2012 Los Angeles Day Of Remembrance Program Details Announced
February 6, 2012 Leave a Comment
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LOS ANGELES — The Day of Remembrance, scheduled for Saturday, February 18, 2:00 PM, at the Japanese American National Museum (JANM) in Los Angeles, is an annual community event that marks the anniversary of the signing of Executive Order 9066 by President Roosevelt on February 19, 1942. That order led to the forced removal of thousands of people of Japanese ancestry from their homes and businesses on the West Coast and parts of Hawai`i. It ultimately led to the unlawful mass incarceration in domestic concentration camps of 120,000, two-thirds American-born citizens. Read more of this post
National Defense Authorization Act: Nikkei Community Must Redouble Efforts To Defend Constitutional Rights
January 25, 2012 Leave a Comment
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Manzanar Committee Co-Chair Bruce Embrey, shown here during the
42nd Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage
on April 30, 2011.
Photo: Gann Matsuda
LOS ANGELES — President Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) on December 31, 2011, allowing indefinite detention without charge or trial to be codified into law. As a result, Americans citizens and others could be subjected to imprisonment without ever being charged or convicted of a crime. This provision of the NDAA denigrates the very foundations of this country, and undermines the Bill of Rights. Without question, it threatens the very foundation of our democracy.
Seventy years ago, 110,000 members of the Japanese American (Nikkei) community, our families and friends, were subjected to imprisonment without ever being charged by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, when he signed Executive Order 9066. The Nikkei community was denied habeas corpus, rounded up by the United States military and incarcerated behind barbed wire in desolate places.
Indeed, indefinite detention is an indelible part of our experience. In this sense, the Nikkei community is part of the democratic conscience of the United States. Read more of this post
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