Upcoming Events
EastSide’s Community Archive Resource Project presents..
FREE THE LAND! "BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY"
Selections from EastSide’s Community Archive Resource Project
Thu, Mar 21- May 18
EastSide Arts Alliance:: Theater Gallery
2277 International Blvd. Oakland
Open Hours: Open during events and public programs; and by appointment. Please reach out to Roberto Martinez at roberto@eastsideartsalliance.org
In solidarity with the ongoing struggle for Palestinian Liberation, this exhibition presents a selection of artworks, political posters and documents from EastSide’s Community Archival Resource Project (CARP) that speak to the revolutionary spirit for liberation.
Free the Land! By Any Means Necessary! shares a historic perspective on local and global movements for self-respect, self-defense and self-determination. From liberation movements abroad in South Africa, Angola, Hawaii, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, to liberation movements at home, from the Black Panther Party, the Chicano Movement, American Indian Movement, to the Young Lords and I Wor Kuen, the materials in this exhibition share how the ongoing struggle for the liberation of Palestine is a shared struggle against imperialism, colonialism and white supremacy.
When land is stolen and liberty and self-determination is denied to the people, the words of Malcom X ring loud, “ ...We want freedom by any means necessary. We want justice by any means necessary. We want equality by any means necessary.”
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Malcolm X, 28 June 1964, Speech at the founding rally of the Organization of Afro-American Unity.
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The Bridges Yuri Built:: How Yuri Kochiyama Marched Across Movements
Reading + Discussion
Sat, May 4
1pm reading with Kai Naima Williams for kids
Bandung Books
2289 International Blvd. Oakland
2pm Discussion with author, Kai Naima Williams
EastSide Cultural Center
2277 International Blvd. Oakland
The Bridges Yuri Built: How Yuri Kochiyama Marched Across Movements
(Kaepernick Publishing)
By Kai Naima Williams; Illustrated by Anastasia Magloire Williams
The debut children's picture book of author Kai Naima Williams – great-granddaughter of Yuri Kochiyama – intimately chronicles the experiences and lessons, hardships and victories, and people and places that shaped Yuri’s life and influenced her activism.
Recurring Events
Community Events
Corky Lee's Asian America:: Fifty Years of Photographic Justice
Sun, May 19
Oakland Asian Cultural Center
388 Ninth Street. Oakland
Corky Lee’s Asian America: Fifty Years of Photographic Justice
(Penguin Random House)
Photographs by Corky Lee; Edited by Chee Wang Ng and Mae Ngai
Soon to be released (April 2024) retrospective of the life’s work of late photojournalist Corky Lee; features the best photographs from his vast collection featuring Asian American and Pacific Islander communities for fifty years, from his start in New York’s Chinatown in the 1970s to his coverage of diverse Asian American communities across the country until his untimely passing in 2021.