PANA Update - February 14, 2007

You are invited to join PANA on a

April 26-29, 2007
Pilgrimage to Manzanar

Led by Dr. Joanne Doi, M.M.
instructor of PSR course STHR-1395: “America’s Internment: Manzanar”

During WWII, Japanese Americans were forcibly relocated to an internment camp at Manzanar, California. A generation later, in 1969, an annual interfaith gathering began to honor the thousands of people who were imprisoned there and at the nine other similar American camps. 2007 will mark the 38th annual public pilgrimage to this remote and historic site, now a National Historic Site with a National Park Service Interpretive Center.

The PANA Institute invites you to join us in a traveling community of pilgrims to Manzanar, guided by Dr. Joanne Doi, MM, and Rev. Deborah Lee. We will travel as a group, and engage together in learning, reflection and ritual.

Departs Thursday, April 26, 2:00pm from Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, CA; returns Sunday, April 29, 5:00pm. Five additional class sessions (Tues eves, Apr 3-May 7) led by Dr. Doi are also available to deepen partcipants’ understanding and experience — see below.

Space is limited to 40. Registration deadline is Feb. 26th. Tuesday evening classes are free; pilgrimage is $200, toward three nights hotel and transportation by chartered bus. (Cost is subsidized by PANA’s Civil Liberties and Faith project.)

For more information, or to register, contact Shinya Goto or Rev. Deborah Lee at 510-849-8260.


Community Class: “Manzanar: America’s Internment”
Tuesday evenings, April 26-29, 6:30-9:30pm, plus four-day pilgrimage
Various locations, as given below

In preparation for the active participation and theological reflection on the 38th annual pilgrimage to the former WWII site of Japanese American internment at Manzanar, California (now a National Historic Site and National Park Service Interpretive Center), PANA Institute offers five open sessions to all people interested. We will examine the practice of pilgrimage and its inter-religious nature (Buddhist, Christian, Shinto folk practice with Taoist elements), identity and race in Asian American history through place and memory (social, geography, racial formation theory) and a framework for theological interpretation.

These sessions will include discussions, lectures, and films, and will be led by Dr. Joanne Doi, MM. Come join us for any or all of these Tuesday evenings, 6:30-9:30pm, at various locations as given below. (Classes are free; pilgrimage is $200.)

Session #1: 4/3/07. “Redress Reparations and Reconciliation.”
Buena Vista UMC, 2311 Buena Vista Ave., Alameda, CA 94501.
Session #2: 4/10/07. “Wounded Resurrection: Intersections and Solidarities.”,
Sycamore Congregational Church, 1111 Navelier Street, El Cerrito, CA 94530.
Session #3: 4/17/07. “Interfaith Community: Camp Life and Pilgrimage.”
Jodo Shinshu Center, 2140 Durant Street, Berkeley, CA 94704.
Session #4: 4/24/07. “Body, Memory and Ritual”
Pacific School of Religion, Mudd Bldg. room 100, 1798 Scenic Ave., Berkeley, CA 94709.
Pilgrimage: 4/26-29/07. Travel to join in public interfaith ritual with hundreds of other pilgrims.
Manzanar, California (Program, charter bus and group hotel included.)
Session #5: 5/8/07. “Return”
PANA, 2357 Le Conte Ave., Berkeley, CA 94709.

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Friday, March 2, 12:00-1:00pm
"Faith, Justice and Human Rights in the Philippines"
Ecumenical Vigil at State Capitol
Westminster Presbyterian Church, 1300 N St., Sacramento, California

This year, for World Day of Prayer, join us for ecumenical witness, prayer and action for Faith, Justice and Human Rights in the Philippines.

Prayer will begin at Westminster Presbyterian Church, 1300 N Street (at 13th Street), Sacramento, CA 95814, and conclude with a short procession to the steps of the State Capitol.

Prayer and procession will include:
* Bishop Eli Pascua, General Secretary of the United Church of Christ Philippines;
* Bishop Beverly Shamana, United Methodist Church, California Nevada Conference; and members of the
* United Methodist Fact-Finding Team, recently returned from the Philippines.

Please bring a flower for the procession to remember the 800 killed and 200 disappeared unarmed civilians (since 2001) which include pastors, farmers, students, human rights lawyers, journalists, labor leaders, and others working for economic and social justice in the Philippines. Clergy are asked to please wear clerical attire.

