Sites of resistance line Chinatown’s streets. On Mott Street in 1982, over 20,000 garment workers once left their jobs and marched on strike to fight for better working conditions. They flooded Columbus Park with fiery multilingual speeches and protested to call for justice. Hear firsthand from core organizers of the 1982 Strike — former garment workers, organizers, and union representatives — as they share memories of the strike and lessons learned from how they mass mobilized the Chinatown community. Panelists include May Chen, Connie Ling and Shui Mak Ka.

NOTE: We will be giving special priority to audience members who have a connection to the garment worker history in Chinatown. If you are indeed connected, please fill out this form to tell us more:

ABOUT CHINATOWN MOVEMENTS: PAST, PRESENT, & FUTURES

Chinatown Movements: Past, Present, & Futures is an intergenerational series of five public events that highlight historic and contemporary movements focused on labor, housing, and LGBTQ justice in Manhattan’s Chinatown. The series includes panel discussions, film screenings, bilingual walking tours, and a culminating open mic. Chinatown Movements is the first series of its kind in the neighborhood to engage community members in understanding how we can learn and build from Chinatown’s historic social movements to address similar, pressing present-day concerns.

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Chinatown Movements: Past, Present & Futures is generously funded in part by Humanities New York with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Citizens Committee for New York City's Neighborhood Grant.