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7 Labor Activists You Should Know About for Asian Pacific American Heritage Month

Each May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, when we celebrate the accomplishments, culture and history of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the United States. Today, we are going to take a deeper look at members of the Asian American and Pacific Islander community who have advanced the cause of worker justice. Here are seven labor activists who you should know about for Asian Pacific American Heritage Month:

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Ai-jen Poo: Ai-jen Poo started organizing domestic workers in 1996 and helped found Domestic Workers United. In 2010, DWU was key in the passage of New York's Domestic Workers Bill of Rights, the first law in the country to guarantee domestic workers labor protections. The next year, DWU helped organize the first national meeting of domestic worker organizations, leading to the formation of the National Domestic Workers Alliance. She has been NDWA's director since 2010. Her other efforts on behalf of working people include Caring Across Generations, which campaigns for affordable health care for our aging...

Forty men are still being held at the controversial U.S. military base in Cuba.

The State Department is investigating reports that Kim Hak-song, Kim Dong-chul and Tony Kim could be released.

The WC-130 had been decommissioned because it was one of the oldest in the Guard's inventory, the Guard commander said.

The arrests of Rashon Nelson and Donte Robinson led the coffee chain to announce it will close 8,000 stores for an afternoon of "racial-bias education."

Prosecutors say they used DNA and a genealogical website to identify suspect Joseph DeAngelo, decades after the case had gone cold.

Forty men are still being held at the controversial U.S. military base in Cuba.

The State Department is investigating reports that Kim Hak-song, Kim Dong-chul and Tony Kim could be released.

"That was money that was paid by his lawyer. The president reimbursed it over several months," Giuliani says in a Fox interview.