Claiming Our Shared Histories and Struggles: Radical Solidarities in the Kochiyama Archives celebrates the launch of the Yuri and Bill Kochiyama Papers at Columbia University’s Rare Books & Manuscripts Library. Claiming our Shared Histories and Struggles will be a 3-day interdisciplinary conference (May 16-18) featuring presentations, panels and performances, access to the Kochiyama Papers and community-building opportunities. 

Focusing on some of the richest areas of the Yuri and Bill Kochiyama Papers (including Yuri's work with organizations and movements for Black, Asian, Latino, and indigenous peoples’ liberation, human rights, reparations and against war, imperialism and the prison industrial complex over the last half of the 20th century), Claiming our Shared Histories and Struggles will enable students, educators, activists, artists and community organizers to engage with examples of radical solidarity movements and struggles for liberation past and present and also to connect, share and learn about each other’s work.