Movie Details
Theatrical Release:January 1st, 2005
Original Language:English
Executive Producers:Linda Mabalot
Production Companies:Visual Communications
Grassroots Rising (2005)
DirectorRobert C. Winn
WriterAlison M. De La Cruz
57 minJan 1st, 2005
Plot
GRASSROOTS RISING, directed by Robert C. Winn, explores the re-emergence of Asian Pacific American labor activism in Los Angeles among people from all walks of life, from a Pilipino American domestic worker, a Chinese American laundry worker-turned-union activist, a Korean American restaurant waitress fighting wage theft, a group of Thai women forced to labor in an underground sweatshop, to Korean American and Mexican American grocery store workers fighting for safer working conditions. The film offers a moving tribute to the working class roots of the Asian American experience, focusing on the resurgence of grassroots political activism among the City of Angels’ Asian, Latino, and other working class families.
