Unbreakable by Jolene Gutiérrez is a powerful, emotional, and ultimately uplifting picture book about the real-life experience of a Japanese American boy incarcerated with his family during World War II. "Beautiful and inspiring."
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Displaced Japanese Canadians leaving the west coast after being prohibited by law from staying in the area. Image: Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre.
Businesses, communities, and families were impacted forever.
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An engraved plaque is mounted into the front of a large gray mountain-shaped, partially lichen-covered stone. Behind the stone, a small California lilac tree is beginning to bloom with purple flowers. The plaque reads: "On the morning of March 30, 1942, 227 Bainbridge Island men, women, and children, most of them United States Citizens, were escorted by armed soldiers to the Eagledale ferry landing. They solemnly boarded the ferry Kehloken and departed on a lonely journey with an unknown destination and fate. "They were exiled by Presidential Executive Order 9066 and Civilian Exclusion Order No. 1 because they were Nikkei — persons of Japanese ancestry. With only six days notice they were forced to hastily sell, store, or make arrangements for all of their possessions, businesses and property. They were allowed to take only what they could carry or wear. "They were the first of more than 120,000 Japanese-Americans to be forcibly removed from their homes and experience three years of unconstitutional internment. No all were interned. Some were drafted into the military, some were unjustly imprisoned, and some moved away — but all were forbidden to remain. "We dedicate this site to honor those who suffered and to cherish their friends and community who stood by them and welcomed them home. May the spirit of this memorial inspire each of us to safeguard constitutional right for all. "Nidoto Nai Yoni 'Let it not happen again'".
Memorial #stone marker at the #BainbridgeIsland Japanese American Exclusion Memorial, speaking with hope and determination: "Let it not happen again."
And yet, inexplicably and inexcusably, here we are.
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Check out this excerpt of THE BREAKWATER at The Seaboard Review of Books
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An intersectional history you should know: #BlackHistoryMonth, #VincentChin lynching, #JesseJackson, and the Presbyterian Church (USA)
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I love this doodle draw that @katemichaelson.bsky.social did for @juliesniderauthor.bsky.social book. #lesbian #japaneseinternment #bookban #mystery
I love the book too!
If we don’t teach real history, we are doomed to repeat it. #remebranceday #japaneseinternment #ice #detentioncamps
During WWII, 120,000 Japanese Americans were forced into internment camps. Today – and always – we recognize the lasting impact on the #JapaneseAmerican community & commit to continue fighting against injustice.
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I'm loving this small-town mystery by @juliesniderauthor.bsky.social. It has a beautiful setting, complex characters, and a plot that keeps me guessing. #lesbianprotagonist #bookban #JapaneseInternment
Just after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii in 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered all Japanese Americans living on the U.S. West Coast to be rounded up and imprisoned in government camps. Korematsu said, “No.” A bit of backstory: Korematsu was born on this day in 1919 in Oakland, California. That’s where he went to school and worked in the family nursery. In the fall of 1940, the U.S. enacted its first ever peace time draft. Korematsu reported for duty but was rejected. Officials cited a health issue, but it is believed the army refused Korematsu due to his Japanese ancestry. So he began training to be a welder, thinking this could lead to a role helping defend the U.S. His training was canceled as was another job, then, after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Japanese-Americans could find no work. Korematsu got plastic surgery on his eyelids, hoping to elude the stigma against people who even appeared to be Japanese. The surgery was unsuccessful. Korematsu took the name Clyde Sarah and said he came from a Mexican and Hawaiian family.
When he received the order to report to Japanese-American internment camps, Korematsu fled and hid in the Oakland area. He was arrested just a few weeks later and jailed in San Francisco. The regional director of the American Civil Liberties Union talked with Korematsu and asked if the group could represent him in a case testing the legality of Japanese-American internment. He agreed, but within the ACLU some high-level people – some with close associations to President Roosevelt – questioned whether the group should take a case that could be seen as “anti-war.” Korematsu lost his case. He and his family were interned in a Utah camp. He appealed – twice – and eventually took his argument to the U.S. Supreme Court, which upheld the government’s right to imprison Japanese Americans. After the war, the camps were emptied and Japanese-Americans continued to face bigotry, hostility, and violence.
