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	Demanding Justice APA community groups rally for man they say is wrongly sentenced By Ji Hyun Lim AsianWeek Staff David Wong, 37, has spent the last 18 years in prison. Locked up in the Auburn Correctional Facility in upstate New York, Wong is serving time for second degree murder — a crime, eyewitnesses and supporters allege, that he did not commit. APA organizations are rallying for Wong’s release and demanding that the criminal justice system re-examine its cultural and linguistic inadequacies. Originally, Wong was serving time for armed robbery he committed when he was 19. It was his first and only offense. He was imprisoned in Suffolk County, New York and was later moved to the Clinton Correctional Facility on June 1984... COMPLETE STORY...		The Journey Here (Feature) Demanding Justice (in National News) Conference Connects Literature, Activism (in Bay Area News) Ultimate Diversions: Breath of Fire II (in Business) Last Chance For National Title (in Sports) The Power of Words (in A&E) Emil Amok: Be Like Mike (in Opinion)

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Washington Journal: Vouchers: A Disaster for Asian Pacific Americans On June 27, the Supreme Court declared that it can be constitutional for public money to underwrite tuition at religious schools. While some individual Asian Pacific American, African American and other inner city families have escaped sub-standard inner-city schools using tuition vouchers, the APA community and the nation as a whole have much to lose by the expansion of vouchers. They are the wrong answer for a real problem, and have the potential to undermine both democracy and the fragile balance between religious and secular life in this country...

Two APA Congressmen Support Pledge Ruling and Mineta Agrees to Amtrak ‘Bailout’

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