Wakasa Memorial Committee

Leave it to Shakespeare and Ian McKellen to so eloquently speak of man's mountainish inhumanity. #Colbert #IanMcKellen #Shakespeare #ThomasMore TikTok video by colbertlateshow

400 years and still fresh!

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Unchecked state power endangers lives and erodes democracy.

Free Ebooks: Abolish ICE, Abolish the Border In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and ICE occupation, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about migrant justice an...

In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and ICE occupation, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about migrant justice and border abolition.

We’ve also added a list of additional recommended reading:

As part of Densho’s “30 Oral Histories for 30 Years” series, this interview with Peggie Nishimura Bain offers a vivid reflection on creativity, ingenuity, and survival under incarceration, revealing how everyday acts of creation carried meaning far beyond their materials.

ICE detains 2-year-old and father, Minneapolis city council member says The 2-year-old was reportedly detained one day after a 5-year-old was detained at school pickup.

two years old.

It’s die or be deported

Disabled son of ICE detainee dies after 30 days of hospitalization It had been months since Wael Tarabishi seen his father. The family is calling on ICE to release Maher Tarabishi so he may attend his son's funeral.

In October, ICE grabbed Maher Tarabishi.

He was a 24/7 caregiver for his disabled son Wael.

At the time of Maher’s detention, disability advocates warned that taking away Wael’s caregiver put his life at risk.

Wael died on Friday at age 30.

ICE caused his death.

They didn’t get to say goodbye.

If this is what they do to white American citizens in front of everyone, imagine what happens to non-white people behind closed doors.

"The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism."
Hannah Arendt

There's a prison revolt at a concentration camp in Texas in solidarity with Minneapolis:

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ICE has stopped paying for detainee medical treatment Despite ample funding, the agency halted payments in October. They may not resume for several months.

6 people have died in concentration camps so far this year.

Hafu Plus Hafu = Two: Japanese Australian Amy Gavagnin—Part 2 Read Part 1 Evolving as a Japanese Australian Norm Ibuki (NI): Is it difficult to keep that Japanese connection in Australia? Amy eating a typical Australian breakfast Amy Gavagnin (AG): Not for me. Language fell off the barrel a bit. I never wanted to leave Japan, so when we moved and it finally hit that we …

In Part 2 of Japanese-Australian Amy Gavagnin's interview, she discusses staying in touch with Japanese culture abroad and the importance of finding identity within, rather than the labels thrust upon her.

Small burst of light: thank you to @kingsbooks.bsky.social for putting A PLACE FOR WHAT WE LOSE on this list of “most anticipated” books! Preorders available from King’s!

It’s about “protecting the children” but NOT when it’s the Epstein Files

Our Family Tradition, Osechi Ryori on New Year’s Day It’s a Nikkei Thing! When I think of New Year’s, I remember my Nana and Auntie Mits who would prepare delicious osechi feasts for our family. We would eat kuromame for every year of our life. These days I would probably need an entire bowl! Because we grew up in Southern California, we watched college …

Happy New Year! 🎉 Feliz Ano Novo! 🎍¡Feliz Año Nuevo! 🍱 明けましておめでとうございます！🍾

Here’s to a new year filled with Nikkei stories, voices, and events that bring our global community closer than ever.🌎💙
Gwen Muranaka shares her family's favorite osechi dishes:

FBI Sources EXPOSE Trump Lies About EPSTEIN FILES YouTube video by Katie Phang

ICYMI: I got the chance to hang with @muellershewrote.com to discuss internal emails and FBI whistleblowers exposing Todd Blanche’s lies about the 1 million “found” Epstein documents, the lawyer leading the redactions, and White House's control of DOJ messaging.

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3 months ago, I bought a water truck (1000+ gallons) for a community in Gaza. I've been raising funds since, to keep the water deliveries steady. The community remains in desperate need—of water, plus funds for food, tents, blankets. Message me if you're interested in donating.

The Tsuyoshi and Yayoi Inouye Family History—Part 1 From Shikoku to Seattle Tsuyoshi & Yayoi Inouye, ca. 1918. Photo courtesy: Geraldine Shu. Tsuyoshi Inouye was born in 1887 and raised in Ehime Prefecture, Japan, in a rural area called Oiye, where his family had a mikan farm. He was the elder of two sons and attended high school in Yawatahama. At the age of …

From the North American Post, Geraldine Shu shares the history of the Inouye family. Part 1 begins with Tsuyoshi's early life in Japan to starting a family in Seattle with a successful restaurant downtown.

My DEI Story I worked at a large public university as the coordinator for Asian American student affairs. This was in the era when affirmative action was being renamed diversity, and before DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) became the general term to describe assistance to cultural and ethnic minorities. In my role, I attempted to bring positive attention …

The history of DEI has existed much longer than the introduction of the term, and Thomas Nishi's stories of food, culture, and a willingness to push for diversity are proof.

Help us reach our goal of $25,000 to make a short documentary on the history of the Redman-Hirahara house!

#santacruzgives #redmanhiraharahouse #pajarovalley #santacruzcounty #jamp #japaneseamerican #watsonville

I feel you, unfortunately.

Please consider signing @wakasamemorial.bsky.social's open letter calling for the protection/preservation of Japanese American incarceration history, and the Wakasa memorial site and stone at the Topaz concentration camp in Utah: t.ly/jh2dE

I wrote about it @citylightsbooks.bsky.social: t.ly/DbxB5

Thinking about the fact that my great-grandmother who served in WW2 was dealing with the same crazy ideologies that we, the women in arms, are facing today is absolutely insane. Yet, here we are — con... TikTok video by Tyy | 2026 Bride 💍

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why is this so hard to understand

Coffee, Tea, Hooray My father, Hiroshi Okuda, was recognized in the Montreal Japanese-Canadian community as a leader, as an after-dinner speaker, as an “educated person.” In the mid-1930s, at a time when very few Japanese Canadians went to university, my father graduated with not one, but two undergraduate degrees from the University of British Columbia. Hiroshi Okuda's graduation …

Sachiko Okuda's Nikkei family is tribute to whom she considered the "real brains of the family"--her mother--and shares an anecdote involving a game show!

Read her story and give it a star if you like it! 🌟
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🚨 New Case Alert 🚨
Leo Garcia Venegas is an American citizen and construction worker in south Alabama.

Even though he has done nothing suspicious and is working on private property, Leo has been repeatedly detained (once violently) by federal officers enforcing immigration laws.
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The imagery of barbed wire fences, guard towers, and armed sentries is nearly ubiquitous in popular retellings of the story of Japanese American WWII incarceration. But did you know that many of the camps didn’t actually have a complete fence when Japanese American incarcerees arrived in 1942?

Join the campaign to center Japanese American survivors and descendants! Add your name today.