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      • Forum 1.1 // On Peer Review, Introduction
      • Forum 1.2 // On Peer Review, by Marissa J. Moorman (Radical History Review)
      • Forum 1.3 // On Peer Review, by Rocío Zambrana (Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy)
      • Forum 1.4 // On Peer Review, by Andrew Dilts (Abolition Journal Collective)
      • Forum 1.5 // The Precarity of Peer Review, by Eli Thorkelson (precarious ethnographer)
    • Mauna Kea
      • Forum 2 // Enduring Hawaiian Sovereignty : Protecting the Sacred at Mauna Kea, Introduction by J. Kehaulani Kauanui
      • Forum 2.1 // For Mauna Kea to Live, TMT Must Leave, by David Uahikeaikalei‘ohu Maile
      • Forum 2.2 // In Ceremony and Struggle: The Lāhui at Puʻuhonua o Puʻuhuluhulu, by Iokepa Casumbal-Salazar
      • Forum 2.3 // Stop TMT: Bearing Witness to the Decolonial Change the World Has Long Needed, by Dean Itsuji Saranillio
      • Forum 2.4 // Ke Mau Nei Nō Ke Ea O Ka ʻĀina I Ka Pono, by Noenoe K. Silva
    • The Border is the Crisis
      • Forum 3.1 // Four Things You Need to Know About the Border by Lisa Sun-Hee Park
      • Forum 3.2 // The Racist, Sexist, Classist, and Homophobic Past of the “Public Charge” Clause by Julio Capó, Jr.
      • Forum 3.3 // On Common Ground: Concentration Camps in the ‘Home of the Free’ at the Southwest Border and in History by Hana C. Maruyama
      • Forum 3.4 // ‘3 Mexican Countries’: When All Latin American Migrants Become Mexicans by David Hernández
      • Forum 3.5 // #Microsyllabus: Immigration Enforcement and the U.S.-Mexico Border
    • From Carr to Classroom
      • Forum 4 // From Carr to Classroom : Pursuing Historical Knowledge in the Shadow of the Confederacy
      • Forum 4.1 // Where do we study history?
      • Forum 4.2 // Carr, the Confederacy, and Conversations Ongoing
      • Forum 4.3 // Renaming the Carr Building and its Role in the Discussion of Race-Based Issues
      • Forum 4.4 // Confessions of a White Moderate
      • Forum 4.5 // The Past is for the Living
    • White Terror, “Red” Island: A People’s Archive of the Jeju 4.3 Uprising and Massacre
      • Forum 5.2 // Literature of Memory Struggle
      • Forum 5.3 // Reiterations of Dissent
      • Forum 5.4 // Early Cold War Genocide: The Jeju 4.3 Massacre and U.S. Responsibility
      • Forum 5.5 // Silent Wounds of Jeju 4.3
      • Forum 5.6 // “So Many Stories You Never Heard”: An Inheritance of Loss (an interview with Dohee Lee)
      • Forum 5.7 // Over 5,000 Days of Resistance: An Interview with Anti-base Activist Choi Sung-hee on the Gangjeong and Jeju Struggle for Peace
      • Forum 5.8// Sangsuwon (The Origin of Water), HOBAK Jeju Solidarity zine #1
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Month: April 2021

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Forum 5.8// Sangsuwon (The Origin of Water), HOBAK Jeju Solidarity zine #1

April 6, 2021 0

By HOBAK (Hella Organized Bay Area Koreans) Sangsuwon, a project of HOBAK (Hella Organized Bay Area Koreans), was a collaborative 2013 effort to show solidarity…

Choi Sung-hee in the Bijarim-ro forest, 2020. If the second airport, which people suspect to be an air force base, is built in eastern Jeju, this forest will be greatly destroyed as the adjacent road, which would lead to the airport, will be expanded. Photo by Oh Young-chul. Featured

Forum 5.7 // Over 5,000 Days of Resistance: An Interview with Anti-base Activist Choi Sung-hee on the Gangjeong and Jeju Struggle for Peace

April 5, 2021 0

Interview by Christine Hong Christine Hong: Sung-hee, you were at the heart of the International Solidarity Committee, tirelessly calling attention to the plight of the…

Dangkuel. Photo provided by Dohee Lee. Featured

Forum 5.6 // “So Many Stories You Never Heard”: An Inheritance of Loss (an interview with Dohee Lee)

April 5, 2021 0

In this 2015 interview for the Legacies of the Korean War oral history project, Dohee Lee, a Bay area-based, Jeju-born artist whose music and dance…

"Unnamed Monument” at Jeju 4.3 Memorial Park, (by Lee Dong Hyun, the Jeju 4.3 Research Institute) Featured

Forum 5.5 // Silent Wounds of Jeju 4.3

April 5, 2021 0

By Youjoung (Yuna) Kim The first object that visitors see when they enter the Jeju 4.3 (Sasam)[i] Memorial Park is a white memorial stone lying…

U.S. military operational map of Jeju circa the 4.3 uprising and genocide Featured

Forum 5.4 // Early Cold War Genocide: The Jeju 4.3 Massacre and U.S. Responsibility

April 5, 2021 0

By Kim Jongmin The “Jeju 4.3 Incident” occurred during the administration of the United States Army Military Government in Korea (USAMGIK) when the United States…

Featured

Forum 5.3 // Reiterations of Dissent

April 5, 2021 0

By Jane Jin Kaisen The excerpt from “Ghosts,” the first video in Jane Jin Kaisen’s 8-channel video installation Reiterations of Dissent (2011/16), begins with the…

Evacuation on May 10, 1948, the day of the national election. Featured

Forum 5.2 // Literature of Memory Struggle

April 5, 2021 0

By Hyun Ki-young Many writers have unbearably painful or tragic memories of their youth and choose to become writers as if ordained by fate. Such…

Entitled “Released after 60 years,” this work by Jeju artist Koh Gil-chun is a charcoal rubbing of clothes excavated from a mass grave of islanders killed during Sasam. Source: the Jeju 4.3 Peace Foundation Featured

Forum 5.1 // White Terror, “Red” Island: A People’s Archive of the Jeju 4.3 Uprising and Massacre

April 5, 2021 0

By Christine Hong Introduction: Jeju Sasam as Deimperializing Korean War History The anticolonial Swedish writer, Sven Lindqvist, once remarked that to Americans, the Korean War…

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  • Forum 5.8// Sangsuwon (The Origin of Water), HOBAK Jeju Solidarity zine #1
  • Forum 5.7 // Over 5,000 Days of Resistance: An Interview with Anti-base Activist Choi Sung-hee on the Gangjeong and Jeju Struggle for Peace
  • Forum 5.6 // “So Many Stories You Never Heard”: An Inheritance of Loss (an interview with Dohee Lee)
  • Forum 5.5 // Silent Wounds of Jeju 4.3
  • Forum 5.4 // Early Cold War Genocide: The Jeju 4.3 Massacre and U.S. Responsibility

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