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JACL is hiring for the position of full-time business manager and part business assistant for immediate hire. To view the position descriptions click the following links: Business Manager Business Assistant To apply for either position, please send a detailed resume with a cover letter summarizing your qualifications as well as your interest in the position and JACL to jobs@jacl.org. Please send any questions about this posting also to jobs@jacl.org. |
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NP & NCRR Presents: Reparations Then! Reparations Now! CWRIC 40th Anniversary Event |
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For Japanese Americans nationwide and in Los Angeles, this August marks two life-changing events in our history. It is the 40th anniversary of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians (CWRIC), which held hearings in cities across the country in 1981, including in Los Angeles on Aug. 4-6, and it is the anniversary of our community winning redress with the signing of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 on Aug. 10. Join NP and NCRR for a virtual program to commemorate the anniversary of the CWRIC hearings and the passage of the 1988 Civil Liberties Act, which granted reparations for the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II.
NP and NCRR will be joined by leaders of N’COBRA and the HR 40 Coalition who are committed to supporting the demand of Black-led organizations for the passage of HR 40, a commission to study the harms of slavery and to propose reparations. |
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JANM Author Discussion—When Can We Go Back to America? with Susan Kamei |
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Saturday, September 25th - 2:00-3:30pm PDT In this virtual program, Susan H. Kamei will discuss her new book, When Can We Go Back to America?: Voices of Japanese American Incarceration during WWII, and the lessons that she hopes readers of all ages will take from it. She will be joined in conversation by William A. Darity Jr., Samuel DuBois Cook Distinguished Professor of Public Policy at Duke University, and A. Kirsten Mullen, writer, folklorist, museum consultant, and lecturer. This program is presented in partnership with the Japanese American Citizens League and the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University. JACL members should email publicprograms@janm.org with the subject line "JACL tickets - When Can We Go Back to America?" to receive FREE admission to the program. Zoom information will be sent directly to all who register. |
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The Japanese American Experience Curriculum and Resource Guide: An Ed-Camp Style Teacher Training from JACL National Education Committee |
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Centennial Education Fund and "Our League of Dreams - Documentary of the JACL" |
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Centennial Education Fund On Friday, July 16, JACL Vice President for Planning and Development and past National President, David Lin, launched the JACL Centennial Education Fund to raise $3 million for JACL. Upon the campaign launch, David Lin stated, “It is my distinct honor and privilege to lead the JACL Centennial Education Fund campaign. We will raise the much-needed funds to sustain the JACL in furthering its mission to educate Americans about the tragic lessons of Japanese American incarceration during World War II, and in envisioning the next 100 years of civil rights in America, so future generations of Americans will be able to live in a more inclusive and more accepting society.” Former Secretary of Commerce and Transportation and Chair of the Campaign's Honorary Board in formation, Norman Y. Mineta encouraged JACL members attending the virtual Sayonara Gala on Saturday to give to the campaign in order to ensure the future of JACL and re-affirm the commitment to its mission of public education. |
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Our League of Dreams - Documentary of the JACL JACL National and film producer Lane Nishikawa have agreed to work together to produce the first educational documentary film about the 90-year history of the JACL. OUR LEAGUE OF DREAMS received a $25,000 Japanese American Community Foundation Grant Award through the assistance of the San Diego Chapter JACL. This will cover the costs of shooting in the first five cities. We need your help to meet our production budget goals. Lane has mapped out seventeen cities that he would like to shoot interviews. Your individual donation or JACL Chapter donation will go a long way towards helping us achieve our goals. We will make sure that your names are prominently highlighted in the end credits of the film.
Once the film is completed, JACL National and Lane will work with any JACL Chapter that wants to hold a public film screening event in their city to fundraise for their chapter, to educate their youth, and network to new audiences for potential new members. |
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JACL Organizational Sign Ons |
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The JACL Applauds Senate Passage of the Historic Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act |
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August 10, 2021 JACL Executive Director, David Inoue says of the bill: “This infrastructure package addresses many of our most urgent and immediate needs to repair crumbling roads and bridges, invest in our public utility infrastructure, but also looks towards our future needs with broadband access and deployment and electric vehicle investments. We hope the House can act in a similarly bi-partisan way to bring swift passage of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act." |
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Tadaima 2021 Registration Now Open! |
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Remembering Gila River - August 28, 2021 |
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Berkeley Oral History Project Seeking Project Participants |
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UC Berkeley's Oral History Project is seeking Nikkei who have had parents/grandparents/great grandparents who have been incarcerated in Manzanar and Topaz concentration camps. How do people heal? Through new oral history interviews, this project will document and disseminate the ways in which intergenerational trauma and healing occurred after the U.S. government's incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. These interviews will examine and compare how private memory, creative expression, place, and public interpretation intersect at two sites of incarceration: Manzanar in California and Topaz in Utah. To nominate yourself or someone else for this project please complete the Nomination Form. |
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JACL Anti-Hate and Hate Crime Resources For resources, toolkits, articles, and more about anti-hate programs and hate crimes, you can visit our page on JACL.org by clicking the link below. |
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H.R. 40 Updates and Join in Support |
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Last Wednesday, April 14, the House Judiciary Committee voted for the first time in the bill's 30 year history to advance H.R. 40 to the House floor for a full vote! This is a monumental step in bill's life and a start towards righting another wrong in our nation's history. JACL Executive Director, David Inoue, discusses JACL’s support of H.R. 40. H.R. 40 would create a commission to examine the institution of slavery, its legacy, and make recommendations to Congress for reparations, beginning a process of repairing and restoring after centuries of enslavement. Click the image above to watch the full video statement. |
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