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This list isn’t complete because it only has dates from 1943 to 1944.  Families that were taken to Tule Lake earlier in 1942 I found to be not listed, so they must have moved them to some other location.

Tule Lake Unit – WDC List 1944 (U.S. National Park Service)
The documents in this section gives a rare look at the Japanese American population incarcerated in the Tule Lake Segregation Center from September 1943 through July 15, 1944. This list was compiled by the U.S. Army’s Western Defense Command (WDC) following the forced removal to Tule Lake, known as segregation, of persons from the other nine WRA camps who refused to cooperate with the flawed loyalty questionnaire.

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Michele Bachmann is alleging that census taking will lead to “Internment” camps! 

What does Michele Bachmann know about these concentration camps?  If she would spend more time fighting for the civil rights of all American’s these things wouldn’t happen, yet she and her conservative base are spreading lies about the census takers.  If conservatives would fight for civil rights instead of working hard to target sellect groups of people like the LGBT community for one, internment camps like these wouldn’t happen, but they are working hard across America targeting LGBT people because of their personal religious views.

If internment camps come back it will not be because a guy was taking a census note, it will come back because the civil right’s of American’s and Californian’s were taken away by a vote of these religious people.

Check out documentary about the Japanese being taken away to these “internment” camps.  My grandfather came home to an anvil, and that’s what was left, it must have been to heavy for people to carry off.  We still have that anvil.

Manzanar: “Never Again” Released – Video by Ken Burns

Manzanar: “Never Again,” a short film by critically acclaimed documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, has been released by WETA-TV (Public Television in Washington, DC) and Florentine Films. The mini-documentary is one of five such films produced by WETA and Florentine Films as part of their Untold Stories project. [see video here]

Manzanar: “Never Again” was shown at a preview screening at the Beverly and Jim Rogers Museum of Lone Pine Film History in Lone Pine, California on April 24, 2009. It was also screened at the Manzanar At Dusk program on April 25, 2009, following the 40th Manzanar Pilgrimage, held earlier that day at the Manzanar National Historic Site.

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It’s nice to see this information is getting in the news.  So many people don’t know about Executive Order 9066 and what happened to these American’s and their families based on their ancestry.  Some elderly people don’t even know about it.  Not to long ago, I mentioned the incarceration to a neighbor in a conversation once, and she didn’t know about that, she’s 89.   She also didn’t know about the anti miscegenation laws, that prevented Caucasian’s from marrying anyone of Japanese ancestry, it’s amazing what people don’t know about or don’t care to know.

Japanese American Citizens League
The Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) applauds Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor for her comments that the massive incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II was a mistake and that detention solely based on race is wrong.

Judge Sotomayer’s reply to Senator Feingold

Never Rule From Fear | 3:04 p.m. In trying to get at rulings made during wartime, Senator Feingold mentions the World War II decision Korematsu v. United States (in 1944), which permitted the detention in camps of citizens of Japanese descent. (A brief explanation of the case here.)

“A judge should never rule from fear,” Judge Sotomayor says in a very strong voice. “A judge should rule from the law and the Constitution.” She calls it “inconceivable” that a decision today would permit the arrest and detention of people based solely on their race.

It’s that lack of knowledge in a society that causes things to creep up on us again and again, it might not be happening to the Japanese this time, but it’s happening to other groups of people based on who they are.  The LGBT community is currently the target of religious extremist pushing their own social “conservatism” views on others who don’t belong to those particular groups, much less their particular religious faith.  They’re using fear as the same tool and manipulating lies in order to get people to turn and attack the LGBT community, and their families based on their religious fears.

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I’m appalled this has happened!

We have U.S. Soldiers fighting a war against alleged “terrorists,” yet they’re here in our own back yard, and have been here for a long time.  The Department of Homeland Security, DHS, needs to do more to protect all American’s within the U.S. and monitor these right wing terrorist groups, so that this doesn’t happen again.

The constitution should be enough to protect all citizens against this hate, so please defend our constitutions from those who wish to change it.

Japanese American Citizens League Website
Members of the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) are dismayed and appalled at the shooting at the U.S. Holocaust Museum which resulted in the death of a courageous museum security guard.

[Click here for the pdf; JACL response]

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This exhibit has already taken place, but the artist is looking for exhibitors in the US.  It’s a scroll painted over a period of about 14 years by a Japanese artist Rakushi Hojo, and depicts the Japanese American history of Hawaii and the mainland.

Interested in Japanese-American heritage? See the amazing scrolls in Yokohama on June 5.
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The World’s Longest Picture Scroll depicting Japanese American History on Exhibit in Yokohama, Japan – Free-Press-Release.com

United States of America (Press Release) May 5, 2009 — Japanese artist seeks exhibitors in the U.S. to exhibit the world’s longest picture scroll , which will be on exhibit for the first time to the public on June 5, 2009, at Yokohama Bunka Taiikukan as a part of 150th Anniversary of the Port of Yokohama.

The scroll, painted on specialized local “Washi (Japanese)” papers, is 34-volume, 620-meter long with 1069 frames containing 120,000 people, with scenes spanning from the 13th Century to present.

For contact information please see link.

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