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SUMMARY:Conversations with Authors: Senator Mazie K. Hirono (Online Event)
DESCRIPTION:From Mazie Hirono\, the first Asian-American woman and the only immigrant serving in the U.S. Senate\, the intimate and inspiring story of how a girl born in rural Japan went on to become “a hero on the left” (The Washington Post)—and of the mother whose courageous choices made her journey possible \nMazie Hirono is one of the most fiercely outspoken Democrats in Congress\, but her journey to the U.S. Senate was far from likely. Raised poor on her family’s rice farm in rural Japan\, Hirono was seven years old when her mother left her abusive husband and sailed with her two elder children to the United States\, crossing the Pacific in steerage in search of a better life. Though the girl then known as “Keiko” did not speak English when she entered school in Hawaii\, she would go on to hold state and national office\, winning election to the U.S. Senate in 2012. \nThis intimate and inspiring memoir traces her remarkable life from her upbringing in Hawaii\, where the family first lived in a single room in a Honolulu boarding house while her mother worked two jobs to keep them afloat; to her emergence as a highly effective legislator whose determination to help the most vulnerable was grounded in her own experiences of economic insecurity\, lack of healthcare access\, and family separation. Finally\, it chronicles her evolution from dogged yet soft-spoken public servant into the fiery critic and advocate we know her as today. \nFor the vast majority of Mazie Hirono’s five decades in public service\, even as she fought for the causes she believed in\, she strove to remain polite and reserved. Steeped in the non-confrontational cultures of Japan and Hawaii\, and aware of the expectation that women in politics should never show an excess of emotion\, she had schooled herself to bite her tongue\, even as her male colleagues continually underestimated her. After the 2016 election\, however\, it was clear that she could moderate herself no longer. In the face of an autocratic administration\, Hirono was called to at last give voice to the fire that had always been inside her. \nThe moving and galvanizing account of a woman coming into her own power over the course of a lifetime in public service\, and of the mother who encouraged her immigrant daughter’s dreams\, Heart of Fire is the story of a uniquely American journey\, written by one of those fighting hardest to ensure that a story like hers is still possible. \nSenator Mazie K. Hirono is a graduate of the University of Hawaii\, Manoa and the Georgetown University Law Center. She has served in the Hawaii House of Representatives (1981-1994)\, as Hawaii’s lieutenant governor (1994-2002)\, and in the U.S. House of Representatives (2006-2013). She became Hawaii’s first female senator in 2013\, winning reelection in 2018. Hirono serves on the Committee on the Judiciary\, the Committee on Armed Services\, and the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources\, among others.
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SUMMARY:See No Stranger: A Radical Vision for Mending our World
DESCRIPTION:This is the book we have been waiting for. It calls us up and calls us into the hard and necessary work to heal our wounds and reimagine the world. —Van Jones \nThe Festival’s opening event\, free to all\, is a clarion call to heal America and our own hearts. The United States\, lauded in its national anthem as “the land of the free and the home of the brave\,” continues to be plagued by endless gun violence\, police murders of unarmed Black people\, threats to democracy\, and hatred of “the other”… with an alarming increase in targeted anti-Asian attacks in the past year\, too. Ever since her Sikh family friend was shot after 9/11\, attorney and activist Valarie Kaur\, the daughter of Sikh farmers in Central California\, has achieved crucial policy change on multiple fronts\, including hate crimes\, racial profiling\, immigration detention\, and solitary confinement. Now she targets hatred itself. Her TED Talk on that topic has garnered more than three million views. \nYou can see Valarie live\, and ask your questions\, as she’s interviewed by Mother Jones race and justice reporter Jamilah King about Kaur’s book See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love\, that expands on that blockbuster TED talk. The book has been praised by visionaries across the progressive spectrum\, from Eve Ensler to Reza Aslan. The New Jim Crow author Michelle Alexander called it “inspirational\, radical…  a reliable moral compass.” What is this “revolutionary love”? It’s far “more than a rush of feeling\,” Kaur says. “Love is fierce labor.” Discover just what this kind of love is and how you too can “be the change you want to see\,” as Gandhi\, and now this powerful woman\, call us to do. \nYou can submit questions when you register\, and we’ll also take questions live during the event. \nRegister Here\n\nFree of charge\, but you must register to receive the viewing link.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/see-no-stranger-a-radical-vision-for-mending-our-world/
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