Johanna Hester, President of the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA), AFL-CIO, the only organization of Asian Pacific American union members, issued the following statement of support for the Occupy Wall Street movement on behalf of the APALA National Executive Board, which met this weekend in Los Angeles:
We stand with the 99 percent of Americans who are tired of corporate greed. Wall Street financiers have profited off the backs of working people, resulting in millions of Americans losing their homes and jobs, and a generation of graduates facing crushing debt with few jobs in sight. Asian Americans in particular face some of the highest rates of long-term unemployment. So just why are we bailing out banks and laying off teachers? We as a nation need to re-examine our priorities.






















