We are fortunate to have Betty Yu’s documentary, "Resilience," as a guiding text to learn this history. Yu's film explores her mother, a garment worker, fighting against sweatshop conditions. It also provides a firsthand account of her and her sister, Virginia Yu, leading and participating in the 1995 hunger strike. The film draws a strong connection between the sisters' grounding in their mother's labor activism and the development of their own political principles as youth activists. Focus especially on 07:56–10:59.
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