Center for Asian American Media

Through interviews with past and recent student leaders and faculty juxtaposed with footage of campus demonstrations over the course of a generation, ON STRIKE offers an historical and political overview of what it took to establish and sustain ethnic studies at one of the nation’s leading universities.

"ON STRIKE makes an encapsulated, incisive study of the context and events that led up to the Ethnic Studies demonstrations, hunger strikes, and student arrests that surprisingly roiled the UC Berkeley campus in May, 1999. Opening with a quick historical study of the struggle that established Ethnic Studies in the late sixties, this record of modern-day activism soon moves into the urgent present-time, detailing the nineties' TWLF (Third World Liberation Front) movement and their pitched battle against the university administration."

- Alvin Lu, San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival

Recognition
Free Speech TV Broadcast
San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival
Institute of Multiracial Justice People of Color Film Festival

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K-12/Public Library/Community Group