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Peace Advocates Pivot Toward Asia and the Pacific

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Ikaika, in the middle with the green shirt, has long been associated with AFSC in Hawaii, is a leading Native Hawai’ian sovereignty and anti-bases activist.

Youn-Ae Pak (far right) is a leading spokesperson for the popular resistance to the construction of a major new, and environmentally catastrophic, military base on Jeju Island in South Korea.

Madame Yan, Vice-President of the Standing Committee of the Chinese People’s Congress and Vice President of the Chinese People’s Association for Peace and Shan Cretin AFSC General Secretary.

From left to right: John Feffer of the Institute for Policy Studies and former AFSC NEAQIAR, Woosik Cheong of the Peace Network in South Korea, Hyun Lee of the grassroots Korean-American peace and anti-bases organization Nodutol; Chen Duming Assistant Ge

Nuclear Weapons Abolition workshop: Junko Kayashige (right), a Hiroshima Hibakusha (A-Bomb Survivor) and Jackie Cabasso of the Western States Legal Foundation.

Gretchen Alther (left) is a member of the AFSC-NERO Peace & Economic Security Committee & on the staff of the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee. Chen Duming is Assistant General Secretary of the Chinese Peoples Association for Peace and Disarmament

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They came from China, Korea, Japan, Vietnam, the Philippines, Hawaii, New Zealand, and from across the US. They represented a wide variety of national interests, perspectives and struggles. They aired some differences. But they also found much common ground.

Peace in Asia and the Pacific: Alternatives to Asia-Pacific Militarization

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Friday, October 21, 2011 - 7:00pm - Saturday, October 22, 2011 - 6:00pm

Initiated by the American Friends Service Committee and the American University Nuclear Policy Institute

To register and for additional information: http://afsc.org/PeaceInAsiaPacific

The current conference agenda can be viewed here.
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Contact Information:

Joseph Gerson
(617)661-6130
jgerson@afsc.org

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