Rafa Espinosa’s Lessons from Organizing Workers in UNITE HERE Local 2: Listen to the Workers and Never Forget Them! by Larry Hendel. Posted March 14, 2023. Rafael Espinoza, is a former League of Revolutionary Struggle (LRS) member, who spent decades fighting for immigrant and worker justice. The bulk of his work was in UNITE-HERE Local …
Culture is My Home: Interview with Leon Sun, Artist and Photographer By Eddie Wong. Posted December 21, 2022. Intro: Leon Sun’s exhibit “Back to the Culture: A Silkscreen Print Exhibit” concludes on Dec. 31, 2022 at the National Japanese American Historical Society, 1684 Post St , San Francisco. Sun, a longtime activist and community-based artist, …
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Organizing Women on the Job: The Lifework of Karen Wing Interview by Pam Tau Lee. Posted December 13, 2022 Introduction: Karen Wing is a longtime workplace organizer who started in restaurant work and then went to work in the post office and became Vice President of the San Francisco local of the American Postal Workers …
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Chapter One: Evolution of a Revolutionary By Joyce Nakamura. Posted December 12, 2022. Introduction I wrote this reflections piece as a lens into how I became a revolutionary and what being a revolutionary looked like in different periods of my life. During the period of the emergence of the New Communist Movement (NCM) and the …
Workers at the largest Asian American non-profit win improvements to recruit, and retain staff and services for the community. By David Monkawa based on an interview with organizer Billy Yates, AFSCME DC 3. Reposted from Progressive Asian Network of Action (PANA) newsletter. In late 2018, The community workers of Asian Americans Advancing Justice in LA, …
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Midterm Blues That You Can Use By Eddie Wong. Posted Oct. 31, 2022. We’re one week away from another monumental election. Are you going to continue on the course correction path started in 2020 or fall deeper into the abyss of white, Christian nationalism? Maybe we’ll have a mixture of both. I don’t know about …
Comrade Sisters Celebrates the Women in the Black Panther Party by Mike Murase and video by Alan Kondo. Posted Oct. 21, 2022. Comrade Sisters: Women of the Black Panther Party, a book by Ericka Huggins and Stephen Shames, was launched at Reparations Club in the Crenshaw district of Los Angeles on October 17, 2022. The panel …
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The Danger of Ignoring the Latino Vote This November By Bill Gallegos. Posted Oct. 18, 2022 We wish to thank Bill Gallegos for allowing us to post this article, which first appeared in the Nation magazine on Oct. 17, 2022. Generally, Latinos are rendered invisible in US mainstream (and a lot of the Left) media. The …
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The Racial Volcano Explodes in Los Angeles By Bill Gallegos and Bill Fletcher, Jr. Posted Oct. 17, 2022 We wish to thank the authors for allowing Unity News 2022 to post this article which first appeared in The Nation magazine on Oct. 14, 2022. The site of huge urban uprisings in 1965 and 1992 is …
Growing Up Raza in San Francisco By Joe Navarro. Posted Oct. 16, 2022. Back in the early 2000s when I was studying for my master’s degree in Mexican American Studies, I spoke in one of my classes about the influences in my life. Our classes studied different social issues that affected Chicanas and Chicanos and …
