{"id":3217,"date":"2022-04-26T10:41:04","date_gmt":"2022-04-26T14:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/koreapeacenow.org\/?p=3217"},"modified":"2022-08-31T15:41:53","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T19:41:53","slug":"april-2022-newsletter-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/koreapeacenow.org\/april-2022-newsletter-2\/","title":{"rendered":"TODAY: Join us for &#8220;LIFTing Voices for Peace: Korean American Authors on the Un-Ended Korean War&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today at 7:30pm ET\/4:30pm PT, join us for \u201c<strong>LIFTing Voices for Peace: Korean American Authors on the Un-Ended Korean War<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Writers Grace M. Cho and Gary Pak will share their work and engage in a conversation about separated families, the traumas of war, and the importance of lifting the ban on travel to North Korea.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/us06web.zoom.us\/webinar\/register\/WN_evejCkp_S_-HrzYJ3JDczA\"><strong>HERE<\/strong><\/a><strong> to register.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/us06web.zoom.us\/webinar\/register\/WN_evejCkp_S_-HrzYJ3JDczA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 1080px;\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/can2-prod.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/data\/000\/654\/754\/original\/LIFT_April_26_flyer.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" align=\"\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Grace Cho,<\/strong> who most recently is the Winner of the 2022 Asian\/Pacific American Award in Literature, was a \u00a0Finalist for the 2021 National Book Award for Nonfiction, and whose book <em>Tastes Like War<\/em> was A TIME and NPR Best Book of the Year in 2021. She is a professor of sociology at CUNY; her previous book, <em>Haunting the Korean Diaspora<\/em>, was published in 2008 and she is an active scholar.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gary Pak <\/strong>was a professor of English at the University of Hawaii until his recent retirement. He is the author of many works, including <em>The Watcher of Waipuna and Other Stories<\/em>, <em>A Ricepaper Airplane<\/em>, <em>Children of a Fireland<\/em>, L<em>anguage of the Geckos and Other Stories<\/em>, <em>Brothers Under a Same Sky<\/em>, <em>Chon-go Ma-bi \/ High Sky, <\/em>and<em> Horse Fattening: Essays on Contemporary Korean Culture<\/em>. He co-edited <em>Yobo: Korean American Writing in Hawai\u2018i<\/em> (Bamboo Ridge Press, 2003). He has published a children\u2019s play, <em>Beyond the Falls<\/em>, which was produced by the Honolulu Theater for Youth in 2001.<\/p>\n<p>This event is hosted by LIFT (Let Individuals Freely Travel), a campaign to reinstate the long-standing US policy that allowed US citizens to travel freely to the Democratic People\u2019s Republic of Korea (aka North Korea). The LIFT campaign is a joint initiative of the Korea Peace Network, the Korea Peace Now! Grassroots Network, and Peace Treaty Now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today at 7:30pm ET\/4:30pm PT, join us for \u201cLIFTing Voices for Peace: Korean American Authors on the Un-Ended Korean War.\u201d Writers Grace M. Cho and Gary Pak will share their work and engage in a conversation about separated families, the traumas of war, and the importance of lifting the ban on travel to North Korea. 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