Sandra Oh reads Yuri Kochiyama

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Voices of a People's History of the United States

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1. Thanks for this, domou arigatou gozaimashita!

K&R Adding this to the Asian group.

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5. Not Just A 'Black Thing': An Asian-American's Bond With Malcolm X

I found this wonderful lady when I was doing more research on Malcolm X.




More: NPR

The brief friendship of Malcolm X and Yuri Kochiyama began close to 50 years ago with a handshake.

Diane Fujino, chairwoman of the Asian-American studies department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, details the moment in her biography Heartbeat of Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Yuri Kochiyama.

Kochiyama and her eldest son, 16-year-old Billy, were arrested along with hundreds of other people, mainly African-Americans, during a protest in Brooklyn, N.Y., in October 1963.

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8. Thanks!

omoshiroi desune!, Interesting, I will explore it further.

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2. More.

BOOK TALK: Howard Zinn - You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train- A People's History
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Hiroshima, War, Patriotism, Civil Rights and American Exceptionalism. An intimate interview with historian Howard Zinn.

FEATURE FILM: Howard Zinn- You Can't Be Neutral On A Moving Train
Published on Jan 3, 2014
Cinedigm

In these turbulent times, Howard Zinn is inspiring a new generation. This acclaimed film looks at the amazing life of the renowned historian, activist and author of the landmark book 'A People's History of the United States', an eye-opening history from the perspective of the disenfranchised. Following his early days as a shipyard labor organizer and bombardier in World War II, Zinn became an academic rebel and leader of civil disobedience in a time of institutionalized racism and war. His influential writings shine light on and bring voice to factory workers, immigrant laborers, African Americans, Native Americans and the working poor. Featuring rare archival materials and interviews with Zinn and colleagues such as Noam Chomsky, You Can't Be Neutral captures the essence of this extraordinary man who has been a catalyst for progressive change for more than 60 years. Narrated by Matt Damon; Featuring Music by Pearl Jam, Woody Guthrie & Billy Bragg.

Release date
2004
Running time
1:17:33

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6. Whoa...thank you for sharing.

I'm going to bookmark this and read it later. Thankyou!

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3. Thank you Stellar

What else is missing from our history books?

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4. Beautifully read!

This story and horrific event(s) is yet another HUGE reason why, NEVER TRUMP

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7. she supported Shining Path, Mao , and Bin Laden, so no thanks

http://www.vox.com/2016/5/19/11713686/yuri-kochiyama

Two positions of Kochiyama's stand out as particularly alarming. First, she was an enthusiastic supporter of the Peruvian terrorist group Shining Path, a Maoist organization that has conducted a brutal insurgency killing tens of thousands of people since 1980. Peru's Truth and Reconciliation Commission found that Shining Path personally killed or disappeared at least 30,000.

"Its tactics include the burning of ballot boxes and the public 'executions' of moderate local leaders and others, including nuns and priests, who are seen as rivals for the allegiance of the poor," according to a 1992 New York Times report. "In wildly exaggerated demonstrations of Maoist precepts, children have been killed for political 'crimes.' Amnesty International says the guerrillas routinely torture, mutilate and murder captives."

"We reject and condemn human rights because they are reactionary, counter-revolutionary, bourgeois rights," founder Abimael Guzmán declared in one document. "Rather than concentrate its attacks on the armed forces or police, Shining Path has predominantly singled out civilians," Human Rights Watch noted in 1997. "The Shining Path has pragmatically avoided taking captives unless it intends to execute them … Shining Path has been reported to torture captured civilians before executing them." Shining Path also used rape as a weapon of war.

This did not appear to bother Kochiyama, who joined a delegation to Peru organized by the Maoist Revolutionary Communist Party, which defends the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution. She read, in her words, "the kind of reading materials that I could become 'educated' on the real situation in Peru; not the slanted reports of corporate America. The more I read, the more I came to completely support the revolution in Peru." In other words, she read, and believed, Maoist propaganda denying Shining Path's war crimes.

After her return from Peru, she declared, "What has been taking place in both Peru and the US is a serious campaign to discredit Guzmán and the Shining Path movement, tainting them as terrorists, undermining their struggle with lies, isolating them, and intimidating anyone who might support them."

Yuri Kochiyama declared Osama bin Laden "one of the people that I admire".................


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9. I like Sandra OH and Malcolm X...

...anybody involved with those two can't be all bad, just misunderstood.

LOL...but thank you for sharing the link. I'll get back to it later.

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