RESOURCES - Asian American Social Movements: Asian Pacific American Labor Studies

Web Resources on Asian Pacific American Labor and Student Activism

1.  L.A. Koreatown Market Workers Campaign for Justice (at Assi Market)

 Korean Immigrant Workers Advocates
http://www.kiwa.org

"Market Workers Justice Campaign" by Jessica Kim, T. J. Lee, and Hyun Ja Pak
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/aasc/classweb/winter02/aas197a/mworkers.html

Boycott Assi
http://www.boycottassi.com

UCLA Student Supporters of the Market Workers Justice Campaign
http://www.marketworkerscampaign.com/

UCLA Student Interns Report on Market Workers Justice Campaign by Paul Chung, Vi Le, James Roh, and Sanghee Yoon
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/aasc/classweb/spring02/aas197b/koreamarket.html

2.  Resources for Community-based Labor Organizing

Asian Pacific American Labor Organizing: An Annotated Bibliography, Part I: Historical Struggles, 1840s – 1960s
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/aasc/classweb/winter02/aas197a/apapart1.html

Asian Pacific American Labor Organizing: An Annotated Bibliography, Part II: Contemporary Struggles from the 1960s
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/aasc/classweb/winter02/aas197a/apapart2.html

Sweatshop Watch
http://www.sweatshopwatch.org

Garment Workers Center
http://www.sweatshopwatch.org/swatch/gwc/

Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles
http://www.chirla.org

Asian Pacific American Legal Center of Southern California
http://www.apalc.org

Korean Resource Center
http://www.krcla.org/english/

Thai Community Development Center
http://www.thaicdc.org

Visual Communications Labor Documentary Project, "Grassroots Rising"
http://www.vconline.org

Nikkei for Civil Rights and Redress, Los Angeles
http://www.ncrr-la.org

Pilipino Workers Center, Los Angeles
http://www.pwcsc.org/

Resources for Non-union Workers and Community-based Worker Organizations
http://www.yale.edu/wrp/nonunionorgs.htm

Bus Riders Union
http://www.busridersunion.org/

Mexican American Legal Defense Fund
http://www.maldef.org/

Central American Resource Center
http://www.caracen-la.org

3.  Resources for Student Activists

Asian American Social Movements: Mobilizing for Peace and Justice
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/aasc/classweb/winter03/aas116/index.html

"Asian Pacific American Labor Studies" class (community internships)
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/aasc/classweb/spring02/aas197b/index.html

"Asian Pacific American Labor Studies" class (video documentary project)
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/aasc/classweb/winter02/aas197a/index.html

"Asian American Social Movements: Students and the Filipino Vets' Campaign for Justice and Equity"
http://www.seas.ucla.edu/~hoangv/aas197j/

"Asian American Social Movements: The Role of Students in Defining the Future of Asian American Studies"
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/99F/asian197j-1/webmag99.htm

"Asian American Movement" class
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/aasc/mvmt/

"Asian American Student Community Activism"
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/aasc/classweb/spring00/webmag_197j/index.html

"Asian American Community Education and Youth Empowermen"
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/aasc/classweb/fall01/aas197j/

Asian American Studies and Students:   "How the West Was Won-Ton"
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/aasc/faculty/ellenwu/asian100/

Activism in Schools: K-12 and Within Communities
http://www.teachingforchange.org

Student Activism Web Links
http://www.nd.edu/~akreider/psalinks.htm

Student Activism Web Links
http://www.neravt.com/left/student.htm

Student Activist Resource Handbook
http://www.csun.edu/eop/htdocs/studentactivismbook.pdf

Student Activists in the Labor Movement
http://www.aflcio.org/articles/studentactivism/

Speak Out!  Institute for Democratic Education and Culture — Youth and Student Activist Web Links
http://www.speakersandartists.org/Topics/YouthStudentActivism.html

Listserves on Student Activism
http://www.studentaffairs.com/lists/activis.html

Youth/Student Activism Handbook
http://www.cee-ane.org/topics/activism.html

United Students Against Sweatshops
http://www.usasnet.org/

Union Summer, AFL-CIO
http://www.aflcio.org/unionsummer/

United States Student Association
http://www.usstudents.org/

4.  Labor Unions, AFL-CIO Affiliates, and Resources on Organized Labor

Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance
http://www.apala.org

UCLA Labor Center
http://www.labor.ucla.edu

Labor Occupational Safety and Health
http://www.losh.ucla.edu/

Institute for Labor and Employment
http://www.ucop.edu/ile/

AFL-CIO Organizing Institute
http://www.aflcio.org/orginst/

AFL-CIO
http://www.aflcio.org/home.htm

Labor Notes magazine
http://www.labornotes.org/index.html

Reference Sources in U.S. Labor Studies
http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/tam/resources/

