Bay Area TV Coverage of the 2nd Annual NoRouz Festival

Fox Affiliate KTVU

NBC Channel 11

Short Term Goals

• Celebrate, preserve, promote and share our beautiful culture with our kids and others in the American Community
• Have a fun filled event, so the younger generation will remember it and look forward to it in years to come
• Prove to ourselves and others that we (different Iranian groups) can put our differences aside and work as teammates to create a better community for ourselves
• Counter recent bad publicity in the news media by publicizing the fun and gracious side of the IA community
• Acknowledge and publicize contributions of Iranian-Americans (IA)s to the larger society
• Instill and infuse pride back in the IA Community and be proud of our heritage
• Realize we have so much power that we do not use
• Provide an affordable venue for Eid-Didany in the Bay Area

Long Term Goals

• Bring our community together by emphasizing areas of common interest rather than differences
• Encourage creation of contact lists (eg email lists) for those who want to be aware and quickly notified about issues important to our community
• Start a fund to purchase land and build an Iranian Community Center in San Jose or in the Peninsula. Work with the people of Persian Center and use their example as a guide.
• Become more active in the electoral process (be registered, make contributions and vote!) to gain greater political clout for our community
• Since strength is in numbers, let us show our numbers and form "Unified Voting Blocks" to coordinate our votes and not cancel each other out!
• Set an example for other IA communities in the US to become more active.

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