Women have been in the forefront of organizing, resistance, and insistence on self-determination and sovereignty. This panel deals with the specifics of women’s participation, organizing, and leadership for all such movements forming in response to American occupation.
Featured Panelists:
Noelani Goodyear Kaʻōpua, Hawaiʻi
Mary Therese Hattori, Guåhan and the Pacific Sam Ikehara, Hawaiʻi, the Pacific, the Philippines
Moderator: Vina Lanzona
The 1898 Project is a two-day summit of leading scholars and activists on American imperialism from Hawaiʻi, Guåhan, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico; the how and why, its effects, and what can be done now and in the future to cope, heal, and decolonize.