penyelenggara Mitra Utama • Korea • Hindi • Indonesia • Nepal • Tagalog • Vietnam Sponsor PENDAFTARAN GRATIS DAN WAJIB : Harap diisi formulir ini dalam bahasa Inggris & dikembalikan paling lambat 9 Mei 2014. NAMA DEPAN_____________________________________ NAMA BELAKANG_____________________________________ ALAMAT________________________________________________________________________________________________ KOTA_________________________________________ NEGARA____________ KODE WILAYAH_______________________ TELEPON(_______)_____________________ E-MAIL___________________________________________________________ BAHASA PILIHAN _______________________________________________________________________________________ Harap dikembalikan melalui pos atau melalui faks ke Jackie Greggs-Walden Susan G. Komen Philadelphia • U.p.: Jackie Greggs-Walden 125 South 9th Street, Suite 202, Philadelphia, PA 19107 • Faks:215.238.1419 • TELEPON:215.238.8900 (Dalam bahasa Inggris saja) ay is Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month, a celebration of Asians and Pacific Islanders in the United States. According to Asianpacificheritage.gov the term Asian-Pacific encompasses all of the Asian continent and the Pacific islands of Melanesia (New Guinea, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Fiji and the Solomon Islands), Micronesia (Marianas, Guam, Wake Island, Palau, Marshall Islands, Kiribati, Nauru and the Federated States of Micronesia) and Polynesia (New Zealand, Hawaiian Islands, Rotuma, Midway Islands, Samoa, American Samoa, Tonga, Tuvalu, Cook Islands, French Polynesia and Easter Island). The month of May was chosen to commemorate the immigration of the first Japanese to the United States on May 7, 1843, and to mark can Progress, Asian Americans have a long history in the United States with the earliest settlements composed of Filipino sailors in the mid1700s; they first debarked in Mexico as part of the Manila-Acapulco galleon trade and subsequently settled in Louisiana.1 A more sizable population of Chinese sailors and merchants arrived in the 1840s in New York, followed by an even bigger wave of miners and railroad workers to California following the Gold Rush.2 Many other Asian immigrant groups arrived in the late 1800s, but an increasingly restrictive set of immigration laws and racial violence kept their numbers relatively small.3 Only after the passage of the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, which eliminated national origin quotas, did Asian Americans grow in the majority of the population in the United States. The top six groups consist of—Chinese, Filipino, Indian, Vietnamese, Korean, and Japanese— they account for 85 percent of all residents. Indonesian immigrants in the US are the 15th largest group of Asian American based on the 2000 Census. Although we are rather small, we are always growing, thriving and bringing diversity and vibrant culture to our local communities. Let’s celebrate our month with hard work and love! Peace, Indah Nuritasari / Chief Editor From the Editor the anniversary of the completion of the transcontinental railroad on May 10, 1869. The majority of the workers who laid the tracks were Chinese immigrants. According to the Center for Ameri- large numbers. The composition of the Asian American community itself has now become much more diverse. Today, the Asian American community has many more groups that make up A big thank you to all our advertisers without whose kind support this publication could not have been produced at no cost to our readers.