Weekly Digest
October 11, 2022

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

Changemakers Summit 2022 from Act to Change, Hate is a Virus, and Stop AAPI Hate

From our friends at Act to Change: 

Changemakers Summit 2022 is a national AAPI Youth Conference created in partnership with Act to Change, Hate is a Virus, and Stop AAPI Hate . Designed to support, connect & develop the next generation of AAPI youth activists, our conference this year will center around the theme of Intergenerational & Intersectional Activism. The Changemakers Summit will take place virtually on October 29, 2022 from 10:00am – 3:00pm PDT. The target audience is AAPI youth ranging from middle school to college students. As a broader forum for the AAPI community to center and support youth leaders, we invite educators, mentors, and other leaders within the AAPI community to participate and share their knowledge. We plan to host a variety of workshops, speaker panels, and community discussions that attendees can choose to partake in, across three different tracks:

1. Who Are We? (Identity Development) 

2. What Impacts Us? (Issue Exploration) 

3. How Can We Create Change? (Skill-Building) 

Before They Take Us Away Screening  at Berkeley Video & Film Festival, October 30

The Berkeley Video & Film Festival presents the Bay Area premiere of the award-winning documentary film, Before They Take Us Away

WHEN:  Sunday, October 30, 2022 at 2:00 p.m. & 5:00 p.m.

WHERE:   East Bay Media Center, 1939 Addison Street, Berkeley, CA 94704

TICKETS:  Tickets are $12 and can be purchased at: berkeleyvideofilmfest.org or by calling: (510) 843-3699

Each screening will include a Q&A with the filmmakers.  A community reception will be held between the screenings at 4:00 p.m.

Winner of the Audience Choice Award for Best Feature Documentary at the DisOrient Asian American Film Festival of Oregon and the Best Japanese American Award at the Japan Film Festival Los Angeles, Before They Take Us Away chronicles the untold stories of Japanese Americans who “voluntarily” evacuated from the West Coast in the wake of Executive Order 9066 and spent the years of World War II living outside the concentration camps that held their friends and family members.  While these “self-evacuees” had their freedom, they became refugees in their own country, on a forced migration into the unknown.  Many faced isolation, poverty and racial violence as they struggled to rebuild their lives.  Before They Take Us Away is the second film from the creative team behind The Ito Sisters: An American Story.

Before They Take Us Away is presented by Evelyn Nakano Glenn; produced by Evelyn Nakano Glenn, Patrick Glenn, Antonia Grace Glenn and Tim Becherer; directed by Antonia Grace Glenn; and edited by Tim Becherer.  The film features original music by Dave Iwataki; motion design by Leah Nichols; and commentary from Michael Omi (UC Berkeley), Pam Matsuoka and Ryan Takemiya.

For more information, please visit the Before They Take Us Away website at: https://www.beforetheytakeusaway.com/ or e-mail: theitosisters@gmail.com.

MPA Entertainment Law and policy Fellowship

AAPI Authors Humanizing Our History: A Conversation with Julie Otsuka and Tom Ikeda

From the AAPI Coalition of Wisconsin - 

The AAPI Coalition of Wisconsin invites you and your friends to a special virtual event with Julie Otsuka in conversation with Tom Ikeda.

Please join us on Sunday, October 16, from 4:00-5:00 p.m. (Central time).

Otsuka is the author of the award-winning novel “When the Emperor Was Divine” which tells the story of the incarceration of a Japanese American family during World War II.

In this webinar, Otsuka will be interviewed by Tom Ikeda, the founding executive director of Densho, an online archive and public history organization that has documented stories, since its founding in 1996, about Japanese Americans incarcerated during WWII. They will discuss the art of writing the novel itself as well as Otsuka and Ikeda’s family’s experiences in the WWII camps.

Sign up to join us on Sunday, October 16, at 4:00-5:00 p.m. (Central time), and invite your friends!

To learn more about the webinar and to Register: https://bit.ly/Register4OtsukaTalk

San Diego JACL and San Diego JA Historical Society Virtual Program

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT...

Date Change- San Diego JACL Monthly Virtual Dialogues: Gary Sosa

Irei - A National Monument for the WWII Japanese American Incarceration Launches at JANM

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.

2023 JACS Program Grant Applications Available Now!

Applications for the 2023 JACS Program Grants have opened and are available now through the November 9th deadline. You can apply and learn more about the JACS Program below. 

Get Ready for Vote Early Day with our Friends from APIA Vote!

From our friends at APIAVote! This is an amazing opportunity to help your community get out and vote, and we’d love to have your organization join us on October 28! You can learn more about Vote Early Day here and sign up to be a partner here. 

JACL is Hiring!

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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