Lucia Lin
Lucia Lin is a San Francisco activist.
The Peoples Congress
October 2020.
Lucia Lin Grassroots Asians Rising, Asha Ransby Sporn Defund CPD Campaign, Margaret Kwateng National Green New Deal organizer at Grassroots Global Justice Alliance, Monifa Bandele Movement for Black Lives.
Asian American Racial Justice Toolkit
This toolkit is a project of love from the grassroots, from and by Asian American communities.
As Asian Americans, we believe that our liberation is tied to Black liberation and we continue to dream about a world where all of our people will be free. The toolkit would not have been possible without the following organizations and individuals:
Project Coordinators
Writing Consultants
We thank Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund, Rosenberg Foundation, Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation, The California Endowment, The California Wellness Foundation, Unbound Philanthropy for their generous support of this project.
Special thanks to the Friends Doing Good giving circle, National CAPACD and Cathy Cha.
Thank you to the following racial justice organizers and fighters at the grassroots who have made this toolkit possible:
Alex T. Tom, Aiden Pham, Alvina Wong, Ashley Uyeda, Cathy Dang, Chhaya Chhoum, Christopher Cara, Dae Joong Yoon, Fahd Ahmed, InHe Choi, Joshua Fisher Lee, Kabzuag Vaj, Khamarin Nhann, Lai Wa Wu, Lillian Galedo, Mia-lia Kiernan, Minh Thanh Nguyen, Nancy Dung Nguyen, Naved Husain, Rachel Aceberos, Rishi Singh, Sarath Suong, Steven Dy, Naroen Chhin, Sandy Saeteurn.[1]
Comrades
Jill Shenker Marh 8 2017.
— with Linshao Chin, Chelsea Boilard, Kathleen Coll, Lucia Lin at San Francisco City Hall.
Ferguson report back HangOut
Resistance in Ferguson, led primarily by young Black people, has continued for more than two months, with direct action, organizing, base-building and other forms of resistance. To date, hundreds have been arrested seeking justice—organizers want to make sure there is not only not one more Mike Brown, but also not one more Darren Wilson.
LeftRoots sent a delegation to St. Louis to lend our support to the leaders from organizations like Millennial Activists United, Hands Up United, Organization for Black Struggle, and Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment. We know that to turn this from a moment into a movement, we will need to connect our seemingly isolated fights around gentrification, workers rights, police violence, education justice and more into a strong, resilient and connected movement that can transform our communities, our country and our world.
The program will include reflections from Alicia Garza, Neva Walker, Christine Cordero, Lucia Lin and Steve Williams as well as others who participated in the Weekend of Resistance.[2]
Solidarity Summer School 2015
Solidarity Summer School 2015 workshop;
The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Grassroots Organizing and Non-Profits
- In their 2007 book, The Revolution Will Not be Funded, INCITE: Women of Color Against Violence presented a collection of essays that raised an alarm about the “non-profit industrial complex” which, they argued, posed clear and present dangers to grass-roots organizing projects. Yet, community-based non-profit organizations, from workers’ centers to immigrant rights and environmental justice groups, are organizing some of the most exciting struggles and taking on the most pressing issues facing working-class people. This workshop will be an opportunity for participants to confront the challenges that INCITE has posed and to identify the organizational and strategic elements of transformative organizing work.
- Steve Williams (LeftRoots - San Francisco Bay Area)
- Lucia Lin (LeftRoots - San Francisco Bay Area)
- Viviana Moreno (Little Village Environmental Justice Organization - Chicago, IL)
- Amisha Patel (Grassroots Collaborative - Chicago, IL)[3]
LeftRoots National Strategy Committee
The LeftRoots National Strategy Committee - HangOut Planning Team (Claire Tran, N’Tanya Lee and Lucia Lin, 2015.[4]
It Takes Roots People's Caravan
It Takes Roots People's Caravan took place in July 2016. Grassroots Global Justice Alliance launched the It Takes Roots to Change the System People’s Caravan from the RNC to the DNC. Nearly 40 community leaders and allies from the US and Honduras traveled in a bus from the Republican National Convention in Cleveland to the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, stopping along the way to build with communities in Pittsburgh and Baltimore fighting for environmental and racial justice.
Caravanistas included Lucia Lin, Chinese Progressive Association (San Francisco), CA.
Asians 4 Black Lives
APIs4BlackLives December 14 2014.
Photo cred Ryan Sin Photography
— with Miya Yoshitani, Lucia Lin and Shaw San Liu in Oakland, California.
"Trump’s Victory Is a Wake-Up Call to the Left"
"Trump’s Victory Is a Wake-Up Call to the Left: Did we do enough in 2016? And how can we build a broader electoral movement?" was written by Calvin Miaw (Lynn Koh) for In These Times, Nov 18, 18, 2016;
- Today we have a number of inspiring movements (and encampments!) that will continue under the Trump administration. We have incredible multiracial alliances—from the National Domestic Workers Alliance to Grassroots Global Justice—all across the United States. We have cutting-edge work in electoral politics through our mass organizations at the local level (like San Francisco Rising or the South Bay Labor Council) reaching into the state level (with New Virginia Majority and New Florida Majority). There's a lot going for us, but whether we are able to build a worthy successor to the Rainbow, which replicates its achievements while avoiding its quite obvious failures, depends on us moving beyond what we've been doing.
