Register now @ http://aasa.stanford.edu! The Stanford Asian American Students' Association (AASA) would like to invite you to come and attend the 11th Annual Listen to the Silence Asian American community issues conference. This annual event brings in hundreds of high school and college students from around the nation, as well as community activists throughout California. The conference aims to empower Asian American students to take direct action to improve their communities and work towards social justice.
This theme for this year, One World, One Struggle, reflects the importance and necessity of understanding the interconnection of issues faced by people of color across the globe. The struggle in our Asian American community is the same one around the world. Only if we are united can we bring about equality and dignity to people everywhere: one world, one struggle.
Keynote Speaker
This year's conference features a keynote speech by Pam Tau Lee. Pam Tau Lee has been a lifelong environmental and labor activist who has helped the build the labor and environmental justice movements through grassroots organizing, community-based research and the founding of the Asian Pacific Environmental Network and the Chinese Progressive Association. Currently, Pam Tau Lee is the Coordinator of Public Programs at the Labor Occupational Health Program at UC Berkeley where she does research and training in occupational health. There is also an optional action during the conference, during which we will demonstrate our support for the Chinese Progressive Association's Sew Local Campaign by encouraging Gap Inc. to create more local garment jobs for low-income immigrants.
Workshops
Workshops this year aim to educate participants on community issues, building organizing skills, and facilitating connections between activists and students to fight for progressive social change. Workshop topics for this year include:
Organizing Asian Immigrant Communities ~ Gentrification
Kick Ass High School Youth Making Change in Their Communities
Trade and Migration ~ Bargain with Misery — What is Globalization
LGBT Issues in a Global Context ~ Global Sweatshops
and much more!
Concert
Each year the conference is followed by an exciting evening concert featuring Asian American hip-hop, spoken word, and other talented artists. Be on the lookout for talented performances by Magnetic North, Delicious Venom, Stanford Spoken Word and more....