San Francisco, it's time to serve the people. This April 17 and 18, come up to the historic International Hotel Manilatown Center for Serve the People 2.0: Asian American Activism and Organizing for the 21st Century!. Join community organizations, students, and scholars for a two-day conversation about what's happening locally and nationally in the Asian American Movement. Here's more info:
Serve the People 2.0:Admission prices are on a sliding scale basis, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. To find out more, check out the Facebook event page.
Asian American Activism & Organizing in the 21st Century
DAY 1: Thurs 4/17 @ 6:30 - 9:30 pm
Community Social & Fundraiser
Appetizers and Drinks served
@ International Hotel (868 Kearny Street, 2 blocks from Hilton Hotel)
Sliding Scale at the Door: $5 - $20 [no one turned away for lack of funds]
Community members, students, organizers, activists, and AAAS members welcome!
Meet community activists, organizers, students, and scholars and hear about what is happening locally and nationally in the Asian American community and movement.
All proceeds go to the Southeast Asian Freedom Network’s national tour of the film Cambodian Son about the deportation of Cambodian poet Kosal Khiev, who's story illuminates issues such as immigration and deportation, incarceration, juvenile justice and art. For more info, visit:www.gofundme.com/747jsc
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DAY 2: Friday 4/18, 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Asian American Movement Symposium
@ International Hotel (868 Kearny Street, 2 blocks from Hilton Hotel)
FREE! Community members, students, organizers, activists, and AAAS members welcome!
11:00-11:30 pm: Welcome and Opening Plenary
11:30-1:00 pm: Making Power: Asian American Women’s Activism in the Bay Area
1:00-2:30 pm: We Won't Move! Lessons from the International Hotel Struggle
2:30-4:00 pm: Asian American Movement Building in the 21st Century Plenary
Panelists include: Chinese Progressive Association, Asian Pacific Environmental Network, South Asian Radical History Walking Tour, California Domestic Workers Coalition, VietUnity, PrYSM, and activists and OGs from the I-Hotel Struggle.
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HOSTED by Grassroots APIs Rising:
Chinese Progressive Association,
Asian Pacific Environmental Network,
CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities,
Vietnamese American Young Leaders of New Orleans, Providence Youth Student Movement, and
AYPAL: Building API Community Power
SPONSORED by:
Dept. of Ethnic Studies, University of Colorado Boulder; Daryl Maeda, University of Colorado Boulder;
Diane Fujino, UC Santa Barbara;
Kim Geron, CSU East Bay;
May Fu, University of San Diego