PANA Update - Bishop Eli Pasqua speaks, Feb. 13, 2007

Tuesday, February 13, 5:00-6:30 pm
Bishop Eli Pasqua: General Secretary of the United Church of Christ
in the Philippines (UCCP)
Pacific School of Religion Chapel, 1798 Scenic Ave, Berkeley, CA 94709

Pacific School of Religion President William McKinney and the PANA Institute invite you to a presentation by, and reception for, Bishop Eli Pasqua General Secretary of the United Church of Christ in the Philippines (UCCP). Bishop Pasqua will address the human rights violations and political killings of clergy, journalists, human rights workers and activists in the Philippines.

Human rights monitoring groups report 787 unarmed citizens killed and 187 disappeared in the last five years under incumbent President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, numbers higher than during the Marcos era. Twenty-seven Christian clergy and church workers belonging to the United Church of Christ Philippines, United Methodist Church, Philippine Independent Church, and Roman Catholic Church have been killed, most notably Supreme Bishop Alberto Ramento who was assassinated in October, 2006.

Numerous church bodies, including the General Synod of the United Church of Christ, the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church U.S.A., and the Northern-California- Nevada Conference of the United Methodist Church, have already issued resolutions or statements condemning the killings and calling for investigations. Come find out why this is happening and what you can do for justice.

Please RSVP for the reception here

Parking is available in the PSR lot, on Scenic Ave. near the corner of Virginia St.

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Other upcoming events:

Wednesday, January 31, 7:00 pm
Film screening: “Divided We Fall: Americans in the Aftermath”
Written and produced by Valerie Kaur. Directed and produced by Sharat Raju.
UC Berkeley campus - 2040 Life Sciences Building (LSB)
$5.00; or free with any valid student ID
(Every dollar raised will go back into film production.)

PANA Institute’s project on Civil Liberties and Faith presents the screening of Divided We Fall, a film about the untold American story in the aftermath of 9/11. It is a moving story that brings us to the intersections of violence, identity, and power in America, and forces us to confront where we stand as a people. Valarie Kaur was twenty years old when she got in her car and began driving across the country. A man from her community had just been murdered. An elderly man nearly beaten to death. A woman stabbed in the head. Fragments of these stories sent across e-mail lists were not making the nightly news, only the towers falling over and over again between headshots of turbaned and bearded Osama bin Laden. As a Sikh American college student, Valarie wanted to reconcile the two faces of America— the unity of a grieving nation and the fear dividing her country. At the end of September 2001, she left behind her junior year and began a journey across the country, looking for the heart of America. Award-winning director Sharat Raju and his team joined Valarie Kaur in 2004 to create the footage into a feature-length documentary. The crew retraced Valarie's steps in summer 2005 in a second phase of production on 16mm film and interviewed again the people Valarie first met in 2001. The team has created a film that explores what it means to be American five years in the aftermath.

For more information about the film:
http://www.dwf-film.com/

Sponsored by:
PANA Institute, UC Berkeley Sikh Students Association, Gurdwara Sahib, El Sobrante, and the Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund (SALDEF).

Sunday, January 28, 1:15-3:15pm
Community Reception for Carolyn Ho, mother of Lt. Ehren Watada
Cameron House, 920 Sacramento St., San Francisco, CA
Carolyn Ho will speak at Presbyterian Church in Chinatown at 12 noon, and a public community reception will follow at Cameron House, one block away. Hosted by APIs Resist! and the Lt. Ehren Watada Support Committee.
For more information about Lt. Watada:
http://www.thankyoult.org


Friday, February 9, 12:00 pm
“Embodying the Invisible: In Search of the Asian Pacific American Self.”
PANA Offices, 2357 LeConte Ave., Berkeley, CA
A Brown Bag Talk with Dr. Rachel Bundang on her 2006 dissertation.

This presentation draws from an ongoing project to articulate an ethics of method for constructive feminist theologies that address Asian/Pacific American (APA) women’s cultural realities and religious experiences. It challenges assumptions about the liberative intent and capacity of feminist theologies and ethnic studies both. This work has been deemed “groundbreaking” and “foundational” scholarship in feminist religious studies, addressing questions of religious pluralism, theological understanding of the self, and the formation of a moral community.

Tuesday, February 13, 5:00-6:30 pm
Bishop Eli Pasqua: General Secretary of the United Church of Christ in the Philippines (UCCP)
Pacific School of Religion Chapel, 1798 Scenic Ave, Berkeley, CA 94709

Pacific School of Religion President William McKinney and the PANA Institute invite you to a presentation by, and reception for, Bishop Eli Pasqua General Secretary of the United Church of Christ in the Philippines (UCCP). Bishop Pasqua will address the human rights violations and political killings of clergy, journalists, human rights workers and activists in the Philippines.

Human rights monitoring groups report 787 unarmed citizens killed and 187 disappeared in the last five years under incumbent President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, numbers higher than during the Marcos era. Twenty-seven Christian clergy and church workers belonging to the United Church of Christ Philippines, United Methodist Church, Philippine Independent Church, and Roman Catholic Church have been killed, most notably Supreme Bishop Alberto Ramento who was assassinated in October, 2006.

Numerous church bodies, including the General Synod of the United Church of Christ, the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church U.S.A., and the Northern-California- Nevada Conference of the United Methodist Church, have already issued resolutions or statements condemning the killings and calling for investigations. Come find out why this is happening and what you can do for justice.

Please RSVP for the reception: pana2@psr.edu
Parking is available in the PSR lot, on Scenic Ave. near the corner of Virginia St.

Friday, March 2
World Day of Prayer – Vigil at State Capitol in Sacramento on Philippines Human Rights

Saturday, March 3, 6:00 pm
Network on Religion and Justice for API LGBTs – Chinese New Year Parade contingent
San Francisco, CA
The Network on Religion and Justice for Asian American and Pacific Islander Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender People (NRJ-API-LGBT), of which PANA is a coordinating member, is sponsoring a contingent of API religious people to march in public support of the the Gay Asian Pacific Alliance float in the the San Francisco Chinese New Year parade. API clergy are especially encouraged to march with us.
For more information about NRJ-API-LGBT:
http://www.clgs.org/api
For more about the San Francisco Chinese New Year Parade:
http://www.chineseparade.com

Saturday, March 10
Sikh Community Immersion
Meet with local Sikh American community and religious service visit to the El Sobrante Gurdwara. Led by Jaideep Singh, Visiting Scholar-in-Residence for the PANA Institute’s Civil Liberty and Faith Project.
http://www.mygurdwara.com/

Apr 27-29
Manzanar pilgrimage

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PANA Institute
The Institute for Leadership Development and Study of
Pacific and Asian North American Religion
http://pana.psr.edu
Sharon Hwang Colligan, Administrative Assistant
(510) 849-8244