| JACL Weekly Digest October 15, 2024 |
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| | | JACL Condemns “Operation Aurora” and Calls for passage of the “Neighbors Not Enemies Act” |
|  | October 15, 2024 On October 11th, 2024, Former President and current Presidential Candidate Donald Trump told a host of people at his rally in Aurora, Colorado, that if he were to win the 2024 Presidential race he would invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to enforce country-wide mass deportations of so-called migrant criminal networks which he has dubbed “Operation Aurora”. In the days following, Former President Trump repeated these statements at rallies in Prescott Valley, Arizona, and Coachella, California. The JACL strongly condemns the words of Former President Trump and renews its call on Congress to pass the Neighbors Not Enemies Act (H.R. 3610/S.1747) introduced by Representative Ilhan Omar and Senator Mazie Hirono, which would repeal the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. |
| | | You're Invited to Our New Member Orientation! |
|  | How can you make the most of your JACL membership? Join us with special guest Kevin Onishi from Keiro, hear from JACL leadership, meet other new members, and find out all JACL has to offer. We will have prizes! See the link below to RSVP or go to https://bit.ly/jacloct24 |
| | | Get Out the Vote Phone Banking with our friends at APIAVote |
|  | Join us and our friends at APIAVote for some upcoming non-partisan phone banking sessions! Callers can sign up for one or multiple shifts on either day. |
| | | Looking Into the Future Together - Make Your Suggestions and Contributions to JACL |
|  | This past summer, JACL gathered in Philadelphia for its 54th National Convention themed “Looking Into the Future Together”. With our partners APIAVote and OCA Asian Pacific American Advocates, we brought together the Asian American civil rights community for three days of programming. Together, members were able to learn about and discuss issues affecting our communities ranging from the local issues of disappearing ethnic neighborhoods to the global issues of anti-China rhetoric impacting us as Asian Americans. Joining forces also primed us to think about the future of the Asian American community and the role we play in our government and society, culminating in the Presidential Town Hall which featured remarks from Vice President Kamala Harris... After reflecting on what our organization has done, we look forward to what JACL will be. *Okagesama de, kodomo no tame ni. Because of our ancestors, we are in relatively privileged positions so for the sake of our children, let us invest together and be ancestors they will also look up to. We ask you to contribute to JACL by telling us what JACL means to you and what you envision JACL to be for your descendants, whether they be third generation or 8th generation, Japanese American or simply passionate about protecting civil and human rights. We also need your financial support. After you give us your suggestions, please donate what you can so JACL will have the resources to respond to a changing world and our changing Japanese American community. We are one community with many voices and we want yours to be heard. All comments will contribute to preparing JACL for our centennial in 2029 and beyond. |
| | | Coming Soon: New Membership Categories! |
|  | Thanks to the unanimous support at the 2024 National Council, we are launching New Premium and Life Membership Categories! Feel free to upgrade now or when we officially transition in January 2025. Check out our page here. Please reach out to mbr@jacl.org with any questions! |
| | | Webinar on Voters' Rights, Conducting Voter Registration, and Election Rules for Nonprofits/501(c)3s |
|  | | | JACL is Hiring! Looking for a Director of Fundraising and Membership Development |
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| | | If any JACL Chapters would like to submit stories or events to the Weekly Digest, please send inquiries to Education Programs Manager, Matthew Weisbly at mweisbly@jacl.org |
| | "Removed by Force" Film Screening and Panel Co-Hosted by GLA JACL |
|  | Greater Los Angeles JACL is a cosponsor with Faith UMC's Social Action Committee presents: "Removed by Force" Sunday, October 20, at 2 pm Faith United Methodist Church 2115 W 182rd St, Torrance, CA 90504 Free Admission Info email: greaterlajacl@gmail.com Following the screening of the documentary, there will be a panel discussion with co-producers of the documentary William Kaneko and Ryan Kawamoto. Ryan Kawamoto is, also, the director of the film. Carole Hayashino will also be a panel member. She is a primary figure in the film and was the producer of the documentary "Voices Behind Barbed Wire" (2018) and "The Untold Story: Internment of Japanese Americans in Hawaii" (2012). Immediately following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on December 7, 1941, about 1,500 Americans of Japanese ancestry were evicted from their homes by the U.S. government throughout the Territory of Hawaii. They were not incarcerated or sent to detention facilities. Nearly 40 years later the Japanese American Citizens League helped them seek justice. |
| | Care & Consumption J-Talks: Godzilla Edition hosted by JACL MDC |
|  | JACL Midwest District Council (MDC) will be partnering with the Japan Exchange & Teaching (JET) Program Alumni Association (JETAA) of Chicago on the return of the webinar: J-Talks: Strengthening Ties Through Dialogue which centers around themes of identity, social issues, cultural understanding, and leadership as experienced by people with meaningful connections to Japan, including the JET Program and the Japanese/Japanese American community. In honor of Godzilla’s 70th anniversary, this year’s J-Talk Webinars are a series of interviews that center around the themes of Care & Consumption in relation to the King of the Monsters' origins, history, and cultural impact. Our first webinar will happen on Thursday, October 24th at 7:00 pm online via Zoom with Derrick Fields (pronouns: they/them), Founder of Waking Oni Games and President of the Japanese Arts Foundation. Join us as we connect with JET alumni and members of the US-Japan community about how we interact with Japanese culture and how our perception evolves over time. More information & RSVP Required via Guestlist: https://guestlist.co/events/787404 |
| | Reparations: Building Solidarity and Community - A screening of Jon Osaki’s film Reparations and a panel discussion |
|  | When: Wednesday, October 30, 6:00PM
Where: Seattle Central College, Room 1110
Cost: Free, All are welcome | | | In 1988, reparations and an apology from the U.S. government were awarded for the World War II racist mass incarceration of 125,000 West Coast Japanese Americans. Since then, Japanese Americans have felt a deep moral imperative to support the demand of Black communities for reparations for the ongoing harms of Black slavery, which have lasted to this day. Jon Osaki’s film Reparations explores the struggle for repair and atonement for slavery in the United States. Black and Asian Americans reflect on slavery, the inequities that have persisted for 160 years, and the critical role that solidarity between communities has in addressing systemic racism.
