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.
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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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