Around 40 years after Roosevelt’s internment order, a law professor researching internment cases found that key evidence had been withheld from Korematsu’s Supreme Court case. The Solicitor General of the United States had deliberately suppressed reports from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and military intelligence. Those reports concluded that Japanese-American citizens posed no security risk. In 1983, a U.S. District Court in San Francisco formally vacated Korematsu’s conviction. And that’s the story of The Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution. Since 2016, some allies and supporters of Donald Trump cite World War II internment of Japanese Americans as legal precedent to justify the detention and registration of immigrants in the U.S.
An undated sepia-toned photo of a young Korematsu Toyosaburo, who Americanized his first name to Fred. Image source: National Park Service
It is The Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution.
Currently celebrated in just seven states and New York City, the Day was established to honor Korematsu and his inspirational stand against the federal government’s bigotry and malfeasance.
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#January14 #peace #love #art #activism #FreeSpeech #MotherEarth magazine banned 1910, #BLM #RaymondGunn lynched 1931, #GeorgeWallace segregation forever 1963, #JapaneseInternment #FDR #1942, #MyLaiMassacre acquittal 1971 woodstockwhisperer.info/2017/01/14/j...
Weaving a New Year Tapestry
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Trump is using the same blatantly racist playbook as used to illegally imprison Japanese American US citizens in WWII.
Robert Reich explains.
☑️ The Brazen Cruelty of the Trump Regime - Robert Reich
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Just finished the Rachel Maddow presents: Burn Order podcast. If you haven’t listened to it yet, I promise you’ll learn something about history, you’ll see current parallels, and you’ll be inspired to act. (And Canadians…we share this shameful history too.)
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Don't miss #BurnOrder - the story of the #JapaneseInternment during WWII. So many parallels to what's happening today in the USA. The brilliant @maddow.bsky.social wrote, produced and narrated the podcast. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
I know I am very late to this. If you have time, it is so very important.
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Rachel Maddow’s podcast “Burn Order” illustrates that “other time” when our gov’t blindly signed off on taking Americans from their homes and incarcerated them. A plan that DT would have happily signed off-on then, and quite possibly refers to today. #Japaneseinternment
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open.spotify.com/track/3Vxe2V... last time our nation officially declared war we had concentration camps on US soil for Japanese Americans. #Kenji #NeverAgain #JapaneseInternment. Now the same shit is happening with alligator Alcatraz but now with American NKVD targeting everyone.
"Heart Mountain: The story of an American Concentration Camp" by Douglas Nelson (I just finished it) covered the little know history of a #JapaneseInternment camp and draft resistance during #WW2. Didn't know anything about that and was blown away.
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Cruel, inhumane official government policies and practices initiated by White American “leaders” who are Racist will continue in perpetuity unless White voters decide to stop it. #1940s #JapaneseInternment
Book 74 of 2025 “Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet” set in Seattle, 1942 & 1985, it tells a love story between Chinese-American boy and a Japanese-American girl , their shared experience of attending a mostly white school, then the internment of her family. 5/5⭐️ #JapaneseInternment #Booksky
Victoria Namkung: tRump’s #Ice raids recall a painful past for these Americans: ‘I see myself in those children’. Survivors of previous eras of xenophobia say the harms done have lasted generations – and what’s happening now threatens to do the same.
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Keep taking their photos. Keep a record. There will be an accounting. Not just Nuremberg. #MyLai. #TrailOfTears, #JapaneseInternment, #Slavery, #TulsaRaceMassacre, #Mexican-AmericanWar... these shitheads know better. They CHOOSE to be evil.
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Cover Reveal: Barbed Wire Between Us by Mia Wenjen, illustrated by Violeta Encarnación
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