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Speaking Up! Democracy, Justice, Dignity
Legalizing Detention: Segregated Japanese Americans and the Justice Department’s Renunciation Program - Part 1 of 9
Barbara Takei
I hope this uniquely American story will serve as a reminder to all those who cherish their liberties of the very fragility of their rights against the exploding passions of their more numerous fellow citizens, and as a warning that they who say that it can never happen again are …

Silk Cocoon Shatters the Myth of the “Model Minority”
Barbara Takei
It was not until her mother died that Satsuki Ina came to understand the historic event that deeply affected her family—a part of World War II history that has been long suppressed within the Japanese American community.“My mother had it all set up for me when she left me that …

Internment Stigma
Barbara Takei
A remarkable journey began as a handful of Nisei survivors gathered on the wind-swept plains of Bismarck, North Dakota, at the site of what was once Ft. Lincoln, a World War II-era Department of Justice prison.

TULE LAKE’S BLOCK 42: A Little-Known Story of Wartime Civil Disobedience
Barbara Takei
Referred to as the camp for “troublemakers” and “bad” and “disloyal” people, Tule Lake’s reputation still carries stigma for those who were incarcerated there. The stigma remains so pervasive that most Nisei who refused to answer “yes” to the so-called “loyalty questionnaire” questions 27 and 28 some 65 years ago …

Review of Prisoners and Patriots
Barbara Takei
A recent film on Santa Fe, Prisoners and Patriots: The Untold Story of Japanese Internment in Santa Fe, according to the film’s writer/director/producer Neil H. Simon, is the first film to tell the story of the WWII era internment camp run by the Department of Justice in Santa Fe, New …

Deporting “Troublemakers” Redux
Barbara Takei
Time of Remembrance observances are coming up in another few weeks, a good time to do something to assure, “never again.”

Thoughts on the 2009 Tule Lake Pilgrimage
Barbara Takei
“How was the pilgrimage?”It’s a question I and other pilgrims have been asked many times since returning from the 2009 Tule Lake Pilgrimage that took place over the 4th of July weekend.