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Please note that the following articles are PDF Documents
- Excerpts from children's coloring book, "The Assi Tree" Story-line from coloring book
Samples images from the coloring book
(Images are JPEG Files) - if you are interested in downloading the images, on a PC/Windows computer, right mouse on the image to get the menu of options; on a Macintosh, hold down the mouse button until you get the menu of options
- Image 1: Squirrel Rhee, the King of the Assi Tree, collects acorns from other squirrels and bread crumbs from pigeons and stores them in his secret stash.
- Image 2: Squirrel Rhee, the King of the Assi Tree, grows fat from all his food, while the other squirrels and pigeons go hungry.
- Image 3: Squirrel Park tells the other squirrels: "It's Not fair!"
- Image 4: Pigeon Jaime and Squirrel Park develop a plan to unite all the animals in the park against the greed of Squirrel Rhee.
- Image 5: The animals of the park unite together and proclaim to Squirrel Rhee, "Be Fair and Share!"
- UCLA Students' March 5 Picket and Rally Supporting Latino and Korean Immigrant Workers at Assi Market in L.A. Koreatown By AAS 116 Picket Committee
- "Rally Cry: Statement of Solidarity from UCLA Students for Latino and Korean Immigrant Workers at Assi Market" By Hanna Kim, AAS 116
- UCLA Students' March 1 Forum in Solidarity with Latino and Korean Immigrant Workers at Assi Market By AAS 116 Forum Committee
- UCLA Students' Trilingual Children's Book (Spanish, English, Korean) about Latino and Korean Immigrant Workers' Union Campaign at Assi Market in L.A. Koreatown By AAS 116 Children's Book Committee
- AAS 116 Student Coordinating Committee Report By AAS 116 Coordinating Committee
Course Information
Both historically and today, grassroots labor struggles by immigrant
workers are central to defining the Asian Pacific American experience.
Immigrant labor struggles bring to the forefront issues of human
rights, interethnic and interracial alliances, racism and gender
oppression, the impact of globalization, and the ongoing efforts
to expand democracy in America. However, despite the central significance
of labor struggles, the curriculum in Asian American Studies has
virtually no classes focusing on labor.
This service-learning class addresses this vacuum and examines
Asian Pacific American labor, both historically and today. Among
historical issues to be covered are the exclusion of Asian immigrant
workers from mainstream labor unions, the resulting reliance
of immigrant workers on community-based strategies for fighting
for workplace rights, and the close connection between labor
organizing and other community movements such as support for
independence of former homelands from colonialism, women’s
rights, and movements for human rights. Among contemporary issues
to be covered are current organizing campaigns by low-income
immigrants in the garment, restaurant and market industries,
the ways these community-based labor struggles are redefining
labor organizing strategies in mainstream unions, and the impact
of labor struggles and immigrant worker centers on reshaping
politics in Asian Pacific American communities.
This class also focuses on the key role that Asian Pacific
American students can play in supporting labor struggles of low-income
immigrants. This class provides students with hands-on activist
training to help them confront class polarization, which increasingly
is becoming a major feature of Asian Pacific American communities.
Students will receive training in ways that they can use campus
resources, including their academic skills, to support immigrant
labor struggles.
As a class project, students will participate in one grassroots
project campaign involving immigrant workers fighting for justice.
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