Kimi Lee
Kimi Lee is an Oakland activist. She has been involved in Rice and Beans Childcare Cooperative, Sama Sama Cooperative, Asians 4 Black Lives, Black Organizing Project.[1]
Kimi Lee brings three decades of experience organizing and working with social justice organizations to her role as the executive director of Bay Rising. Kimi has organized students with the University of California Student Association and served as field director for the ACLU of Southern California, executive director of the Garment Worker Center, and lead organizer of the United Workers Congress, among many other leadership roles. Her first-generation family immigrated to the US from Burma in 1971.[2]
Education
- Studied at UC Davis
- Went to St. Rose Academy, San Francisco
Seed the Vote
Seed the Vote is a project of the Everyday People PAC.
Some of the individuals supporting this project (organizations listed for identification purposes only):
- Jason Negron-Gonzales
- Emily Lee, San Francisco Rising Action Fund
- Max Elbaum, Organizing Upgrade
- Calvin Cheung-Miaw, Organizing Upgrade
- Kimi Lee, Bay Rising Action
- Lara Kiswani, Arab Resource and Organizing Center
- Jill Shenker, San Francisco Rising Action Fund
- Michelle Foy, Liberation Road
- Sarah Jarmon, Liberation Road
- Lindsay Imai-Hong, parent activist
- Zachary Norris, Ella Baker Center
- Adam Gold, Center for Popular Democracy Action
- Rose Mendelsohn, Bay Resistance[3]
BLM
Kimi Lee supports Black Lives Matter.
Movement Strategy Center
Kimi Lee was in 2015 an official Associate of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization connected Movement Strategy Center. [4]
FRSO connection
Gabriel Sayegh's; article "Redefining Success", was posted on October 1st, 2001 by Freedom Road Socialist Organization.
- In the growing resistance to capitalism within the United States, many white activists consider Seattle as the "beginning of a movement" and gauge anti-capitalist work using Seattle as the measuring stick.
Special thanks to "Chris Dixon, Sonja Sivesind, Alan Rausch, and Therese Saliba for their feedback on this article. Thanks to Trevor Baumgartner, Jennica Born, Lydia Cabasco, Chris Crass, Stephanie Guilloud, Hop Hopkins, Kimi Lee, and Scott Winn, for the discussions that helped flesh out these ideas".[5]
CPA
As of 2015, The Chinese Progressive Association (San Francisco) board of directors consisted of;[6]
- Charlotte Chang
- Chyanne Chen
- Kim Geron
- Stacy Kono
- Kimi Lee
- Katie Yue-Sum Li
- Arthur Liou
- Eric Shih
- Pam Tau Lee
CPA 40th anniversary
On August 4th 2012 to celebrate Chinese Progressive Association (San Francisco)'s 40th Anniversary. CPA was proud to honor the National Guestworkers Alliance and New Orleans Workers Center for Racial Justice, the Free MUNI for Youth Coalition, and Jobs with Justice San Francisco.
Attendees included: Dee An, Alvina Wong, Linda Lee, Kevin Tang, Katie Li, Ken Wang, Calvin Miaw, Sophat Phea, Andy Kuang, Pam Tau Lee, Drake Nguyen, Annelisa Luong, Jia Hong Situ, Bob Wing, Mike Murase, Alex Tom, Kayan Cheung-Miaw, Heidi Hong, Scott Kurashige, Saket Soni, Kimi Lee, Stephanie Chan, Sophia Cheng, Vivian Yi Huang, Lung San Louie, Minh Nguyen, Don Misumi, Tammy Bang Luu, Alice Thx, Victor Yang, Anna Lei, Helena Wong, Mark Liu, Steve Lew, Timmy Lu, Ruodi Duan, Natalie Gee-McGilley, Xu Lin, Victoria Yee, Mabel Tsang, Lucia Lin, Stacy Kono.
Supporting Nikki
Nikki Fortunato Bas 4 Oakland April 21, 2018.
With Mari Rose Taruc, Gabriel Haaland, Millie Cleveland, Brad Erickson, Nikki Fortunato Bas, Jessamyn Sabbag, Dashiel Johnson, Kimi Lee, Jahmese Kathleen Myres and Isaiah Toney.
Now What? Defying Trump and the Left's Way Forward
Now What? Defying Trump and the Left's Way Forward was a phone in webinar organized by Freedom Road Socialist Organization in the wake of the 2016 election.
- Now what? We’re all asking ourselves that question in the wake of Trump’s victory. We’ve got urgent strategizing and work to do, together. Join Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson of the Movement for Black Lives and Freedom Road, Calvin Cheung-Miaw, Jodeen Olguin-Taylor of Mijente and WFP, Joe Schwartz of the Democratic Socialists of America, and Sendolo Diaminah of Freedom Road for a discussion of what happened, and what we should be doing to build mass defiance. And above all, how do we build the Left in this, which we know is the only solution to the crises we face?
- This event will take place Tuesday November 15, 2016 at 9pm Eastern/8pm Central/6pm Pacific.
Those invited, on Facebook included Kimi Lee.[7]
"Sweatshop Slaves"
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Sweatshop Slaves: Asian Americans in the Garment Industry
The first student publication to capture the role of Asian American workers in the sweatshop industry.
Edited by Kent Wong and Julie Monroe
Featuring essays by
- Helen Chien, Garment Center Worker
- Kimi Lee, Garment Center Worker
- Joann Lo, Garment Worker Center
- Chancee Martorell, Thai Community Development Center
- Julie Su, Asian Pacific American Legal Center
- Rojana Cheunchujit Sussman, El Monte Slave Shop Activist
This book highlights the structure and organization of the garment industry, the history of sweatshops, the organizations and organizing campaigns that have worked to eradicate sweatshops, and brief oral histories of key leaders in the movement. There is also special coverage of the infamous El Monte sweatshop, where seventy-two Asian American workers were freed from modern-day slavery in 1995.The book is the product of students enrolled in a UCLA course entitled "Work, Labor, and Social Justice," working in conjunction with the UCLA Center for Labor Research and Education.