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Article: New Indian American move to politics Conference planned for leaders who want a voice in the process
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- Oakland Tribune
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- July 22, 2003
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A new generation of Indian Americans, including local up-and-
coming community leaders, says it wants a voice in the American
political process.
Sunil Erraballi of Fremont is one of about a dozen Tri-City
residents planning to join more than 100 Indian Americans from as far
as Pennsylvania and Maine on Saturday for the first Indian-American
political training conference on the West Coast.
The conference -- sponsored by the Washington, D.C.-based Indian-
American Leadership Initiative, will be from 9 a.m. until 5:30 p.m.
at the Practicing Law Institute in San Francisco.
Erraballi, 44, who owns a small consulting firm, says he hopes to
generate interest in local issues, such as immigration ...