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Wakasa Memorial Committee
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All volunteer group of Topaz concentration camp survivors and descendants and allies seeking professional standards and accountability for the Topaz historic landmark site
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Wakasa Memorial Committee @wakasamemorial.bsky.social · 5d
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Thinking about the fact that my great-grandmother who served in WW2 was dealing with the same crazy ideologies that we, the women in arms, are facing today is absolutely insane. Yet, here we are — con...
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michael mezzatesta @michaelmezz.bsky.social · 8d
why is this so hard to understand
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Discover Nikkei @discovernikkei.bsky.social · 7d
Sachiko Okuda's Nikkei family is tribute to whom she considered the "real brains of the family"--her mother--and shares an anecdote involving a game show!

Read her story and give it a star if you like it! 🌟
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Coffee, Tea, Hooray
My father, Hiroshi Okuda, was recognized in the Montreal Japanese-Canadian community as a leader, as an after-dinner speaker, as an “educated person.” In the mid-1930s, at a time when very few Japanese Canadians went to university, my father graduated with not one, but two undergraduate degrees from the University of British Columbia. Hiroshi Okuda's graduation …
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Institute for Justice @ij.org · 8d
🚨 New Case Alert 🚨
Leo Garcia Venegas is an American citizen and construction worker in south Alabama.

Even though he has done nothing suspicious and is working on private property, Leo has been repeatedly detained (once violently) by federal officers enforcing immigration laws.
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Densho @denshoproject.bsky.social · 7d
The imagery of barbed wire fences, guard towers, and armed sentries is nearly ubiquitous in popular retellings of the story of Japanese American WWII incarceration. But did you know that many of the camps didn’t actually have a complete fence when Japanese American incarcerees arrived in 1942?
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Wakasa Memorial Committee @wakasamemorial.bsky.social · 12d
Join the campaign to center Japanese American survivors and descendants! Add your name today.
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Timothy Soseki Kudo @timkudo.com · 14d
On April 11, 1943, James Hatsuaki Wakasa was walking his dog at Topaz when he was shot and killed by a guard. His fellow prisoners erected a stone memorial. When the U.S. government ordered it destroyed, the prisoners chose, instead, to bury it where it remained hidden for nearly 80 years.
Open Letter on the Wakasa Memorial Stone and Site (sign on and share by October 31st)
We, the Wakasa Memorial Committee, are issuing this public call to action and cooperation, with the goal of having the community move forward to protect and preserve the Wakasa sacred site and its mem...
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brandonshimoda.bsky.social @brandonshimoda.bsky.social · 16d
Please read/consider signing @wakasamemorial.bsky.social's open letter calling for the protection/preservation of the most significant artifact discovered in the WWII Japanese American concentration camps, the Wakasa memorial stone, and its site: t.ly/jh2dE.

I wrote about it here: t.ly/DbxB5
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