Asian Pacific American Community Newspaper Serving Sacramento and Yolo Counties - Volume 28, No. 3 Fall/September 2015 Supreme Court makes same-sex INSIDE CURRENTS marriage a nationwide right Asian Pac.State Employees Assn (APSEA) - 3 With a 5-4 vote on June 26th, the US Justice Kennedy authored the Obergefell Supreme Court ruled in Obergefell v. Hodges decision as well as other major Supreme Court Chinese Am Council Sacto - 4 that the US Constitution guarantees a right gay rights decisions including: US v. Windsor to same-sex marriage across the states. (2013) supported federal benefits to married ACC Senior Services (ACC) - 5 Specifically, this decision decided that the rights same sex couples; Hollingsworth v Perry of same-sex couples married in 36 states must (2013) upheld the 9th Circuit Court of Appeal be recognized in the other states. Justice decision striking down ’s Proposition Start young Kennedy, joined by Justices Ginsburg, Breyer, 8; Lawrence v. Tenena (2003) struck down laws Sotomayor and Kagan, wrote “No longer making gay sex a crime. may this liberty be denied. No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the This latest decision is important to the Upstander Carnival highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice API and other minority communities, whose gay and family. In forming a marital union, two members have not fully come “out” due to family people become something greater than once and social pressures plus discrimination and planned personal safety issues. The Southern Poverty they were.” th Law Center reported that in the first two months October 18 , Davis Dissents came from Chief Justice of 2015, at least seven transgender women Roberts with Justices Thomas, Scalia and Alito. of color were murdered in the US, from Miami At some time, every kid becomes a to LA. The National Center for Transgender bystander- someone who witnesses bullying but Equality believes that since 2013, nearly 30 doesn’t get involved out of fear or lack of knowing transgender women, most of them black and what to do. They can be an UPSTANDER instead – Latin, have been slain with fists, knives, guns the person who knows what’s happening is wrong and hate. and does something to make things right. A passive bully is someone who watches another person On January 4th, two white transgender getting bullied, does nothing about it, and thereby women riding a city bus in San Francisco hurried communicates to the bully that what he or she off the bus after being confronted by a man who is doing is okay. It takes courage to speak up on accused them of pretending to be women. The someone’s behalf. man followed, pulled out a 3 1/2 inch steak knife and stabbed one of the women in the chest. The world witnessed adult UPSTANDERS on The man was arrested, the women survived: August 21th when three Fair Oaks-raised young men “There’s a near hysterical amount of hatred that rushed, overwhelmed and hog tied a heavily armed

Permit No. 324 No. Permit can show up against transgender people at any gun man, 25 year old Morrocan Ayoub El-Khazzani, moment“ be it name calling, threats or acts of on that - train. (22), violence. “For transgender people, we’re like in Spencer Stone (22) and (23) have

or current resident current or the pre-civil rights era.” been lauded around with world as heroes who saved hundreds of lives. They said that they jumped into Based on 14 years of FBI statistics, action without any thought, “We just did what we

U.S. Postage PAID Postage U.S. LBGT (lesbian bisexual gay transgender) are had to do. You either run away or fight. We chose more than twice as likely to be attacked in a to fight and got lucky and didn’t die.” British citizen violent hate crime as black or Jews, and more Chris Norman (62) joined the offensive even though

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Sacramento California Sacramento of color, according to SPLC, face the most violence. So many transgender people have The Davis Phoenix Coalition wants to build been lost to this violence that every November inclusive communities. Part of their mission is to 20, their loved ones and support around address bullying which, if unchecked, can lead to the world gather for the Transgender Day of lifelong difficulties and tragic results. On October Remembrance. 18th, the Coalition is hosting the Upstander Carnival for elementary aged children. The Carnival will Gay marriage is legal in Ireland, Britain, feature familiar carnival games with the added , Spain, South Africa, Brazil, New element of learning to be an UPSTANDER and Zealand, Netherland, Belgium, South Africa, developing skills for dealing with these common and Norway, Sweden, Portugal, Iceland, Argentina, potentially devastating situations. Denmark, Uruguay, Luxembourg, Finland and Canada. Homosexuality is still illegal in many For more information, contact the Coalition parts of Africa and Asia, Slovenia and Croatia. at [email protected] or PO Box 1902, Davis 95617. Sponsors are welcome and donations are Continued on Page 2 with “George Takei to tax deductible. Volunteers are also needed for the

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George Takei to Clarence Thomas: Iu-Mien Denying our rights denies our dignity Community

:By George Takei Services to The recent case granting marriage from the kitchen, to understand that it was the equality across the United States – Obergefell government’s very intent to strip us of our dignity Honor Vern Seng v. Hodges – contains four separate dissents and our humanity. Whether it succeeded with all from the conservatives on the court. I was of us is another question: There was a guiding Saefong and The struck in particular by the dissent of Justice spirit of what we called “gaman”—to endure with Clarence Thomas, who focused his argument on fortitude, head held high—helping us get through the notion that the Constitution does not grant those terrible years. At the end of it all, each Stockton Blvd liberty or dignity, but rather operates to restrain internee was handed a bus ticket and twenty-five government from abridging it. To him, the role dollars, on which we were expected to rebuild of the government is solely to let its citizens be, our lives. Many never did. Partnership at for in his view it cannot supply them any more liberty or dignity than that with which they are To say that the government does Annual Banquet born. not bestow or grant dignity does not mean it cannot succeed in stripping it away through the This position led him to the rather imposition of unequal laws and deprivation of October 8 due process. At the very least, the government startling conclusion that “human dignity cannot Iu-Mien Community Services (IMCS) must treat all its subjects with equal human be taken away.” He first made an analogy to will honor Vern Seng Saefong, President of the dignity. To deny a group the rights and privileges slavery, arguing that the government’s allowance Elder Council and The Stockton Blvd Partnership of others, based solely on an immutable of slavery did not strip anyone of their dignity. He at its annual banquet, “Honoring Our characteristic such as race – or as in Obergefell, then added to that this analogy: Journey,” from 6-9 pm Thursday, October 8th sexual orientation – is to strip them of human at A&A Tasty Restaurant, 6601 Florin Road, “Those held in internment camps did not lose dignity and of the liberty to live as others live. their dignity because the government confined Sacramento. Every year, we recognize two them.” It seems odd that Justice Thomas, as honorees who have demonstrated continuous an African American, would be an opponent of support of our mission to assist the Iu-Mien As one of the survivors of the Japanese marriage equality. His own current marriage, if community through culturally responsive American internment, I feel compelled to he had sought to have it some fifty years ago, programs and services. We hope you can join respond. would have been illegal under then-existing anti- us this year for a night of celebration, cultural miscegenation laws. I cannot help but wonder performances and networking. I was only a child when soldiers with if Justice Thomas would have felt any loss of bayonetted rifles marched up our driveway dignity had the clerk’s office doors been shut in Our vision is to create a thriving Iu- in Los Angeles, banged on our door, and his face, simply because he was of a different Mien community, to preserve its history, ordered us out. I remember my mothers’ tears race than his fiancée. It is a sad irony that he culture and language, and to promote as we gathered what little we could carry, and now enjoys the dignity of his marriage, equal education. Your support will continue to then were sent to live for many weeks in a in the eyes of the law to any others, while in fund our Healthy Families Senior Program, single cramped horse stall at the Santa Anita the same breath proclaiming that the denial of ComMIENityLanguageProgram, S.A.E. Mien racetracks. Our bank accounts were frozen, our marriage to LGBTs works no indignity. Youth Club, and other programs and services. businesses shuttered, and our homes with most of our belongings were left behind, all because MSNBC 7-1-2015 To become a sponsor or purchase we happened to look like the people who had a table, please send an email to contact@ bombed Pearl Harbor. unitediumien.org or call 916/383-3083. Individual tickets are available for $50 each Executive Order 9066, signed by and may be purchased by emailing or calling President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, was the same contacts. To find out more about the issued on the premise that anyone of Japanese services we offer or learn about the Iu-Mien descent could not be trusted and was to be Community, we invite you to visit our website at treated as an enemy, even those of us who were www.unitediumien.org. American citizens, born in this land. We were viewed not as individual people, but as a yellow menace to be dealt with, and harshly. The guns pointed at us at every point reminded us that if we so much as tried to stand up for our dignity, there would be violent consequences. The order and the ensuing confinement was an egregious violation of the Constitution and of due process as we were held, without trial and without charge, awaiting our fate.

