Crossings | Women Cross DMZ: Leaders, Activists
Clip: Season 6 Episode 4 | 1mVideo has Closed Captions
The extraordinary women activists and leaders of Women Cross DMZ.
Meet the activists and leaders of Women Cross DMZ, an organization for peace and reunification of the Korean peninsula. Executive director Christine Ahn, Gloria Steinem, Vana Kim Hansen, Kozue Akibayashi, Netsai Mushonga and other extraordinary women from around the world gather together to do a peace walk across the DMZ in 2015 with the power and influence of a women's movement in their minds.
Funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Additional funding provided by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the Wyncote Foundation.
Crossings | Women Cross DMZ: Leaders, Activists
Clip: Season 6 Episode 4 | 1mVideo has Closed Captions
Meet the activists and leaders of Women Cross DMZ, an organization for peace and reunification of the Korean peninsula. Executive director Christine Ahn, Gloria Steinem, Vana Kim Hansen, Kozue Akibayashi, Netsai Mushonga and other extraordinary women from around the world gather together to do a peace walk across the DMZ in 2015 with the power and influence of a women's movement in their minds.
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Korean name is Vana, Kim Vana.
Our family has been divided and spread all over the world because of the division.
I am the third generation working for peaceful reunification.
KOZUE AKIBAYASHI: My name is Kozue Akibayashi.
I'm from Japan.
I think it's very important for a Japanese citizen to be here, because the origin of the division of the Korean peninsula goes back to 100 years ago when Japan colonized Korea.
GLORIA STEINEM: I hope this is the beginning of an era in which people will no longer think of the women's movement as a silo over here, but will understand that it's connected to everything.
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