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We Hereby Refuse

Minidoka Pilgrimage
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WE HEREBY REFUSE: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration is the story of camp as you’ve never seen it before. While they complied when evicted from their homes in 1942, many refused to submit to imprisonment in American concentration camps without a fight. Based upon painstaking research, We Hereby Refuse presents an original vision of America’s past with disturbing links to the American present. Erin Shigaki from the Minidoka Pilgrimage Planning Committee is joined by authors Frank Abe and Tamiko Nimura for closer look at the Minidoka-based part of this story — the draft resistance of Jim and Gene Akutsu, the organizing of the Mother’s Society of Minidoka, and the brief life of the Civil Liberties League. WE HEREBY REFUSE features artwork by Ross Ishikawa and Matt Sasaki and is a co-production with Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience. It is available at the Wing Luke Museum’s Marketplace, Elliott Bay Book …...more
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We Hereby Refuse
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2021Jun 17
WE HEREBY REFUSE: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration is the story of camp as you’ve never seen it before. While they complied when evicted from their homes in 1942, many refused to submit to imprisonment in American concentration camps without a fight. Based upon painstaking research, We Hereby Refuse presents an original vision of America’s past with disturbing links to the American present. Erin Shigaki from the Minidoka Pilgrimage Planning Committee is joined by authors Frank Abe and Tamiko Nimura for closer look at the Minidoka-based part of this story — the draft resistance of Jim and Gene Akutsu, the organizing of the Mother’s Society of Minidoka, and the brief life of the Civil Liberties League. WE HEREBY REFUSE features artwork by Ross Ishikawa and Matt Sasaki and is a co-production with Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience. It is available at the Wing Luke Museum’s Marketplace, Elliott Bay Book Company, and independent booksellers everywhere. This conversation is made possible with a generous grant from. The Kip Tokuda Memorial Washington Civil Liberties Public Education Program. Copyright 2021. Keep up to date with our programming at https://www.minidokapilgrimage.org/

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Minidoka Pilgrimage

167 subscribers