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TPP & Jeju Island A primer on the TPP: TPP’ing on the American people The videos of our Fall Dinner program, “Focus on the Pacific—Pacific Pivot and the TPP (Trans Pacific ‘Partnership’), What are they and what shall we do about them?” (see below for details) are ready for viewing! Click HERE. “Focus on the Pacific—Pacific Pivot and the TPP (Trans Pacific “Partnership”), What are they and what shall we do about them?” Guest speakers Victor Menotti & Christine Hong Mr. Menotti and Ms. Hong addressed the planned economic “trade deals” being pushed through Congress and the expansion of the U.S. military into many countries bordering the Pacific Ocean –– particularly on the island Jeju and the community resistance there to a major U.S. military base promoted by the South Korean government.
Ecumenical Peace Institute/Clergy and Laity Concerned is an interfaith organization originally founded to raise the voice of the faith community in opposing the Vietnam War. We continue to work to oppose “the giant triplets of racism, materialism and militarism,”* the foundation upon which empire is built. * Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 1967 Victor Menotti was International Forum on Globalization’s first employee upon its founding in 1994 and in 2009 became its Executive Director. Victor has written and spoken extensively about the impact of globalization on ecosystems, and he has helped build international networks among the traditional farming, forest, fishing, and indigenous communities whose survival depends on them. See www.ifg.org/*victor for his writings and other work. Christine Hong is an Executive Board Member of the Korea Policy Institute and is Assistant Professor of Literature at UC Santa Cruz. She is a member of the coordinating committee of the National Campaign to End the Korean War, the steering committee of the Alliance of Scholars Concerned about Korea, and the Working Group on Peace and Demilitarization in Asia and the Pacific. Professor Hong’s current book project is “Blurring the Color Line: Racial Fictions, Militarized Humanity, and the Pax Americana in the Pacific Rim.” Both were speakers at the recent Moana Nui 2013 Conference in Berkeley. For information and the dramatic story of Jeju Island, and why it is crucial to support their struggle, please visit: http://savejejunow.org/ Benjamin Monnet (France) With you in spirit A picture of solidarity for the Peace March. A message of harmony between mineral, vegetal and animal, are humans catching it? Gangjeong villagers, Someday they’ll have to accept, Benjari
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Part II & III: Professor Christine Hong, who works with the National Campaign to End the Korean War, speaks on the history of U.S./Korean relations.
