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		<title>Mobile App to combat TSA profiling</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 06:35:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON DC (April 30, 2012) – The Sikh Coalition and other prominent national civil rights leaders released a game-changing mobile application that enables users to report instances of airport profiling in real time. The Monday launch event at the offices of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights in Washington, D.C. was also streamed at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Local Tibetans mourn martyrs</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2012 06:40:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MINNEAPOLIS (March 28, 2012) — The Tibetan community of Minnesota is mourning the death of 27 year-old Jamphel Yeshi who passed away Monday in New Delhi. The Tibetan Youth Congress announced the death of Jamphel Yeshi, 27, who set his body on fire for the cause of Tibet in New Delhi. They consider Yeshi a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interior Moves Forward with Efforts to Preserve and Interpret World War II Japanese American Internment Sites</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2012 05:40:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, D.C. (March 22, 2012) — The Department of the Interior on Thursday announced that the National Park Service is awarding funding to help preserve and interpret the U.S. confinement sites where more than 120,000 Japanese Americans were detained during World War II. The 17 grants, totaling nearly $2.9 million, are part of Interior’s ongoing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remembering Japanese Latin American WWII Experience</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Feb 2012 07:07:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, DC (February 17, 2012) —  Today, Members of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus (CAPAC) released the following statements regarding the Japanese Latin American experience during World War II in conjunction with observing this year’s Day of Remembrance: Rep. Judy Chu (CA-32), CAPAC Chair:  “Taking ownership of past mistakes is the only way to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CAPAC Members and Congressional Leaders Observe Fred Korematsu Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 04:52:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, D.C. (Jan. 30, 2012) — Today, Members of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus and Congressional Leaders released statements in honor of California’s second annual Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution. During World War II, Fred Korematsu refused to relocate to an internment camp under President Franklin Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>State of the Union and SE Asian Americans</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 04:41:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Doua Thor WASHINGTON, D.C. (Jan. 25, 2012) — At Southeast Asian Resource Action Center, we listened to the president&#8217;s State of the Union Address with interest, as this was an opportunity for us to consider his proposals and their impact on the many issues that we work on for the Southeast Asian American community. Below [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mee Moua to lead AAJC</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 10:11:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New AAJC director and former State Senator Mee Moua, left, and Karen K. Narasaki, stepping down after 20 years. WASHINGTON (Jan. 24, 2012) — Former State Senator Mee Moua is set to become the president and executive director the Asian American Justice Center, of one of the nation&#8217;s premier civil rights organizations. AAJC announced this week that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>APALC condemns anti-immigrant radio show</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 04:24:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[LOS ANGELES (Jan. 17, 2011)  — The Asian Pacific American Legal Center condemns derogatory remarks against Korean Americans expressed by co-host John Kobylt (KFI 640) during the Jan. 5 broadcast of Clear Channel’s “The John and Ken Show.” The press conference was held at the Korean Resource Center, and also included speakers from National Korean American [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Please Do Not Sunset the 4 ALANA Councils</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 09:40:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By DR. BRUCE CORRIE Dear Chair Rep. Kiffmeyer and Vice Chair Sen. Bonoff, Sunset Advisory Commission: I request you not to sunset the four councils (Chicano Latino Affairs Council, Indian Affairs Council, Council on Black Minnesotans and Council on Asian Pacific Minnesotans) but rather equip them to be more effective to meet the challenges and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Former Khmer Rouge leader deemed ‘unfit’ will not be released by UN-backed tribunal</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 09:08:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (Dec. 14, 2011) – The United Nations-backed genocide tribunal in Cambodia ruled today that Ieng Thirith, a 79-year-old former senior member of the Khmer Rouge who was found unfit to stand trial, will not be released as ordered last month but remain in detention. On 17 November, the trial chamber of the Extraordinary [...]]]></description>
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