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Our Seattle event got some great articles written about it, so proud of my community for being loud and visible in our fight to protect everyone targeted by fascism www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

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Seattle Tacoma, we will be rallying outside the Northwest Detention Center on Sunday! Is the constant barrage of fascism getting to you? One way to feel better is to get involved with the fight!! We need more people, especially in Tacoma, to join us, not just on Sunday but for the long haul!

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“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist” James Baldwin

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Wild revelation I had when coming off a red eye flight: Is the Electoral College actually a form of DEI? Giving rural voters more “unmerited” value than a city vote for the sake of including their voice?

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Thank you for photographing Frank! Grateful that so many showed up for this DOR, I truly hope we lived up to the fighting spirit of the very first DOR

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#DayofRemembrance in Seattle. Kudos to @frankabe.bsky.social, who captured and described the event so perfectly.

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This Day of Remembrance at Chiyo's Garden in Seattle felt different from all those previous. At the first DOR we created here in 1978, we were 2,000 Nikkei strong in remembering the camps and standing for redress with our families. 1/

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Our #DayofRemembrance list compiles books from our long history of publishing on Japanese American incarceration. Visit our blog for more:

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For great explanation of why terminology matters so much see @denshoproject.bsky.social 's densho.org/terminology/. And shouting out excellent work from @frankabe.bsky.social & @tamikonimura.bsky.social that add to this excellent collection of works on America's WWII concentration camps.

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Such an important list of titles from UW Press. Not one of their releases—it was published by Penguin—but I'm currently reading The Literature of Japanese Incarceration, edited by @frankabe.bsky.social and Floyd Cheung. The final selection in the book is entitled "Never Again is Now."

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Cherry Kinoshita was incarcerated at Puyallup and Minidoka during WWII, and went on to become a JACL leader. In this clip, she describes the very first #DayOfRemembrance in 1978 when 2,200 people caravanned from Seattle to the site of the Puyallup Assembly Center. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RXN...

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And for more about resistance within the concentration camps where these 100k US citizens of Japanese descent ended up, see the work of @frankabe.bsky.social especially (and keep an eye out for work from @tamikonimura.bsky.social, too!)

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PODCAST: in which I vent, not just about the Pike Place Market backing out of the Day of Remembrance, but more broadly about the need for schools, libraries, and public agencies to resist pressure to erase history and the experience of people of color. VIA SOUNDCLOUD: soundcloud.com/cascadeofhis...

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In Seattle I'll speak with host Feliks Banel, Sunday at 8:00 pm on his “Cascade of History” broadcast about the Pike Place Market knuckling under to fear and backing out of a planned Day of Remembrance event. Tune in to SPACE 101.1 FM in Seattle, podcast to follow. www.space101fm.org/program/casc...

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""An event commemorating the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II and calling attention to President Donald Trump’s immigration policies was canceled by Pike Place Market less than two weeks before the scheduled event."

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Former Seattle City Councilmember John Okamoto has held the Pike Place Market Fdn @pikeplacemarketfdn.bsky.social to account for signaling fear and accommodation to the new regime. "They issued an apology," he says, "but not specifying what is ahead.” pikeplacemarketfoundation.org/2025/02/13/o...

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Thanks @aliyemarie.bsky.social for this tip: Write to the Pike Place Market Foundation to object to the cancelling of the Day of Remembrance event.

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Wow. This kind of cowardice is why we need a Day of Remembrance in the first place.

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Cowardly: "We subsequently learned more about the proposed resistance event messaging. We then concluded that this portion of the event did not align with the Market Foundation’s purpose as a social service organization, and we are no longer able to participate,” said Patricia Gray.

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At least KING 5 News got an answer out of the Pike Place Market Foundation @pikeplacemarketfdn.bsky.social. They're scared and bending a knee. See their statement: www.king5.com/article/news...

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Thanks Mukai Farm & Garden for screening our film for the Vashon Island DOR. It's more timely than ever. Sunday, Feb. 23, 2:00-4:00 pm. "It is a story of resistance that can help inform our thinking about how to protect human rights today." mukaifarmandgarden.org/events/annua...

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Encyclopædia Britannica will continue to use ‘Gulf of Mexico’ for a few reasons: -We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S. -The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous. 🧵⬇️

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Shame on Pike Place Market. Remember, anyone worried about federal funding, it’s “fuck you, make me,” not “cancel event about internment abruptly with no explanation.” In this time period? With mass deportations? I’ll be karening about this. White Seattleites, I hope you’ll join me.

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Ugh, this decision to cancel a Day of Remembrance event is such an infuriating example of complying in advance. And one that echoes how so many white folks stood by and said nothing when their Japanese American neighbors, coworkers, and friends were being rounded up.

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Tsuru for Solidarity had been working with the Pike Place Market on a Day of Remembrance event where they could apologize for kicking out the 70% of their workers who were Nikkei in 1942, while also committing to protect their vendors today. They informed us on Friday that they were cancelling on us

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Is this true, Pike Place Market Foundation? Explain this cancellation. @pikeplacemarketfdn.bsky.social

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What the fuck. Shame on the Market for cowardice.

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At Cabaret yesterday, Cliff said his line “…if you’re not against all this then you’re for it. Or you might as well be”. The audience interrupted the scene to applaud that line so strongly it stopped the show. Doing a show about the onset of fascism right now is. . . chilling.

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Today I'm trying to dig up info about Roy Uenishi. He was from Seattle and became a Star rank Boy Scout at the Minidoka prison camp in 1943. His sister, much later spoke about "the fragility of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights" and felt every bears responsibility to prevent a repeat.

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Save the date. The title sounds polite, but I expect this to be a hard-hitting two-day conference, organized by Chizu Omori in partnership with JAMPilgrimages, on how we are reframing the narrative around Tule Lake and the trap in WW2 of voluntary renunciation and self-deportation. 1/

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Thanks to Riya Rao of The Baldwin School for this interview about "We Hereby Refuse" that we did last summer for "Comics for Change," a graphic narrative collective she founded in Pennsylvania to promote visual storytelling by youth to create a better world. www.comicsforchange.org/interviews/f...

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It's been a while since I've been as shattered by the writing in a play as I was by "Blues for an Alabama Sky" by Pearl Cleage. The power of the play had audiences at the Seattle Rep gasping at the final turn. The play opens tomorrow and runs for three weeks, go see it.

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A packed house in Seattle to launch "Criminals," Ben Masaoka's novel of a postwar Japanese American family published by @propellerbooks.bsky.social of Portland. Ben felt a connection with novelist John Okada, and we could hear it in our readings today of Ben's work. resisters.com/2025/02/02/c...

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I'm pleased to support this year's Nichi Bei Foundation Films of Remembrance film fest by moderating the Q&A in San Jose on Sunday, Feb. 23, following three films on camp resistance screening at 4:15 pm. Get tickets to all the venues in four cities at 2025.filmsofremembrance.org

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Our reading assignments are set. Come down this Sunday 2/2 at 2:00 pm to mam's books in Seattle Chinatown to learn about a Seattle author you've never heard of before and his novel from @propellerbooks.bsky.social and his admiration for the work of John Okada. There will be food! Catered by Sophon.

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