A few months later, we were shipped off to the swamps of Arkansas, over a thousand miles away, by railcar. They placed in all one hundred twenty thousand of us inside barbed wire fences, machine guns pointed down at us from watch towers. We slept inside bug-infested barracks, ate in a noisy mess hall, and relieved ourselves in common latrines that had no walls between the stalls. We were denied adequate medicines, shelter and supplies. I remember as a child looking up toward a U.S. flag in the room, as we recited the Pledge of Allegiance, those ironic words echoing, “With liberty, and justice for all.”

For many, it was indeed a great loss of self-worth and respect, a terrible blow to the pride of the many parents who sought only to protect their children from coming to harm. Justice Thomas need have spent just one day with us in the mosquito-infested swamplands in that Arkansas heat, eating the slop served Summer/May2014-Page3

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What’s In The Name of the CACS 28th Annual Gold Mountain Celebration?”

By Jim T. Chong Board Member of CACS, and founder of Wok contributions include supplemental during what is known through history Star Production supplies to various schools, as the “Gold Rush”. This period “Operation Santa Claus” that provides accounts for why the Chinese, with This year marks the 28th year toys to hundreds of children, and since the inception of the Chinese their work ethic, are so historically also other various scholarships that prominent when we refer to the Gold Association Council of Sacramento benefits the youth to name just a few. (CACS). The organization was Rush and the history of the railroads in the United States. originally established to help develop Originally, like any organization, and provide a voice within the API the CACS held their “Gala” annual As we enter into the 28th community specifically for Chinese event to highlight the landmark year of the CACS and as the “Gold Americans. The CACS was founded accomplishments that occurred during Mountain Celebration” approaches, by Frank Fat and is dedicated “to the year. let’s remember the significance of the building a stronger Chinese American term that arguably is a primary reason However, 10 years ago, the presence through leadership why we are able to be so significant late Douglas Yee suggested (and in advocacy, civic, and cultural in the history of the United States. was voted in) that the annual event activities.” Let’s celebrate our freedom and the be renamed to be called the “Gold contribution we as Chinese are able to The Gold Mountain Celebration Mountain Celebration” or “GMC” contribute to the land in which we live. (GMC) celebrations the annual which earmarks a time in history that accomplishments of the organization resulted in many Chinese migrating to and recognizes the elected officials the area. and those that have significantly contributed to the various programs Why “Gold Mountain”? that the CACS provides. The annual Historically, Gold Mountain (or in event also serves as a fundraiser Chinese “Gum Shan”) is the name for the organization to support the given to the western region in the local youth and also various other United States where gold was affiliate organizations that support the discovered. In 1848 after gold was overall goodwill in the community ... discovered in the Sierra Nevada, specifically those that help educate thousands of Chinese from a and maintain the Chinese heritage, place in China known as “Toisan in culture, and community. Some of Guangdong” flooded the area along the signature community service with others to look for work and gold September/Fall 2015-Page5 Page6-September/Fall 2015 Donald Trump meet Wong Kim Ark, the Chinese American cook who is the father of ‘birthright citizenship’

By Fred Barbash For the Chinese in America, this was aware of its importance. Then, one day in 1998, Editor of Morning Mix, Washington Post the “exclusion era,” a radical shift for the U.S., having decided to research her family’s history, August 31, 2015 which for the most part, since its creation as a the 20-year-old college student Alice Wong republic, had encouraged people to come to phoned the San Bruno regional office of the Wong Kim Ark in a photograph from a its shores. In the beginning, as America built National Archives and Records Administration federal immigration investigation case conducted its railroads, mined its gold and farmed the to say she was coming down to find out about under the Chinese Exclusion Acts. (Department valleys of Northern California, the Chinese were her grandfather. When she arrived, she told the of Justice via National Archives) welcomed as well in America. They streamed in SFWeekly at the time, an archive employee by the thousands. who specialized in the history of the Chinese It was the fall of 1895, and Wong Kim Ark Exclusion Act, asked for her autograph and then was puzzled and alarmed as he bided his time But as the Depression of 1873 took its introduced her to the entire staff. “This,” he said, on the steamship Coptic in San Francisco Bay toll on white working men, they began to look “is Wong Kim Ark’s great-grandaughter.” which had returned him from a visit to China. for scapegoats. Mob violence, arson, and overt His papers were in order. He had seen to that. racist derision swept through California, powered They knew what that meant, but she The required statement, certification from white by slogan “the Chinese must go.” Congress didn’t. “‘I was like, ‘Oh my god, what have I men that he was born in the U.S. and therefore enacted the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, gotten myself into,’” she told her interviewer, Lisa a citizen, were in order. He had traveled to China designed to put an end to the flow of Chinese Davis. “I knew absolutely nothing about who the for a visit and had little trouble being readmitted. into the U.S. But that was not enough for the heck this guy was.” building anti-Chinese wave. On this occasion, however, authorities “I learned about Wong Kim Ark being denied him entry, returning him to the ship on Thousands of children had been born a relative after my father died, at his funeral,” which he had arrived, and from there to another to Chinese in the U.S. and birthright citizenship Sandra Wong, his grandaughter said in a ship, the Gaelic, and then to the Peking. For four was the next target, just as it is today for recently-released and powerful documentary months, the only certainty to Wong’s life was the many Republicans, notably Donald Trump, in about the 14th Amendment, aptly titled “14: Dred tides on San Francisco Bay where he awaited their campaign aimed at the children they call Scott, Wong Kim Ark & Vanessa Lopez”, as she word of his fate. “anchor babies,” whose parents enter the U.S. too examined Wong Kim Ark’s documents at the illegally just to make sure their children enjoy archives. “You know, I became very interested What he could not have known was that the benefits of citizenship. The U.S. is “the only but I knew nothing about it, my father never he was about to become a “test case” brought place just about that’s stupid enough” to to do talked about it. And I had all these questions,” by the United States government, egged on by that, he has said, thus providing an incentive she told the filmmakers, Portland-based Graham a wave of anti-Chinese sentiment, in an effort for illegal entry. Bills to do just what Trump is Street Productions, which provided excerpts to to undermine the 14th Amendment “birthright” advocating have been around for years and the Post. provision which made Wong a citizen in the have gone nowhere, and many, but not all, first place as the plain and simple language of scholars believe such a change would need Who “the heck” was Wong Kim Ark the amendment said that, “All persons born or to confront the almost insurmountable task of naturalized in the United States, and subject to amending the Constitution. Wong Kim Ark was born in 1873, into the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United the increasingly hostile environment of the States and of the state wherein they reside.” Young men like Wong were not called exclusion era, a time of unvarnished racism, “anchor babies” by critics then, but rather that made no effort to hide behind euphemisms. “accidental citizens,” said University of New In 1877, Erika Lee writes in her chapter in Hampshire legal historian Lucy Salyer, “citizens Immigration Stories, a congressional committee an-chor ba-by by the accident of birth” as the dissenting investigating Chinese immigration described the Chinese in America as an “indigestible mass in Wikipedia: noun, offensive: used to refer to a justices in Wong Kim Ark’s Supreme Court case the community, distinct in language, pagan in child born to a noncitizen mother in a country would put it. religion,” “inferior in mental and moral qualities,” which has birthright citizenship, especially when What he did not know was that “they who therefore required exclusion “for the good of viewed as providing an advantage to family were looking for some poor chump,” Salyer told the public.” members seeking to secure citizenship or legal the Washington Post, to make an example of, at residency. In Canada, a similar term “passport the nation’s highest court. And that “chump” was His father was a Chinatown merchant baby” has been used for children born through Wong Kim Ark. So there it was, the intimidating- named Wong Si Ping; his mother was Wee so-called maternity or birth tourism. A related sounding case of The United States vs. Wong Lee. By the time Wong was 9, however, thanks term “anchor child” referred to very young Kim Ark, a cook. to hostility and the exclusion act, business for immigrants who will later sponsor immigration Chinese was on the verge of collapse, and the for family members who are still abroad, used in Yet he won. population of Chinese in America on the decline, reference to Vietnamese boat people from about from a high of about 101,000 to some 70,000. 1987. And in the annals of civil rights in Wong Si Ping did what he had to to: He took his America, it was a “huge” case, said Salyer. The family, including young Wong Kim Ark, back to Jus soli – right of the soil – the principle justice who wrote the opinion for the court’s China. that a person’s nationality at birth is determined majority, was fully aware that its implications by the territory within which s/he was born is went far beyond the Chinese. As the justice who But while his parents would remain in observed by the US, Canada and about 28 other authored the majority opinion in U.S. vs. Wong China, young Wong found his prospects for work countries, mainly in the Americas. Kim Ark wrote, “to hold that the Fourteenth in China limited, and returned to California in Amendment of the Constitution excludes from 1890, securing work as a cook in California’s Several candidates in the current citizenship the children, born in the United Sierra Mountains. Wong and other Chinese born presidential race have used “anchor babies” States, of citizens or subjects of other countries in America lived and worked in a kind of twilight as a derogatory term in the immigration law would be to deny citizenship to thousands of world, technically citizens, but citizens on a reform debate. While their comments are persons of English, Scotch, Irish, German, or ledge, off of which they could easily be shoved. primarily targeting Mexican immigrants, there other European parentage who have always The tests would come whenever they risked is a booming Asian maternity tourism business been considered and treated as citizens of visiting China, which they did in part to find through which wealthy Asian mothers travel to the United States.” Had the decision gone wives and see relatives, and attempted to return, the US give birth to babies born as American the other way, Salyer said, instead of a nation at which point they might be admitted or might citizens. A sophisticated maternity tourism of immigrants, America would have become be turned back. industry has developed – in LA 14 maternity “colonies of foreigners.” tourism business hotels were shut down The documentary, “14” captures this by authorities in 2013. In 2015 the federal For all its importance, it never became a well. As archivist Marisa Louie, in the presence government conducted raids on what they famous landmark. There is Dred Scott and there of Sandra Wong, sorts through thousands of consider to be 3 multimillion dollar birthing is Plessy, there is Brown and there is Bakke and files of men like her grandfather, she explains: industry and federal charges are anticipated. Loving. But Wong Kim Ark draws a blank with “Any time anyone of Chinese descent left the most Americans. U.S. during the exclusion period, they had to Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth make some provision for themselves being Amendment : all persons born … in the United His case is so little known that even able to get back into the U.S. So before they States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are his own great-granddaughter was only dimly would leave, they would maybe go and get a American citizens. September/Fall 2015-Page7

