Asian American Authors on War and Peace Date is scheduled on Sunday, March 23, 2003 Sunday at Eastwind Books of Berkeley 2066 University Ave. Berkeley , California. This event is free and open to the public. Authors Helen Zia, Roshni Rustomji-Kerns, and Jeff Chang discuss their views on the current questions of war and peace since September 11, 2001. The authors read from their essays in Asian Americans on War and Peace, published by the UCLA Asian American Studies Center Press, 2002. Asians Americans on War and Peace is the first book to respond to the events of September 11, 2001 from Asian American perspectives, written from the vantage point of those whose lives and communities in America have been forged by both war and peace. Twenty-four scholars, writers, activists, and legal scholars have written for this collection. Together, their voices reveal how Asians, Asian Americans, South Asians, Arabs, and others view the future of the planet in relation to the events of both yesterday and today. They join others who continue to question both the ongoing crisis of the American presence in the Middle East, and the concurrent crisis of civil liberties and democracy in the United States. Helen Zia is the author of Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People, and co-author of My Country Versus Me: The Story of Dr. Wen Ho Lee. Roshni Rustomji-Kerns has lived in India, Pakistan, Lebanon, the U.S. and Mexico. She is Professor Emeritus at Sonoma State University and currently a visiting scholar at the Center for Latin American Studies at Stanford University. She is coeditor of Blood Into Ink: South Asian and Middle Eastern Women Write War, editor of Living in America: Poetry and Pose by South Asian Writers in America, and Encounters: Peoples of Asian Descent in the Americas. Her new novel will be released soon in March. Jeff Chang is author of Can't Stop, Won't Stop: A Political and Cultural History of the Hip-Hop Generation. He is a graduate of the Asian American Studies M.A. program at UCLA. Helen Toribio was born in the Philippines and raised in Hawaii. She was an activist in the anti-martial law movement in the '70s & '80s. Helen is instructor of Asian American Studies at City College of San Francisco and SF State; as well as contributing writer in Asian American studies publications, and editor of Seven Card Stud with Seven Manangs Wild. Loan Dao is active in Asian Pacific Islander Force which is campaigning against post 9/11 deportations of Southeast Asians. She is a graduate student of Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley.