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Saturday, July 2 • 9:30am - 11:00am
Bases, Straits, and Islands: Imperialist Conflict in the Pacific

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The U.S. is carrying out a new geopolitical and military strategy in the Asia-Pacific region called the Pivot to Asia. Through this strategy, the U.S. is leading a new round of nationalism, militarization, and conflict in the region as the U.S. and its allies rally against the rise of China. This talk discusses the goals of the Pivot to Asia, what is happening in the Pacific as a result, and how it can be stopped.

Suggested Readings:
U.S. imperialism's Pivot to Asia” by Ashley Smith, International Socialist Review.

Speakers
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Khury Petersen-Smith

Khury is an activist in the ISO who lives in Boston. He has written about Black and Palestinian liberation and US empire for Socialist Worker and the International Socialist Review. He co-authored the “Black Statement of Solidarity With Palestine” in 2015, which was signed by over 1,100 Black activists, artists, and scholars... Read More →


Saturday July 2, 2016 9:30am - 11:00am CDT
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