document like this that was a sworn affidavit of “he met his oldest son for the first time and for it is not naturally the place of birth that some witnesses, some non-Chinese witnesses, conceived another, Wong Yook Thue.” gives rights, but extraction … To what nation mind you, so some white witnesses, typically. a person belongs is by the laws of all nations And they would attach a photo to the document But upon his return, Lee writes, he was closely dependent on descent; it is almost an and it would say yes, we have known Wong Kim asked ‘‘You are sure you were born here?’’ universal rule that the citizenship of the parents Ark, we know that he was born here, we know the official asked. ‘‘Yes,’’ answered Wong. determines it — that of the father where children his parents and we swear that he’s a legally born Nevertheless, he was returned to the Coptic. are lawful, and, where they are bastards, that of U.S. citizen.” their mother, without regard to the place of their Most immigrant communities in the U.S. birth, and that must necessarily be recognized The case law was clear. A California had their own self-help organizations. Early as the correct canon, since nationality is, in its circuit precedent in 1884, in the case of Look Germans migrating to Pennsylvania in the essence, dependent on descent.” Tin Sing, established “that both the fourteenth 1700s had the German Society of Pennsylvania. amendment and the common law of the land Jewish emigrants from Imperial Russia had While this feudal principle was common compelled the conclusion that Look was indeed HIAS, the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, for in other countries, the dissenting argument a citizen.” If Look Tin Sing was a citizen so was example. The Chinese had the “Six Companies,” was an extraordinary claim for the nation of Wong Kim Ark. Birthright was their only route otherwise known as the Chinese Consolidated immigrants, that the citizenship of the child home as laws dating back to 1790 barred the Benevolent Association in San Francisco. followed “descent,” a concept known as “jus naturalization of non-whites. sanguinis,” or right of blood, rather than the soil The Six Companies, Berger writes, kept on which the child was born, a principle known But there were no “immigration” officials lawyers on retainer for just such occasions, as “jus soli,” or “right of the soil. And it never as we know them today, but rather “collectors among them Thomas Riordan of San Francisco. saw the light of day again at the Supreme Court. of customs,” Salyer explained, “a very lucrative Riordan filed a petition for habeas corpus in position that until the exclusion laws were response to which, Berger writes, “Judge William The decision in U.S. vs. Wong Kim Ark passed, were mainly concerned with collecting” Morrow opined that having citizenship follow drew little attention at the time, it merited just tariffs on imported goods. After exclusion, the that of one’s parents was ‘undoubtedly more a single paragraph in the New York Times. “collectors” effectively made up their own laws, logical, reasonable, and satisfactory,’ but the law Perhaps few cared. Or perhaps there was other, infused by their own bias. of the circuit required him to uphold birthright bigger, news that day like the official report of citizenship. He declared Wong a citizen and the supposed attack on the U.S. warship, “The Indeed, “John Wise, the collector who ordered him released upon payment of a $250 Maine,” which would become the justification for refused to admit Wong, described himself as bond.” the U.S. to declare war on Spain. a ’zealous opponent of Chinese immigration.’” writes University of Connecticut law professor That merely gave the government its What became of Wong Kim Ark Bethany Berger. opening for an appeal. The decision, while a major precedent, As Sandra Wong examined the Meanwhile, the government moved did not materially improve the life of Chinese documents describing the questions her forward with its test case. In the brief U.S. citizens living in the U.S. Despite the court’s grandfather was asked in the documentary, she Solicitor General Holmes Conrad filed, Berger declaration, they were not treated like citizens read aloud from them. writes in the the Cardozo Law Review, Conrad until modern times, with the Chinese Exclusion conceded, that “’the opinions of the Attorneys- Act and its extensions remaining in force “‘Okay, how old are you?’ the collector General, the decisions of the Federal and State until 1943, limiting immigration and denying asked. courts, and, up to 1885, the rulings of the State naturalization to Chinese immigrants. They Department all concurred in the view that birth in were, as one study in 1931 concluded, ’24 years old,’ replied Wong the United States conferred citizenship.” “American by birth, but not in fact.” Indeed, “little Chinese immigration was permitted until ‘Have you ever been to China before this But he argued that they were all wrong, time?’ the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 in part, he explained, because it departed from overhauled the U.S. immigration system and the laws of other nations and for that matter of significantly expanded migration opportunities ‘Yes,’” Wong Kim Ark answered. “Once ancient Rome, where the citizenship of the child before.’ for non-European immigrants,” according to the was bound not to the birthplace but to the blood Migration Policy Center. ‘ … What are you?’ of the parent. Besides, he argued “the exclusion laws showed that the U.S. did not want Chinese Eventually, Wong Kim Ark went back ‘Cook.’ to be citizens anyway.” to China, never to return. There is no record of why. And it is said that he spoke little about his ‘Where were you born?’ For Justice Horace Gray it was an open case in the years after. That may explain why his and shut case. The majority opinion was issued son, Yook Jim Wong, who did settle in America, ‘Sacramento Street. My father kept on March 28, 1898. had little memory of his father’s story when a store: 751 Sacramento Street. I was born asked about it by author and columnist William upstairs, third floor.’ History and law, he wrote, “irresistibly lead us to these conclusions: the Fourteenth Wong. ‘Do you know any white men in San Amendment affirms the ancient and fundamental “I didn’t know it was that important,” Francisco that know you were born here?’ rule of citizenship by birth within the territory, Wong quotes him as saying in “Yellow Journalist: in the allegiance and under the protection of ‘Yes,’” Wong replied.” ‘Mr. Selenger. He Dispatches from Asia America.” And he the country, including all children here born of apparently passed only a fragment of the story knew me when I was little before I went to the resident aliens ….The Amendment, in clear country. Before I was ten.’” to his daughter and granddaughter, which may words and in manifest intent, includes the explain why Alice Wong seemed so surprised to children born, within the territory of the United Wong had made the round-trip once. be greeted as a hero at the San Bruno office of States, of all other persons, of whatever race or the National Archives on that day in 1998 and While there, according to Berger, “Wong married color, domiciled within the United States.” a woman from a nearby village. Although the why Sandra Wong could say “I knew nothing new couple conceived a son, Wong Yook Fun,” The dissent, written by Justice Melville about it….” Wong had returned to America by the time he Fuller and joined by John M. Harlan, challenged was born and had been readmitted. Who was Wong Kim Ark? She knows the premise that children like Wong Kim Ark now. “He was just a regular guy,” Sandra Wong were in fact, “subject to the jurisdiction” of says in the documentary, after viewing all the In 1894, as he prepared for a second the United States at all. “They seem in the trip, he was careful to secure the documents he documents. “He just wanted to do what he United States to have remained pilgrims and thought was right. He wanted to fight for what he understood were necessary to get back in, “a sojourners, as all their fathers were,” he wrote. notarized affidavit with his photograph as a form thought was his right. And so you just do what of identification,” noting that Wong was a ‘‘citizen “‘The true bond which connects the you have to do.” of the United States, born in the City and County child with the body politic is not the matter of of San Francisco.’’ an inanimate piece of land,’ they wrote, ‘but the moral relations of his parentage. . . . The There was nothing sinister about Wong’s place of birth produces no change in the rule second trip. While in China, writes Berger, that children follow the condition of their fathers, Page 8-September/Fall 2015

