In a seaside landscape, a skeletal figure tugs at a man in oilskins as they stand in the water, just off the beach. Gray, stormy clouds in the sky, and a tower or lighthouse stands in the distance.
#PhantomsFriday The Drowned Man's Ghost Tries to Claim a New Victim for the Sea, Thorvald Niss [1842-1905]
Skagens Museum, Skagen, Denmark
#TheVictorianBookoftheDead
The U.S. creating Topaz concentration camp 2.0 in Utah.
The firing-up-the-base-with-Islamophobia project seems tired, but Drumpfist politics has gotten this far solely by firing up their base, so I guess it feels foolhardy for them to quit now.
Join me and the people who bring you the “No Kings” march for this webinar on stopping 21st century American concentration camps. I’m honored to help introduce Andrea Pitzer, author of “One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps.” RSVP here for this March 5 mass call.
What does the red mean?
We have received numerous credible reports of torture, killing, and inhumane treatment of detained individuals at the Camp East Montana migrant detention facility, located within Fort Bliss. #txlege
We are not the first people, or the first country, to suffer under a tyrannical government that does not respect our lives, or our rights.
There is a method for how to effectively resist, and eventually topple, such a regime. We can learn from others who came before us.
This is my favorite guide.
I first joined the Tule Lake Pilgrimage in 2010 to grasp the devastating consequences of resisting a loyalty questionnaire in the middle of a war. At the last pilgrimage in 2024, I documented the movement to translate and interpret the Japanese-language literature of incarceration. buff.ly/cOgAUSB
Though hostile forces beset the arts and the retelling of marginalized histories last year, my woke, DEI film surged ahead into production. Join me on Substack for behind-the-scenes updates, along with the research and discoveries of translation that drive this project.
buff.ly/FXG5QF2
Month to month over this presidency we're just going to be watching the most powerful man in the world rambling, then babbling, and then just plain mumbling and drooling about policies and actions with the same amount of coherence.
A screen recording of a 60 Mins segment about the CECOT prison in El Salvador, which was intended to be aired today but was pulled last minute for "unclear reasons." Despite being pulled, it aired on Global-TV in Canada anyway:
archive.org/details/60mi...
Two new episodes of Rachel Maddow's BURN ORDER podcast available today. Ep. 3, "One Drop," features Norm Mineta, Satsuki Ina, and Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga. Ep. 4, "Like an Ordinary American," highlights the Supreme Court cases of Gordon, Min, Fred, and Mitsuye Endo.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
Japanese American incarceration has this irrepressible way of coming up in the news. I wrote a brisk account of the times our history has become a focus of organizing for immigrant solidarity, a distorted right-wing talking point, or both. open.substack.com/pub/konrader...
Today is #GivingTuesday — a global day of generosity that empowers people and organizations to strengthen their communities, and the official start of Densho’s year-end giving season.
The JA Experience - Part 2: The JACL is Available Now!
Learn more about our 90+ year history! You can also help support us this Giving Tuesday so we can continue bringing the voices of the community together!
You can watch part 2 and learn more about how to support JACL at: bio.site/jacl_national
Looking for a gift for a Japanese literature aficionado in your life? Buying yourself something special for the holidays?
Consider picking up one or more of the books we've covered together on the RJL podcast.
On this Giving Tuesday, please consider donating to the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation. Your donation will help us continue to tell the story of the Japanese American incarceration at Heart Mountain.
www.heartmountain.org/donate/?utm_...
I'm such a substack newbie. After more than a year off the bird site I'd lost sight of the sickness of the MAGA mind parading itself. substack.com/@wfunews/not...
Department of Defense Law of War Manual, Sec. 18.3.2.1 states the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders.
What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
Donate to @workshops4gaza.bsky.social's "Blanket Friday Drive," collecting funds for The Sameer Project's "Give Warmth to Gaza" campaign to provide urgently needed blankets, waterproof tarps, tents, warm clothes to families in Gaza to protect against harsh winter conditions: t.ly/_spUL
It's Cyber Monday, so look no further than the Heart Mountain store. We've got classic books, like Setsuko's Secret by Shirley Ann Higuchi, Heart Mountain by Douglas Nelson and In the Shadow of Heart Mountain by Frank T. Inouye. Check it out here:
shopheartmountain.org/collections/...
Hey hey hey I just started on substack. My first post: "Re-imagining the unseen" introducing my recnet pivot to narrative filmmaking. open.substack.com/pub/konrader...
My former neighborhood
Link doesn't work. Has the story been taken down?
Join experts and advocates for an online town hall about why and how corporations and the ultra rich should pay their fair share of taxes in New York State. Then get involved in the campaign that will make our affordability agenda a reality.
➡️ psc-cuny.org/TAXTHERICH
This ICE List project looks like it's just getting off the ground, but I'll keep checking back: icelist.is
U of Washington Press BOOK SALE - January 2 get 40% off & free domestic shipping on all books sitewide. #BookSky uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...
Hi Brandon - I'd like to help, but I can't seem to message you either, so please message me.
