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More than 10,000 Japanese Americans were incarcerated at Manzanar Relocation Center, Calif., during World War II. Playing and watching baseball was one of the ways these Americans tried to retain some sense of normalcy. Dan Kwong is a longtime volunteer at Manzanar, which became a national historic site in 1992 — his late mother, Momo Nagano, was incarcerated there as a teenager. Here's the story of how he built a baseball field at the site in honor of Momo, who wrote extensively about her time at the camp in order that future generations would never forget this piece of history.

Link: flip.it/obdTz7

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alojapan.com/1228836/survivor- Survivor of Amache Japanese-American internment camp Bob Fuchigami has died #AsianAmericans #CampAmache #Japan #JapanNews #Japanese #JapaneseAmericans #JapaneseNews #news Camp Amache survivor, Colorado advocate and veteran Bob Fuchigami has died at the age of 94.  Fuchigami was just 11 years old when his family was interned at Camp Amache in Granada, Colorado, where more than 7,000 Japanese-Americans were imprisoned during World War II. “We l…

History of the #Nisei ‘Go For Broke’ WWII unit #removed from #Army #website

The history of the 442nd #RegimentalCombatTeam has been removed from the U.S. Army’s official website.

The 442nd, combined with the 100th Infantry Battalion, remains the #most #decorated #combat #unit in #history for its size and length of service. The World War II unit was made up mostly of second generation #JapaneseAmericans.

#USPol #TrumpIsANazi #auspol #WhiteWashingHistory

hawaiinewsnow.com/2025/03/14/h

Hawaii News Now: Following outcry, Army republishes web article on 442nd Regimental Combat Team. “The U.S. Army has republished an article detailing the history of the famed 442nd Regimental Combat Team on it’s website…. The 442nd, combined with the 100th Infantry Battalion, remains the most decorated combat unit in history for its size and length of service. The World War II unit was […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/16/hawaii-news-now-following-outcry-army-republishes-web-article-on-442nd-regimental-combat-team/

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Eight Things You Can Do to Stop #ICE

2025-02-11, via #CrimethInc

"The #Trump administration is paving the way for #MassDeportations by building new #PrisonCamps and invoking the #AlienEnemiesAct, which was used to justify the internment of #JapaneseAmericans during World War II. Motivated by nativism and white nationalism, Steven Miller and other officials are attempting to ethnically cleanse the United States, while tech and prison companies profit on lucrative government contracts and corporations continue to exploit immigrant labor. Knowing that mass deportations will inflict devastating costs, Trump has chiefly been concentrating his efforts in cities like Chicago and Denver that are governed by his political adversaries.

"Nonetheless, people are getting organized. Communities across the US are mobilizing rapid response networks that can respond to raids and support those targeted by #StateViolence. Students across the US are staging #walkouts; people are holding mass #demonstrations and fighting back against deportations.

"If we fail to stand in solidarity with those targeted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) today, the same infrastructure of repression will eventually be turned against others, as well. An injury to one is an injury to all!

"Do your part to melt the ICE."

Read more:
crimethinc.com/2025/02/11/eigh
#KnowYourRights #ResistICE #Mobilization #USPol #Resistance

CrimethInc.Eight Things You Can Do to Stop ICEThe Trump administration is paving the way for mass deportations by building new prison camps and invoking the Alien Enemies Act, which was used to justify the internment of Japanese Americans duri...
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"The Japanese-American internment is now broadly recognized as an American travesty, a horrible mistake made under the duress of wartime that in fact deeply betrayed core American values regarding citizenship and civil rights, not to mention basic decency."

#Trump #immigrants #migrants #deportation #cruelty #ICE #Guantanamo #ConcentrationCamp #gulag #JapaneseAmericans
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See also davidneiwert.substack.com/p/tr

The Spyhop · Trumpian gaslighting on deportation revives century-old racist tropes about immigrationBy David Neiwert
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"The last time America built concentration camps to hold a hated and feared minority—in 1941-42, when we rounded up all Japanese-Americans on the West Coast and herded them into 'relocation centers'—it did not work out well. Things will not be any different this time."

~ David Neiwert

#Trump #immigrants #migrants #deportation #cruelty #ICE #Guantanamo #ConcentrationCamp #gulag #JapaneseAmericans
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davidneiwert.substack.com/p/tr

The Spyhop · Trump's 'mass deportation' plan revives America's Japanese-American travestyBy David Neiwert

Japanese relocation, California. Ester Naite, an office worker from Los Angeles, is shown operating an electric iron in her quarters at Manzanar, California, a War Relocation Authority center where evacuees of Japanese ancestry will spend the duration. Miss Naito works in an office at the center

#Japanese #California #Naite #LosAngeles #Manzanar #Naito #theWorldWarII #JapaneseAmericans #UnitedStates #EstherNaito #undefined #photography #DorotheaLange

loc.gov/pictures/item/20176999

San Leandro, Calif. Apr. 1942. Girls bunching young tomato plants on an Alameda County farm for one of the last shipments to market prior to evacuation of persons of Japanese ancestry and housing in War Relocation Authority centers for the duration of the war

#SanLeandro #Calif #AlamedaCounty #Japanese #California #JapaneseAmericans #WorldWarII #American #USWar #DorotheaLange #undefined #photography #DorotheaLange

loc.gov/pictures/item/20216472

Manzanar, Calif. June 1942. Ichiro Okumura, 22, left, from Venice, Calif., and Ben Iguchi, 20, from Saugus, thinning young plants in a two-acre field of white radishes at the War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry

#Manzanar #Calif #IchiroOkumura #Venice #BenIguchi #Saugus #two-acre #Japanese #California #JapaneseAmericans #WorldWarII #undefined #photography #DorotheaLange

loc.gov/pictures/item/20216472

San Francisco, Calif. Apr. 1942. A view of the business district on Post Street in a neighborhood occupied by residents of Japanese ancestry before evacuation and housing in War Relocation Authority centers for the duration of the war

#SanFrancisco #Calif #PostStreet #Japanese #California #JapaneseAmericans #WorldWarII #NipponOraCo #ChopSuey #ChingsDrugCompany #CherrylandHardware #English #American #America #undefined #photography #DorotheaLange

loc.gov/pictures/item/20216531