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Red Canary Song is the only grassroots Chinese massage parlor worker coalition in the United States. It was founded in November 2018 by Kate Zen, Athena G., Red S., and Julie X following the death of massage worker Yang Song. The group is currently based in Flushing, Queens and directed by Yin Q., Esther Kao, and Kate Zen. The coalition works to provide political representation, labor rights, collective organizing for migrant massage workers, and protection from violence by police and police impersonators across both the nation and the diaspora in Toronto, Paris, and Hong Kong. Red Canary Song advocates that shutting down massage businesses is not the proper means of ensuring massage workers a better quality of life. Rather, the solution lies in recognizing the rights and dignity of these workers. While Red Canary Song supports all migrant massage workers, the coalition does not wish to impose the assumption nor the identity of migrant sex workers upon anyone.

History
On November 25, 2017, 38-year-old Flushing massage worker Yang Song fell four stories to her death during a police raid. Red Canary Song was created shortly after her death to support her family and fight for police accountability. The coalition currently strives to address the hypersexualization and xenophobia that massage workers are likely to fall victim to, as made apparent by the 2021 Atlanta spa shootings.