DATE: Wednesday, June 9, 9 p.m. (EDT)
REGISTRATION: http://bit.ly/APElites
State foreign and military policies don’t necessarily represent the interests of a nation’s people. In the push-pull between ties with China and the United States, the foreign and military policies of countries in the region often are powerfully influenced by the financial and trade ambitions of their elites. The results often are to the detriment of their people, and increase military tensions and the dangers of war. The recently launched Asia‐Pacific Working Group will host a webinar providing background and analysis of the influence that Asia‐Pacific elites have had on money and trade, and foreign and military policies in the region.
Featured speakers will be:
Youkyoung Ko is a consultant for Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) and women‐led Korea Peace Now! Campaign, and a standing executive committee member of the Korea Peace Appeal Campaign. She is an expert on impacts of the US‐ROK alliance and US military presence in South Korea.
Brian Hioe is a founding editor of New Bloom and a freelance writer on social movements and politics. A New York native and Taiwanese‐American, he has an MA in East Asian Languages and Cultures from Columbia University and graduated from New York University with majors in History, East Asian Studies, and English Literature and a former Democracy and Human Rights Service Fellow at the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy.
Andrew Lichterman is a policy analyst and lawyer with the Oakland, California based Western States Legal Foundation and a member of the Coordinating Committee of United for Peace and Justice. As a lawyer, Mr. Lichterman has represented peace and environmental activists in a variety of settings and writes about the politics of disarmament efforts and the relationship between disarmament work and other social movements.
