[Reader-list] PRESS RELEASE ON CALTRANS DISCRIMINATION AGAINST 5 MILLION FOSAAC MEMBER'S CONSISTING OF ALL SOUTH ASIANS

[FOSAAC (KEVIN KAUL)]

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29 August 2007
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Issue: 1
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Welcome to Friends of the South Asian American Communities

Dear
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Discrimination to 5 million FOSAAC Members by CALTRANS
By M Zafarullah:
The business enterprises of the Subcontinent Asian American Communities are currently
included as Disadvantage Business Enterprises (DBE) in several Federal, State and
local funded programs. These programs have been created to eliminate historic discrimination
and to make it possible for these groups realize the American dream.
Based on a selective limited study CALTRANS has decided to exclude the Subcontinent
Asian American enterprise groups from the DBE classification whereas African Americans,
Asian  Pacific Americans, Caucasian Women, Native Americans have been allowed to
 continue. A meeting was held in Artesia at the FOSAAC (Friends of South Asian American
Communities) office to appoint Kevin Kaul as the spokes person for the group is 
willing to strategize and lead for the steps needed to maintain status quo for this
group in the CALTRANS' DBE program.
The meeting was well attended and included several South Asian business enterprises
who expressed concern that the loss of DBE status will cause long term hardship 
and unemployment for these 5 million business enterprises.
The meeting was attended by more than 200 leaders of the South Asian American Communities
in the Little India Village Office of FOSAAC. Details of FOSAAC can be looked up
 at www.fosaac.com [http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=7kjhcecab.0.auqmrubab.q8d6vtbab.30901&ts=S0278&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fosaac.com%2F]
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Kevin Kaul
Friends of the South Asian American Communities
562-572-8751

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