Global Peace Film Festival Making Waves and Loyal American Screening

This will be a screening of two short films that both address the Asian American experience. From the birth of Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley and San Francisco State to present-day movements, Making Waves documents the stories of Asian American activism and efforts to lift up Ethnic Studies as a strategy to address present and future waves of anti-Asian hate. Loyal American tells the story of a soldier that, after Pearl Harbour, was discharged from the US Army, imprisoned, and then deported after refusing to declare "loyalty" to the US. His son retraces his father's footsteps eighty years later.