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Weekly Digest
November 8, 2022 |
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Send Us Your Events! As JACL chapters and our partner organizations return to in-person programming, please be sure to send us chapter events or other community events to share with JACL members here in the Weekly Digest or on our social media channels! We want to showcase the variety of programs, events, and partnerships that our members take part in and offer opportunities for new members or supporters to get involved. You can send us information using the contact form on the JACL.org homepage. Thank you! - JACL Staff |
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Election Day 2022 is finally here! It is your last chance to make your voice heard before the next election cycle! If you have any questions or need any assistance with translations or finding a polling location visit our friends at APIAVote at APIAVote.org/location OR call their multilingual hotline at 1-888-API-VOTE! |
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Japanese American Comment Letter to the IRS |
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Last week, JACL National, joined by 19 partner organizations and 21 JACL Chapters, sent a letter requesting the IRS to deny renewable energy tax credits for projects sited on public land in close proximity to WRA JA incarceration sites with NPS and National Historic Landmark status. Read the full letter below. |
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JAVA and NJAMF Veteran's Day Program |
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San Diego JACL Monthly Dialogue with Taiga Takahashi |
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Remembrance Day 2022 at the Japanese Canadian War Memorial |
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From the Nikkei National Musem The Remembrance Day ceremony at the Japanese Canadian War Memorial in Stanley Park will be held in person, starting at 10:40 am on November 11. All are welcome to attend and registration is not required. There will be no reception this year. The ceremony will be live-streamed on the NNMCC YouTube channel for those who wish to take part from home. |
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Moonscape of the Mind: Japanese American Design after Internment |
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Washington University in St. Louis’s Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts and the College of Architecture is currently seeking contributors to Beauty in Enormous Bleakness, a project focused on the legacy of the post-war design of Japanese American architects from St. Louis. Japanese American alumni of WashU’s architecture school mentioned in this project include Gyo Obata, Richard Henmi, George Matsumoto, and Fred Toguchi. Beauty in Enormous Bleakness explores the complex cultural landscape of post-war mid-century modern design and the broader post-war period of American life via a library exhibition, a colloquium, and an edited volume of essays. Interested authors are invited to join us in pursuit of new ways of thinking about the Japanese American incarceration experience and its impact on post-war creative work by considering a single artifact in its contexts of creation, use, and broader social meanings. Contributors are to develop an abstract for an object-focused essay to be presented at the conference. The final essay would then be considered for inclusion in an edited volume. For more information, please see the Call For Proposals or you may contact Assistant Professors Heidi Kolk and Kelley Murphy in the Sam Fox School of Design + Visual Arts at hkolk@wustl.edu and kelleyv@wustl.edu. Thank you! |
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Work with our friends at Asian Law Caucus! |
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From our friends at AAJC - ALC: |
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Japanese American Museum of Oregon is looking for a new Executive Director! |
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The Japanese American Museum of Oregon is seeking an Executive Director to serve as the chief executive officer of JAMO, overseeing all operational and administrative functions, and embodying and advancing our mission, vision, values, and philosophy. The ED’s top priorities include fundraising, relationship-building with board and community partners, and ensuring the organization remains mission-focused. |
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JACL Organizational Sign Ons |
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Los Angeles Day of Remembrance Save the Date and Remember to Vote! |
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For Youth Members - Building Bridges: The Japanese American Incarceration Experience hosted by AJC and JACCC |
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From our partners at AJC and JACCC - Join us Thursday, November 17th from 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. for AJC ACCESS’ second event in partnership with the Japanese American Cultural & Community Center (JACCC) - Building Bridges: Understanding the Japanese American Incarceration Experience. A Japanese American National Museum (JANM) docent will guide our guests through "Common Ground: The Heart of Community". Incorporating hundreds of objects, documents, and photographs from JANM’s collection, this exhibition chronicles Japanese American history, beginning in the late 1800s with the early days of the Issei (first generation) pioneers and continuing through the World War II incarceration, post-war resettlement, and the redress movement. The tour will be followed by a happy hour on JACCC’s campus, with musical guest Zach Moses. We are looking forward to seeing you there! The tour will be hosted at JANM’s campus, 100 N Central Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90012. You may choose an English language tour or a Japanese language tour. We must begin promptly at 6:00, so please arrive at least ten minutes early to ensure we can begin on time. Please RSVP by Thursday, November 10th. Each tour will be limited to 30 persons. |
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Date Change- San Diego JACL Monthly Virtual Dialogues: Gary Sosa |
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Irei - A National Monument for the WWII Japanese American Incarceration Launches at JANM |
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Led by USC Ito Center Director Duncan Ryuken Williams and Project Creative Director Sunyoung Lee, the Irei Monument Project expands and re-envisions what a monument is through three distinct, interlinking elements: a sacred book of names as monument (慰霊帳 Ireichō), an online archive as monument (慰霊蔵 Ireizō), and light sculptures as monument (慰霊碑 Ireihi). Drawing on traditions of monuments built in America’s internment and concentrations camps—such as the Manzanar Ireito, the Amache Ireito, and Rohwer’s Ireihi (Soul Consolation Towers or Monuments)—the project aims to memorialize the past and repair the fractures caused by America’s racial karma. The Ireichō (a large-sized book of names) contains the first comprehensive listing of over 125,000 persons of Japanese ancestry who were incarcerated in US Army, Department of Justice, Wartime Civil Control Administration, and War Relocation Authority camps. Embedded into the very materiality of the Ireicho are special ceramic pieces made from soil collected by the project from seventy-five former incarceration sites from Alaska to Hawaii, Arkansas to California, and from almost every other region of the United States. |
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JACL is hiring for a new position in the San Francisco National Headquarters Office! Director of Finance/CFO - Regular - 32 hours/week
- Location: San Francisco, CA (Hybrid/work from home schedule available)
- The Director of Finance/CFO is responsible for the financial health of the organization with an annual budget of $2 million and growing. JACL has a diverse source of revenues from membership dues, charitable contributions, corporate sponsorships and partners, annual convention, grants, and a newspaper with advertising revenue.
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