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Purge of Palestinian Supporters Continues; & Part 2 of Korea Peace Now Campaigns
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Tune into Out-FM on Tues., February 6, 2023 from 8:00-9:00 pm EST, on 99.5 FM WBAI/NY
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NYU Law Student Ryna Workman
Purge of Palestinian Supporters Continues
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body voted 700+ to 400+ to remove them from presidency of the student bar association and the Chicago firm publicly rescinded their job offer to Workman.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.
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.
Hashtags:
#KoreaPeaceNow, #OneCorea, #한국 #조선, #625전쟁, #한국전쟁
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Korea Peace Now: Queer Perspectives on the Cold War in Korea; & Facebook and the Censorship of Palestine Solidarity On-Line
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Tune into Out-FM on Tues., January 30, 2023 from 8:00-9:00 pm EST, on 99.5 FM WBAI/NY
or listen live at https://www.wbai.org/
Press Play button to stream, or green download buttons below - to download the sound file of the promo, or the program sound file.
Korea Peace Now: Queer Perspectives on the Cold War in Korea
On Tuesday's program we'll play part one of a two-part series on Korea. Out-FM's Pauline Park is interviewing the co-chairs of the New York/ New Jersey chapter of Korea Peace Now. Kelly Yunmi Choi and Young Sun Han will discuss the work of Korea Peace Now in advancing a Congressional resolution calling for a formal peace treaty to end the Korean War as the first step to bringing about the peaceful reunification of the Korean peninsula. For more information go to https://koreapeacenow.org/ or email them at: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. They can be found on X (Twitter) at @KoreaPeaceNow on Instagram at @koreapeacenow or Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/koreapeacenow
See Pauline Park's essay, "Theodore Roosevelt, Taft-Kaitsura & the Betrayal of the Korean People"
Hashtags:
#KoreaPeaceNow, #OneCorea, #한국 #조선, #625전쟁, #한국전쟁
Guests:
Yunmi Choi (Korea Peace Now)
Young Sun Han (Korea Peace Now)
Music:
"The Worker of Steel" (South Korean labor union song)
"Arirang" (Korean folk song)
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Facebook and the Censorship of Palestine Solidarity On-Line
Also on Tuesday's show, Out-FM's Pauline Park and Naomi Brussel will discuss the Intercept's exclusive report on Facebook's secret rules used to limit and even silence Palestinians and Palestine solidarity activists as well as the insidious censorship of support for Palestine that is becoming pervasive both on-line and off-line, including on college campuses in the United States and abroad.
For Pauline Park's essay on Facebook Censors Palestine https://paulinepark.com/2023/08/28/facebook-censors-palestine/