Special thanks to Kayan Cheung-Miaw, Lucia Lin, David Monkawa, Dan DiMaggio, and Joseph Schwartz for feedback on this article.
Staff
Young Workers United staff as of September 13, 2018:[5]
- Lucia Lin - Director
- Ilana Master - Campaign Director
- Yaya Ruiz - Program Coordinator
CEEP Reportback
CEEP (China Education & Exposure Program) Reportback
SoleSpace Tuesday, March 4, 2014 at 7 PM – 9 PM PST
Hosted by Vivian Yi Huang and Lucia Lin.
What you've all been waiting for - our reportback from the China Education & Exposure Program delegation this past December! We went to both Beijing and Guangzhou, meeting with numerous activists to better understand the political conditions there and would like to share all that we learned with you. Join us for an exciting discussion of labor, environmental, and LGBTQ organizing and social change in China!
Sponsored by Asian Pacific Environmental Network and Chinese Progressive Association (San Francisco).
Vivian Yi Huang and Lucia Lin went to China with China Education & Exposure Program in 2014.
- What you've all been waiting for - our reportback from the China Education & Exposure Program delegation this past December! We went to both Beijing and Guangzhou, meeting with numerous activists to better understand the political conditions there and would like to share all that we learned with you. Join us for an exciting discussion of labor, environmental, and LGBTQ organizing and social change in China!
CPA
Lucia Lin works at Chinese Progressive Association (San Francisco).
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.
Lucia Lin, Kevin Tang, Daniel Huyn, Sophat Phea.
Comrades
Chelsea Boilard June 12, 2016 ·
Fun times in The Town. — with Emily Ja-ming Lee, Lucia Lin, Linshao Chin, Alex Tom, Ellen Love and Timmy Lu.
Meeting OBS
Christine Cordero October 11, 2014 ·
Packed room with Organization for Black Struggle. Black liberation is intimately intertwined with our collective struggle. So much goodness on intersectionality, recognition of indigenous ppls and being on this land, and building from ppls resilience and love. — with Steve Williams, Jamala Rogers, Terry Marshall, Laila Williams and Lucia Lin.
Prop C campaigners
Chelsea Boilard November 4, 2014 ·
With Lucia Lin, Ken Wang, Kevine Boggess, Tiffany Ng, Princess Beverly Williams and Leo Warshaw-Cardozo.
Sponsored by Asian Pacific Environmental Network and Chinese Progressive Association (San Francisco).
Anti-Trump
Mabel Tsang wrote :Tomorrow I will be heading to DC with a #ItTakesRoots to Grow Resistance Delegation convened by Grassroots Global Justice Alliance / Climate Justice Alliance / Indigenous Environmental Network / Right To The City Alliance because I believe we can create an alternative to Trump's Terror. He stands for racist violence; aggression against women; criminalizing queer, gender non-conforming and transfolks; and detention of and war against immigrants and refugees - in the name of our future and our values.
- I believe the alternative exists today. I believe it already exists in my organizing work at Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN) and I believe it exists in our dreams for our collective future. This moment scares me and this moment emboldens me. This moment shows me the need and the proof for powerful actions and bold experimentation. It calls on all of us to act.
With Jane Martin, Vivian Yi Huang, Rachel Lee Holstein, Laiseng Saechao, Malcolm Amado Uono, Hyejin Shim, Sydney Fang, Amee Raval, JingJing He, Alex Tom, Annelisa Luong, Chiravann Uch, Alvina Wong, Miya Yoshitani, Ed Scott, Shina Riane, Eric Mar, Russell Wynne, Nick Mitchell, Saa'un P. Bell, Mee Jung Tsang,, Jin-kyung Kim, Megan Zapanta, Orlie Kapitulnik, Aiko Pandorf, Mei-ying Williams, Nancy Kab Xyooj, Erika Lenhart, Jonathan Ronald Tran, Jen-Mei Wu, Emily Ja-ming Lee, Nadia Khastagir, Shaw San Liu, Stacy Kono, Steve Lew, Sophia Arredondo, Cynthia Fong, Tracey Corder, Salima Hamirani, Jennifer Lee, Lucia Lin, Ellen Choy, Shannon Garth-Rhodes, Kasi Farrar, Joshua Fisher Lee, Feng Kung, N'Tanya Lee, Kenneth Tang, Geordee Mae, Maya Tanaka, Timmy Lu
2011 hearing
Saturday, April 9th, 2011, at the Japanese American National Museum, 369 East 1st St., Los Angeles, the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance held a hearing on the the stories and testimonies of Asian Pacific American workers and their struggles to organize. Features panels on healthcare, immigrant rights, and the involvement of youth in the labor movement. The event included performances by Progressive Taiko and KIWA’s Cultural Resistance Committee drumming group.[6]
Speakers were;
- Congresswoman Judy Chu
- Assemblymembers Mike Eng and Warren Furutani
- Laphonza Butler (SEIU ULTCW, President)
- Gregory Cendana (APALA, Executive Director)
- Kent Wong (UCLA Labor Center, Director)
- Raahi Reddy SEIU 521 Chief of Staff
Jan Tokumaru and Lucia Lin of the LA Chapter were critical to the success of the event, which was held at the beautiful Japanese American National Museum. The hearing was covered extensively in Fuse TV and ethnic press, including in Xinhua News, the Philippine Times, Indian Times, and Chinese Radio International.[7]