(March 4, 2014) SACRAMENTO\u2014This week the Armenian National Committee of America \u2014 Sacramento held a kickoff event featuring California State Assembly Members Adrin Nazarian and Katcho Achadjian. The event, attended by a diverse crowd of all ages, covered issues of concern to the Armenian American community, and the political lay of the land for the Greater Sacramento area. Most importantly the event provided an in depth discussion as to what the community must do to build political capital as an Armenian American constituency in the region.<\/p>\n
Special guests Nazarian and Achadjian each shared their personal stories of how they came to be state legislators \u2013 highlighting the importance of organizing and turning out voters. Both legislators made a $500 contribution to support the local efforts of the ANCA \u2013 Sacramento.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur goal here is to motivate and inspire everyone to further their activism in order to make sure our voices are heard by our elected representatives,\u201d said Garo Manjikian, Chair of ANCA \u2013 Sacramento. \u201cWe look forward to educating our members of Congress on our priority issues this year.\u201d<\/p>\n
ANCA \u2013 Sacramento Board Members Lilit Movsisyan and Ted Tourian touched upon the major issues the ANCA has been pursuing at the national level. \u201cThis year\u2019s Armenian Genocide Resolution, H.Res.227, goes a step beyond calling on the President to recognize the Armenian Genocide. It reaffirms past recognitions,\u201d said Movsisyan. \u201cIt calls on President Obama to work toward durable Armenian-Turkish relations, based upon Turkey\u2019s full acknowledgement of the facts and ongoing consequence of the Armenian Genocide.\u201d
\n\u201cThe ANCA has worked tirelessly to secure foreign aid for Nagorno-Karabagh,\u201d said Tourian. \u201cThis past year Nagorno-Karabakh was the only former Soviet country to receive foreign aid from the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have big goals for 2014,\u201d stated ANCA \u2013 Sacramento Board Member Hrag Kitsinian. \u201cBesides educating our elected representatives and urging their support for our issues, we plan to be civically engaged \u2013 registering Armenian-American voters and turning them out come election time.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Armenian National Committee of America \u2014 Sacramento is a local chapter of the ANCA-Western Region, the largest and most influential Armenian American grassroots advocacy organization in the Western United States. The ANCA-Sacramento advances the concerns of the Armenian American community in the Greater Sacramento area on a broad range of issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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