Poet Heather Nagami will read “Acts of Translation” at 12:30 p.m. Her family was interned at several camps during WWII, along with the other 120,000 innocent U.S. Citizens, half of whom were children. ASU Prof. Kathryn Nakagawa‘s family was also interned, and Carolyn Classen‘s father Francis Sueo Sugiyama “voluntarily” fled to Chicago from LA before the camp round up in 1942. About 5000 other people voluntarily left that Western Defense Command area as well.
Join us in remembering Feb. 19, 1942 when E.O. 9066 was signed by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and applied only to intern Japanese Americans during WWII.
Post event: Panelist (and blogger) Carolyn Classen posted her remarks in Blog for Arizona: http://blogforarizona.net/former-u-s-senate-aide-carolyn-sugiyama-classen-creation-of-national-commission-which-investigated-the-wrong-done-to-wwii-japanese-americans/
If you missed this first panel discussion, I posted my remarks upon the urging of a woman atty. friends: http://blogforarizona.net/former-u-s-senate-aide-carolyn-sugiyama-classen-creation-of-national-commission-which-investigated-the-wrong-done-to-wwii-japanese-americans/
Cross-posting poet Heather Nagami’s reading from our SAJCC front page:
http://www.southernazjapan.org/excerpts-from-poet-heather-nagamis-acts-of-translation-reading-at-day-of-remembrance-in-tucson/
Tucson Ward 6 Councilman mentions these ongoing exhibits at Tucson Desert Art Museum in his 2/21/17 newsletter, and hyperlinks my published remarks after our Day of Remembrance:
https://www.tucsonaz.gov/files/ward6/newsletters/Newsletter_2-21-2017.pdf
My radio interview on “30 Minutes” with Amanda Shauger of KXCI Community radio about this topic: https://kxci.org/2017/03/carolyn-sugiyama-classen-personal-justice-denied/