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Weekly Digest
December 21, 2021 |
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JACL offices will be closed in observance of Christmas and New Year's starting Friday, December 24th through Monday, January 3rd. There will also be no Weekly Digest for Tuesday, December 28th. If you need to reach someone urgently, please call the Washington, D.C. office number below. JACL's physical offices remain officially closed. Staff continue to do the work of the organization remotely with some visits to the physical office. Please direct all phone calls to our Washington, D.C. Office at (202) 223-1240 and we will get back to you as quickly as possible. Otherwise, we will all be available via email. All staff emails can be found HERE. Stay safe everyone and we hope to see you all in person again soon. - JACL National Staff |
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Last Day to Order in Time for New Year's! |
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Place your order by the end of today, December 21st if you want your membership order to arrive in time for New Year's Day (January 1st)! |
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Take Part in our Member Highlights! |
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Want to share your JACL story and be featured in our emails and social media like Ross from the Chicago Chapter? We're still looking for members to share their stories! Click the button below to fill out our member highlight form for a chance to be featured in upcoming JACL media! |
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JACL is Hiring a New Membership Coordinator! |
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MEMBERSHIP COORDINATOR JOB DESCRIPTION *This position may be posted as Marketing Coordinator or Development Coordinator Title: Membership Coordinator
Reports to: Program Director for Membership and Fund Development
FLSA: Non-Exempt
Status: Regular Full-time
Location: San Francisco, CA 2022 UPDATE We’re looking for a Membership Coordinator to manage membership campaigns, support volunteers, and produce content for the nation’s oldest and largest Asian American civil rights organization. Membership revenue accounts for approximately 30% of JACL’s annual budget. Candidates must display teamwork, an organized work style, and an interest in JACL’s mission. Candidates with fundraising or marketing experience are preferred but not required. We offer a competitive salary and benefits with your own office at our Headquarters in the heart of SF Japantown with the option to work a few days from home. The best part of the job is working in and with the community! |
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JACL Applauds Nomination of Judge Kenly Kiya Kato to the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California |
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December 16, 2021 [Last week], President Biden announced his eleventh round of judicial nominees, which included Judge Kenly Kiya Kato to the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. The daughter of former incarcerees, Judge Kato’s parents and grandparents were imprisoned during World War II alongside 120,000 other persons of Japanese Ancestry. Her focus on constitutional protections and equal opportunity to justice was influenced by her family’s incarceration experience. |
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2022 JACL NEH "Civil Liberties in Times of Crisis: The Japanese American Experience" Applications Now Open! |
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| | Civil Liberties in Times of Crisis: The Japanese American Experience JACL and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) are inviting seventy-two educators to explore the historical significance and enduring legacy of the World War II Japanese American incarceration experience and the reparations movement. While past participants are primarily social studies and humanities teachers at the K-12 levels, all are invited to apply. This NEH Landmarks of American History and Culture workshop will be offered twice: June 19-24 and July 10-15, 2022. Participants will be staying in the historic Little Tokyo neighborhood in Los Angeles with the majority of programming being at our host institution, the Japanese American National Museum (JANM), with day trips to Santa Anita Park (a WWII temporary “assembly center”) and Manzanar National Historic Site (one of the ten permanent WWII “internment” camps). This will be one of the last times we are able to host a workshop with living camp survivors as the WWII generation passes the torch to future ones. | | |
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Check out NEH Programs from our partners below! |
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2022 Scholarship Programs! |
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The JACL has been helping students achieve their educational dreams with the National Scholarship and Awards Program since 1946. The program currently offers over 30 awards, with an annual total of over $70,000 in scholarships to qualified students nationwide. The National Scholarship and Awards Program offers scholarships to students who are entering freshman, undergraduate, graduate, law, in the creative & performing arts, and those with financial need. All scholarships are one-time awards. |
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Support Puyallup Valley JACL at Holiday Magic at the Washington State Fair Grounds |
