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The UCLA Asian American Studies Center presents, in conjunction with UCSB Asian American Studies Department, UC Davis Asian American Studies Department and other co-sponsors*:
Contemporary Asian American Activism: Building Movements for Liberation
An Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Webinar Series based on the new book edited by Diane C. Fujino and Robyn Magalit Rodriguez
Fridays in May 2022, 12 Noon to 1:00PM
In the struggles for prison abolition, global anti-imperialism, immigrant rights, affordable housing, environmental justice, fair labor, and more, twenty-first-century Asian American activists are speaking out and standing up to systems of oppression. Bringing together grassroots organizers and scholar-activists, Contemporary Asian American Activism presents lived experiences of the fight for transformative justice and offers lessons to ensure the longevity and sustainability of organizing and inspire continued mobilization for coming generations. Join us every Friday in May for our webinar series featuring organizers, researchers, and contributors to the book.
On the book series: https://www.aasc.
For more information on the book: https://
FRIDAY, MAY 6, 2022 12 Noon - 1:00 PM
SESSION 1: INCARCERATIONS, DISPLACEMENTS, AND TRANSFORMATIONS
Registration: https://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/
Introduction and Moderation: Robyn Magalit Rodriguez and Diane C. Fujino
Prison-to-Leadership Pipeline: Asian American Prisoner Activism
Eddy Zheng
Ho‘opono Mamo and Restorative Practices: Reflections on Scholar Activism in Juvenile Justice Systems Change
Karen Umemoto
The Streets of SoMa: Building Community amid Displacement in San Francisco
Angelica Cabande, with Katherine Nasol
FRIDAY, MAY 13, 2022 12 Noon - 1:00 PM
SESSION 2: INTERNATIONALISM AND LOCAL STRUGGLES
Registration: https://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/
Introduction and Moderation: Robyn Magalit Rodriguez and Diane C. Fujino
Dismantling the “Undocumented Korean Box”: Race, Education, and Undocumented Korean Immigrant Activism for Liberation
Ga Young Chung
Drivers on the Front Lines: The New York Taxi Workers Alliance, Neoliberalism, and Global Pandemic—An Interview with Javaid Tariq
Diane C. Fujino
BAYAN USA: Filipino Transnational Radical Activism in the United States in the Twenty-First Century
Jessica Antonio
FRIDAY, MAY 20, 2022 12 Noon - 1:00 PM
SESSION 3: POLITICAL EDUCATION AND RADICAL PEDAGOGY
Registration: https://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/
Introduction and Moderation: Robyn Magalit Rodriguez and Diane C. Fujino
Political Education as Revolutionary Praxis
May C. Fu
“Organizing Wherever Your Feet Land”: Reconceptualizing Writing and Writing Instruction in the Legacy of Asian American Activism
Katherine H. Lee
How Does It Feel to Be on the Precipice? ChangeLab, A Racial Justice Experiment
Soya Jung
FRIDAY, MAY 27, 2022 12 Noon - 1:00 PM
SESSION 4: ON MOVEMENT BUILDING: SHAPED BY THE PAST, CREATING NEW FUTURES
Registration: https://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/
Introduction and Moderation: Robyn Magalit Rodriguez and Diane C. Fujino
On Movement Praxis in the Era of Trumpism
Alex T. Tom
“Pete Wilson Trying to See Us All Broke”: Asian American Cross-Racial Student Activism in 1990s California
Robyn Magalit Rodriguez, with Wayne Jopanda
The Struggle to Abolish Environmental and Economic Racism: Asian Radical Imagining from the Homeland to the Front Line
Pam Tau Lee
Closing: Radical Love for a New Generation
Robyn Magalit Rodriguez
*Cosponsors:
UCLA Asian American Studies Center
UCLA Asian American Studies Department
UCSB Asian American Studies Department
UC Davis Bulosan Center for Filipinx Studies
UC Davis Asian American Studies
CSU San Marcos Ethnic Studies Program
University of San Diego Ethnic Studies Department
About the Book
Contemporary Asian American Activism: Building Movements for Liberation
Edited by Diane C. Fujino and Robyn Magalit Rodriguez
In the struggles for prison abolition, global anti-imperialism, immigrant rights, affordable housing, environmental justice, fair labor, and more, twenty-first-century Asian American activists are speaking out and standing up to systems of oppression. Creating emancipatory futures requires collective action and reciprocal relationships that are nurtured over time and forged through cross-racial solidarity and intergenerational connections, leading to a range of on-the-ground experiences.
Bringing together grassroots organizers and scholar-activists, Contemporary Asian American Activism presents lived experiences of the fight for transformative justice and offers lessons to ensure the longevity and sustainability of organizing. In the face of imperialism, white supremacy, racial capitalism, heteropatriarchy, ableism, and more, the contributors celebrate victories and assess failures, reflect on the trials of activist life, critically examine long-term movement building, and inspire continued mobilization for coming generations.
More information: https://asianamericanactivism.
Purchase Links:
● University of Washington Press:
https://uwapress.uw.edu/book/
● Eastwind Books of Berkeley: https://www.asiabookcenter.