About WordStrike

WordStrike began in the summer of 2010 as a petition to honor the boycott of Arizona after that state passed its anti-immigrant law SB 1070. The petition has been signed by hundreds of novelists, poets, playwrights, journalists, and other writers, including Chris Abani, Tariq Ali, Russell Banks, Amiri Baraka, Noam Chomsky, Sandra Cisneros, Mike Davis, Thulani Davis, Junot Díaz, Martin Espada, Eduardo Galeano, Jessica Hagedorn, David Henry Hwang, Ha Jin, Maxine Hong Kingston, Naomi Klein, Yusef Komunyakaa, Jhumpa Lahiri, Chang-rae Lee, Ruben Martinez, Michael Ondaatje, Ed Park, Francine Prose, Ishmael Reed, Adrienne Rich, Luis Rodriguez, Salman Rushdie, Andre Schiffrin, Helena Maria Viramontes, Anne Waldman, and John Waters, among many others.

WordStrike now seeks to organize writers to strike back against anti-immigrant laws and attitudes. We hope to spark and support new writing and publishing about immigration, to explore new ways of disseminating writing, and to bring writers together both online and on the ground to fight for immigrant rights and migrant justice.

About CultureStrike

With our allies ArtStrike, we’ve formed CultureStrike, a loose network of artists, writers, filmmakers, musicians, and other cultural workers who want to fight anti-migrant hate by bringing out the stories of and about immigrants and migrants. We aim to cultivate innovative collaborations, create counter-narratives, nurture each other as witnesses and visionaries, and foster new models for cultural change. Our work is premised on the belief that culture, as the realm of ideas, images, and stories, is where people make sense of the world, find meaning and forge solidarity. Cultural change is part of political change.

Read more about CultureStrike’s mission.

Read more about the artists, writers and creators of the 2011 CultureStrike Delegation.

Read more about the Asian American Writer’s Workshop, an initiator of WordStrike.

CultureStrike Coordinators: Jeff Chang, Ken Chen, Andrew Hsiao, Favianna Rodriguez

Editorial Board: Ken Chen, Aviva Chomsky, Sesshu Foster, Andrew Hsiao (chair), Aziz Rana, Favianna Rodriguez
Associate Editor: Michelle Chen
Designer: Albert Chu / Otaat
Coder: jose d lopez / TUMIS