Weekly Digest
October 5, 2021

JACL Operating Status

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

JACL is Hiring!

JACL is hiring for the position of full-time business manager and part business assistant for immediate hire. To view the position descriptions click the following links:

Business Manager

Business Assistant

To apply for either position, please send a detailed resume with a cover letter summarizing your qualifications as well as your interest in the position and JACL to jobs@jacl.org. Please send any questions about this posting also to jobs@jacl.org.

"Coming Out, Coming Home" Hosted by Salt Lake City JACL and Okaeri

100th Anniversary of Seattle JACL

Come join us for a night to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of the Seattle Chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League with current President Stan Shikuma, historian Bill Tashima, and resident expert on redress, Kyle Kinoshita. Through the night, attendees will go through the history of Seattle JACL and how the process of redress for Japanese Americans began. Expect to learn about how Seattle JACL made impactful changes in the Japanese American community in Seattle and beyond.

Multiracial Artists in Conversation hosted by Seattle JACL

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.

Registration Open for 2021 JACS Education Conference!

Minidoka Call to Action Deadline Extended!

THE DEADLINE TO SUBMIT COMMENTS EXTENDED TO OCTOBER 20TH! 

"Minidoka National Historic Site’s historic, natural, and cultural resources are being threatened. Magic Valley Energy has proposed the Lava Ridge Wind Project, a 400-unit wind turbine field on 73,000 acres of Bureau of Land Management (BLM) property adjacent to Minidoka, 25 miles northeast of Twin Falls, Idaho. If built, it will be one of the largest in the U.S. Several turbines are slated to be installed on the historic footprint of the camp, and almost all are completely visible from the WWII Japanese American incarceration site in Southern Idaho.

The proposed project includes up to 400 wind energy generating turbines, up to seven new substations, approximately 198 miles of 34.5 kilovolt (kV) collector lines, 34 miles of 230 kV transmission lines, 18 miles of 500 kV transmission lines, 381 miles of access roads, 47 miles of temporary crane walk paths, a battery energy storage system, three operations and maintenance facilities, five permanent met towers, and construction-related staging yards. Engineering is preliminary, but the turbines may have a maximum height (including the rotor) of up to 740 feet."

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! 

JACL Back to School Weekly Feature Recap! Week 5!

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT...

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. 

Take Part in Onigiri Action with New England JACL and Table for Two

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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