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Weekly Digest
January 4, 2022 |
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Happy New Year from JACL! 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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Deadline Extended! Place Your Otoshidama Orders by Tomorrow, January 5th! |
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We are officially coming to the end of our Otoshidama New Year's Campaign! If you haven't taken part already, you have one more day to take part in the tradition! We hope you'll join us and gift a JACL Membership to someone in your life! |
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Call for Day Of Remembrance Events! |
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As we're coming up on Day of Remembrance, JACL is once again asking all of our chapters and supporters to send us information on any events that you know of so that we can share it with the wider membership and Japanese American community! Please send any information you have on your DOR events, including date(s), times, any website/social links, and images/flyers you might have! We'll continually update the listing so if you currently only have some information and are still waiting on more, send us what you have and we can update the event page. We will be hosting the list on the JACL national website at jacl.org/day-of-remembrance Send any program information you have to mweisbly@jacl.org |
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SF JACL Insider's Career Workshop: Pathway to Medical School |
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Join Our Friends at PFLAG for their New PFLAG: Connects AAPI Communities Meeting! |
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From our Friends at PFLAG: PFLAG National is proud to continue our successful launch of PFLAG Connects: Communities with our newest meeting for the Asian-American and Pacific Islander Community. These virtual support meetings are for all parents and family members of LGBTQ+ people who are part of the AAPI community and LGBTQ+ AAPI individuals themselves. We’re lucky to be able to provide space by and for the AAPI community, and we really hope you’ll join us! PFLAG Connects: Communities are completely free to join and are open to folks within and outside of PFLAG. Our first meeting will be held on Saturday, January 8th 2022 at 6pm ET / 5pm CT / 3pm PT. |
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JACL is Hiring a New Membership Coordinator! |
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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. |
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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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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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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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