Sponsored by:
Presbyterian Church, U.S.A. (Sacramento Presbytery); Interfaith Service Bureau; and the Institute for Leadership Development and Study of Pacific Asian North American Religion (PANA Institute).
For more information, contact:
Rev. Larry Emery at (916) 776-6986 or
Rev. Deborah Lee at (510) 849-8260

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Saturday, March 3, 4:00-8:00 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 APIs to march in public religious support of the Gay Asian Pacific Alliance float in the San Francisco Chinese New Year parade. API clergy in robe and stole are especially encouraged to march with us.

To join our contingent or for more information, contact Elizabeth Leung

For more information about NRJ-API-LGBT:
www.nrj-api-lgbt.org
For more about the San Francisco Chinese New Year Parade:
www.chineseparade.com

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Wednesday, March 7, 5:30- 8:30 pm
Community Visit—El Sobrante Gurdwara
Led by Jaideep Singh, Visiting Scholar-in-Residence for the PANA Institute’s Civil Liberty and Faith Project, and instructor of PSR course RSHR-1070: “Presumed Guilty: Race, Religion, and the Post-9/11 Racialized State”

Join us for a visit to the gurdwara in El Sobrante, one of the oldest and most beautiful in the state. (www.mygurdwara.com) One of the founders of the gurdwara will give us a tour and describe the struggles the local Sikh American community encountered in the early days, as well as more contemporary social issues facing the community. Other speakers will address the role of women in Sikh communities and the sacred text of the Sikhs, and the rash of murders of Sikh American cab drivers in the Bay Area since September 11, 2001. Contact PANA to register.
For more information about the gurdwara:
http://www.mygurdwara.com/
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Saturday, March 24, 3:00-8:00pm
Community Visit—Masjid Al-Noor in Santa Clara
Led by Jaideep Singh, Visiting Scholar-in-Residence for the PANA Institute’s Civil Liberty and Faith Project, and instructor of PSR course RSHR-1070: “Presumed Guilty: Race, Religion, and the Post-9/11 Racialized State”

Join us for a glimpse into the lives of our Muslim American neighbors, with a visit to the largest mosque in California. We will learn about Muslim religious life, as well as social issues that concern Muslim Americans. In particular, we will discuss the effects of domestic terrorism directed at Muslims in the wake of 9/11.
Jaideep Singh is the Visiting Scholar-in-Residence for the PANA Institute’s Civil Liberty and Faith Project, and instructor of PSR course RSHR-1070: “Presumed Guilty: Race, Religion, and the Post-9/11 Racialized State”

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Spring 2007 PSR courses sponsored by PANA:

“Presumed Guilty: Race, Religion, and the Post-9/11 Racialized State” (RSHR-1070, 3.0 units)
Instructor: Jaideep Singh, Visiting Scholar-in-Residence for the PANA Institute’s Civil Liberty and Faith Project.
Weds 2:10-5:00pm, plus contextual immersion events and day-long conference.

This course examines the daily racialized realities of life for Asian Americans in the post-9/11 United States, with specific emphasis on the newly-articulated relationship between the state and various Asian American communities, especially Arab, Muslim, and South Asian Americans. Of particular interest in our analysis will be the role of religion in marking targeted Asian Americans as “other,” and the Christian-centric national discourses which continually marginalize and suppress the voices of non-Christians of color. Over the course of the semester, we will utilize lectures, textual resources, videos and films, media analysis, guest speakers and site visits to engage the complex, serious issues raised by the experiences of these communities in the wake of the terrorist attacks of 9/11.

Among the issues explored in the course will be the ominously clandestine mass detentions, disappearances and deportations in Muslim American communities; the renewedly aggressive reassertion of racial profiling in law enforcement; and the numerous errors enacted by the state and news media which exacerbated the national hate crime epidemic of historic proportions which followed the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

Students will begin the seminar by working in groups to analyze mainstream news reports in the weeks immediately following the terrorist attacks. We will then move to other primary source documents, many from community organizations working to deal with the horrors of domestic terrorism visited upon their communities in the wake of the attacks on New York City and Washington, DC. We will examine news reports, press releases by community level organizations, as well as scholarly work dealing with the hate crimes and the newly circumscribed civil liberties resulting from the passage of ostensibly anti-terrorist legislation. Students will then spend the last portion of the quarter researching a term paper on a topic of their choosing, ideally on a subject that piqued their interest during their studies during the semester.


