Chinese Community Joins Occupy Wall Street Movement (Asian Week re: Chinese Progressive Association)

By Summer Chiang
– October 14, 2011

In a sign of the Occupy Wall Street movement’s growing diversity, members of a Chinese workers union joined in protests Wednesday in San Francisco’s financial district.

About 50 members from the Chinese Progressive Association (CPA), which works to support Chinese workers, turned out alongside several hundred others to protest a financial system gone awry in fueling the nation’s growing wealth gap, with continued unemployment and record-high foreclosures.

Chinese protestors declared that they, too, are part of the 99 percent “suffering in America.”

CPA Executive Director Alex T. Tom called on the government to take a bigger role in job creation, as well as push for home loan modifications and increased taxes on the wealthy. He added that his group would work to ensure greater Chinese participation in the nationwide movement ...

http://www.asianweek.com/2011/10/14/chinese-community-joins-occupy-wall-street-movement/