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As Salaamu Alaykum (peace be with you) they are bringing back to the US that they did American farmer not have with them when they left. You should The opportunity to participate in Hajj immediately and politely object to any questions is both a blessing and privilege. If you are about your religion, politics, work, family or featured in Fortune attending this year, we pray InshaAllah your Hajj community by saying: “I wish to remain silent. is accepted, ask that you keep CAIR-SV in your My attorney will contact you.” magazine duas (prayers of supplication), and recommend you read this e-mail about your rights while If you have experienced invasive Farmer A.G. Kawamura has the traveling. Hajj is an annual Islamic pilgrimage questioning on previous returns into the US, it distinguished honor to have been featured to Mecca and a mandatory religious duty for is advised that you consult with our civil rights in Fortune magazine for raising fruit and Muslims that must be carried out at least once department or another attorney before your next vegetables. His distinction comes from farming in their lifetime. Hajj is performed from the 9th trip. Please also see this CAIR travel advisory in 40 spare lots in the suburbs of Orange County. through 13th day of Dhu Al-Hijjah, the twelfth regards to being detained while traveling. He is also celebrated for having served seven month of the Muslim lunar calendar (mid August years as former Governor Schwarzenegger’s 2015). CBP (US Customs and Border Secretary of Food and Agriculture. Protection) also has the authority to search all Unfortunately, we continue to receive persons, baggage, and merchandise arriving Kawamura farms in empty lots flanked complaints from American Muslims who into the US. For CBP’s purposes, this includes by apartment buildings and banks, under experience profiling at airports as well as re- the search of files on laptops, cell phones, electric power transmissions lines, on active entry delays. Being aware of your civil rights as and other electronic devices. If your point of and abandoned military land, abandoned airline passengers will assist you in managing entry is California, the 9th Circuit requires that golf courses. He leases land destined for any situations that may arise during your trip. agents must have reasonable suspicion before development, works it and moves on just before they may search your electronics. Reasonable ground breaking. 59 year old Kawamura Before Leaving for Hajj - When planning your suspicion means that the agents have “specific is a third generation farmer whose family Hajj travel be sure to check all Department of and articulable facts demonstrating a reasonable originally rented land because residential Homeland Security’s (DHS) Transport Security likelihood that criminal activity is occurring.” development made farm land too expensive to Administration’s (TSA) regulations at the TSA Needless to say, in the overwhelming majority buy. His parents’ and gr’ndparents’ farming was website as well as the Customs and Border of scenarios, agents are not able to meet this interrupted by their internment during World War Patrol’s (CBP) regulations on the CBP website. standard. If you do not want particular photos II and they were fortunate to still have a hay or files to be searched, it is best to upload them hauling business when they left camp. Most Before Coming Back to the US - Please keep elsewhere and take them off the devices that WWII internees lost everything. the following in mind if you plan to bring back you are traveling with. any items: Kawamura’s innovation to farm urban If you have any concerns or questions, acreage complements the current consumer •Check in any Zam Zam water bottles that please complete this incident report form or call interest in having locally grown food and the you want to bring back. Airlines will not allow CAIR-SV Civil Rights Dept. at 916/441-6269. practical aspect of having fields less than 90 you to carry liquids in large quantities on the Remember our legal advice is always free and minutes away from the 20 million who live in LA, plane, so be sure to check in Zam Zam and any confidential. San Diego and San Bernardino. other liquids you are transporting. The well of Zamzam within the Masjig al-Haram in Mecca With 75 full-time employees and up to is, according to Islamic belief, a miraculously- 400 on harvest days, the Kawamuras work generated source of water from God and its Ascend says 1,000 acres among their 40 fields. None of water often taken home for distribution among these 1000 acres are the same land he farmed friends and relations. 30 years ago. Some fields abut residential Asians bypassed areas and he knows “we have to be a good •If you are bringing back dates, make sure they Ascend, a group focused on Asian neighbor” with respect to creating dust, eye are processed and sufficiently dry. You should sores and bringing lunch truck traffic to those consider vacuum sealing your dates to ensure business issues, released a study in May which documented a glaring imbalance between the residential neighborhoods. He is composting freshness and to minimize the likelihood of and incorporating other organic techniques and contamination. number of Asian technology workers in non- management jobs and the number in leadership would like to go fully organic and have a CSA, but it take three years to certify a field as being •When packing, ensure that your clothes and positions in Silicon Valley. The report used 2013 data from Goggle, Yahoo!, Intel, HP and “organic” and some of his leases just aren’t that shoes are clean from any soil. CBP has strict long. rules regarding the entry of soil, chemicals, etc. LinkedIn filed with US regulators. into the country. These tech companies are usually •If you are bringing back currency (money, gold criticized for low percentages of women, blacks bars, etc.) worth more than $10,000, you will and Hispanics in programming and engineering need to declare it. Any and all items received jobs. While Asians are well represented in or purchased, irrespective of value, must also these technology jobs, climbing up into chain be declared. A failure to declare may result of command has not been met with success or in an interrogation and confiscation by the have been simply out of reach. CBP. Please check the CBP website for more information on customs duty. The report says that Asians held 27 percent of professional jobs, but only 14 percent Re-entry into the US - In order to re-enter the of the executive positions. In comparison, US, travelers must go through two processes whiles held 62 percent of the professional jobs at US ports of entry, immigration and customs. and 80 percent of the executive positions. CBP is a department within the DHS responsible for both aspects at the point of entry. Asian women representation is even worse. There is only one Asian female executive CBP officers are required to verify the for every 287 Asian women professionals in the identities of travelers upon their re-entry into five companies. The ratio for white female is the US. They must also ensure that travelers better with one white female executive for every have not been engaged in illegal activity that 123 white women in professional jobs. The ratio poses a threat to national security. It is critical for white men was one executive for every 87 to present valid documentation in the form of professional jobs. a valid passport and/or proper immigration paperwork if you are seeking re-entry into the The group thinks that the disparities US. Remember, US citizens have the unqualified is partly a result of cultural divide. The image right to re-enter the country. embraced by corporate leadership is confident, outspoken individuals with unconventional If You Are Detained - Travelers are only ideas. On the other hand Asian are taught to required to answer questions about their be deferential and to believe that merit will be citizenship, the nature of their trip, and anything rewarded with promotions. September/Fall 2015-Page 9

