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They stand across the West in ruins, ghostly apparitions of one of the darkest moments in American history. Concentration camps, 10 in total, built during World War II to incarcerate 120,000 Japanese Americans for the crime of not being white.
But only two are designated as national sites, Manzanar in California and Minidoka in Idaho. Now, a bill in Congress seeks to designate a third concentration camp as a historic site, the Granada War Relocation Center in southeast Colorado, better known as Camp Amache.
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At a time when hate crimes against Asian Americans continue to rise, activists say it couldn’t come at a more important time.
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Online Remembrance
The 52nd annual Manzanar Pilgrimage was held online last Saturday, via the Manzanar Committee’s YouTube channel. Attendees logged on to take part in the traditional Obon dance.
California State Attorney General Rob Bonta, who had just been sworn in the day before, and activist Jim Matsuoka, a longtime member of National Coalition for Redress/Reparations, now known as Nikkei for Civil Rights and Redress, were the featured speakers for the event, which this year was themed “Upholding Democracy and Constitutional Rights for All: No More Concentration Camps.”
Bruce Embrey of the Manzanar Committee and Kathy Bancroft, tribal historic preservation officer, Lone Pine Paiute Shoshone Reservation.
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Activists to Be Featured Panelists During 2021 Manzanar At Dusk Program
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A small group discussion at the 2019 Manzanar At Dusk. (Photo by Gann Matsuda/Manzanar Committee)
Community activists Kathy Masaoka and traci-kato kiriyama will be the featured panelists during the 2021 Manzanar At Dusk program, part of the annual Manzanar Pilgrimage, scheduled from 5 to 8 p.m. Pacific Time on Saturday, April 24, live and online via Zoom.
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The Manzanar At Dusk program follows the 52nd annual Manzanar Pilgrimage that same day, to be released at noon on the Manzanar Committee’s YouTube channel, https://www.youtube.com/manzanarcommittee.
Now in its 23rd year, Manzanar At Dusk is co-sponsored by the Manzanar Committee and the Nikkei Student Unions (NSU) at California Polytechnic University, Pomona, CSU Fullerton, CSU Long Beach, UCLA, UC Riverside, and UC San Diego.
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Bonbu Stories and UCLA Kyodo Taiko to Be Featured at Manzanar Pilgrimage
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Screen shot of UCLA Kyodo Taiko during an April 2021 recording session at UCLA.
Bonbu Stories and UCLA Kyodo Taiko will perform during the 52nd annual Manzanar Pilgrimage, which will be held online on Saturday, April 24, at 12 p.m. Pacific Time on the Manzanar Committee’s YouTube channel, https://www.youtube.com/manzanarcommittee.
Further details about this year’s pilgrimage program, including speakers and other participants, will be announced at a later date.
Bonbu Stories, an Asian American arts collaborative dedicated to using music as a medium for raw storytelling and building connections, was created by Miharu Okamura, Sydney Shiroyama, Miko Shudo, Kendall Tani, Emily Yoshihara and Vicky Zhang, under the mentorship of P.J. Hirabayashi (TaikoPeace), and Dan and Chris Kubo. Being deeply rooted in their Asian American identities and cultures, they strive to share the raw, honest, broken, e
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