Some people make “solidarity” feel like a slogan. Kent Wong made it a practice—day after day, for decades.
He helped build labor education into something living: a home for immigrant worker organizing, coalition strategy, and internationalism that wasn’t symbolic, but worker-to-worker and union-to-union. This remembrance traces how he moved through movements with warmth, rigor, and a refusal to let the powerful off the hook—and how many people and campaigns carry his imprint.
Gregory Mantsios writes of Wong as an educator, organizer and visionary who saw immigrants as the heart of the labor movement—long before the idea had reached the mainstream.
