Lora Jo Foo Papers 1980-2009

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Lora Jo Foo Papers 1980-2009

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Lawyer; Labor organizer. Materials documenting Foo's activism in advocating for the rights of immigrant workers in the U.S., primarily via the Asian Law Caucus and Sweatshop Watch; plus published writings, speeches, and interviews.

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Sophia Smith Collection

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Asian Law Caucus

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Sweatshop Watch (San Francisco, CA)

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NGO Forum on Women, Beijing '95

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Foo, Lora Jo

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Lawyer; Labor organizer From the description of Lora Jo Foo Papers, 1980-2009 (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 476805027 Lora Jo Foo is a labor organizer and attorney specializing in employment/labor law. She is a native of San Francisco, born and raised in the Chinatown community, where she began working as a garment worker in a sweatshop at the age of 11. She went back into a garment factory to work after college, this time as a union organizer. She then b...

National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum (U.S.)

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At the 1995 United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, Asian and Pacific Islander American female activists at the non-governmental organization (NGO) forums realized they had no organized voice for participating officially in the conference, and, although each of them as individuals had worked long and hard on their respective issues (safety, economic justice, reproductive rights, equal educational access, health, immigrant and refugee rights, civil rights and LGBTQ rights) the...