Miriam Ching Yoon LouieMiriam Ching Yoon Louie has dedicated over three decades to advancing movements of women of color, immigrant women workers, grassroots Asian communities, and other kindred troublemakers. Her books, Sweatshop Warriors: Immigrant Women Workers Take on the Global Factory (South End Press, 2001), BRIDGE: A Popular Education for Immigrant & Refugee Community Organizers (with Cho, Paz y Puente & Khokha, NNIRR, 2004), and Women's Education in the Global Economy: A Workbook (with Linda Burnham, WCRC, 2000), are dedicated to the "women without whose labor, love, sweat, and tears we would not even exist on this planet. They serve as the tree shakers who knock down the fruit, the piñata-busters who break open the goodies - of economic democracy, gender justice, and human rights - for all of us." Ching Louie was a founding member of the Women of Color Resource Center (WCRC) and was the national campaign media coordinator of Asian Immigrant Women Advocates and Fuerza Unida. She also worked on the BRIDGE popular education project of the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, and written for numerous publications, including Ms Magazine, The Nation, Amerasia Journal and Minjok Tongshin. Of Korean and Chinese descent, this colored grrrl poet of XicKorea: Poems, Rants and Words Together (with Beth Ching and Arnoldo García, Xingao Productions), and has jammed with the Korean Youth Cultural Center, Jamae Sori, Puri Project and Speakout! She revisited North Korea with the DPRK Education and Exposure Project 2006 and is currently working on her first novel, Aiguh! Mental Illness Can Drive You Nuts.
Honored by Linda Burnham |
