*[Enwl-eng] Choosing Water Over War

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                        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.






                        Sign 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.

                        Register and get the Zoom link for the webinar!



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