“America’s Internment: Manzanar”
(STHR-1395, 1.5 units)
Instructor: Joanne Doi, M.M.

In preparation for the active participation and theological reflection on the 38th annual pilgrimage to the former WWII site of Japanese American internment at Manzanar, California (now a National Historic Site and National Park Service Interpretive Center), this interdisciplinary course will examine the practice of pilgrimage and its inter-religious nature (Buddhist, Christian, Shinto folk practice with Taoist elements), identity and race in Asian American history through place and memory (social, geography, racial formation theory) and a framework for theological interpretation. This PANA-sponsored course will take place in East Bay Area Japanese American churches and include community members. First meeting is April 3, 2007 from 6:30-9:30pm at Buena Vista UMC, Alameda and will meet 4/3, 4/10, 4/17, 4/27 and 5/8/07. Pilgrimage will be 4/26-4/29/07. [12 max enrollment; faculty permission required; auditors with permission of faculty.]

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Special Announcement from PANA:

Employment Opportunity at PANA

DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT
The Institute for Leadership Development and Study of Pacific and Asian North American Religion (PANA Institute)

Position:

Part-time (20 hours per week), regular staff

General Summary:

The Director of Development is responsible for the planning and implementation of all fundraising efforts for the Institute with special focus on its ongoing endowment campaign and annual fund.

Essential Responsibilities:

> Work closely with the Executive Director, staff, and steering committee to develop long- and short-range development goals and strategies, including the Institute’s ongoing endowment campaign, annual fund, and planning for strategic growth.

> Work closely with the Office of Institutional Advancement at Pacific School of Religion to ensure that all development activities meet the institution’s fiscal and legal requirements; attend regular OIA staff meetings.

> Coordinate all major fundraising activities for the Institute, including development, cultivation and solicitation of individual prospects and donors for endowment campaign and annual fund.

> Coordinate and support Executive Director and steering committee’s major gifts activities, including developing cultivation and solicitation strategies. Provide training and technical assistance to staff and volunteers participating in major gifts solicitations. Plan and produce major donor cultivation events with support of other Institute staff.

> Develop and manage donor acquisition, cultivation and retention activities, including direct mail campaign as well as other development materials (newsletters, major donor materials, etc.)., in coordination with the PSR Director of Marketing and Communication.

> Sufficient familiarity with planned giving principles to be able to incorporate these opportunities into major gift development strategies as appropriate.

> Participate as an active member of the Institute’s staff and coordinate development department activities with other staff members.

> This position may require overnight travel and occasional evening and/or weekend hours to accommodate business needs. It may require providing own transportation to off-campus locations.

Qualifications:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

> Strong interpersonal relationship skills and ability to work both independently and within a team-oriented organizational structure.

> Strong team orientation, ability to provide and accept feedback, and ability to work effectively in collaboration with diverse groups of people

> Strong verbal and written communications skills, including public speaking, negotiations, and effective, persuasive communication with diverse audiences. An ability to interact easily with individuals of high net worth.

> Four years of fundraising and development experience which include management and supervisory responsibility. Successful first-hand experience in cultivating and soliciting $10,000+ gifts required.

> Significant experience in successfully working with potential constituencies - volunteers, staff, charitable foundations and community members.

> Excellent understanding of principles and techniques of development activities, including planned giving, major donor programs, event planning, corporate and foundation giving, capital campaigns, and communications.

> Experience in public relations and marketing techniques in the non-profit environment.

> Understanding of non-profit organizational structure and management issues, including strategic planning, personnel management, community relations development and implementation, fundraising training and education, budget development.

> Innovative and entrepreneurial approach. Ability to adapt to changing environment and priorities.

> Experience working with API communities and communities of faith required.

> Demonstrated skill in MS Word, PowerPoint, and Excel. Skill with relational databases (including Raiser’s Edge) preferred.

> Experience working in a non-profit setting desirable, but not required.

> Bachelor’s degree required.

> Person of faith with active connections to a faith community desirable.

Application Process:

Please submit a resume and letter of application addressing specifically the qualifications of this position to:

Debi Walker, Personnel Director
or Fumitaka Matsuoka, Executive Director PANA Institute
Pacific School of Religion
1798 Scenic Ave, Berkeley CA 94709
FAX: 510.845.8948

Applications received by February 9, 2007 will receive first consideration.
The position will remain open until filled.

PSR is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer
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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