Purge of Palestinian Supporters Continues; & Part 2 of Korea Peace Now Campaigns

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Ryna Workman

NYU Law Student Ryna Workman

Purge of Palestinian Supporters Continues

Our guest for this segment is Ryna Workman (they/them), a law student, organizer, and student leader at NYU School of Law. From South Carolina to New York, Ryna has focused their work on organizing students to be involved in liberation efforts within both the university setting and their local communities, uniting struggles for reproductive justice, Black liberation, LGBTQ+ justice, Palestinian liberation, and disability justice.

Workman was the president of the New York University Law School student bar association, in their last year of law school with an offer of employment at a large Chicago law firm when in early October 2023 they sent an internal email to other NYU Law students supporting Palestinian resistance and condemning the Israeli attack on Gaza. In that email they did not refer to the October 7 attack on Israel in which Hamas militants killed 1200+ people living near the Gaza border.

Subsequently, the NYU Law student body voted 700+ to 400+ to remove them from  presidency of the student bar association and the Chicago firm publicly rescinded their job offer to Workman. Ryna later reported receiving weeks of racist, transphobic and queerphobic messages. This kind of punishment for outspoken support of Palestinian liberation has become commonplace as the Israeli genocide against Palestinians continues. Workman discusses their personal ordeal as well as the political implications of this particular form of censorship.
 
 
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Part 2 of Korea Peace Now

On Tuesday's program we'll bring you part two of our interview with Korea Peace Now New York/New Jersey chapter co-chairs Kelly Yumni Choi and Young Sun Han; in the first segment, we discussed the Korea Peace Now campaign for a Congressional resolution calling for a formal peace treaty to end the Korean War as well as the homophobia and transphobia that gay men and trans women face in the South Korean military; in the second segment, Young Sun Han will discuss the challenges of generating support for a comprehensive and lasting peace in Korea from the queer community in Korea as well as queer Korean Americans and we will be talking with both chapter co-chairs Young Sun and Kelly about the geopolitical implications of South Korea's neocolonial status as a satellite state of the American imperium. We will also be discussing the challenges of organizing for peace in a Korean American community dominated by right-wing anti-Communist Christian fundamentalist churches.

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