Japanese Americans speak up for Muslim Americans
SAN JOSE, Calif. — “A monetary sum and words alone cannot restore lost years or erase painful memories. Neither can they fully convey our nation’s resolve to rectify injustice and to uphold the rights...
View ArticleWe will fight back in defense of our communities
As Donald Trump’s presidency barely passed its one-month mark, Trump has launched profound threats against immigrants and refugees, our human rights, and our climate. In the face of his hateful and...
View ArticleCalifornia chief justice on the right side of history
We applaud Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye of the California Supreme Court for taking a strong position against the Immigration and Customs Enforcement practice of stalking undocumented immigrants in...
View ArticleNikkei standing up
Friends, Since the election of Donald Trump, I hope that you’ve taken some action to stand up and show your resistance to his racist, misogynistic and hateful statements and actions like the travel...
View ArticleCarl Takei shares family memories of incarceration during World War II
Seventy-five years ago, President Franklin Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066. While the order avoided naming any particular ethnic group, the president and his advisers intended it to target...
View ArticleThe unintended consequences of hate
This story was reported using data from ProPublica’s Documenting Hate Project. This project is collecting reports to create a national database of hate crimes and bias incidents for use by journalists...
View ArticleSupporters of Muslim Americans outnumber Muslim haters
On a bright and windy morning last Saturday (June 10), Esther and Neal, a middle-aged couple, drove 60 miles from Richmond to San Jose to express their solidarity with Muslim Americans. They were...
View ArticleOkinawa Americans demand halt of U.S. military base construction
We, people with ancestral ties to Okinawa living in the United States of America, demand the immediate halting of new U.S. military base construction at Henoko, Okinawa. This demand is presented to...
View ArticleNY DOR on the 75th anniversary of EO9066: Never again!
Editor’s Note: The following is a speech made at the 2017 New York Day of Remembrance. Imagine your family immigrated to this country. (That would include most of us). And please imagine that your...
View ArticleJapanese Americans speak up for Muslim Americans
SAN JOSE, Calif. — “A monetary sum and words alone cannot restore lost years or erase painful memories. Neither can they fully convey our nation’s resolve to rectify injustice and to uphold the rights...
View ArticleWe will fight back in defense of our communities
As Donald Trump’s presidency barely passed its one-month mark, Trump has launched profound threats against immigrants and refugees, our human rights, and our climate. In the face of his hateful and...
View ArticleCalifornia chief justice on the right side of history
We applaud Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye of the California Supreme Court for taking a strong position against the Immigration and Customs Enforcement practice of stalking undocumented immigrants in...
View ArticleNikkei standing up
Friends, Since the election of Donald Trump, I hope that you’ve taken some action to stand up and show your resistance to his racist, misogynistic and hateful statements and actions like the travel...
View ArticleCarl Takei shares family memories of incarceration during World War II
Seventy-five years ago, President Franklin Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066. While the order avoided naming any particular ethnic group, the president and his advisers intended it to target...
View ArticleThe unintended consequences of hate
This story was reported using data from ProPublica’s Documenting Hate Project. This project is collecting reports to create a national database of hate crimes and bias incidents for use by journalists...
View ArticleSupporters of Muslim Americans outnumber Muslim haters
On a bright and windy morning last Saturday (June 10), Esther and Neal, a middle-aged couple, drove 60 miles from Richmond to San Jose to express their solidarity with Muslim Americans. They were...
View ArticleContributing to Japan’s ‘moral salvation’
THE QUESTION BEGS ITSELF: How does a fourth-generation Japanese American justify on the one hand writing very critical things about the current Japanese government and about Japan’s WWII Fascist...
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Mom power
THANKS, MOM — Mothers, such as Marion Shigekuni, pass on the lessons they learned to the next generation that they themselves learned from their mothers. courtesy of Laurie Shigekuni The most valuable...
View ArticleImpeachment and Japanese Americans
Because our history and psyches have been forever scorched by the wartime incarceration of our community by our own government, Japanese Americans know how fragile our Constitutional rights are. We...
View ArticleForgive and go on together
(Editor’s Note: The following essay won “Best in Class, 5th Grade” in the Growing Up Asian in America contest, sponsored by the Asian Pacific Fund. For all winning entries, visit...
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