Water Is Life: A Webinar on Choosing Water Over War. With former
Philippines Congressman Walden Bello, Sung-hee Choi, Dr. Kamanamaikalani
Beamer, Shinako Oyakawa, and Guahan Senator Sabina Perez. Moderated by
Koohan Paik-Mander.
This free, public webinar will present the voices of those
choosing water over war in Hawaii, Philippines, Jeju Korea, Okinawa, and
Guahan.
The timing will be February 19, 2022, at 3:00 p.m. in Honolulu, 5:00 p.m. in Los Angeles, and 8:00 p.m. in New York.
Which is the same time as
February 20, 2022, at 1:00 UTC (very similar to GMT), 1:00 a.m. in
London, 2:00 a.m. in Rome, 4:30 a.m. in Tehran, 9:00 a.m. in Manila,
10:00 a.m. in Naha and Jeju, 11:00 a.m. in Hagåtña,12:00 p.m. in Sydney,
2:00 p.m. in Auckland.
Sign up here to get the link.
The event will include presentations, followed by Q&A, from these presenters:
Kamanamaikalani Beamer (Hawaii)
is the Dana Naone Hall Chair in Hawaiian Studies, Literature, and the
Environment at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. He is the author of
the award-winning No Mākou Ka Mana—Liberating the Nation and the
forthcoming Islands and Cultures: How Pacific Islands Can Influence How
We Understand the World (with Peter Vitousek and Te Maire Tau). He
previously served as executive director of the Kohala Center, director
of ‘Āina-Based Education at Kamehameha Schools, and director of Stanford
University’s First Nations Futures Institute. He is a co-founder of
ʻĀina Aloha Economic Futures.
Walden Flores Bello (Philippines) is
a Filipino academic, environmentalist, and social worker who served as a
member of the House of Representatives of the Philippines. He is an
international adjunct professor at Binghamton University, professor of
sociology and public administrationat the University of the Philippines
Diliman, and executive director of regional policy think-tank Focus on
the Global South. Bello is also the founder and chairperson of the
left-wing alliance Laban ng Masa. (lit. Struggle of the Masses)
Sung-Hee Choi (Jeju, Korea)
is a peace activist and one of the key organizers within the Jeju naval
base resistance. She works tirelessly to demilitarize Jeju. Sung-Hee is
a member of the board of advisors at the Global Network Against Weapons
and Nuclear Power in Space. In 2011 she was imprisoned for her role in
the Save Jeju effort.
Shinako Oyakawa (Okinawa)
is a native Okinawan mother, activist, writer, co-director of
Association of Comprehensive Studies for Independence of the Lew Chewans
(ACSILs) and part time lecturer of Okinawa University. She also run
after school kids programs in Naha. Shinako specializes in language
revitalization, de-militarization and de-colonization of the Ryukyu
islands. Shinako has attended UN Permanet Forum on Indigenous Issues
(UNPFII) and Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
(EMRIP) to report colonized situation of the Ryukyu islands.
Sabina Eileen Flores Perez (Guahan) is
an indigenous CHamoru educator and politician. She serves as a
Democratic senator in the Guam legislature and is a co-founder of
Prutehi Litekyan/Save Ritidian, a direct action group dedicated to the
protection of Guam's natural and cultural resources in all sites
identified for DOD live-fire training on Guam.
And Moderator:
Koohan Paik-Mander (Hawaii) is a Member of the
Board of Directors of
World BEYOND War. She grew up in postwar Korea and on the U.S.
colony of
Guam, and is a Hawaii-based journalist and media educator. She
is also a board member of the Global Network Against Weapons and
Nuclear Power in Space and part of the CODEPINK working group
“China is
Not Our Enemy.” She formerly served as campaign director of the
Asia-Pacific program at the International Forum on
Globalization. She is
co-author of The Superferry Chronicles: Hawaii’s Uprising Against Militarism, Commercialism and the Desecration of the Earth, and has written on militarism in the Asia-Pacific for The Nation, The Progressive, Foreign Policy in Focus, and other publications.
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