The ANCA stands up for the views, values, and vision of the Armenian American community.
We’re, very simply, your voice. Your grassroots organization. The group that you can trust to bring Armenian Americans together, forge consensus, foster cooperation, and focus the energies of our diverse community on our key policy priorities.
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I firmly believe that the ANCA has done a formidable job and has achieved tremendous accomplishments for the Armenian cause on several fronts.
It is imperative that very Armenian makes a real effort to make a donation to the June 1, ANCA Telethon.
It is remarkable that the ANCA, both ER and WR, have been able to successfully achieve some of our goals and objectives with the limited financial support they get.
Sadly, and the reality is that lobbying in the US is ferocious, ugly and needs money. Both the Turkish and Azeri governments are spending huge sums of money on the lobbies and forces they use and manipulate in the US, distorting history, bending the facts and corrupting minds. Unfortunately sometimes money talks.
It is crucial that the Armenian-American community provide much needed stronger financial support to ANCA so that they are able and in position to counter the Azeri and Turkish lobbies. Every dollar counts.
Vart Adjemian
EVERY ARMENIAN SHOULD SUPPORT ANCA BECAUSE ARMENIANS NEED THIS GREAT ORGANIZATIONS THAT FIGHTS FOR ARMENIAN RIGHTS AND JUSTICE, PLEASE BE VERY GENEROUS, WE OWE IT TO OUR PARENTS,GRANDPARENTS AN OUR MARTYRS.
The telethon just concluded and it was fun to watch and hear all those Armenian names from everywhere.
Yes every Armenian should support the ANCA, but unfortunately it is not the case, because ignorance is rampant in the community. I could never understand it, perhaps our skulls are too thick to understand the fact that the ANCA and Hye Tad is for all Armenians and Armenia, regardless of who is behind it, and no one is excluding anyone from participating for the betterment and rights of Armenians everywhere. Meanwhile those “in opposition”, while sitting on their behinds and throwing cheap shots, have nothing to show for.
Dear Aram,
Congratulations on your masterful shepherding of the ANCA to its prestigious position as leaders in the struggle to resolve the Armenian Cause. There can be no denying that ANCA is the premier Armenian organization championing our cause.
What troubles me is the almost total absence of 2nd and 3rd generation Armenian Americans from active participation in community life here in San Diego. I’m told that this experience is not unique to us. It is endemic and I’m afraid that we are seeing the beginnings of the dreaded assimilation.
Already more that fifty percent of the marriages in our community are “mixed.” I don’t mean anything negative with that but it is a fact that these mixed couples sometimes find it difficult to engage in mostly Armenian groups. We Armenians are somewhat neurotic about speaking our native language when we gather in groups.
I don’t know of any organization that has taken on the challenge of addressing this condition. Our churches has been especially stubborn about adjusting their centuries old service to accommodate busy non Armenian speaking community members.
It seems as if yours is the only organization which is staffed with intelligent Bi-lingual leaders who are more than capable of devising a strategy that will resonate with the missing in action American born.
I know that finding ways to engage these potentially helpful people may be outside your mission statement but I don’t know of any other organization which has an agenda that would resonate with them.
Please find a way to expand your agenda to include finding ways to meet the needs of that group.In the meantime you and the ANCA family are a breath of fresh air in our Diaspora.