LELO: Legacy of Equality, Leadership & Organizing, the annual dinner, awards and fundraising event. This year LELO celebrated with a Luau at Garfield Community Center in Seattle.

The DVJ award was given to Leon McLaughlin and to the East African Community of New Holly. The John Caughlan Youth Award was given to Lan "Tammy" Nguyen. The Tyree Scott Boots Recognition went to Diane Narasaki, Cindy Domingo, Bev Sims and Terri Mast. The South Pacific Islander Youth Dancers provided the entertainment.

LELO was founded 33 years ago by Latino farm workers, Black construction workers and Asian and Pacific Islander cannery workers who realized that their conditions and struggles as workers were tied together. LELO founders such as Tyree Scott, Silme Domingo, Gene Viernes and Milton Jefferson have left the organization with a LEGACY of bringing working people together across lines that traditionally divide us. From fighting for the racial integration of Seattle’s building and construction trades unions, to the preservation of public childcare programs for poor women and children, LELO has always struggled for EQUALITY for all people. As an organization led by “ordinary” workers, we develop the LEADERSHIP of those most marginalized in our society: people of color, working class women, LGBTQ workers and recent immigrants. Our primary social change strategy is local ORGANIZING, with a heavy emphasis on political education and networks of solidarity with workers across the globe.

More about LELO: http://www.lelo.org/index.php