ManSee Kong
Template:TOCnestleft ManSee Kong aka ManSee Kgong, CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities, an an independent filmmaker who creates films/videos to support grassroots organizing and social movements. She is currently completing her MFA in Writing/Directing at NYU's Graduate Film Program.
ManSee Kong challenges the gentrification of New York’s Chinatown through youth and tenant organizing and creates films that expose the struggles and beauty of underrepresented communities, while completing an MFA at Tisch/NYU.
CEEP Delegation to China Report Back
A China Education and Exposure Program delegation went to China December 2013.
- The rise of China as a global economic force implementing a capitalist agenda in the past decade – and the massive, bottom up resistance of workers and peasants to the exploitation that has accompanied it -- demands that leftists in the US develop an analysis on China that is grounded in current conditions. In 2013, a delegation of Chinese American organizers went to China to learn about organizing efforts in Mainland China. The culmination of conversations with more than 10 organizations in China organizing around labor, environmental justice, women's rights, and queer issues opened up space for us to put forth the following questions: In China, what are the conditions people are organizing against? What are people fighting for? What is the nature of anti-capitalist struggle and the social justice movement in China? How have the State and Capitalists responded? And lastly, what role do we play in the US in supporting people's struggles in China?
Chair/Facilitator: Helena Wong
Speakers/Co-Facilitators:
Left Forum 2014
People’s Struggles in Asia: Challenges, Opportunities and Solidarity People’s movements in the Third World have always been at the forefront of the fight against neoliberal globalization. With the U.S.'s growing military presence in Asia, the Middle East, and the Pacific region, it is important for Leftists in the US to understand what the material conditions faced by people are on the ground in Asia, and to identify sites of solidarity here in the United States.
Chair/Facilitator: Wai Yee Poon
Speakers/Co-Facilitators:
Freedom Road meeting
Spring 2015, the New York/New Jersey District of Freedom Road Socialist Organization sponsored a forum entitled “Ferguson: The Movement So Far and Lessons for Coming Struggles.” The first speaker was "our comrade", Montague Simmons, Chair of the legendary Organization for Black Struggle in St. Louis.[1]
The meeting was held 39 Eldridge St,New York, 19 March 2015. Organized by Eric Odell.
A Discussion with Montague Simmons Chair of the Organization for Black Struggle – St. Louis and labor organizer
Loyda Colon Co-Director of the Justice Committee, a Latina/Latino-led organization dedicated to building a movement against police violence and systemic racism in New York City
- Speaking for the first time in NYC since the police murder of Michael Brown, the chair of OBS, which played a major role in the Ferguson protests, discusses the new strategies, organizational forms and social forces that emerged there, and how the movement was sustained. Loyda Colon will reflect on the Justice Committee’s work organizing with families directly impacted by police violence, and will share their thoughts on the current movement in NYC.
- Together they will share their thoughts on key questions for the movements against police abuse that are erupting around the country. How do we hold together broad united fronts with different generations, cultures, classes and political perspectives? What’s the role of anti-capitalists and socialists? What kind of policing reforms do we want and how do they relate to other issues in our communities, and to radical social transformation?[2]
Those signalling their intention to attend on Wherevent included John McCarthy, Juliet Ucelli, Betty Yu, Lily Defriend, Wai Yee Poon, David Unger, Matthew Tinker, Ryan Briles, Enbion Micah Aan, Erick Moreno, Terry Marshall, Jesse Baboo, Daniel Tasripin, Anton Han Kiang, Starlitekid Cosmos, Clayton Nino Brown, Miguel Marrero-Bermudez, Joy Schulman, Jeanne D. Shaw, Mark Swier, Stephanie Zukasaka, Denise Chupacabral, Anne Mitchell, Emma Pliskin, Oriana Roeckraeyer, Lara Shepard-Blue, Karly Safar, Robina Rai, ManSee Kong, Teresa Basilio, Aisha Shillingford, Adriana Cruz, Ofie Virtucio, Rivka Paradis, Katrina Cortes, Sharice Richards.[3]
References
References
- ↑ FRSO, An In-Depth Look at the Ferguson Eruption: Organization for Black Struggle Leader Lays It Out Posted on Thursday August 13th, 2015 by FRSO/OSCL
- ↑ [http://www.wherevent.com/detail/Eric-Odell-Ferguson-The-Movement-So-Far-and-Lessons-for-Coming-Struggles Whereevent, Activities New York / Description A Discussion with Montague Simmons]
- ↑ Wherevent, A Discussion with Montague Simmons