{"id":15479,"date":"2017-02-19T11:08:30","date_gmt":"2017-02-19T19:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2017\/02\/19\/15479.html"},"modified":"2017-02-19T11:08:30","modified_gmt":"2017-02-19T19:08:30","slug":"today-is-a-day-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2017\/02\/19\/today-is-a-day-of\/","title":{"rendered":"Day of Remembrance for the incarceration of Japanese Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today is a Day of Remembrance: the 75th anniversary of FDR's executive order to incarcerate Japanese Americans.<\/p>\n<p>A bunch of articles are pointing out that that horrifying and shameful action is a reminder to us to resist today's Islamophobia, and that's very true.<\/p>\n<p>But we should also remember it for its own sake, not only as a Never Again reminder. A hundred thousand people were imprisoned, torn from their lives and their homes and their work.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some links, focusing on various different things.<\/p>\n<ul>\n  <li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.inforum.com\/news\/4220388-75-years-later-japanese-americans-recall-pain-internment-camps\">Recollections from Joyce Nakamura Okazaki<\/a>, who was 7 years old at the time. &ldquo;We were constantly under threat if we went near the barbed wire fences.&rdquo;<\/li>\n  <li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/02\/17\/opinion\/when-lies-overruled-rights.html\">Karen Korematsu on her father Fred Korematsu<\/a>, who refused to go to the camps and was arrested and convicted for defying the executive order. &ldquo;In the hysteria of war and racialized propaganda, my father&#8217;s citizenship did not protect him.&rdquo;<\/li>\n  <li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/blog\/speak-freely\/75th-anniversary-eo-9066-solemn-reminder-fight-back-against-trump-administrations \">The ACLU reminds us to fight back<\/a>. &ldquo;resistance and protest along with litigation can, over time, change the course of history.&rdquo;<\/li>\n  <li>The George Takei\/Lea Salonga musical <a href=\"http:\/\/allegiancemusical.com\/article\/allegiance-film-encore\/\"><cite>Allegiance<\/cite> is back in movie theatres today<\/a>. Showtime is already past in some US time zones, but it starts a couple hours from now on the West Coast. May not be too late to get tickets if you haven't.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>#neveragain<\/p>\n<p>#resist<\/p>\n<p>#neverforget<\/p>\n<p>#DayofRemembrance<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is a Day of Remembrance: the 75th anniversary of FDR&#8217;s executive order to incarcerate Japanese Americans. A bunch of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,103,11,9,45,95,59,86,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-identity","category-improving-society","category-law","category-politics","category-race-ethnicity","category-religion","category-security","category-war"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}