John Hayakawa Torok

John Hayakawa Torok was politicized by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and the Greenham Common Women’s Peace Encampment protest of the U.S. deployment of nuclear cruise missiles in the U.K. His Cal Ethnic Studies doctoral dissertation under L. Ling-chi Wang examines Chinese immigration policy enforcement in Cold War New York Chinatown. He was active in Asian American matters in New York and then in Occupy Oakland. In San Francisco he is an SEIU Local 1000 delegate to the San Francisco Labor Council, AFL-CIO. He teaches Labor and Community Studies at the City College of San Francisco and participates in the World Association of International Studies.