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We Keep Us Safe Training

Communities • February 8, 2023 • By 18MR Staff

Join us for We Keep Us Safe, a community safety training on February 15th at 1PM PT/ 4PM ET. You’ll learn from Kalaya’an Mendoza (he/they) of Nonviolent Peaceforce, an award-winning facilitator of holistic safety and security. He has inspired, trained, and mobilized thousands of activists in the US and abroad.…

Remembrance as Resistance: ‘Comfort Women’ and the U.S. Pivot to Asia

Communities • June 27, 2016 • By 18MR Staff

Image: The author (center) holds an image of Zainichi Korean “Comfort Woman” survivor Song Shing-do halmoni, with Yuri Kochiyama (bottom right) at a 2005 protest in front of the Japanese Consulate in San Francisco. Also pictured: renowned Zainichi human rights activist Shin Sugok and Zainichi scholar of Ethnic Studies Kyunghee…