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Cambodia: Collaboration is Needed

Eve Blossom | Posted 09.11.2009 | World

Read More: Unemployment, Economic Crisis, Collaboration, Southeast Asia, Cambodia, Jobs, Sustainability, Business, Human Trafficking, Women's Rights, Garment Industry, Sex Workers, Garment Workers, Sex Work, International Labor Organization, World News
Eve Blossom

Many see the results of human trafficking and want to get involved; but more importantly, the focus should be on empowering the mechanisms to prevent it.

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Save the Garment Center

Nanette Lepore | Posted 06.17.2009 | Style

Read More: Mayor Bloomberg, New York's Garment Center, New York City, Craftsmen, Garment Workers, Fashion, Garment District, New York City's Garment Center, Style News
Nanette Lepore

My company alone keeps about 300 jobs in New York City. However, the landlords, the restaurant and hotel union, and the developers want to annihilate our 100 year-old garment center.

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Time Running Out For Filipino Veterans

Jonah Lalas | Posted 04.09.2009 | Home

Read More: Justice for Filipino Veterans, Garment Workers, Pilipino, Organizing, Filipinos, Nurses, Filipino Veterans, Labor, Glass Ceiling, Asian Americans, Breaking Politics News, Barack Obama Asians, World War II Veterans, Asian-American Vote, Labor Unions, Reparations, Bataan Death March, Mang Peping, Manong Peping, Bataan, Fasgi, Home News
Jonah Lalas

Many thousands of Filipinos answered Roosevelt's call to join the U.S. forces fighting Japan in the Philippines, but had been denied the benefits they were promised until last month.

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A Victory for the Asian-American Community

Jonah Lalas | Posted 03.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pilipino, Hotel Janitors, Survivor, Employee Free Choice Act, Nurses, Asian Americans, Glass Ceiling, Garment Workers, Labor Unions, Asian-American Vote, Labor, Organizing, 80-20, Filipinos, Justice for Filipino Veterans, Barack Obama Asians, World War II Veterans, Unions, 80-20-Initiative, Piyush Jindal, Bobby Jindal, The Philippines, Politics News
Jonah Lalas

The Filipino veterans have received their due, but Asian workers have not. It is up Asian activists to continue to educate and politicize our youth.

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