| | Weekly Digest November 2, 2021 |
| | | 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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| | JACL is Hiring for a New Fellow! |
| | JACL is now hiring for the Norman Y. Mineta Fellowship to start in January 2022! The fellowships provide the opportunity to work on advocacy at a national level through the National JACL office based in Washington, D.C. As a fellow, you will become a key component of the D.C. team. In this position you will be working with JACL staff, other fellows, and the executive director, collectively working to mobilize and inform local chapters. To learn more about the position and apply please click here! |
| | Celebrate Secretary Norman Y. Mineta's 90th Birthday! |
| | In honor of Secretary Mineta's 90th birthday this month, our friends at Mineta Legacy Project are making their award-winning documentary film, Norman Mineta and His Legacy: An American Story, free for the entire month of November! Feel free to share with friends and family who may not know of the adversity he faced as a young boy, how he became the first Asian American mayor of a major city and the first Asian American to be appointed to a presidential cabinet. |
| | | RSVP for JACL National Board Meeting on November 6th |
| | On Saturday, November 6, 2021, the JACL National Board will be hosting its quarterly board meeting. The board meeting will be open to the public, but you must RSVP in order to join. Details on joining the meeting and other information necessary will be sent out following registration, no later than 24 hours prior to the meeting's start time. |
| | | 2022 JACS Grant Applications Open Now! |
| | Fiscal Year 2022 Japanese American Confinement Sites grant applications must be received by Tuesday, November 9, 2021, 5:00pm (Mountain Time). Note: this is not a postmark date. Congress established the Japanese American Confinement Sites (JACS) grant program (Public Law 109-441, 120 Stat. 3288) for the preservation and interpretation of U.S. confinement sites where Japanese Americans were detained during World War II. The law authorized up to $38 million for the entire life of the grant program to identify, research, evaluate, interpret, protect, restore, repair, and acquire historic confinement sites in order that present and future generations may learn and gain inspiration from these sites and that these sites will demonstrate the nation’s commitment to equal justice under the law. |
| | | Multiracial Artists in Conversation hosted by Seattle JACL this Weekend! |
| | Join us for a free Mixed Race Webinar on Saturday, Nov. 6, 2021, from 10AM - Noon (PST). As multiracial people, we are constantly put into narrow categories that try to define who we are. But what does it mean to tell your own story? To be able to claim and celebrate all parts of who you are? Speakers for this panel are defining their own narratives through the arts—including photography, visual art, and writing. Mixed Race youth, adults, and families—as well as the arts community—will benefit from this inspiring discussion about what it means to be a storyteller of your own narrative, be it on a canvas, in a book, in a photograph, onstage, or in everyday life. |
| | | | | Updated Link: USC Seeking Nisei students whose educations were disrupted by WWII |
| | The following request is from Richard Watanabe, Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine of USC, USC Alumnus '86, '88, '95 The University of Southern California has decided to recognize Nisei students whose educations were disrupted by WWII and the racist policies of then-University President Rufus B. von KleinSmid by bestowing honorary degrees to them or their descendants. Honorary degrees were conferred on living Nisei from that period, but those who had already passed were not honored. This new decree bestows degrees on all affected Nisei, deceased or living. An effort is underway to identify those individuals or their survivors so they can be properly recognized. Above is a 1942 yearbook photo of some members of the USC Trojan Nisei Club along with their names on the right (Courtesy of the Rafu Shimpo). USC is trying to identify as many of the affected Nisei as possible, so they may receive their honorary degrees. If anyone has information on impacted individuals or their families, you can visit the website below to submit information. |
| | | Okaeri 2021 Virtual Conference |
| | Event Announcement! Our friends over at Okaeri LA are bringing their biannual conference to the virtual space this year! With 24 workshops and a guest appearance from Gia Gunn, #OkaeriLA ’s mission is to create visibility, compassionate spaces, and transformation for LGBTQ+ Nikkei and their families by sharing personal stories and providing culturally-rooted support, education, community-building, and advocacy. Three workshops will be held in Japanese. The registration link is available below! We hope to see you there! |
| | | Berkeley Oral History Project Seeking Project Participants |
| | 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. |
| | 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. |
| | | H.R. 40 Updates and Join in Support |
| | 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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