This summer 2014, my sisters in Affirm Gabnet, SF Bay Area Chapter will launch the Yuri Kochiyama Childrens School for Political Activism. I asked Yuri, “How do I do this? How do I live a political life with motherhood?” I was exhausted, but Yuri made it seem so easy. “This,” she said, gesturing to my daughter in her lap, “is what you do. You just take your daughter everywhere, like I did with my kids – protests, rallies, long late-night planning meetings. We take our children with us and they grow up to be good people, people who care about the community. And she will learn what kind of woman her mother is by watching you work in the movement.”
Posted on: Tue, 03 Jun 2014 18:08:56 +0000