Human Trafficking: Currents passings What every parent should know Dr. Luke I.C. Kim By Charlotte Chang, Human Trafficking Born April 22, 1930, died July 12, 2015 in Seal Specialist, My Sister’s House Beach, CA. Human Trafficking is modern-day slavery that involves the use of force, fraud, or coercion A resident of Davis from 1969 to 2006, to obtain some type of labor or commercial sex Dr. Luke Kim served for three decades as act. Twelve to Fourteen is the average age that chief psychiatrist and chief of research and children in the United States first become victims staff development at the California Department of sex trafficking. However, very few children of Corrections’ California Medical Facility are even aware that sex trafficking occurs in in Vacaville. During his tenure, he provided the United States, let alone are taught how to psychiatric treatment to inmates Charles protect themselves. A human trafficking victim Manson, Sirhan Sirhan, Juan Corona and can be anyone as there is no consistent profile. Timothy Leary, among others. Additionally, he Victims have come from urban, suburban, was a clinical professor of psychiatry at the UC and even rural communities in all 50 states Davis Medical School from 1973 to 2005. been chief deputy director of operations at the so no community is immune from this issue. Dr. Kim was actively involved in California Department of Public Health since Traffickers target youth in schools, malls, and the American Psychiatric Association and 2011. Prior to that assignment , he served as sometimes even within their extended family. founded the Association of Korean American deputy director at the Sacramento County Online chat rooms, fake employment agencies, Psychiatrists. Much of his career was focused Department of Human Assistance, budget and and newspaper or internet ads are common on raising awareness of and promoting cultural legislative affairs manager at the SF Dept of lures as well. According to the United Nations, psychiatry: understanding one’s cultural Human Resources and management consultant about 46% of victims know the person who background, customs and values in order at Price Waterhouse, and a fiscal and policy recruits them into trafficking. A “recruiter” can be to effectively diagnose and treat psychiatric analyst at the California Legislative Analyst’s male or female, young or old and their job is to disorders. He also published extensively on Office. He has a Maters of Public Policy from gain the trust of the person they are targeting to the mental health and psychiatric care of Asian Harvard, JFK School of Government become a human trafficking victim. This is done American immigrants. by becoming the human trafficking target’s friend Lona Grace Koch, 50, of Elk Grove was and confidant, mentor figure, or even boyfriend. In 2006, he and his wife established the appointed by Governor Brown to be deputy It is important to note that anyone under the age Luke and Grace Kim Endowed Professorship in director for finance and administration in the of 18 cannot consent to a commercial sex act— Cultural Psychiatry at UC Davis Medical School Governor’s Officer of Emergency Services. this is automatically human trafficking. You in order to build on its nationally renowned Koch has served as special advisor to the can protect your children by making sure: training and research center for cultural director, program manager and deputy director (1) They know that anyone can become psychiatry. of emergency operations, planning and training. a victim of human trafficking and that She has also been chief of the California Dept if they suddenly find themselves in a Born in Sinuiju, Korea. His youth was of General Services Office of Strategic Planning, situation where someone has befriended marked by turmoil, political strife and great Policy and Research. them at a shopping mall, at school, etc personal loss as a result of events surrounding and the situation seems to suddenly turn the Japanese occupation of Korea followed by Davis Chinese School will begin Mandarin or the person asks them to meet them the Korean War. His family escaped to South and Taiwanese (Hokkien) classes on Fridays somewhere ‘without telling your parents’, Korea in 1945 in order to flee the communist at Davis High School. Fridays 9-7pm for they should get help immediately. government that took over North Korea following Taiwanese and 7-9pm for Mandarin. To register, (2) They are aware that human trafficking World War II. His autobiography, Beyond the email [email protected], 530/219- exists in the United States—not just in Battle Line, The Korean War and My Life was 0644, www.davischineseschool.org big cities but also in nice suburbs and published in 2012. Professors Aijun Wang (surgery), Wenbin rural areas Deng (biochemistry), Tingrui Pan (biomedical (3) They are aware that nearly half of all Four years after receiving an M.D. engineering), along with Professors Richard victims know the person who lures them from Seoul National University in 1956, Dr. Levenson and John Voss have received into trafficking Kim earned a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from funding from the UCD Science Translation and (4) Sex trafficking happens to boys and girls the University of Arizona. He completed post- Innovative Research program which funds proof- (5) They are aware of the common locations doctoral training in Arizona, New York and of-concept research and development work. The where youth are targeted and they California. STAIR program identifies university-generated should always be alert. innovations with commercial potential. If someone is in immediate danger, Dr. Kim and his wife Grace actively and generously supported and provided leadership always call 9-1-1. They can also call the My Kin Sing Stephen “Sing” Lee, a postdoctoral Sister’s House crisis line at (916) 930-0626 to API and Korean community activities in the Sacramento area, especially adoptee, musical researcher in the Bruce Hammock lab of the which is available 24 hours a day 7 days a UCD Dept of Entomology won the NIH K99 week. Outside our area, the National Human and politics organizations. For years, they wrote and translated articles for this newspaper Pathway to Independence Award for his work Trafficking Hotline number can be called at with neuropathic pain. 1-888-3737-888. This is a nation-wide, 24-hour, Currents into the Korean language as their toll-free number. contribution to inform, empower and integrate New Panda - Smithsonian National Zoological the Korean community into mainstream Park Conservation Biology Institute announced social and political activities. There was no that giant panda Mei Xiang gave birth to two progressive community activity that they cubs on Aug. 22, 2015. Unfortunately, the were not involved in. Their endorsement was smaller of the two cubs did not survive. widely sought by all. Dr. Kim’s kindness and compassion is memorable. Peregrine Afterschool Classes (Davis) Sept 14-Dec 11 Chinese Institute for K-6th graders, Contributions in Dr. Kim’s honor are Mondays, Thursdays 330-530pm. $312 plus greatly appreciated to: The Luke and Grace Kim $15 for materials. Mandarin, fine arts, music, Endowed Professorship in Cultural Psychiatry, cutlura], movement, academics. Info: www. Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral peregrineschool.org Science, UC Davis Health System, 2230 Stockton Blvd., Sacramento 95817. Thong Hy Huynh Memorial Awards for 2015 presented by the Davis City Council – Alison Pease, Cecilia Escamilla, Manual Medeiros, Currents faces, Judith MacBrine, Sexual Assault Awareness Campaign, Team Davis, Emily Masiel, Ryan new places Nishikawa. Daniel C. Kim, 46, of Sacramento was Kanishk Pandew, senior at Davis High, won first appointed by Governor Brown as Director of prize in Princeton University’s Ten-Minute Play the Department of General Services. Kim has Contest. Page10-September/Fall 2015