5.  Resources on Asian Pacific American Labor History in Southern California

Library Research Projects in Asian American Studies (from Stanford University)
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/adams/shortcu/asam.html

Chinese Americans Museum of Los Angeles
http://www.camla.org/history.htm

Asian & Pacific Islander American History & Literature for K-12 Teachers
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/asiahtm

Asian American history timeline
http://www.cetel.org/timeline.html

Resources in Race and Ethnic Studies
http://www.trinity.edu/~mkearl/race.html

Japanese American History
http://www.janet.org/janet_history/ja_history.html

Interactive Chinese American History, UC Berkeley class
http://www.itp.berkeley.edu/~asam121/

Korean American Digital Archive
http://www.usc.edu/isd/locations/cst/idala/collections/collections_kada.html

Filipino American National Historical Society
http://www.fanhs-national.org/

El Monte Sweatshop, Smithsonian Institute exhibit
http://www.americanhistory.si.edu/swetahops/intro.htm

American Labor History: An Online Study Guide
http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Quad/6460/AmLabHist/

6.  Other Asian Pacific American community resources

Asian Pacific American Network
http://www.apanet.org/index.html

AsianWeek newspaper (San Francisco Bay Area)
http://www.asianweek.com

Asian Pacific Environmental Network
http://www.apen4ej.org/

New California Media Online
http://www.ncmonline.com/

Philippine Golden Links
http://www.filipinolinks.com/

The Filipino American Library (Los Angeles)
http://filipinoamericanlibrary.org/home.html

Korean Youth and Community Center (KYCC)
http://www.kyccla.org/

Women’s Organization Reaching Koreans (WORK)
http://www.holtintl.org/work.shtm

Korean Exposure and Education Program (KEEP)
http://keep.org/main/welcome.html

Multicultural Collaborative
http://www.mcc-la.org/

Korean American Museum
http://www.kamuseum.org/

Korean American Historical Society (Seattle)
http://www.kahs.org/index.html

National Korean American Service and Education Consortium
http://www.nakasec.org/

Vietnamese Americans
http://www.vietnamese-american.org/

Little Saigon Net
http://www.littlesaigon.com/

Hmong Resources
http://www.hmongnet.org/

Asian American Village
http://www.imdiversity.com/villages/asian/village_asian_american.asp

Asian American Revolutionary Movement E-zine
http://www.aamovement.net

Asian American resources
http://www.lorenjavier.com/asian/index.html

Asian American resources:
http://newton.uor.edu/Departments&Programs/AsianStudiesDept/asianam.html

Librarian Dan Tsang’s Alternative Research
http://sun3.lib.uci.edu/~dtsang/arc.htm

Asian American Cybernauts Page
http://janet.org/~ebihara/wataru_aacyber.html

Asian Nation: The Landscape of Asian America
http://www.asian-nation.org/

UCLA Asian American Studies Center
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/aasc/

Exoticize My Fist: Asian American Feminist Resources
http://members.aol.com/Critchicks/index2.html

7.  Globalization and Human Rights

Global Exchange
http://www.globalexchange.org/

CorpWatch: Holding Corporations Accountable
http://www.corpwatch.org

Worker Rights Consortium
http://www.workerrights.org

Common Dreams
http://www.commondreams.org

James and Grace Lee Boggs Center to Nurture Community Leadeship
http://www.boggscenter.org

Civil Rights and Human Rights on the Net
http://www.ibt.ku.dk/www/law/krim/index/rights.htm

Race, Ethnicity, Gender, Culture Links
http://www.oxy.edu/%7Emaeda/multicult.htm

Yes! The Magazine of Positive Alternatives
http://www.futurenet.org/Default.htm

ColorLines magazine
http://www.arc.org/

Free the Children International
http://www.freethechildren.org/

Maiti Nepal (Campaign against Global Trafficking of Young Girls)
http://www.maitinepal.org/

International Human Rights Law Group
http://www.hrlawgroup.org/

CSUN United for Peace and Justice
http://www.csun.edu/~csunupj/