Japanese Internment

Teaching Untold Stories During Asian Pacific Heritage Month

Moé Yonamine | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Asian Americans, Japanese Internment Camps, Asian Heritage Month, Japanese Internment, Education News
Moé Yonamine

During this commemorative month to raise awareness of Asian/Pacific Island peoples, I draw hope from my students who are leading the way to unlearn the past and imagine a more just world for all people.

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The Assault on Civil Liberties Continues

Allan Brawley | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Barak Obama, Civil Liberties, Bill of Rights, Lusk Committee, Joseph McCarthy, Palmer-Raids, National Security, Franklin Roosevelt, Japanese Internment, Nypd Antiterror, Woodrow Wilson, War on Terrorism, Politics News
Allan Brawley

Assaults on our constitutional protections are not new. They have been a recurring phenomenon for at least the last hundred years.

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Lessons to Remember From Japanese Internment

Bill Ong Hing | Posted 04.22.2012

Read More: Executive-Order-9066, Immigration, Japanese Internment, Indefinite Detention, Fred Korematsu, Yaser Hamdi, Crime News
Bill Ong Hing

Sunday marked the 70th anniversary of Executive Order 9066, which authorized the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. Their mass incarceration provides a lesson in human rights abuse that, unfortunately, the nation tends to forget too conveniently.

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Creating a False "Enemy Within": The Lessons of Internment, 70 Years Later

Rep. Mike Honda | Posted 04.21.2012

Read More: Peter King, Rep Mike Honda, Nypd, Cia, Japanese American Internment, Muslim Americans, Executive-Order-9066, Japanese Internment, Fred Korematsu, Gordon Hirabayashi, Politics News
Rep. Mike Honda

We cannot stand idly by as an entire American community is demonized as a "religious enemy within." The demonization of Muslim Americans ignores the rich, diverse background of the community.

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From Camp to Congress: My Father's Dream

Rep. Mike Honda | Posted 01.15.2012

Read More: Rep Mike Honda, Congressional Gold Medal, Nisei, World War II, Byron Honda, Japanese Internment Camps, Japanese Internment, Impact News
Rep. Mike Honda

In a brutal irony, my father wore the uniform of the U.S. Military Intelligence Service (MIS), while his family lived behind barbed wire in a Colorado internment camp.

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Obama Honors Japanese Soldier Whose Father Was In Internment Camp

Posted 08.09.2011

Read More: Distinguished Service Cross, Shinyei Matayoshi, Japanese Internment, Shinyei 'Rocky' Matayoshi, Good News, Shinyei 'Rocky' Matayoshi Distinguished Service Cross, Japanese Internment Camps, Video, Impact News

Shinyei "Rocky" Matayoshi said he hoped his service in the US military would convince the American government to let his father out of a Japanese inte...

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When Fear and Power Combine, Rights Suffer

James Peron | Posted 06.15.2011

Read More: Civil Liberties, Fear, Japanese Internment, Civil Rights, War, Politics News
James Peron

Manzanar reminds us that fear, coupled with lies and expansive government power, is a potent threat to cherished American freedoms. Sadly, it appears few heed that warning today.

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Peter King's Hearings Part of a Long, Ignoble Tradition

Tom Parker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ahmed Sharif, Peter King, Peter King Radical Islam, Japanese Internment, Peter King Muslims, Sean Hannity, Joseph McCarthy, Politics News
Tom Parker

To this day, Peter King continues to describe the IRA as "a legitimate force" fighting British repression, which rather begs the question of how he views Hamas or Fatah.

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American Exceptionalism Is Un-American

Bruce Fein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mormons, Tyranny, American Revolution, My Lai, Bill of Rights, Alexander Hamilton, Detroit Economic Club, Founding Fathers, James Madison, Mike Pence, Civil War, A. Mitchell Palmer, Catholics, Liberty, World War I, Vietnam War, Japanese Internment, Constitution, Benjamin Franklin, American Exceptionalism, Slavery, Mitt Romney, United States, Thomas Jefferson, Federalist Papers, Alien and Sedition Act, Afghanistan War, Jim Crow, Sarah Palin, Afghanistan, Mexican-American War, World War II, Ulysses S. Grant, Politics News
Bruce Fein

The boast of American exceptionalism betrays ignorance of the Founding Fathers and the tarnished history of the United States. In any event, to overlook faults because other nations are more flawed is juvenile, and leads nowhere.

