Journey to My Home: Hong Kong and China
Rediscovering the Meaning of Labor Activism, Being Chinese and Chinese Nationalism
By: Lee Siu Hin

About the Author

Lee Siu Hin is the founding member and unpaid organizer for the ActionLA Coalition, an Los Angeles-based activist group, URL: www.ActionLA.org. Coalition members include: ChangeLinks Progressive Newspaper, US-Mexico Border Action Project, Peace No War Network and National Immigrant Solidarity Network. Past and present projects include:
- Los Angeles D2K Mobilization (August 2000)
- S26 LA Action (September 26, 2000)
- FTAA/US-Mexico Border Protest, San Diego-Tijuana (April 20-22, 2001)
- Tijuana Borderhack Festival (August 24-26, 2001)
- Sep29 LA Mobilization (September, 2001)
- Asian Pacific Islander Radio Collective (API-LA) at Pacifica Radio, KPFK-Los Angeles
- Los Angeles Peace and Social Justice Festival (June-July 2003)
- Los Angeles Supermarket workers strike San Gabriel Area Support Committee (October 2003-March 2004)

He is also the members with United Students Against Sweatshops, Student Peace Action Network, Latin American Solidarity Network, Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance-Los Angeles Chapter, United For Peace & Justice and Pacifica Radio KPFK-Los Angeles.

Lee's past major media publications include:

Magazine, Newspaper, Newswire:
- Sweatshops Series, including Saipan, New York, Los Angeles, Mexico (1996 - 2003): Z Magazine, ChangeLinks
- Rwanda Series (1997): ChangeLinks, KPFK Radio, Christian Science Monitor
- Iraq, Oil for Food Program Series (1999 - 2001): Covert Action Quarterly, ChangeLinks [Honorable Mention award from Project Censored, 2000]
- Afghanistan Series (2001 - 2002): ChangeLinks, Independent Media Center
- Report From Baghdad Series (2003): Z Magazine, Inter Press Service
- LA Grocery Strike Series (2003 - 2004): ChangeLinks, Z Magazine, InterPress Service, Independent Media Center
- Report from Hong Kong, China, Labor Series (2004): ChangeLinks, Z Magazine, Independent Media Center
- Others: School of Americas, Anti-Globalization Movement, Immigrant Rights, A16 Washington DC, D2K Los Angeles, Farm Workers in U.S., Pacifica Radio.Struggle

Radio Reports:
- South Africa, Angola and Mozambique Series (1997): KPFK Radio
- Civil War in Yugoslavia, Bosnia Radio Series (1992 - 1995): KPFK Radio
- Rwanda Series (1997): KPFK Radio
- Hong Kong Reunification Series (1997): KPFK Radio
- Others: School of Americas, Taco Bell farm workers, Chinese immigrant workers.

Books:
- US-Mexico/FTAA Border Action Reader, co-produced with elbop (2001)
- Peace and Social Justice Reader, co-produced with elbop (2003)
- Report from Baghdad Interactive Book on CD-ROM (2003)


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