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Hello Advocate!

As we think about this month's elections, OCA is excited to kick off our first ever OCA Design for Change Contest Series! For the first round, we're looking for t-shirt design submissions that encourage the community to vote and get out the vote. See below for more details.


** Congratulations to the 2019 OCA Corporate Achievement Award Winners!
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OCA would like to thank everyone who came to celebrate our Corporate Achievement Awardees in Washington, DC! It was an incredible night filled with inspiring stories from the honorees on the importance of community, mentorship, and leadership. Read more on our winners here. ([link removed])

The 2019 CAA Gala also kicked off OCA's annual "Building Future Leaders" Campaign, which funds the OCA National and Local Internships and Civil Rights Fellowship. We are proud to announce that we raised a little over $50,000 that night, which brings us much closer to our goal of $125,000 by January 1, 2020!
Help us reach our goal - donate today! ([link removed])


** October Press Releases
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O ([link removed]) CA Disappointed in Senate Stalling on Funding MSIs ([link removed])
OCA Applauds Court Decision to Uphold Diversity ([link removed])
OCA Congratulates 2019 Corporate Achievement Award Winners ([link removed])


** Coming in November
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** AAPI Womxn's Initiative
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Date: Saturday, Nov 9, 2019
Time: 9AM - 3PM
Location: Consumnes River College
Winn 150
8401 Center Pkwy
Sacramento, CA 95823

Register here. ([link removed])

MAAP St. Louis, Kickoff
Kickoff/Orientation: Saturday, Nov 9, 2019
Time: 9AM - 12PM
Location:
St. Louis Community College - Corporate College
Multipurpose Room (#219)
3221 McKelvey Rd.
Bridgeton, MO 63044
Register Here ([link removed])

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OCA-Westchester Hudson/Valley B3
Who: AAPI College Students, Business Professionals, Community Members
When: Sunday, Nov 17, 2019
Time: 9AM - 1PM
Where: SUNY Purchase
Humanities Building, H-1032
735 Anderson Hill Rd.
Purchase, NY 10577

Register here. ([link removed])


** SAVE THE DATE
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1st Quarter National Board Meeting
January 18-19, 2019
San Gabriel, CA

2020 OCA National Convention
June 25-27, 2019
Las Vegas, NV


** OCA Design for Change Contest
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Art by OCA-Greater Houston member and OCA National intern, Cindy Nguyen. ([link removed])
Are you an artist? Graphic designer? Writer? Are you interested in winning a full package registration (including airfare and hotel) to the 2020 OCA Convention in Las Vegas? OCA is hosting a series of contests in which one winner from each contest will be entered into a raffle to win the grand prize of one (1) 2020 OCA Convention attendance package! Individual contest winners will receive secondary prizes as well. See contest details below:

T-SHIRT DESIGN CONTEST
Submissions accepted: November 4, 2019 - December 15, 2019
Winner announced: January 18, 2020

The theme for this t-shirt design contest is GOTV (Get Out the Vote.) What are ways we can remind our community to vote? Why is it important to vote? What does voting mean? Your design should be clear, easy to understand, and incorporate the OCA logo, anyhow you’d like, somewhere on the shirt. (Download logo here. ([link removed]) ) You may change the colors of the logo, but must keep ADVOCATE under the OCA graphic. Your design should have no more than 2 ink colors. (You may specify the color shirt your design should appear on.)

Please send your 8.5”x11” (2550 x 3300 pixels) design in high quality PNG/JPG, Ai, or PDF file, along with a short paragraph on your design process, to Thu Nguyen at [email protected]. These t-shirts will be printed for the 2020 OCA Convention. By submitting your design, you are agreeing to allow OCA full printing rights if you win the contest.
mailto:[email protected]?subject=November%20Policy%20Update
1. We released our CARP Chapter toolkit ([link removed]) to great enthusiasm. This folder includes fact sheets, a timeline of racial profiling occurrences, and more.
2. We joined several amicus briefs in support of lawsuits against public charge, including in the cases DHS v. University of California, Trump v. NAACP, and McAleenan v. Vidal. which have successfully stalled public charge from going into effect.
3. We joined an amicus brief challenging a Health and Human Services Rule that provides excessively-broad religious exemption to health care employees in the case Mayor and City Council of Baltimore v. Secretary of Health and Human Services Azar.
4. We endorsed the Covering our Freely Associated States (FAS) Allies Act (bit.ly/HouseCOFAbill). The bill fixes the following issue:

Currently, individuals living in the U.S. under Compacts of Free Association (COFA) (mostly immigrants from Micronesia, Palau, and the Marshall Islands) are categorically ineligible for Medicaid, because none of the drafters were aware of their existence when the 1996 welfare reform passed. Even though they pay taxes and serve in the military at disproportionate rates, they cannot access health care. This bill would restore these Pacific Islanders' ability to access medicaid and other healthcare benefits.

You can join OCA National in signing-on to a letter urging Congress to act (bit.ly/2019COFAorgletter) here. ([link removed])
Job Opportunity: Development Associate

This position is accepting applications on a rolling basis.
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The U.S. Census Bureau is hiring more than half a million people to help support the 2020 Census, and they’re looking for people just like you. You could make up to $30 an hour (pay rate by location here ([link removed]) ) as a census taker, recruiting assistant, office clerk, or supervisory staff.

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