Mayoral Internship KDVS guilty of posting racist photo Here are eight things you should know about the Federal Work-Study Program: UCD’s radio station KDVS was recently Program criticized for posting an old photograph of lynched 1 A work-study award does not guarantee you a black people hanging from a tree. The photo was Office of Sacramento’s Mayor Kevin work-study job (students must apply and interview, loaded onto the station’s website by DJ Joaquin Johnson is recruiting Community Relations like any other job; students should obtain guidance “Malefactor” Chavez who hosts a weekly radio show Interns which are unpaid one year commitments. from the campus financial aid office). “Unspeakable Cults” featuring heavy metal music. Duties include general administrative tasks, 2 Not all work-study jobs are on campus. Chavez is not a current UCD student. He has since responding to constituent calls, assisting on 3 Work-study funds are not applied directly to your removed the link and apologized “the images were specific projects, attend meetings, outreaching tuition/fees (the paychecks earned are meant chosen poorly and I failed to give them appropriate to communities, photographing events. Interns for day-to-day expenses and insufficient to cover context. They have been removed.” must be able to work a minimum of 20 hours/ larger costs of tuition and housing). week, have interest in city government and This controversy comes on the heels of a 4 Work-study jobs may be limited (check with your public service, have excellent customer service student employment office on campus). and communication skills, be proficient in series of racially offensive incidents on campus. In May a photo of the women’s lacrosse team members 5 Federal work-study is not guaranteed from year to Microsoft Office and social media, able to year. work in fast paced environments and have dressed as stereotypical Chicanos circulated on social media. In January swastikas were painted on 6 Pay may vary. Work-study earnings do not count transportation. Bilingual skills in Spanish/English, against you when you complete the next year’s graphic design and photography desired. Info: a Jewish fraternity. In May 2014 a “Cinco de Drinko” party was cancelled when complaints were lodged. FAFSA (but must be reported accurately). Jovan Agee at [email protected], 7 Hours worked may vary (depending on the job and 916/808-8828. the employer). USCIS, API language needs For more information, see http://www. Sac Police Commission ed.gov/blog/2015/08/8-things-you-should-know- Applications Open Aug. 11 was the 15th anniversary of the about-federal-work-study-2/ presidential Executive Order 13166 that directs The new Sacramento Community federal agencies to provide meaningful access Police Commission (SCPC) is now accepting to limited English proficiency (LEP) individuals. applications for potential commissioners. The Marking the anniversary, the US Citizenship and application period is open until September 25th. Immigration Services’ (USCIS) multilingual outreach DMV issuing licenses to Interested candidates can apply online. (www. efforts was officially recognized. The Department cityofsacramento.org) of Homeland Security (DHS) approved the USCIS undocumented Language Access Plan, and the Civil Rights and Civil Mayor Johnson and City Council Liberties Office will roll out all of the completed DHS Since January, more than half of the established the SCPC to provide Language Access Plans this fall. new driver’s licenses issued by California went recommendations on bias-free policing and to undocumented immigrants. DMV expects to on the implementation, evaluation, and The USCIS produces educational issue nearly 1.5 million licenses to undocumented sustainability of efforts to strengthen community- and outreach materials in multiple persons within the next three years. It is estimated police relations. The Commission was formed languages and publishes them to that California has nearly 3 million undocumented August 18, 2015. the Multilingual Resource Center which residents, 40 percent to all such immigrants without currently offers materials translated into 24 status in the country. A dozen of states are issuing There are 10 seats open. A description languages. USCIS uses translated materials, drivers licenses to undocumented residents, of the requirements for those seats can be multilingual public engagements, and its National including Connecticut, Maryland and Colorado. found on the City’s Boards and Commissions Customer Service Center uses a toll-free line and webpage. Some positions required a letter in-person appointments. It has held in-person and of support from an organization that fits the virtual engagements in Spanish, Arabic, Korean, specific criteria (faith based, civil rights, business Arabic, Vietnamese, and Chinese-Mandarin and or philanthropic, minority advocacy, youth in hosted its first Cantonese session on August 19th, in poverty, homeless services) There are seats for partnership with several local community viewing persons from academia, a former police officer, parties across the country. someone nominated by Sacramento POA. For additional information, contact Advanced placement grants Francine Tournour, Director of the Office of Public Safety Accountability, at ftournour@ The US Department of Education has cityofsacramento.org or 916-808-7345. awarded $28.4 million in Advanced Placement (AP) grants to 38 states, Washington, D.C., and the Virgin Letters to the Islands. California received over $10.5 million. UCD TRiO Scholars The grants are used to help pay for low- Editor income students taking approved advanced To Currents Editor: help underrepresented placement tests administered by the College Board, I was re-reading an old issue of Currents. the International Baccalaureate Organization and It is so evident that we need to come together students Cambridge International Examinations. By subsidizing as a nation. Asian Americans are not the only test fees for low-income students, the program is race that has issues. Some of the articles are so With the recent renewal of a $1.2 million intended to encourage students to take advanced true. grant, the TRiO Scholars Program is helping 160 UCD placement tests and obtain college credit for high The issue I was reading was a 2014 students with support and services to help them school courses, reducing the time and cost required issue (last year’s). The articles tell what life is stay in school, succeed and graduate. The program to complete a postsecondary degree. Students about back in 2014 or even before that are still holds a 4 week summer component to get incoming should inquire about this program at their high problems and concerns of today. We can’t fix freshmen ready for fall classes. schools. things of the past but it takes us today to set goals for our future to fix and work, and correct Funded by the US Dept. of Education, TRiO for when we pass it can be better tomorrow. Fix is one of several program to support vulnerable Is work-study for you? it today for tomorrow student populations including former foster Reader (7-1-15) youth, first generation college students and others Students looking for another way to help pay underrepresented groups. These students are more for college, federal Work-Study may be an option. It’s the friends we meet along life’s path …who often likely to have difficulty transitioning to the Work-study is a way for students to earn money to help us appreciate the journey! Thank you for university environment and face significant financial pay for school through part-time on (and sometimes all the hard work you do putting out the Currents pressures. Student in the program had an average off) campus jobs. Work-study gives students an newspaper! Enclosed is our contribution to help household income of $21,000 and 72 percent receive opportunity to gain valuable work experience while with the publishing costs. Pell grants which are federal aid for low income pursuing a college degree. However, not every school Joan and Yul Rhee students. participates in the Federal Work-Study Program. Schools that do participate have a limited amount 5-13-2015 Over the past four years TRiO students have of funds they can award to eligible students. It is had higher retention and graduation rates than important for students to fill out the FAFSA as early Thank you so much for your contribution and similarly situated students who could not be included as possible, as some schools award work-study funds warm wishes! in the TRiO program. on a first come, first served basis. -Editor September/Fall 2015-Page11

