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DESCRIPTION:The city of Seattle sits at an international crossroads of cult
 ure\, politics and economics.  Her deep ports make her a natural gateway t
 o the Pacific.  Her global world view brought the World Trade Organization
  stomping down her door in 1999.  And her many industries have long drawn 
 waves of immigrants from multiple countries to work on farms\, in fisherie
 s and the booming tech industry.  Family connections spanning generations 
 have kept the city’s population tied to Pacific nations such as Hawaii\,
  the Philippines\, Japan\, China and Korea.  But like all American cities\
 , Seattle’s history of displacement and dispossession of Indigenous peop
 le and lands\, followed by the subtle and not so subtle racist policies in
 flicted on Asian American and African Americans is a legacy the city still
  struggles with.  In the late 20th Century\, Seattle’s Japanese American
  population made a unique choice leading to a vibrant and successful socia
 l justice movement.  When it came time to rally for equal rights\, legal p
 rotections and the acknowledgement of past wrongs\, the Japanese American 
 community in Seattle turned outward for support.  They built powerful coal
 itions with other minoritized communities in Seattle\, and their influence
  spread to international rights movements.  Starting with the formation of
  the Jackson Street Community Council in the 1940s-initially a group of Af
 rican American and Japanese American business owners- Japanese American ac
 tivists in Seattle positioned themselves to build cross cultural and cross
  border coalitions to strengthen front line negotiations for change.
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LOCATION:Room 105 (Seats 84)
SUMMARY:A Japanese American Activist World View:  How Activist Organization
 s in Seattle Built Cross Cultural and Cross Border Coalitions - Vera Parha
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URL:https://pretalx.com/wha-annual-meeting-korea-2026/talk/A37CPZ/
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