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Weekly Digest
October 31, 2023 |
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It's not too late to share your testimonial in honor of Membership Month! |
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Calling all members: we need your help! To celebrate Membership Month, we invite you to share what your JACL membership means to you. If you participate, you will be entered in our giveaway for 1 of 5 $20 Amazon gift cards. See the link below! |
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Fall 2023 JACL National Board Meeting |
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On Saturday, November 4th, 2023, the JACL National Board will be hosting its quarterly board meeting. A hybrid option will be available 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. For those attending in person, the board meeting will be held at the JACL National Headquarters in San Francisco's Japantown at 1765 Sutter Street at 9:00 am PST on November, 4th. Anyone attending in person will be required to follow COVID guidelines, including wearing a mask (when not speaking or eating) during the meeting, and must be fully vaccinated according to CDC guidelines. |
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Washington, D.C. Premiere of Defining Courage for Veterans Day |
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Good news! We now have a discount code to offer to students and veterans through the Kennedy Center box office. The same code is for both groups and provides access to $60 Orch seats and $35 Balcony seats. Please use discount code: BOLDLY |
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San Diego JACL Monthly Virtual Dialogues - November 2023 |
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Japanese American Legacy Lawyers:
Contributions of Japanese American Lawyers Past and Present |
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Japanese American Legacy Lawyers, a program that pays homage to past and present attorneys of Japanese heritage who have contributed to bettering the lives of Japanese Americans and all Americans will be hosted by Deputy Chief of Mission (DCM), Embassy of Japan to the United States in Washington DC, Koichi Ai. The attorneys to be recognized will be Shirley Ann Higuchi, Stuart Ishimaru, Erika Moritsugu and Judge Raymond Uno. The event will take place on Thursday, November 2, 2023 from 10:00 am to 12 noon at the Japan Information & Culture Center (JICC), Embassy of Japan (1150 18th Street, NW, Suite 100, Washington, DC 20036). The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund 50th Anniversary Fund, JICC, Embassy of Japan and Japanese American Citizens League, DC Chapter are co-organizers of the event. The event is free and open to the public at the Japan Information & Cultural Center. Light refreshments will be served. For planning purposes, please RSVP by October 27, 2023. The program will be recorded and available online afterwards. Co-organized by JICC, Embassy of Japan, AALDEF 50th Anniversary Fund and the Japanese American Citizens League, DC Chapter. Sponsored by the 1882 Foundation and the Chinese American Citizens Alliance. |
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Okaeri 2023 Conference Registration and Schedule Available Now! |
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We're Hiring! Join JACL as Our New Communications Manager! |
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Help Mobilize and Support AAPI Voters this Fall with our Friends at APIAVote! |
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10th Anniversary of the MIS Historic Learning Center |
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Please plan on attending the anniversary events on Sunday, Nov. 12 beginning at 11am and witness the unveiling of the new MIS photo kiosk. The day’s events will include a public lecture at the Presidio Officers’ Club by the foremost authority on the MIS, Dr. James C. McNaughton, author of Nisei Linguists: Japanese Americans in the Military Intelligence Service During World War II, an optional sit down brunch in the Officers’ Club’s beautiful Ortega Ballroom, followed by tours, presentations and the public unveiling of the photo kiosk at the MIS Historic Learning Center, Bldg. 640, on Crissy Field. |
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See Omoiyari a Song Film by Kishi Bashi! |
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Watch the Premiere of the New Short Film Baseball Behind Barbed Wire |
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From the team at Diamond Diplomacy and Baseball Behind Barbed Wire - Baseball Behind Barbed Wire tells the story of the WWII incarceration of Japanese Americans, through the uncommon yet popular lens of baseball, America’s national pastime. The All-American pastime became a favorite for many incarcerees at all ten camps stretching from California to Wyoming to Arkansas – where we're having the film's WORLD PREMIERE.
Some of the camps had two or three fields and some had as many as thirty teams! If there was one thread that ran through this unforgiving history, it was baseball, still popular and still shared by the U.S. and Japan.
Next month, we're going to five major film festivals — Hot Springs, AR; Honolulu, HI; Newport Beach, CA; Washington, DC; and Palo Alto, CA.
And that's just October! So make sure to check out our upcoming screenings page for more schedules, tickets, and updates! |
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