KOREA, VIETNAM, AND AFRO-AMERICA:
Our Shared Struggle for Peace & Democracy

A one-day event striving to present to a whole generation the opportunity to learn of and inherit the great traditions of the Asian anti-colonial struggles and the Black Freedom Movement for a better future.

9:30 - 10:00 AM

Arrival

10:15 AM

WELCOMING REMARKS

10:25 AM

WHY WE NEED THE ANTI-COLONIAL MOVEMENT AND BLACK FREEDOM MOVEMENT
Panel on the great revolutionary heritage we have in the anti-colonial movements of Asia and the Black Freedom Movement, and how these histories can be the foundation for building a better future.

11:45 AM

SCREENING OF MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.'S "BEYOND VIETNAM: A TIME TO BREAK SILENCE"
Followed by a presentation by Dr. Anthony Monteiro, Du Boisian scholar and founder of the Saturday Free School for Philosophy & Black Liberation

1:00 PM

LUNCH PROVIDED

2:00 PM

DIALOGUE ON AFRO-ASIAN UNITY
On education in this city and how a generation of youth across racial and cultural boundaries can see themselves as brothers and sisters, and be instilled with the drive to fight for the world that Martin Luther King Jr. envisioned in his idea of the “World House."

Featuring Catherine Blunt, retired principal and teacher and community activist; Pastor Tae-Hoo Lee, founder of Uber Street Summer Camp and pastor in North Philadelphia; and Brother Gregory Muhammad, Student NOI Prison Reform Ministry Coordinator, Delaware Valley Region

3:30 PM

HOW IMMIGRANTS CAN STAND UP TO THE WAR AGENDA
Panel on our common destiny for peace, and how this destiny is obscured by those in power. We will discuss how immigrants can stand up to the war agenda and struggle for peace and true democracy.

5:00 PM

CULTURAL PERFORMANCES
​Khmer Performing Arts and Culture — Traditional Cambodian dance Robam Chun Por
Meghna Chandra — Poetry Reading of Amrita Pritam on Ho Chi Minh
Korean School of Southern New Jersey — Drumming and Dance Performances

6:00 PM

End of program