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Virtual Camp Roll Call - Rafu Shimpo


Virtual Camp Roll Call
The names of World War II confinement sites were shown during the 2021 Los Angeles Day of Remembrance, released online on Saturday on the Manzanar Committee YouTube channel. The program featured Mario Perez, (below left), Immigrant Justice Fellow at the Inland Coalition for Immigrant Justice, who talked about his work helping migrants detained at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center. Perez also recalled his own experiences being unable to get a bank account or apply for college due to immigration status. “You cannot make any mistakes, you cannot do anything wrong because it’s just taken away from you. That’s awful because we’re already living in fear, and now we’re living in a world where you have to be a perfect immigrant or you don’t deserve to be here,” Perez said. ....

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2021 L.A. Day of Remembrance to Be Held Online Feb. 13


2021 L.A. Day of Remembrance to Be Held Online Feb. 13
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“Uniting with Other Communities to Keep Democracy Alive” is the theme of the 2021 Los Angeles Day of Remembrance (DOR), to be released on YouTube at 2 p.m. PST on Saturday, Feb. 13.
The pre-recorded video will be available on the Manzanar Committee’s YouTube channel, https://www.youtube.com/manzanarcommittee.
The Day of Remembrance is held annually to commemorate President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s signing of Executive Order 9066 on Feb. 19, 1942, which resulted in the unjust incarceration of over 120,000 Japanese Americans and their immigrant parents in American concentration camps and other confinement sites during World War II. ....

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