Multi Ethnic Immigrant Workers Organizing Network  (MIWON) is a coalition of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA), Koreatown Immigrant Workers Alliance (KIWA), Institute of Popular Education of Southern California (IDEPSCA), and Pilipino Workers' Center (PWC).

Visit MIWON at:  www.miwon.org or http://www.miwon.org/mayday2007page.html

Mission and Purpose

The Multi-ethnic Immigrant Workers Organizing Network (MIWON) is a collaborative effort of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA), Korean Immigrant Workers Advocates (KIWA), Pilipino Workers Center (PWC), and Garment Workers Center (GWC). MIWON’s purpose is to organize and educate immigrant workers on their rights and serves as a vehicle where they can formulate strategy and actions to improve their living conditions. MIWON focuses on leadership development and civic participation of immigrant workers from different ethnic communities to bring about the necessary changes in the political and legal landscape to improve workplace and living conditions.

Today, MIWON is involved in a Legalization Campaign that 1) implements a leadership development curriculum with immigrant workers from different low-wage industries to help them build and advance a pro-immigrant, pro-worker, civil rights agenda; and 2) provides the space where different groups of immigrant workers can come together to strategize and develop advocacy and legislative campaigns to improve living conditions for immigrant working families.

MIWON's Partner Organizations

Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA)
CHIRLA was formed in 1986 to advance the human and civil rights of immigrants and refugees in Los Angeles; promote harmonious multi-ethnic and multi-racial human relations; and through coalition-building, advocacy, community education and organizing, empower immigrants and their allies to build a more just society. (www.chirla.org)

Koreatown Immigrant Workers Alliance (KIWA)
KIWA’s mission is to empower Koreatown’s low-wage immigrant workers for dignity and respect in the workplace and community, and to work together with other communities to realize a vision of a just Los Angeles that works for everyone. As one of Los Angeles’ most unequal local economies, the struggles of the Koreatown’s low-wage immigrant workers point to the core problems in our society and systems, as well as offer up potential solutions. Koreatown is an important battleground in the struggle to create a more equitable city. (http://kiwa.org/)

Institute of Popular Education of Southern California (IDEPSCA)
The mission of IDEPSCA is to create a more humane and democratic society by responding to the needs and problems of disenfranchised people
through leadership development and educational programs based on Popular Education methodology. Specifically our goal is to organize and educate members of low-income Latino immigrants concerned with solving  problems in their own communities. (www.idepsca.org)

Pilipino Workers Center (PWC)
Founded in 1997, PWC’s mission is to organize Pilipino workers to collectively address needs and issues both in the community and in the work place. PWC was founded on the idea that all workers have a right to safe working conditions, living wages, and decent standard of living. The long-term goal of the Center is to build a large and strong membership base in Los Angeles so that Pilipino workers have a base of power. PWC has created a foundation of service to the Pilipino worker community and in August 2,000, created the Association of Pilipino Workers and a political education curriculum for those workers.