Sunday, 4 November
3:00 pm
Eastwind Books of Berkeley
2066 University Ave
Berkeley, CA
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INTRODUCTION : Statement on Solidarity with Palestine
Reverend Michael Yoshii – Buena Vista United Methodist Church
Asian American/ Native Hawaiian/ Pacific Islander Statement on Solidarity with Palestine
View Statement here:
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COMMENTARY :
Hatem Bazian – Lecturer Asian American Asian Diaspora Studies, UCB, co-founder Zaytuna College and author of ‘Palestine: It’s Something Colonial’
PERFORMANCE :
Poet Laureate Genny Lim, accompanied by Claude Palmer on the oud (lute)
CONVERSATION : on Asian Americans and the Academic Boycott
Sunaina Maira – US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI) author, ‘Boycott! The Academy and Justice for Palestine’
David Palumbo-Liu – US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI) and author of ‘Asian/American: Historical Crossings of a Racial Frontier’
J. Kēhaulani Kauanui (through video conference) – Professor of American Studies and chair of the American studies department at Wesleyan University. Author of ‘Hawaiian Blood: Colonialism and the Politics of Sovereignty and Indigeneity’ and the forthcoming ‘Paradoxes of Hawaiian Sovereignty: Land, Sex, and the Colonial Politics of State Nationalism.’
