I will not detract from the main message of this post but I just want to give you all a brief insight of how our work day goes about here at Wong Fu Productions or at least for me. As you may or may not know, Wong Fu Productions has become an umbrella of where Wes, Phil and I work on many different projects. Here are just a few things we do on a daily bases: Video productions big and small, designing new products, planning events like our ISA concerts and our college tours, administrative tasks like running the store, going through our emails and managing our shipping warehouse. Our plates are very full and we’re very grateful for everyone’s support.
We strongly believe that one of the main goals here at Wong Fu Productions (aka Wes, Phil and Ted) is to help out our community. We don’t do this just with our monetary donations from our store, we try to do this everyday using our exposure to tell people about what’s going on in the world and what we can all do to help. One of the main driving force that pushes us to succeed is that we are part of something much larger than us, we are part of the movement for change whether our efforts be indirect or direct. We are here and we will continue to work as hard as we can to make as much positive difference as possible.
I often find myself working long hours just to fulfill the administrative tasks to keep WFP going, the same is true for Wes and Phil whether it be designing a new product or producing the next short film. Even with our full schedule we will always try to find time to help others because it’s not all about us and our success.
With my long winded introduction out of the way I received a heartfelt email, I’ve attached the email below:
“Dear Ted,
I just went through the worst broke up in my life. Watching the videos you guys made has been the only thing that gets me through the day. I feel really powerless that I couldn’t save this relationship. I know we still love each other very much, but the reason why is because her mom will never let her be with me since I am a undocumented alien, or in other words, illegal immigrant. This made me realize that I should take a chance and do something about it.
I know this is too much to ask or maybe you guys would careless about my petty problems, but I just want to at least try, that by supporting the “Dream ACT”, me and millions of undocumented students can have a chance to get a green card here in the United States. I know this probably won’t generate any business revenue for you guys, but at least there will be more undocumented students across the country who will look up look into your youtube channel.
Like you guys, I live in Alhambra, I’ve seen you guys a couple of times at Cha for Tea. I know you guys are probably very busy with other stuff, but this is my idea, I really hope you can let people out there know about the dream act, support the dream act, sign a petition for dream act @ http://dreamact.com/
I’m know I’m asking for too much, but please spend a few minutes to get to know about the dream act. Because undocumented students like me deserves a chance, since we can’t drive or work legally, and can’t even get financial aid for school.
P.S. whether you guys can help or not, please give me a reply, it would mean the world to me to know that you guys at least put in the time to read this.”
Please help by signing the petition here (http://dreamact.com/) like I already have and thank you for taking the time to read this long post.
Things that are worth fighting for are almost never won overnight or by one person, often times we can only listen and pass on the knowledge that we’ve learned. It’s the least we could do.
-Ted
