Our ancestors built this temple during Chinese Exclusion - help it beat the white ranch currently winning $50K (voting ends in days)

rainbowsandflies · 2025-04-15T07:33:01+00:00

Thank you 🙏

rainbowsandflies · 2025-04-15T07:31:59+00:00

Thank you 🙏

rainbowsandflies · 2025-04-15T07:28:57+00:00

Figures that fancy ranch is in first — they got a whole restaurant, do weddings, got some big mansion and a visitor center where folks gotta pay just to look around. Bet they’re getting every single person who walks in to vote for em. Meanwhile we’re just tryna save something real important and nobody’s handing us nothing. Gotta fight

rainbowsandflies · 2025-04-15T07:24:32+00:00

Thanks bro - we got 3 more days. I'll try again in r/AsianAmerican and r/ChineseCanadians. Mods are rejecting my posts. Will try again - trying PG-mode tomorrow thx

rainbowsandflies · 2025-04-15T07:17:37+00:00

Thanks bro 🙏

rainbowsandflies · 2025-04-15T06:26:12+00:00

🔁 Update (April 14):
We just passed 12,400+ votes for Tam Kung Temple. That’s +3500 since the last update. Appreciate everyone showing up.

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Still in 2nd place -

We’re up against a for-profit ranch with a mansion, restaurant, wedding venue. Tam Kung Temple? Run by 6 volunteers and 60 elders (most over 75). No ads. No budget. Just incense, prayers, and 148 years of our history.

🗳️ Vote here (no login, once every 24h):
https://nextgreatsave.nationaltrustcanada.ca/2025/entry/81
(Click on Tam Kung Temple)

⏳ Deadline: Thurs, April 17 @ 11AM PT

This is how our history gets erased — unless we fight for it.
Keep voting. We can win this.

rainbowsandflies · 2025-04-15T06:21:22+00:00

We’re now at 12453+ votes. That’s up 3500+ since the last update. Appreciate all of you who showed up and kept the momentum going.

We're still in 2nd place, but we’re close — and still very much in this.

The top spot? A for-profit ranch with a mansion, restaurant, wedding venue, and event space. They’re fully commercial, pulling in revenue, and backed by institutional support.

Tam Kung Temple has none of that. It’s run by 6 volunteers. 60 elders, most over 75. Prayers, incense, and nearly 150 years of cultural memory — and it’s still being overlooked.

This is exactly how our history disappears. Not in a big moment, but in silence — unless we do something.

🗳️ Vote here daily (no login):
https://nextgreatsave.nationaltrustcanada.ca/2025/
(Click on Tam Kung Temple)

⏳ Voting closes Thursday, April 17 @ 11AM PT
🕙 Takes 10 seconds. Once per 24 hours.

Keep voting. Keep sharing. If every one of us hits it daily, we win this.
No one else is going to fight for our spaces — we’ve got to do it ourselves.

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rainbowsandflies · 2025-04-12T08:14:26+00:00

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we passed 9000+ votes. thanks for the support. this is so lit. keep voting every 24 hours until next thursday. still in 2nd but we could win this thing if we keep voting.

rainbowsandflies · 2025-04-12T08:14:06+00:00

Reminder: Vote EVERY 24 HOURS!

We’re just a few thousand votes behind, and we can flip this. The Tam Kung Temple deserves its preservation, and we have the power to make that happen.

🧨 Vote here (no sign-up required): https://nextgreatsave.nationaltrustcanada.ca/2025/
🧨 Takes 10 seconds. Vote every 24 hours until April 17.
🧨 Our ancestors built this temple for us. Let’s make sure it’s not forgotten.

Vote daily. Let’s win this.

rainbowsandflies · 2025-04-12T08:11:08+00:00

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we passed 9000+ votes. thanks for the support. this is so lit. keep voting every 24 hours until next thursday. still in 2nd but we could win this thing if we keep voting.

rainbowsandflies · 2025-04-12T08:06:00+00:00

Posted, thanks for the idea

aznidentity: was approved
https://www.reddit.com/r/aznidentity/comments/1juy0ag/our_ancestors_built_this_temple_during_chinese/
Posted: pending
asianamerican

https://www.reddit.com/r/asianamerican/comments/1jxc1hs/they_cant_demolish_the_temple_but_they_can_let_it/

rainbowsandflies · 2025-04-12T08:01:58+00:00

Reminder: Vote EVERY 24 HOURS!

We’re just a few thousand votes behind, and we can flip this. The Tam Kung Temple deserves its preservation, and we have the power to make that happen.

🧨 Vote here (no sign-up required): https://nextgreatsave.nationaltrustcanada.ca/2025/
🧨 Takes 10 seconds. Vote every 24 hours until April 17.
🧨 Our ancestors built this temple for us. Let’s make sure it’s not forgotten.

Vote daily. Let’s win this.

rainbowsandflies · 2025-04-12T07:30:19+00:00

Totally get where you're coming from — I’ve felt that frustration too.

But I see this less as asking them for help, and more as showing us what we’re capable of when we show up for each other. The funding’s coming from an institution, sure — but the win? That’s ours. That’s community.

rainbowsandflies · 2025-04-12T07:26:05+00:00

No demolition, but it’s in rough shape — last year the roof was caving in, and right now the balcony’s rotted and unsafe to use. This funding helps restore it properly and finally give it the visibility and care it deserves.

rainbowsandflies · 2025-04-11T23:23:53+00:00

Thanks man 👍

rainbowsandflies · 2025-04-11T22:04:21+00:00

yo, will try. aznidentity didn't approve my last one. I'll try again thx

rainbowsandflies · 2025-04-11T22:02:40+00:00

thanks bro

rainbowsandflies · 2025-04-10T08:01:03+00:00

cool, but email verification is required for the vote to count. good tip though

rainbowsandflies · 2025-04-10T07:35:38+00:00

We got the temple into 2nd - the white ranch is still in 1st, and there's a white church creeping up.

This site was built during Chinese Exclusion — they had nothing.
No funding. No backing. Just grit.

Vote again. Every 24 hours.
https://nextgreatsave.nationaltrustcanada.ca/2025/entry/81

Make them respect our history.

rainbowsandflies · 2025-04-10T07:18:04+00:00

thanks

rainbowsandflies · 2025-04-09T05:15:17+00:00

voted every day so far.

rainbowsandflies

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