Category: work
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Elevator Speech about KRC
I wrote this elevator speech about KRC at last night’s APIAVote training: Hi, my name is Yongho Kim and I work with KRC, not to be confused with KFC. Actually, we’re kind of like KFC. We are crunchy and engaging. Did your parents ever get yelled at a government office for not understanding English? That’s…
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Nightmares
Dream 1 The composite database is finished, complete with matrix-like real time refresh features. Dream 2 MH: Yongho I think we need to go to the MRT event without the youth. Dream 3 RR: Hello, is that Yongho there? We have found one of your machines send trojan-sprung spam email again.
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Continuation of Emergency Coverage: AB 813 Passes Senate
PDF: http://yokim.net/wiki/Image:AB_813_Nunez_to_Advocates.pdf Sacramento Office 1107 Ninth Street, Suite 801 Sacramento, California 95814 Telephone: 916/442-0753; FAX 916/442-7966 www.wclp.org [Tags]medicare, medicare part d, prescription drug, medi-medi, dual eligible, emergency measure, california, legislature, law, medi-cal[/Tags] Continuation of Emergency Coverage Medicare Part D – Update May 11, 2006 AB 813 Nunez/Perata Current state emergency coverage for Medicare Part D…
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May Day 2006 and the Gulf War
Before hitting Wilshire and Western at 4:00 pm, we are sitting in the lounge watching Fox News, which is broadcasting live rallies in Downtown and Santa Ana. That looks pretty hard to match up. Then we think of our plan for today. Ever heard CNN’s of live Gulf War broadcasting? Iraqui scud missile headquarters used…
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Government Sued over Failure to Implement Medicare Drug Law’s Protections for Low-Income People
Government Sued over Failure to Implement Medicare Drug Law’s Protections for Low-Income People: Challenge Brought on Behalf of More than 6 Million Recipients Oakland, CA; April 26, 2006–A class action complaint was filed today in the U.S. Federal District Court, Northern District of California to force the Secretary of Health and Human Services to ensure…
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Sign-up sheet for POSTERING drive
How to do it decide on at least 2 street segments you will be postering on suggested street segments are already posted at the sign-up sheet below, waiting for takers for postering purposes, a city (glendale, cerritos, northridge, torrance) counts as 1/2 street segment (see the K-Town markets excel sheet for markets outside K-Town.) We…
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Leavitt Lies: Medicare Part D Enrollment Numbers
Leavitt says that Medicare Part D was a success because “Around 90 percent of Medicare beneficiaries have enrolled” (DHHS Press Release, 4/4/06) to Part D. This statement is repeated in his Three-Month Progress Report (PDF) “[Seniors] have enrolled” is not the exact phrasing I would use. “[Seniors] have been enrolled” is more accurate. Let’s take…
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alienated translator
Consider this a front-line ethnographic report on translator-original text producer split of a phenomenon that also occurs in the programming front with i18n’s when you step down from the MTA bus, you can see at the exit a sign that reads Wait for green light, then step down and also right below it Espere por…
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Two and half years ago our ethnographic interviewing…
Two and half years ago, our ethnographic interviewing methods professor walked us through what was to come, towards the end of the semester: … What other classes your could take to complement ours? Hmm, I’d say, take statistics. No! Don’t take it here. No need to waste your tuition dollars on an introductory math course.…
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Senate approves nomination of Mark McClellan for CMS administrator
This stuff doesn’t show up on their website anymore nor the Internet Archive, but it’s still on google cache. Senate approves nomination of Mark McClellan for CMS administrator
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identifying the sin
A: Teacher what’s this paper? YoKim: it’s the circle of holiness. Who can recall what 전도사님 talked about today? T: Oh me me! YoKim: no someone else besides T… hmm E can you tell everyone what was the message today? E: Nah.. YoKim: ok then let’s have T answer it. Silence! Everyone listen to T.…
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relationships on the bus
even though I felt as if my main problem as an organizer, an utter inability to establish relationships with bus riders was on the way to be solved as I tried a different approach yesterday at the BRU organizing drive (for general membership), I’m skeptic on two aspects of said improvement 1. Was it really…
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ILRC Immigration Paralegal 40 Hour Training
Thursday, July 21 to Saturday, July 23, and Thursday, July 28 to Saturday, July 30 (Saturday classes are half days) description: http://chirla.org/pdf/ilrc40desc.pdf (reproduced below) application: http://chirla.org/pdf/ilrc40app.rtf
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Worker Centers in California
Source: Janice Fine and Jon Werberg, National Study on Worker Centers, Economic Policy Institute See also: NDLON’s Worker Centers listing SoCal Hermandad Mexicana Nacional – LA Instituto de Educacion Popular del Sur de California – LA NDLON 1565 W. 14th St., Los Angeles, CA 90015 PHONE: (213) 252-2952 FAX: (213) 252-2953 infoidepsca@idepsca.org Malibu Community Labor…
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Protected: Field Notes on Bus Riders Union Monthly Meeting
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
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Applying to the AFL-CIO organizing institute
Applying to the OI Valid driver’s license? Yes No If no, date expected so, although I missed the priority deadline (travel scholarships?) for the AFL-CIO weekend organizing institute , that’s fine because they don’t take people who can’t drive.
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notes, Free Trade/Fair Trade Forum
So I was sitting there struggling with the overcomplixified MS access relational tables structure trying to figure out how to establish a data report based on four interrelated (two one-to-many and one one-to-one relations.. I think there is something going on when you drag a premade report into the report design field, though), when Octavio…
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anth490 sample letter to prospective employer
Assignment: Write a one-page introduction of yourself to a specific, prospective employer or graduate school.
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the definitive problem in information distribution
the biggest problem (as in setting up various kinds of media for the SOLE PURPOSE of exposing promotional stuff received through email) facing ¡Adelante!, and other small organizations, is that they distribute OPEN information (events) in a CLOSED environment (emails) that are limited in their expository potential given they can ONLY propagate through a forwarded…
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Contested Bodies: Immigrants as a Singularity in Minnesota's Political Terrain
Contested Bodies: Immigrants as a Singularity in Minnesota’s Political Terrain Minnesota Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride Internship Paper January 27, 2004 Yongho Kim The Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride of 2003 was a national movement aimed at claiming immigrants’ rights in the legislative branches of the United States. It gathered a critical mass of religious, labor, progressive…