LELO HISTORY:    1990s

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LELO CONSTITUENTS:    1991-Present

1986 -1993

• Migrant Filipino and other Asian Pacific Islander & Native Alaskan cannery workers (some in Seattle – others dispersed in other states): specifically those represented in cannery worker lawsuits.
• Asian Pacific American students and community activists – locally and nationally: organized through campaign to include theWards Cove workers in 1991 Civil Rights Act.   
• Mozambican workers and families impacted by LELO’s material aid campaign and “worker-to-worker” community and economic development strategies.
• Activists of color and progressive white activists organized around divestment in South Africa; support for the liberation struggle in Mozambique; and other international solidarity efforts.

1993 -1997

• Workers of color in the construction trades (predominantly Black workers); Social service workers and jobs counselors; and Black community activists: through the February 19^th Coalition for Jobs.
• Women of color activists and anti-racist white women activists: through the EveryWoman’s Delegation to Beijing.

1997 - Present

• Support to internal union caucuses and FAST Jobs/Family Wage Jobs Organizing
• “Ordinary,” rank-and-file workers – internationally: through Worker-to-Worker Seabeck and Regional meetings.
• Workers’ organizations in North, Central, South America, the Caribbean and Africa: through LELO’s international Worker to Worker networking.
• Women of color activists and anti-racist white women activists: through the Every Woman’s Movement for Cuba.
• Port of Seattle workers: predominantly white male public sector workers. LELO specifically outreached to and promoted the leadership of the few workers of color and women workers, however.
• Unemployed and low-income people of color, recent immigrants (Latino and East African – predominantly) and white women in Seattle & King County: through Family Wages Jobs organizing; Relicensing Program; Port Profits for Human Needs and Reclaim Democracy campaigns.
• Local grassroots organizations led by people of color; women and students: through Workers’ Voices Coalition during WTO and anti-war movement work.
• “Left” activists in local labor movement: Labor Left coalition; Association for Union Democracy work; support to Ironworkers’ wildcat organizers.
• Latino workers and their families: Through joint workshops with Comité on immigration in the global economy.