| Community
Organizations |
| Day of Remembrance |
Every year,
Day of Remembrance serves to remind our country of the lessons
learned after the internment of Japanese Americans during World
War II.
www.keithpr.com/dor2003/ |
| Justice Matters Institute |
Justice Matters Institute
is a social justice organization whose mission is to develop visionary
solutions that move us toward social justice and to develop people
with the capacity to carry out these solutions.
www.justicematters.org |
| Nihonmachi Outreach Committee of
San Jose |
Nihonmachi Outreach
Committee (NOC) of San Jose is dedicated to educating the public
about the forced evacuation and incarceration of over 120,000
Japanese Americans in World War Two US style concentration camps.
Throughout its history, NOC has taken a leadership role in the
campaign for redress and reparations.
www.nocsj.org |
| Nikkei for Civil Rights and Redress
of Los Angeles |
NCRR was founded in 1980 by Nikkei
(Japanese Americans) from across the country. They held the firm
belief that our community had to come together to fight for proper
redress for what our government did to Nikkei during World War
II.
www.ncrr-la.org |
| Tule Lake Committee |
Tule Lake Committee organizes a Biennial
tour of the remnants of Tule Lake camp barracks, mess halls, schools,
and jail. At the tour, there are opportunities to hear the stories
and memories of former internees. Intergenerational discussion
groups, workshops, educational speakers and a rousing cultural
program helps further our understanding of this shameful chapter
in American history. The next tour will take place in 2004.
www.gaylonn.com/tulelake/ |
| Nosei
Allies |
| AMILA - American Muslim Intent on
Learning and Activism |
Founded in 1992, American Muslims
Intent on Learning and Activism (AMILA) is committed to spiritual
enrichment, intellectual freedom, and community service.
www.amila.org |
| ASATA - The Alliance of South Asians
Taking Action |
The Alliance of South
Asians Taking Action (ASATA) works to educate, organize, and empower
the Bay Area South Asian communities to end violence, oppression,
racism and exploitation within and against our diverse communities.
www.asata.org |
| Anti-War
Organizations |
| Asian Pacific Islanders Against
War |
A coalition of Asian and Pacific
Islander groups and individuals in the Bay Area that came together
to September 11 attack.
www.apicaw.com |
| US-JAPAN NoWar Network |
US-Japan-NoWar Network seeks to
mobilize people from Japan in the Bay Area to raise the unequivocal
Japanese demand for peace internationally. Through continued education,open
dialog and alliance building, this network seeks to create a progressive
political space within larger Japanese society in the US and in
Japan. http://jprn.org/japanese/project/shien/AntiWarprojectIndex.html |
| Immigrant
Rights |
| American Arab Anti Discrimination
Committee (ADC-SF) |
ADC
is a grassroots civil rights organization which welcomes people
of all backgrounds, faiths and ethnicities as members.
www.adcsf.org/ |
| Campaign for Justice |
REDRESS NOW! for Japanese Latin Americans
for unfinished redress education. Website coming soon!
Contact Grace Shimizu at jpohp@igc.org
for more information |
| Japanese
Organizations |
| Japanese Independent Media Center
|
This is the website
for Japan's Independent Media Center. It's brand new!japan.indymedia.org |
| Historical
Resources |
| Enemy Alien Files |
The "Enemy Alien Files"
exhibition combines for the first time a comparative and multicultural
presentation of how the United States government disregarded the
civil and human rights of 31,000 German, Italian and Japanese
immigrants and citizens in the United States and Latin America.
Contact Grace Shimizu at jpohp@igc.org
http://www.santacruzpl.org/libinfo/enemyalien.shtml |
| Japanese Peruvian Oral
History Project |
When
Pearl Harbor was attacked on December 7, 1941 the U.S. government
essentially kidnapped 2,264 people of Japanese ancestry from 13
Latin American countries such as Bolivia, Costa Rica, El Salvador,
Nicaragua, and put them into U.S. concentration camps. Eighty
percent of Japanese Latin Americans were from Peru. This project
is to speak about this little known chapter in history.
Contact Grace Shimizu at jpohp@igc.org
for more information |
| National Japanese American Historical
Society |
The National Japanese
American Historical Society (NJAHS), founded in 1980 in San Francisco,
is dedicated to the preservation, promotion, and dissemination
of materials relating to the history and culture of Japanese Americans.
NJAHS specializes in travelling exhibitions, publications, videos,
interactive multimedia, military and camp collections, and educational
programs.
www.njahs.org |
| Arts
and Culture |
| Asian American Improv |
Asian Improv aRts is a non profit
Asian American arts presenter that has produced community events
for over 15 years in the San Francisco Bay Area.
http://www.asianimprov.com/ |
| Locus Art |
Locus is an all-volunteer organization
of Asian American artists and arts supporters dedicated to promoting
community and consciousness through the arts. We are currently
incorporated and under the fiscal sponsorship of Asian Improv
aRts.
http://www.locusarts.org/ |
