07/12/2026
🏔️ Mount Tai Solidarity Reportback
📆 Sunday, July 19
🕐 11am-2pm PT
📍 Hybrid: In-person at Douglass Truth Library, Seattle or online on Zoom
🔗 Register: https://tinyurl.com/japanreportback (link in bio)
ℹ️ Masks are required outside of eating/drinking for Seattle in-person. Food/refreshments will be served!
This past year, members of Haebang Collective, Koreans 4 Decolonization, and Nikkei Vancouver 4 Justice joined together to organize a delegation to Japan. In May, we went on this life-changing “Mount Tai Solidarity Trip,” which is named in reference to the 1944 “Serve the People” speech by revolutionary Mao Zedong.
As anti-imperialist organizations, we realized the importance of cultivating international solidarity and people-to-people exchange with our comrades resisting Japan’s ongoing remilitarization for increasing U.S.-led war in the Pacific. We were also able to grow our relationships with multiple generations of Zainichi Koreans — whose families were forcibly brought from Korea to Japan as forced laborers during Japan’s colonization of Korea.
At this reportback event, we will share our learnings to the community through a hybrid presentation with a panel discussion. We encourage you to come and learn about topics including:
- The ways antiwar organizers in Japan are reaching the masses amid rising fascist movements
- Japan’s ongoing refusal to acknowledge and atone for its war crimes during its colonial era, and how this manifests in public memory
- The history of Zainichi Koreans, including woori (“our”) Korean schools, and the systemic discrimination they face from Japan
- Japan’s colonization of Okinawa and attempts to erase Okinawan cultural identity
- Resistance by Henoko and Takae villages against the devastating human and ecological impact of U.S. military bases in Okinawa
- B**g B**g Marcos’ visit with Sanae Takaichi to discuss an arms deal between the Philippines and Japan as leaders who are steadfast accomplices of U.S. imperialism in Asia
..and more! Comment what you are excited to learn about, and we hope to see you there!
