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PH SPECIAL CONVENTION ISSUE P OT AG OS ES ! 8- JUL. 15-AUG. 4, 2011 11 PAGE 6 Honoree Lt. Dan Choi talks equality. JACL TAKES ON PAGE 13 HOLLYWOOD Nikkei Conference: the state of being JA. PAGE 3 The future of PHOTO: NALEA J. KO Power of Words. # 3171 VOL. 153, NO. 2 ISSN: 0030-8579 WWW.PACIFICCITIZEN.ORG JUL. 15-AUG. 4, 2011 2 juLY 15-AuG. 4, 2011 SPECIAL CONVENTION ISSUE PACIFIC CITIZEN SPRING CAMPAIGN NATIONAL DIRECTOR’S REPORT HOW TO REACH US E-mail: [email protected] Background on the NPS Grants Online: www.pacificcitizen.org Tel: (213) 620-1767 By Floyd Mori Fax: (213) 620-1768 Mail: 250 E. First Street, Suite 301 The following information is taken from Los Angeles, CA 90012 the National Parks Service (NPS) website at StaFF http://www.nps.gov/history/hps/hpg/JACS/ Executive Editor Caroline Y. Aoyagi-Stom index.html: Congress established the Japanese Assistant Editor American Confinement Sites grant program Lynda Lin (Public Law 109-441, 16 USC 461) for Reporter the preservation and interpretation of Nalea J. Ko U.S. confinement sites where Japanese Business Manager Thanks to Spring Campaign donors, P.C. was able to hire web reporter Americans were detained during World War Staci Hisayasu Nalea J. Ko who recently won a first place New America Media award. II. The law authorized up to $38 million Circulation for the entire life of the grant program to identify, research, evaluate, Eva Lau-Ting interpret, protect, restore, repair, and acquire historic confinement sites in Thank You Spring Campaign Donors! order that present and future generations may learn and gain inspiration The Pacific Citizen newspaper (ISSN: 0030-8579) is published from these sites and that these sites will The Pacific Citizen staff would like to thank all of our generous donors semi-monthly (except once in De- demonstrate the nation’s commitment to cember and January) by the Japa- to the 2011 annual Spring Campaign fundraiser. To date we have raised ‘The JACL has equal justice under the law. For Fiscal nese American Citizens League, close to $62,000 and donations still continue to come in. As always, mon- Pacific Citizen, Year 2010, Congress appropriated $3 ies from the Spring Campaign help to fund the print and website. With long felt that 250 E. 1st Street, Suite 301, Los million for the use of this grant program; Angeles, CA 90012 past and current donations we’ve been able to fund our popular P.C. web- the preservation an increase from the $1 million Congress Periodical postage paid at L.A., CA site and hire a full-time web reporter. POSTMASTER: send address appropriated for fiscal year 2009. Recently, our web reorter Nalea J. Ko was honored with a first place changes to National JACL, 1765 of the campsites These grants do not simply materialize Sutter St., San Francisco, CA 94115 New America Media prize for excellence in writing. Her article, “Former but are the result of a lot of hard work. Asian American Gang Members Erase Tattoos, Their Past,” took a look JACL President: David Kawamoto is important as The JACL played a vital role in bringing National Director: Floyd Mori at Asian American former gang members who are working to erase their about this NPS grant program. The JACL P.C. editorial BOARD gang tatoos and thus their past gang life. Because of your generous dona- a reminder of has long felt that the preservation of the Judith Aono, chairperson; Paul tions, we are able to continue to provide you with award-winning cover- Niwa, EDC; Kevin Miyazaki, MDC; campsites is important as a reminder of age and stories from JACL and the Asian American community. our history ...’ Bobbi Hanada, CCDC; vacant, NC- our history and to ensure that this travesty WNPDC; Hugh Burleson, PNWDC; Please take a look at our Wall of Fame donors ($150 and above) listed of injustice is not repeated. Jeff Itami, IDC; Cindi Harbottle, below. This year’s winner of our Mexican cruise package, generously do- PSWDC; Sonya Kuki, Youth Some years ago while on personal business in Washington, D.C., I met nated by the JACL Credit Union, is Bobbi Hanada. Congratulations to SUBSCRIBE with an old friend, then Congressman Bill Thomas from Bakersfield, her. 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Burleson Kaoru & Yuri Masuda Arizona JACL Ard K Kozono In memory of Bea Terusaki Merilynn Yamada Harry Hiruo To avoid interrup- Dr Himeo Tsumori Tad Nakauchi Hizeko Yoshimura Florence Dobashi tions in delivery, Keith Fudenna Kazuko Kay Nakao Karen Nunotani Kern Kathy Inoshita please notify your Harue Okazaki Ron & Jane Katsuyama Ben T Kayashima Susan Matsumoto postmaster to Dorene Tsukida Reiko Powers Karen Sasahara Soyo Takahashi include periodicals David Kawamoto Ted & Michele Namba Ann Kusumoto Shigeko Yokota in your change of Carol Kawamoto William Hirabayashi Bob & Janet Julie Takahashi address (USPS Helen Kawagoe Gordon Yoshikawa Cynthia Harbottle Henry Yamate Form 3575) PACIFIC CITIZEN SPECIAL CONVENTION ISSUE JULY 15-AuG. 4, 2011 3 Emergency Resolution to Accurately Implement 2010 Power of Words Resolution Passes The emergency resolution pushes to officially recommend words like “American concentration camps” in the Power of Words handbook to describe the incarceration of JAs during WWII. By Nalea J. Ko Reporter In an overwhelmingly voice of support, the JACL national council voted to accurately implement the 2010 Power of Word resolution, specifically asking that the current draft Power of Words handbook officially recommend the use of words such as American concentration camps to describe the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans. In a vote of 55 to 17, with one split vote and three abstaining, the national council passed an emergency resolution to accurately implement a 2010 resolution to eliminate government euphemisms to describe the incarceration of some 120,000 Japanese Americans during WWII. Proponents of the emergency resolution say the current draft handbook differs from the original 2010 resolution. The emergency resolution states that terms like “American concentration camps, incarceration camps and illegal detention centers” are preferred over using internment camp, assembly centers or relocation centers. The draft handbook Andy Noguchi of the Florin Chapter introduces the Power of Words Emergency Resolution at the national convention. does not recommend the specific terms outlined in the 2010 Power of Words resolution. “I don’t know why you would want to do that when there to be replaced. Terms like relocation camp, assembly center, The recommendation to use the term concentration camp are other terms that are out there that can adequately convey relocation and evacuation are identified as problematic. sparked a telephone conference with the Jewish American what happened and that don’t need a qualifier of American The handbook indicates that “should your chapter choose community during the JACL national board meeting on July concentration camps.” to use the term, it is recommended that the complete term 8. Those in favor of passing the emergency resolution said ‘American concentration camp’ be used,” to avoid confusion “Not withstanding the dictionary definitions of the term terms like internment camp and relocation camps do not between the JA and Jewish experience.