1996:  OCASV co-hosted a very successful National Convention.  OCASV worked hand in hand with OCA East Bay, OCA San Francisco, OCA San Mateo, and OCA Sacramento to create one of the most financially successful
National Conventions ever. OCASV members Weiling Mao and Charles Huang represented our chapter on the
convention steering committee. 

1997:  OCASV participated in the community protest against the shooting of Kuan Chung Kao in front of his home by Rohnert Park Police in 1997. OCASV member Charles Huang represented OCASV on the Justice for Kao
Coalition, which included many Chinese American community groups (including OCA San Francisco
Chapter), the ACLU and numerous police brutality watchdog groups. 

OCASV was one of the first groups in the country to co-sponsor a community forum, held at Stanford University, against the wrongful prosecution of Wen Ho Lee by FBI agents in New Mexico in 1999. Several OCASV members, including DK Lu, Lester Lee and Chih-Ming Hu were instrumental in fundraising for WH Lee’s legal defense fund. Several months after Wen Ho Lee was cleared of any wrongdoing, OCASV invited his daughter, Alberta Lee, to speak at a meeting of all 5 Northern California OCA chapters.

OCASV members Mathew Mo, Ray Low, and Kansen Chu were instrumental in leading the drive to get official Chinese language voting ballots for Santa Clara County. It took 3 full years of lobbying during the mid-1990’s before the County Board of Supervisors finally passed the Chinese language voting ballots.

1998:  Current OCASV President Lynette Eng spearheaded a Chinese-English Dual Language Immersion program in the Cupertino elementary school district. The program is now in its fourth year and continues to expand each year.

1999: 2/16/99 OCASV and the Office of the Mayor co-sponsored the celebration of the Lunar New Year with the Asian Community.  Present were Quyen Tran, Ms. Asian American from the Vietnamese Community, East West kung Fu school, Dimensions Performing Artist demonstrated dancing, and Shaolin Kung Fu master Henry Chang performed.

OCA is the lead organization for the Asian Heritage event / festival at the Great Mall shopping center in Milpitas from May 13 thru 16, 1999.

2000: February 27, 2000 OCASV sponsored the Mountain View Chinese New Year Parade.

2001: 9/11 happened and took the entire country by surprise.