 | | Weekly Digest
September 21, 2021 |
| | | 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 |
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| | |  | 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. |
| | Bearing Witness: The 40th Anniversary of Chicago’s CWRIC Hearing |
|  | | | This Weekend! JANM Author Discussion—When Can We Go Back to America? with Susan Kamei |
|  | Saturday, September 25th - 2:00-3:30pm PDT In this virtual program, Susan H. Kamei will discuss her new book, When Can We Go Back to America?: Voices of Japanese American Incarceration during WWII, and the lessons that she hopes readers of all ages will take from it. She will be joined in conversation by William A. Darity Jr., Samuel DuBois Cook Distinguished Professor of Public Policy at Duke University, and A. Kirsten Mullen, writer, folklorist, museum consultant, and lecturer. This program is presented in partnership with the Japanese American Citizens League and the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University. JACL members should email publicprograms@janm.org with the subject line "JACL tickets - When Can We Go Back to America?" to receive FREE admission to the program. Zoom information will be sent directly to all who register. |
| | | 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. |
| | | City of San Francisco Slows Plans to Purchase Kimpton Buchanan in SF Japantown |
|  | After holding open community calls and receiving letters and statements from community members and organizations, the City of San Francisco announced they would be slowing their plans to purchase the Kimpton Buchanan Hotel in San Francisco Japantown and convert it into housing for the city's homeless community. While the hotel is still under consideration by the city, there are several other sites that are now also under consideration. The JACL has been involved in these discussions on the local, district, and national levels. Click the links below to read through statements and letters from local chapters and the community, and a petition in opposition to the hotel's sale. |
| | | | | | Watch "20 Years Post 9/11" from SALDEF |
|  | Yesterday, our partners at SALDEF hosted a virtual symposium titled "20 Years Post 9/11" looking at the aftermath of the attacks and what it has meant for MASA and AANHPI communities. You can watch the full program on SALDEF's Facebook page by clicking the link below. |
| | | 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." |
| | | JACL Back to School Weekly Feature Recap! Week 3! |
|  | In case you missed it! For the next 6 weeks, on Thursday or Friday, we’ll send you a short email that highlights one part of our education program. The Weekly Feature runs in conjunction with our Centennial Education Fund campaign that celebrates 100 years of JACL’s education work. Week 3 focused on JACL's History on Constitution Day. September 17th is celebrated as Constitution Day, in honor of the ratification of the United States Constitution by the Continental Congress in 1787. But this day holds another special meaning for Japanese Americans. 200 years later, on Constitution Day in 1987, then-Representative Norman Mineta was given the chance to be honorary Speaker of the House and introduced HR 442 - "The Civil Liberties Act" to the House Floor for a final vote. The bill passed 243 to 141, and would go to pass in the Senate and finally be signed by President Ronald Reagan almost a year later. This was thanks in part to the hard work of not only JACL members, but many other community organizations and organizers, like NCRR and NCJAR, who helped to make Redress a reality. |
| |  | | | | JACL on the 20th Anniversary of 9/11 |
| | September 10, 2021 Washington, D.C. - [Friday marked] 20 years since the September 11th attacks that brought about a new time in our nation’s history. A period now known for the longest war our nation has ever been a part of, that has led to more military spending than during the Cold War, and has led to a rise in hatred and bigotry that is all too similar to the kind that led to the mass incarceration of 120,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry during World War II. It was this dark similarity to the Japanese American experience during World War II that sparked a renewed pathway forward for our community, not seen since the successful redress movement in the 1980s. Japanese Americans were among the first and loudest to speak out against anti-Muslim and anti-Arab sentiments in the wake of 9/11. JACL leadership at the time, led by President Floyd Mori and Executive Director, John Tateishi, made strong and swift steps to ensure that on the national and local levels, the JACL was working with the Muslim, Arab, and South Asian (MASA) communities in combating this new wave of xenophobic rhetoric... |
| | | 2021 JACL/OCA Leadership Summit Comes to a Close! |
|  | The 2021 JACL/OCA Leadership Summit came to a close earlier today! The four-day summit brought 24 members of JACL and OCA to Washington, D.C. to experience what it's like talking to members of Congress, how to conduct legislative visits, discuss policy, see the relationship we have with partners, and so much more! We are so excited to have had our participants join us this year. We hope participants will return home and share their experiences and new knowledge and understanding of advocacy at the Federal level, as well as what lessons might be carried back to their local communities. |
| | Tadaima 2021 Registration Now Open! |
|  | | | 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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