Walerga Assembly Center

Rededicated delicious goodies! There will be baked goods, unique crafts, plants, food, and raffle prizes. On August 25th, the Walerga Assembly Raffle tickets may be purchased at any ACC Center Memorial was rededicated. In 1942 location. Info: 916/394-6399 x143 or volunteer@ 4,739 Japanese Americans from Sacramento accsv.org, www.accsv.org. and San Joaquin counties were forcibly detained in the Walerga Assembly Center prior to their Nov 20 Fri Transgender Day of Remembrance. removal to incarceration camps. Walerga was one of 15 temporary detention centers. Nov 21 Sat CAPITAL Meeting. 830-11am at After several months at these centers, the US Sacramento Sheriff Central Station (7600 government then shipped a total of 120,000 65th St, Sac) . Info: Sonney Chong, sonney. Japanese Americans from the West Coast to [email protected] 10 American style concentration camps in the Support Group. 12-1pm at ACC Senior interior deserts and swamps where they were Services (7334 Park City Dr, Sac). The group’s Dec 7 Mon ACC Senior Services “Money incarcerated for an average of 2 ½ years. purpose is to provide emotional support, Smart for Older Adults: Prevent Financial encouragement, and affirmation to caregivers Exploitation.” 2:30-4:30pm at Senior Services The Walerga site was designated as of adult family members. Free. Info: Soojin Yoo, (7334 Park City Dr, Sac). This workshop is California Registered Historical Landmark No. 916/393-9026 x326, [email protected], www. designed to provide information and tips to help 934 on May 12, 1980 and the memorial was accsv.org. prevent common frauds, scams and other types unveiled in February 1987. of elder financial exploitation in our community. Oct 17-18 Hiroshima is playing at Yoshi’s Jazz This workshop is partially supported by a grant The rededication celebration included a Club (510 Embarcadero West, Oakland). Info: from PG&E. Free. To register: 916/393-9026 review of Walerga’s history by UCD Professor 510/238-9200, www.yoshis.com/oakland x330, [email protected], www.accsv.org. Isao Fujimoto, Lessons for Today by CAIR-SV Executive Director Basim El-Karra, comments Oct 22 Thu Charlie Chin Monologue on Dec 8 Tue ACC Senior Services “Moving by Assemblymen Ken Cooley. Ancestor Chinese Railroad Worker, sponsored by a Loved One with Memory Loss: Choices, remembrance activities, Obon Dance by Sakura Association of Personal Historians. 630 pm Challenges and Considerations.” 1-2pm at Minyo Doo Koo Kai, and Japanese lantern at Holiday Inn Capitol Plaza (near Macy’s ACC Senior Services (7334 Park City Dr, Sac). hanging ceremony were also on the program. downtown.) Free. Dessert and beverages. This workshop provides you with tools to help The event was sponsored by the Sunrise RSVP: [email protected], 818/219-7572 you decide whether it is time to move your loved Recreation and Park District, Assemblyman one with Alzheimer’s or related dementia from Cooley with the Florin and Sacramento JACLs. Oct 22 Thu Philippine National Day Assn: 25th the home to a residential care facility. Free. Anniversary Gala: Our Pride, Our Legacy, Pre-registration requested. Call: 800/272-3900, Where is Walerga Park? Take I-80, exit Our Future. Honoring Mona Pasquil. 530pm [email protected]. at Madison Avenue, go east ½ mile. Turn north reception, 630pm dinner/program at Falls Event onto College Oak Drive, drive ½ mile north and Center (8280 Elk Grove Blvd, DG). $75/person, Dec 9 Wed ACC Senior Services “Elder then turn west onto Palm Avenue in the Foothill $50/student. Info: Charles Panadero, cpandero. Mediation.” 1-2pm at ACC Senior Services Farms neighborhood. [email protected] (7334 Park City Dr, Sac). Are you struggling with the care of an elderly parent? Is there conflict CSUS digitizes WWII documents Oct 24 Sat My Sister’s House Run for a Safe between you and your siblings about issues Haven. 5K benefit. $40/adults, $25/under 21, regarding the care of your elderly parent? Find CSUS will be digitizing about historic $15/12 and under. 8am registration, 830am out how mediation can help. Free. To register: documents telling the WWII story of 5,121 kids half mile, 9am-5K run at William Land Park 916/393-9026 x330, [email protected], www. Japanese American internees taken from (3800 S.Land Park Dr, Sac). Info: Rosie Dauz accsv.org. Sacramento. A $40,000 grant from the National [email protected], 916/930-0626 Park Service is funding this project. Once PACT Trainings & Gatherings scanned, more than 10,000 documents will be Oct 24 Sat Locke Foundation’s Delta Reunion posted on a CSUS sponsored website for public Banquet. 530 pm at Fortune House Seafood Sept 12-May 14 Tween & Teen Club access. To donate documents, contact librarian (1211 Broadway, Sac). $45/ individuals, $400/ Julie Thomas at 916/278-5240. table of 10 by Oct. 11. Pre-payment required. Oct 16, Nov 3, Dec 2 7-9pm Adult Adoptees of RSVP: Anita Lo, [email protected], Color Support Group 916/208-2949. Oct 14 11am-1230pm Webinar: Becoming an CALENDAR Oct 26 Mon ACC Senior Services “Wills & Adoptive Parent – Handling the Wait Continued from Page 12 Estate Planning.” 10-11am at ACC Senior Services (7334 Park City Dr, Sac). During this Nov 11 11am-1230pm: Ritualizing Adoption and Comedy Crab Feast. 530pm at Sac. presentation, the SLH advocate will outline the Asian Sports Foundation (9040 High Tech Ct, estate planning process and discuss myths and Nov 14 PACT: Bay Regional Adoptive Family EG). $65/early, $70/person at door. Info: Farm traps that many seniors encounter in planning Gathering. 2-5pm at an East Bay location Saephan [email protected], 916/454- their estates. Free. To register: 916/393-9026 Nov 30 930-11am Webinar: PACT National 1892 x330, [email protected], www.accsv.org. Orientation Oct 11 Sun Asian Pacific American Political Oct 28 Wed ACC Senior Services “Retirement Alliance (APAPA): Voters Education Forum. Dec 5 5-7pm Adoptive Parents of Color Circle and Beyond: How Do You Get There and Gathering

Oct 12 Mon ACC Senior Services “Holiday What Do You Do Once You Are There?” 2-3pm at ACC Senior Services (7334 Park Safety.” 11am-12:30pm at ACC Senior Services Info: www.pactadopt.org (7334 Park City Dr, Sac). In all of the excitement, City Dr, Sac). Come to this workshop to learn Halloween and Thanksgiving can be times specifics for planning and saving for retirement, . of peril. Learn about fire hazards, decorating transitioning into retirement, and withdrawal mishaps, auto burglaries and much more. Free. strategies, if you are currently retired. Free. To Youtube viewing To register: 916/393-9026 x330, classes@accsv. register: 916/393-9026 x330, classes@accsv. org, www.accsv.org. org, www.accsv.org. recommendation: Oct 30 Fri Oct 13 Tue ACC Senior Services “Overview Chinese American Council Go to www.youtube.com and search of HICAP, Basics of Medicare, and Medicare of Sacramento: Annual Gold Mountain for “Song of Siberia Performance and Visual Honoring Chief Justice Tani Fraud.” 10-11am at ACC Senior Services (7334 Celebration. Imagery.” It has moving music about the Park City Dr, Sac). This workshop will review Canil-Sakauye, Sylvia Sun Minnick. 530pm at hardships of the Japanese men interned in the basics of Medicare Part A, B, C, D and will Asian Pearl Restaurant (6821 Stockton Blvd, Siberia after World War II. The performance was provide information regarding Open Enrollment. Sac). $65/person. Info: Anna Luong aluong@ by local musicians from Davis and Sacramento, In addition, learn about forms of Medicare fraud; [email protected], 916//601-2795, Joyce Eng including soprano- Miwako Isano; pianist- how to protect yourself from becoming a victim; [email protected] Natsuki Fukasawa; and violinist- Igor Veligan. and how to report suspected fraud. Free. To The music and lyrics were created by Haruko Nov 6 Fri ACC Senior Services 28th Annual O. Sakakibara. The video shows the musical register: 916/393-9026 x330, classes@accsv. Craft and Bake Sale. 9am-4pm at ACC org, www,accsv.org. performance along with English subtitles and Greenhaven Terrace (1180 Corporate Way, Sac). images in paintings and photos of the Japanese Come shop for beautifully crafted items and Oct 14, Dec 9 Wed ACC Family Caregiver men interned in Siberia. Page12-September/Fall 2015

