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Fighting for
Collective
Liberation
Virginia Mason SEIU1199NW Picketline Picket
Westin UniteHere 8 Picket
APALA Convention 2023 Seattle
Virginia Mason SEIU1199NW Picketline Picket
Who We Are
Founded in 1992, the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA), AFL-CIO, is the first and only national organization of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) workers. Backed with strong support of the AFL-CIO, APALA has more than 20 chapters and pre-chapters and a national office in Washington, D.C.
APALA envisions a society where economic and racial justice prevails, human rights and worker dignity are affirmed, and where a healthy, sustainable planet is able to offer a better life for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, Black, brown, and Indigenous folks, and all communities fighting oppression.
"I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change....I’m changing the things I cannot accept"
- Angela Davis
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