FAJ phonebanks for the Take Back the American Dream Campaign

FAJ kicked off a 9 week campaign to survey Filipino voters in Oakland and Union City about taxing the wealthiest 1% and corporations as part of the Take Back the American Dream Campaign 2011 of  Mobilize the Immigrant Vote (MIV).

As the growing Occupy Wall Street movement against corporate greed and the super-rich captures attention globally, voters may have an opportunity to weigh in on fiscal reforms and the budget on the 2012 ballot.  Many of the voters (democrats and republicans) reached by FAJ  phone bankers report dissatisfaction with the state of the economy, corporate greed, and the gross disparity between the wealthiest Americans and the average person. (more…)