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Min Yasui's Legacy Lives on in a Denver Program That Honors Volunteerism

Gil Asakawa | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Min Yasui, Japanese American Internment, Volunteerism, Japanese Internment, Civil Rights, Denver News
Gil Asakawa

Most people living in Denver today probably don't know the name Minoru Yasui. But the Japanese American community leader has left a legacy that still impacts the city.

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What Does a Vote for a GOP Candidate in November Really Mean?

Mitchell Bard | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: David Koch, Mitch McConnell, Mike Castle, George W. Bush, 9/11, Mccarthyism, Arthur Brooks, Bush Tax Cuts, American Enterprise Institute, Politics of Fear, Deficit, Primaries, Unemployment, Tax Cuts for the Wealthy, David Brooks, Harold Simmons, Joe Miller, Ken Buck, Islamic Community Center, Japanese Internment, Newt Gingrich, Tea Party, Paul Ryan, Ground Zero Mosque, Wealth Redistribution, Fear, J. Edgar Hoover, Democrats, Iraq War, Midterm Elections, New York Times, Timothy Noah, Income Disparity, Sharron Angle, Republicans, Politics News
Mitchell Bard

A vote for the GOP in November will be a vote for the richest one percent of the country at the expense of the rest of us. And it will be a vote for the kind of fear that we, as a country, would eventually come to regret.

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An Open Letter to the Texas Board of Education From a Survivor of Its Public School System

Disgrasian | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Public Schools, Latinos, Texas Education Board, First Amendment, Texas Board of Education Curriculum Changes, Christian Nation, Thomas Jefferson, Hispanics, Texas Education Board Bans Book, Conservative Values, Texas, Texas Education, Conservatives, Liberal Bias, School Reform, Texas Board of Education, Curriculum, Japanese Internment, Texas State Board of Education, Separation of Church and State, Church and State, Politics News
Disgrasian

As someone who received nearly my entire education -- grades 2-12 -- in the Texas public schools system, I must admit that I don't understand what all the fuss is about.

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Out of Infamy: An Important Film at a Crucial Time

Joseph Smigelski | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tribeca Film Festival, Perry Como Show, Japanese Internment, Manzanar, World War II, Michi Nishiura Weglyn, Fdr, Arizona Immigration Law, Texas-School-Board, Entertainment News
Joseph Smigelski

The 17-minute film, Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn, reveals a dark and shocking chapter of American history: the detention in concentration camps of over 110,000 people of Japanese descent during World War II.

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Jason Linkins

Bachmann Compares Census To WWII Internment Camps

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Census, Conspiracy Theories, Re-Education Camps, Video, Bachmann-Census, Michele Bachmann, Acorn, Internment Camps, Japanese Internment, Eat the Press, Politics News

You know, with each passing day, I grow worried that future generations will walk this earth completely unaware of the delicate and brilliant grasp of...

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It's Time for a War on the War on the "War on Christmas"

Mitchell Bard | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Robin Hayes, Communion, First Amendment, Happy Holidays, Ted Haggard, Establishment Clause, Merry Christmas, Slavery, Daniel Henninger, War on Christmas, Japanese Internment, Bill O'Reilly War on Christmas, Bill O'Reilly, Wall Street Journal, Gay Marriage, Politics News
Mitchell Bard

I would like to see a country where we don't seek to make non-Christian citizens feel like they are not part of the national fabric by pointing out to them, again and again, that they are different than a majority.

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To Boldly Go Where No Californians Have Gone Before

Tom Gregory | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Marriage, Proposition 8, Divorce, Religious Fundamentalism, Same Sex Marriage, George Takei, Brad Altman, Japanese Internment, Separation of Church and State, Star Trek, Same-Sex Marriage, Evangelicals, Politics News
Tom Gregory

Now that he has the legal right to marry, actor George Takei sat down with me enthusiastically gushing about his upcoming nuptials to his partner of twenty-one years, Brad Altman.

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Batman (1943): Rounding Up the Shifty-Eyed Japs

Erik Lundegaard | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Movie Reviews, Robin, Douglas Croft, Movie Serials, Japanese Internment, Lewis Wilson, World War II, Batman, Movies, Japan, Entertainment News
Erik Lundegaard

Given Pearl Harbor, and Hollywood's track record with stereotypes before Pearl Harbor, the racism towards Japanese people in 1943's Batman serial is unsurprising.

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