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    PASADENA ANC BUILDS TIES WITH LOCAL NAACP

    Asbarez
    Feb 4th, 2010

    PASADENA, CA - Leaders of the Armenian American community in Pasadena
    exchanged ideas with a leader of the Pasadena chapter of the National
    Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) at a meeting
    held at the Pasadena Armenian Center on February 3.

    The meeting was with Gwendolyn Jones, a senior member of the Executive
    Committee of the Pasadena Branch of the NAACP. Present alongside
    ANC of Pasadena members was Katya Kazarian, a member of the Pasadena
    Armenian Youth Federation's "Nigol Touman" Chapter.

    "Expanding our working relationship with the NAACP is a priority for
    the Pasadena ANC," remarked Pasadena ANC Executive Director Ishkhan
    Boghossian. "The Armenian American and African American communities
    have a shared stake in the City of Pasadena and a common goal of
    making our city a better one. We intend to build a strong and enduring
    relationship with the local NAACP chapter."

    "It takes a village to keep a community strong," commented Gwendolyn
    Jones of the NAACP after her meeting with Pasadena ANC leaders. "The
    Pasadena ANC has got it right," she added. Jones extended an invitation
    for the Pasadena ANC's leaders to visit the NAACP local headquarters
    and to meet with her colleagues on the Executive Committee. In addition
    to the NAACP's Executive Committee, Jones is also a member of the
    Legal Redress Committee, where she advances social justice issues
    for her community.

    The meeting with the Pasadena ANC and the Pasadena Branch of the
    NAACP included an open discussion of a number of items of concern to
    the citizens of Pasadena. The city's work on the General Plan was
    discussed, as were plans for a parcel tax to benefit the Pasadena
    Unified School District. In addition, the groups discussed the current
    search for a permanent chief of police to replace Chief Bernard
    Melekian, who left his post last year to take a position at the U.S.

    Department of Justice in Washington, DC.

    The NAACP was founded in 1909 and is the nation's oldest, largest
    and most widely recognized grass-roots based civil rights organization.

    The NAACP has over 500,000 supporters nationwide, with thousands of
    them residing in the City of Pasadena and the southern California
    region. The NAACP was formed partly in response to the continuing
    horrific practice of lynching early in the 20th century in parts of
    America. Today, the organization's principal objective in Pasadena and
    across the nation is to ensure the political, educational, social and
    economic equality of minority groups and to eliminate racial prejudice.

    The Pasadena ANC advocates for the social, economic, cultural,
    and political rights of the area's Armenian American community and
    promotes increased Armenian American civic participation at the
    grassroots and public policy levels.
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