In this roundtable, authors of selected chapters from UCLA’s forthcoming Foundations and Futures, the first open source Asian American and Pacific Islander digital multimedia textbook for high school and college students, will share their research on Asian American workers in sweatshops, fields, and canneries as well as their research on contemporary Asian American and Pacific Islander community activism in urban settings. Participants in this roundtable will discuss how the chapters they have written for the textbook foreground workers’ perspectives and why it is important to have students learn about Asian American and Pacific Islander workers’ experiences and resistance through the multiple lenses of labor struggles, community organizing, and Asian American Studies,. The conversation in this roundtable will explore Asian American & Pacific Islander workers’ and communities' resistance and reciprocity as they mobilize for change, often despite anti-Asian hate and violence. Roundtable participants will discuss both the urgency and challenges of teaching and learning about these issues within a contemporary context. Historically and now, Asian American & Pacific Islander workers’ resistance has contributed to worker power and solidarity, and their resistance to occupation, gentrification, and repression by the U.S. government are models that can help us now more than ever.