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From the Puyallup Valley JACL, courtesy of Eileen Yamada Lamphere: "'A BETTER AMERICAN IN A GREATER AMERICA' This is the motto of the National Japanese American Citizens League and is also the title of the holiday tree decorated by the Puyallup Valley Chapter. This is the second year that PV has been asked to participate in the Holiday Magic on the Washington State Fairgrounds. With the 80th year of EO9066 coming up, it seemed fitting to honor all the men and women who either volunteered or were drafted to serve during the war. The tree is decorated mainly with pictures of paintings by Chris Hopkins, a local artist, who has devoted much of his talent acknowledging the wartime experience of the Japanese Americans. Chris’ wife, Jan Itami Hopkins, is a sansei and Chris has deep emotional connections to her family and the greater JA community. Also, on the tree are logos from the armed services and, the newly minted, Go For Broke, postage stamp. The Congressional Medals of Honor are reproduced to honor the 442, 100th, MIS, and Merrill’s Marauders." In taking part in the Holiday Magic events, the Puyallup Valley JACL is hoping to bring a permanent name marker to the Washington State Fairgrounds in honor of the 7600 Japanese and Japanese Americans who were forced to live there for part of World War II following Executive Order 9066. |
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JACL Celebrates the Launch of White House Initiative on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders |
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December 9, 2021 JACL celebrates the formal re-launch of the White House Initiative on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders (WHIAANHPI) and the Federal Interagency Working Group (IWG) and Regional Network (RN). Previous iterations of the initiative existed under former administrations, however, we particularly wish to acknowledge the expanded inclusiveness of Native Hawaiians. We welcome the addition of Ambassador Katherine Tai as co-chair of the initiative and look forward to her leadership with co-Chair Secretary Becerra and Executive Director Krystal Ka’ai. |
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From the Executive Director: To Protect Everyone, We Must Connect Everyone: Our Lives May Depend on It |
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December 13, 2021 Congress has just passed the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which will provide more resources toward implementing broadband in rural and urban areas that continue to lack access. We need to continue to invest to ensure that those in areas with limited internet availability also have access. The internet has demonstrated its importance to us all this past year, and we know how those with access to broadband and basic computer technology are in a much better position to meet all the challenges society is throwing at us. It is becoming increasingly unimaginable that one can participate in normal daily life activities without the ability to access the internet regularly and reliably. |
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Minidoka WWII Honor Roll Replica Update Project 2022 |
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Calling all Minidoka WWII Veterans, their families, and friends! The National Park Service is updating the reconstructed Honor Roll located at the front entrance of Minidoka National Historic Site. If you are a WWII veteran who was unjustly incarcerated at Minidoka, or if you are a friend or relative of such a veteran, we would like to hear from you! Veterans include those who served in the 100th /442nd Regimental Combat Team, Military Intelligence Service, Women’s Army Corps, Army Nurse Corps, and Cadet Nurse Corps. From December 2021 to January 31, 2022, we are accepting applications to add Minidoka WWII veterans onto the Honor Roll if their names have not yet been listed. We are also accepting applications to correct misspellings or make changes to an existing name. Project details, including the current names on the replica Honor Roll, can be found on the Minidoka Honor Roll project webpage. |
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Help the Library of Congress Identify Photographs of Japanese Americans
Incarcerated During WWII |
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From The Library of Congress - "Previously unidentified, we were able to add her name, Shizuko Ina, and information about her incarceration experience to the public record. A blog post interview with her daughter, Satsuki Ina, describes the experience. We have now finished scanning and cataloging the remaining War Relocation Authority photographs in our collections. Many of the people depicted in the WRA images are unidentified. The Prints & Photographs Division is now digitally sharing 30 WRA photographs through an album in the Library of Congress Flickr Project. Survivors and descendants of the incarceration during World War II are encouraged to provide names of unidentified persons and deeper context for the history behind the photos. You can see more photographs of the forced removal of Japanese Americans by searching in the Prints & Photographs Online Catalog. All are welcome to comment on the photographs posted in the Flickr album, and the information you provide there may be added to the catalog records for the images in the online catalog. Identifications and comments for additional WRA photographs can be submitted to Library of Congress Ask A Librarian." |
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Updated Link: USC Seeking Nisei students whose educations were disrupted by WWII |
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