By Richard McDonough
Can you imagine being imprisoned simply because of your heritage? Can you imagine being given a day or two or a few weeks to be able to settle your affairs rent or sell your home, sell or close your business? Can you imagine being denied the right to the money in your own bank account?
It may be hard to imagine, but for more than 112,000 Americans with Japanese heritage, it was reality. From 1942 to 1945, the United States of America imprisoned these individuals, from babies to senior citizens.
But because of efforts by the U.S. military and religious leaders from a number of faiths, some of the young people were able to be released from the prisons to continue their educations. Individuals and organizations within the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) were among those that helped lead in this movement. Antioch College was one of several hundred colleges and universities that offered to educate American citizens with Japanese heritage.
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Few individuals have enjoyed such a successful, varied and influential career in Hollywood as 84-year-old actor, story editor, writer, director, producer and studio executive John Wilder.
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“My parents loved Westerns. My mother’s family were pioneers; they were the first four wagons into Seattle, Washington. When I was five, in a little house on American Lake in Washington, we’d listen to the radio, to the
Adventures of Red Ryder. Two years later I’m at the microphone doing the voice of the little Indian boy.”
John Wilder’s journey from kid, to kid actor, to TV writer, to writer-producer seemed almost predestined to prepare him for the crowning achievement of his career: writing and producing the monumental 26-hour miniseries, James H. Michener’s
I knew vaccine and vaccine hesitancy would be a big issue before COVID, he said. This is a very pro-vaccine book and a cautionary tale about vaccine hesitancy, but I m not trying to vilify the vaccine hesitant.
He said people who are hesitant about vaccines range from those who are unsure about some vaccines to people who are zealous about the anti-vaccine movement.
Hesitancy around vaccines is nothing new. Pictured above, members of Vaccine Choice Canada, a group launching a legal challenge to Ontario s child vaccination system, hold a rally at the provincial legislature on Oct. 29, 2019. (Evan Mitsui/CBC)
One of the main characters in his story is a naturopath whose son has autism, for which he blames the measles vaccine.
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Us Has a Long History of Violence Against Asian Women
The shooter himself, Robert Long, has said he was motivated to act violently because of his self-proclaimed “sex addiction.”
Asian American women understand that the alleged murderer of eight people in Atlanta was acting in keeping with a culture filled with racialized and sexualized views of Asian women. Of the people murdered, four women were of Korean descent and two of Chinese heritage.
The beginner and the philosophy of surfing
April 28, 2021 |
Surfing
After I had established a regular program for my return to surfing, I found things entirely different from the few days spent with [German photographer] Hanns Hubmann.
For the first month, I was still pretty weak, but I was stimulated by the competition from Larry and George, who were getting better fast.
I learned again that paddling was half the battle and that to paddle properly, you had to have the board at just the right angle, or it will not glide.
This is a few degrees above the horizontal.
If it is lower than this, the nose will go under, and if it is much higher, paddling is very difficult.