While prior labor struggles in Chinatown, including the 1982 garment workers’ strike and the 1980 Golden Palace protests, had been led by adult workers, radical youth were at the heart of 1995’s protest against Jing Fong management. Many had been inspired by the Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing, where hundreds of demonstrating students had been killed by government-deployed troops in 1989. The news coverage and accounts of Tiananmen had been politically formative for many Chinese-American students, who were taking what they had absorbed from global social movements and implementing it in their own neighborhoods. For youth with parents working in the garment factories or the banquet halls, the labor violations were not just a matter of political principle, but the very foundations of their lives.