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Kent Wong, who spent decades teaching a doctrine of nonviolent resistance, died Wednesday at a hospital in Los Angeles at the age of 69.

The incursion of armed federal immigration agents in his beloved hometown of Los Angeles shocked Kent Wong.

The labor leader and educator spent the summer vigorously organizing training sessions for more than a thousand workers and union organizers to peacefully protest the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigrant communities. It was work he had done for much of his life, but which he said had taken on more urgency now.

“This is a time that calls for thoughtful, mass action,” Wong told The Times in an interview in July. “How could this blata

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