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JoAnn Lum
JoAnn Lum is an organizer with the National Mobilization Against SweatShops (NMASS), a community-based workers’ center in New York City which is part of the Break the Chains Alliance. NMASS brings together workers of all trades, races, ethnicities and genders — citizens and immigrants — to organize together against the exploitation that we face where we work and where we live. Members include home care, restaurant, construction and nail salon workers, as well as full-time mothers, grandmothers and students.