The filmmaker will present the 30 minute film, followed by a panel discussion. Joining us on our panel will be a representative from the Seattle-King County African American Reparations Committee (SAARC). Event sponsored by: - AANAPISI (Asian American Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institution)-Seattle College
- Seattle Japanese American Citizens League (JACL)
- Tsuru for Solidarity
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| | Salinas Valley Teacher Training Workshop! |
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| | | | Japanese Americans and Mexican Americans work together to open museum in Crystal City Texas featuring Internment Camp exhibit |
|  | The above image is an artist rendering of the exhibit space. The Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee, a group of Japanese American and Japanese Peruvian incarceration survivors and their descendants, are preparing to open the first permanent exhibit dedicated to their experiences in Texas during World War II. Between 1942 and 1948, the little-known Crystal City US Department of Justice site held thousands of Japanese and German nationals, along with their US-born family members. The camp also imprisoned thousands of Latin American families of Japanese ancestry who were extradited from 13 countries in Central and South America as part of a prisoner of war exchange program. The Crystal City detention center exhibit titled “America’s Last WWII Concentration Camp” and funded by the Tomoye & Henri Takahashi Charitable Foundation, will open during the Crystal City Spinach Festival on Saturday, November 9, where it will be housed at the My Story Museum - The Story of Us: Tres Historias en Crystal City. Located in South Texas two hours Southwest of San Antonio, Crystal City is currently home to a population of approximately 6,500 who identified as over 95% Hispanic on the 2020 US Census. Known as the “Spinach Capitol of the World,” and home to the nation’s largest spinach-growing operation, Crystal City also played a significant role during the Chicano Movement as the site of numerous student protests in 1969 that led to school reform and election victories by working-class Mexican American farm laborers who became leaders of the progressive political group The Raza Unida Party. My Story Museum is the brainchild of former city manager Diana Palacios – herself one of the 1969 student protest leaders, who helped organize a series of school walkouts in response to the unequal treatment that Mexican Americans were receiving at that time. Palacios imagines the museum as a way to bring local history to life for both local residents and out-of-town visitors. Exhibits will feature topics related to Crystal City’s role in the Chicano Movement, the history of Zavala County, a wall honoring local veterans of foreign wars, and the WWII internment camp. My Story Museum will host its grand opening on Saturday November 9 from 4-8pm CT. The following day on Sunday, November 10 from 12-2pm CT a panel discussion will be hosted at the museum including former internees Kaz Naganuma and Hiroshi Shimizu alongside Crystal City community leaders Diana Palacios and Ruben Salazar will explore the shared connections between the Japanese and Mexican American communities that have allowed this project to flourish. My Story Museum - The Story of Us: Tres Historias en Crystal City is located at 224 E. Zavala Street, Crystal City Texas 98839. |
| | | FEMA Hiring for Jobs to Support Hurricane Helene Clean Up |
|  | FEMA Jobs to help with Hurricane Helene clean up Customer service representative
EXC-24-FOCE/W-12563837 GS-1101-09/11
Temp SCH A - Fulltime
Office of Disaster Recovery & Resilience (ODR&R), Field Operations Center – East/West
Duty Location: Location Negotiable
Open Period: 09/30/2024 – 10/15/2024 Number of Vacancies: Many https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/812067300
Public affairs specialist
EXC-24-FOCE/W-12563429 GS-1035-09/11
Temp SCH A - Fulltime
Office of Disaster Recovery & Resilience (ODR&R), Field Operations Center – East/West
Duty Location: Location Negotiable
Open Period: 09/30/2024 – 10/15/2024
Number of Vacancies: Many https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/812074200 |
| | DOJ Community Relations Service is Hiring |
|  | DOJ Conciliation Specialist with the Community Relations Service This is a Conciliation Specialist position in the Department of Justice, Community Relations Service (CRS). CRS' mission is to provide tension reduction and conflict resolution services to diverse stakeholders to both resolve and prevent community-level disputes. CRS provides facilitated dialogue, mediation, training, and consultation to assist these communities to come together, develop solutions to the conflict, and enhance their capacity to independently prevent and resolve future conflict. |
| | | NPS Announces JACS and JACE Grant Applications Now Available! |
|  | The National Park Service is accepting project applications for two types of grants that help preserve and interpret United States sites where Japanese Americans were incarcerated during World War II and educate the public about the historical legacy of the federal government’s war-time policy. The deadline to apply for a JACS or JACE grant is Thursday, November 14, 2024. The Notices of Funding Opportunities outlining the grant application and selection process for both grants are available online at www.grants.gov. |
| | | Poston Pilgrimage Registration Now Open! |
|  | Poston Pilgrimage – Oct 25 & 26, 2024 The Poston Pilgrimage is an opportunity to learn more about the Poston Incarceration Camp, where approximately 18,000 Japanese Americans were imprisoned during World War II. Visit the current Poston site, learn of our preservation efforts, attend our various workshop and hear from our keynote speaker. In collaboration with the CRIT Tribal Council, we are upholding the memories of camp life and highlighting the significant links and relationships between the Japanese American incarcerates and members of the tribal community. |
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