CALENDAR Sept 12 Sat CAPITAL Meeting. 830-11am at Sept 21 Mon My Sister’s House Free Divorce Sept 30 Wed Opening Doors: Starting Your Sacramento Sheriff Central Station (7600 65th 101 Workshop. 530-730pm at 577- Freeport Own Business/Growing Existing One. St, Sac) . Guest: CSUS Presidenti Robert Suite 48, Sac. Reserve a spot: 916/930-0626. Workshops for West Sacramento residents and Helsen. Info: Sonney Chong, sonney.chong@ business owners. 530-730pm at WS City Hall. att.net Sept 22 Tue ACC Senior Services “Fall Info: [email protected], 916/492-2591 Prevention.” 1-2pm at ACC Senior Services X213 Sept 12 Sat Commemoration of the 70th (7334 Park City Dr, Sac). In this workshop, you Anniversary of VJ Day, WWII, sponsored by will learn how you can reduce the risk of falling Oct 1 Thu ACC Senior Services “Senior Commemoration Committee of the WWII VJ in your home, improve your balance, increase Nutrition Issues: How Do I Get Mom to Eat?” Day. 130-4pm at Florin Service Center, Sac. your awareness of hazards outside of your 1-2pm at ACC Senior Services (7334 Park City Sheriff’s Dept, (7000 65th St, Sac). Honoring home, and what to do if you fall. $5. To register: Dr, Sac). In this FREE workshop, we will address WWII VJ Veterans, historical photo exhibition, VJ 916/393-9026 x330, [email protected], www. nutrition concerns for seniors. We will discuss movies. Free. accsv.org. tips and techniques for getting seniors to eat (more), ideas for getting more vitamins and fiber Sept 12 Sat My Sister’s House Volunteer Sept 23 Wed ACC Senior Services “Fall into their diets, and how to make food and eating Orientation and Domestic Violence Advocate Prevention 101.” 1-2pm at ACC Senior more appealing. Free. To register: 916/393-9026 Training. 40 hours of training over 5 Saturdays. Services (7334 Park City Dr, Sac). Join certified x330, [email protected], www.accsv.org. 930-530pm. Learn about: domestic violence FallProof™ balance and mobility specialist and and its history, API community+culture, evidence-based Stepping On Master Trainer, Oct 2-Nov 6 Wed ACC Senior Services community resources for victims and survivors, Kelly Ward, The Fall Prevention Lady, in this “Better Choices, Better Health® Workshop.” crisis line skill development, holistic, culturally dynamic workshop and learn about factors that 2-4:30pm at ACC Senior Services (7334 Park competent approach to serving immigrant and increase the risk of falling and what you can do City Dr, Sac). Learn strategies to take control refugee women. Info: [email protected] reduce that risk. $6. To register: 916/393-9026 of your chronic conditions, lower your stress 24/7 MULTILINGUAL HELPLINE: 916/428-3271. x330, [email protected], www.accsv.org. levels, and communicate better with your doctor. These workshops are also recommended for Sept 12 Sat American Muslim Voice Peace Sept 24 Thu ACC Senior Services “Senior caregivers. Free. To register: 916/393-9026 Convention: Hate Hurts American: Can We Scams – Just Say No!” 2:30-4pm at ACC x330, [email protected], www.accsv.org. Turn the Tide of Hate into Love? 430-10pm Senior Services (7334 Park City Dr, Sac). In this at CA Automobile Museum (2200 Front St, Sac). workshop, we will provide information on how to Oct 3 Sat 5th Annual Sacramento Aloha $35/person, student+seniors/$20. Speakers: protect your assets and recognize various types Festival. 10am-6pm at Cal Expo (1600 Terry Holdbrooks, Jordan Richter, Komal Amad. of scams, especially telephone scams. This Exposition Blvd, Sac). 930am opening Info:www.amuslimvoice.org workshop is partially supported by a grant from ceremony. Native Hawaiian and Pacific PG&E. Free. To register: 916/393-9026 x330, Islander entertainment, Education, health and Sept 12 Sat Asian Community Center [email protected], www.accsv.org. community awareness exhibits, workshops, Fundraiser. Food & Wine Tasting, Music, Silent speakers, presentations, crafts, Keiki Korner- Auction & Raffle. 4-8pm at ACC Center (7334 Sept 25 Fri ACC Senior Services “Take a arts and crafts, Cultural Village, vendors, food Park City Dr, Sac). $75/person. Info Kimberly Stand Against to Prevent Falls.” 9am-12pm and beverages. Booths available. Info: Sarah Feng 916/393-9026 at ACC Senior Services (7334 Park City Dr, Fonseca, resources.sacalohafest.gmail.com, Sac). Free fall risk screening services and 916/486-6399 Sept 13 ABAS 27th Annual Golf Invitational. educational resources, including multi-sensory 8am shotgun start at Turkey Creek Golf balance assessment, medication screening, Oct 3 Sat My Sister’s House Annual High Tea . Club (Lincoln, CA). $150/golfer. Info: golf@ home modification consultation, blood pressure 11am-1pm at Chinese Community Church (5600 abaslawfoundation.org. checks, and more. Hospital co-sponsor: UC Gilgunn Way, Sac). $45/person. RSVP at www. Davis Medical Center. Contact: Christy Adams, my-sisters-house.org. Sept 15, 18 UOP McGeorge School of Law- 916/734-9794. Free Legal Help with US Citizenship. 530- Oct 5 Mon Invictus Foundation: 2nd Annual 7pm. On Sept 15 at Sac.Food Bank & Family Sept 26 Sat Parkview Presbyterian Church’s Champions Golf Classic. 8am at Valley High Services (2469 Rio Linda Blvd, Sac) and on Annual Breakfast Buffet. 8-11am at 727 T St, Country Club (9595 Franklin Blvd, E.G.) Info: Sept 18 at SFBFS (3333 Third Ave, Sac). RSVP Sac. Free parking at 8th St. lot between S and www.invictusfoundation.net, Norm De Young required 916/340-6080. T. $15 donation. 6-10 $6, 5 and under-free. Take [email protected], 916/230-3684 out available, raffle prizes. Info: 916/433-4464 Sept 16 Wed Asian Resources: Link to Law Oct 5 CAAMFEST Extended Submission Enforcement. Information about careers in law Sept 26 Sat Sacramento Asian Sports Deadline. Festival March 10-20, 2006. Info: enforcement. Series of 6 sessions. 6pm. Info: Foundation Hiroshima 2015 “Another Night [email protected] Farm Saephan, [email protected], to Remember!” 7pm at Crest Theater (1013 916/454-1892 K St, Sac). $50 lower section seats, $40 upper Oct 6 Tue Asian American Journalist Assn: section. Tickets: www.ticketfly.comor Crest Chef’s Showcase. Cooking demonstrations, Sept 16-Nov 22 Monstress, one act play by Theater’s box office. Info: www.sasfquest.org appetizers,wine and beer. Guest chefs: Billy Ngo Philip Kan Gotanda and Sean San Jose. Two (Kru Contemporary Japanese Cuisine & Fish tales about the rich history of Filipino American Sept 27 Sac. Chinese Culture Foundation: Face), Kevin O’Connor (Saddle Rock). 6-730pm life in California. ACT’S Stand Theater, SF. Info: College and Scholarship Application and at Elliot Fouts Gallery (1831 P St Sac). $50/ act-sf.org Career Planning. 1pm at JLK High (6715 Gloria person, $25/student. Info: aaja_sacramento@ Dr, Sac). Free to SCFF members, $5/non- yahoo.com, www.aajasacramento.org Sept 17 Thu Chinese for Affirmative Action members. Info: [email protected], 916/672-2267 46th Anniversary Celebration of Justice Oct 8 Thu Iu-Mien Community Services Banquet. 6pm reception, 7pm dinner/stage Sep 29 Tue ACC Senior Services “Lighting Annual Banquet “Honoring Our Journey.” program at Far East Restaurant (631 Grant for Safety.” 10am-12pm at ACC Senior Services Honoring Vern Seng Saefong (Elder Council) Ave, SF) Honorees Emily Lee and Stella Lee (7334 Park City Dr, Sac). This workshop will and The Stockton Blvd Partnership. 6pm at Wong, Alliance of South Asians Taking Action, demonstrate different ways to utilize lighting to A&A Tasty Restaurant (6601 Florin Road, Sac). Black Alliance for Just Immigration. Keynote better illuminate the environment at night while $50/person. Info: [email protected], Jeff Chang. MC Richard Lui of MSNBC. $200/ increasing your feeling of security. Free. To 916/383-3083, www.unitediumien.org person. Sponsorships. Info: [email protected], register: 916/393-9026 x330, classes@accsv. 415/274-6760 X303 org, www.accsv.org. Oct 8, Nov 12, Dec 10 Thu ACC Senior Services Free Phone & PG&E Bill Review th Sept 19 Sat CAIR-SW 13 Annual Banquet Sep 30 Wed ACC Senior Services Clinics. 2:30-4:30pm at ACC Senior Services “Strengthening Our Voices, Advancing “Renovating Your Home for Retirement.” (7334 Park City Dr, Sac). Are you paying Together.” 530pm at CSUS Ballroom (6000 1-2pm at ACC Senior Services (7334 Park too much for phone service? Is your PG&E J St, Sac). Keynote: Dalia Mogahed (Institute City Dr, Sac). Learn which renovation projects bill unusually high? Bring a recent phone bill for Social Policy and Understanding). can accommodate the needs of seniors, can (residential or wireless) or PG&E bill to see if Special guests: Dr. Altaf Husain MSW, PhD increase your home’s resale value, and can we can save you money. Info: Susan Sarinas, (Howard University, Islamic Society of North improve your chances for a speedy, attractive 916/393-9026 x339, [email protected], www. America), Pastor Joy Johnson (Sacramento offer when you decide to sell. Free. To register: accsv.org. Area Congregations Together). Tickets $50/ 916/393-9026 x330, [email protected], www. nd person, table of 10 $450, babysitting $15. Info: accsv.org. Oct 10 Sat Asian Resources Inc 2 Crab 916/441-6269, [email protected]. Tickets at Continued on Page 11 cairsvbanquet.eventbrite.com