Asian Americans face many unique challenges in the movement for racial justice; among them are dominant social narratives such as the model minority myth that not only suggests that Asians have overcome racial barriers but also undermines cross-racial efforts to undo structural racism in the United States.
This session will discuss the problems of the Korean peninsula and the struggle of Koreans for national reunification as part of the larger struggle against US imperialism in the Asia-Pacific. It will focus on the ways Koreans in the diaspora, specifically in the so-called "United States" can build genuine solidarity through this shared struggle, a solidarity based on a revolutionary horizon for the liberation of both our homelands and of all peoples. It will focus on local stories and struggles- from urban resistance in Los Angeles to Okinawan-Korean solidarity in postwar Japan-to appropriate the spatial imagination of the US empire for the sake of our collective liberation.
This 2-part workshop will be a space for reflection on faith traditions and for creating personal altars of healing. About this Event Creating An Altar: A Healing Practice Change is the only constant. And certainly this year continues to strengthen us to embrace it. Many of us […]