Remembering Silme Domingo and Gene Viernes

The assassinations of Filipino American activists Silme Domingo and Gene Viernes by the regime of Ferdinand Marcos shook the Chinatown-International District community in 1981. Author Ron Chew interviewed close friends and family members to commemorate his friends and their leadership in pushing for fair treatment of cannery union workers. Learn about the rise of these two young community leaders and their lasting impact on Seattle’s Asian American community. This book also includes Viernes’s previously unpublished history of Asian laborers in Alaska’s salmon canneries.

For more by Ron Chew, see his autobiography My Unforgotten Seattle.