View 2012 Spring Office hours here.

The official site here.

RSVP to the Facebook Event.

view the whole album here

D6 Picnic
Where:
Cenntenial Park
10000 Maryland 108
Columbia, MD
When:
Sunday, September 25
10:00am - 4:00pm
Facebook Event


D6 General Body Meeting
When: October 1, 4pm
Where: George Washington University

Turkeybowl 2011
When: November 12, 2011
Where: George Mason University.


D6 Shirts 2011 Designs
Designs due by
9/25 at 11:59pm
If interested, please email
Peter Tarectecan or Brandon Bartolome
for rules.


FIND Dialogue
When: 11/5-11/6
Where: Cornell University/
Upstate New York


Semi Formal 2011
Hosted by UMCP
When: December 3, 6pm
Where: UMUC Marriott

SAVE OUR JEANS!

Pending Trade Legislation May Halt Downslide of U.S. Denim Textile Industry


Let’s talk about jeans – that iconic American garment which started as clothing for the American working class – cowboys, farmers, construction workers, mechanics, and laborers.  Produced in the U.S. since the 1830s from sturdy, almost indestructible denim, jeans have become both a symbol of American youthful defiance as well as a nod to high fashion.

Now, the question—How American are your jeans?  Since the 1980s, the United States has been losing its dominance over the worldwide denim fabric industry.  Victims of competition from foreign manufacturers, higher production costs, and a shrinking demand for denim, American denim companies are being forced to cut output and close local production facilities. To survive, U.S. companies are entering into joint manufacturing ventures and outsourcing their operations to foreign countries.  The result: thousands of U.S. mills and manufacturing jobs lost.

Save our jeans! Currently pending before the U.S. Congress is a trade legislation bill known as the Save Our Industries Act of 2011 (HR2387, a.k.a. SAVE Act).  Given the current global economy, this legislation is just what we need to keep jeans as American as apple pie.  The reduction and elimination of taxes on apparel coming from the Philippines will help the interdependent textile and apparel industries, as well as lower the cost of imported jeans, making them more affordable and cheaper for you, the jeans-lover!

The process begins in the U.S., where textiles (denim and other fabrics) are manufactured. These fabrics will then be sent to the Philippines where, under the skilled hands of Filipino garment workers, they will be made into fashion-forward, embroidered, and embellished jeans.  The finished garments are then shipped back to the U.S., to fuel America’s ongoing romance with jeans - flared, straight-legged, boot cut, or tapered.

It’s a win-win: For the first time, U.S. manufacturers will be able to export denim and other fabrics to an Asian market thereby creating new jobs in the U.S textile sector.  In the Philippines, thousands of apparel-making jobs will be preserved.  Both countries have enjoyed deep historical and cultural connections for the past four decades.  The SAVE Act will initiate a much-needed trade partnership especially during these days of crippling global economic conditions.

To learn more about the SAVE Act, visit www.saveourindustriesact.org

To let Congress know what you think of the SAVE Act, go to http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-h2387 or http://www.popvox.com/bills/us/112/hr2387

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Keep your memories from the Filipino Cultural Association 2010-2011 for all time! Pre-order your yearbook before: WEDNESDAY, MAY 3rd AT 11:59PM!
All Seniors get one for free at the picnic! Just make sure you RSVP for the FCA Picnic event and you’ll be allotted one.

For everyone else, they only cost $5 and are in full color! If you are interested in purchasing an FCA yearbook, please email Jonathan Reyes (.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)). Unlike last year, there will be no free black and white copies of the yearbook. So, if you would like an awesome way to remember all the fun that FCA has had this past year, please purchase a yearbook. As a preview, the first page of the first ever comic-book-themed yearbook is attached. There will be some full samples at the picnic as well, in case you want to order a copy afterward.

FCA is currently looking for TWO new cultural chairs for 2011-2012! This means that you would be the main contact for our cultural choreographer, Don Verde, whom we’ve worked with for many years now. You would also be in charge of practices and encouraging people to come out and learn more about our Filipino culture through dance.

If you’re interested, email Nikki at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). Also tell us why you want to be cultural chair and why you think you would be a great cultural co-chair. Good luck!
Please send your email by Friday, May 6, 2011.

The 2011 FACES Fashion Show need members on their Core committee! Three members from each organization (FCA, KSA, and CSA) are chosen and FCA has ONE more spot left! If you are interested or have any questions, please contact Cerilyn Burgos at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)!

So we’re still not done with dancing this semester. On May 26th (I know a little while after school), we have an opportunity to perform at Roscoe Nix Elementary School in Silver Spring. The event is on a Thursday at 6:30-8:30pm. We will be doing the same medley that we performed for Maryland Day, which was a combination of our Semi and PCN performances. Hope you guys can make it. Let me know!

Contact Peter Tarectecan
.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
301-254-3645  
or Facebook! 

FCA will be doing graduation concessions on June 2, 2011 and June 7, 2011. If you’ve done concessions with us this past year, you’ll know how fun it was to work together and the perks of helping out!
If you are free and willing to help out, please let Christine know at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). We will send you more information as the date comes closer.

AALEAD is a nonprofit organization that provides educational and youth development programs for underprivileged Asian American youth in the DC/MD area. AALEAD is still constantly looking for volunteers – they are in need of tutors in Washington DC on Monday nights from 5:00-6:30PM as well as tutors for their Wednesday Tutoring Nights at Wheaton Community Center from 5pm-7pm. If you have time and are interested, contact Duabhav Lee at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).

LAST DAY TO BRING SUPPLIES IS MAY 7 AT PICNIC
For the next few weeks, we will be collecting school supplies for the Children’s Hope Fund. The Children’s Hope Fund is a non-profit organization that aims to meaningfully improve the lives of disadvantaged children by creating access to education, nutrition and health, and other basic necessities. This way, every child receives equal access to the tools they need to improve their own life and their surrounding environment. If you have any extra backpacks, pencil pouches, crayons, pencils, pencil sharpeners, erasers, markers, crayons colored pencils, glue sticks, wide rule notepads please donate them.

For more information about the Children’s Hope Fund, check out Children’s Hope Fund.
If you have any questions or are interested in tagging along with CHF Members to the Philippines this summer for their drop-off, contact .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)