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Equality. Lost: Same-sex Marriage is ~ Civil ·Rights Issue of the 21 st Century The elections are over, but workers return to their nonnallives, Tun for many couples the battle and Larry need to fight on towards an JACL to Continue to Press has just begun. uncertain future. To illustrate their cause, Aaron's color• for Marriage Equality By LYNDA LIN ful crayon artwork urging people to vote Following passage of Proposition 8 in Assistant Editor "no" on Proposition 8 still hangs in the California, the JACL has joined with other civil front window of their home. rights groups to subrnit an amicus brief in sup• It's been a painful few weeks for For them and many other same-sex port of the Petition for Writ Mandate in the case Tim Ky and his husband Larry couples, Nov. 4 marked both a major of Strauss, et al v. Horton, et al. Riesenbach. After California voters milestone in the fight for equality with the The Writ requests that the Calif. Supreme reinstated the ban on same-sex mar• election of the nation's first African Court issue an order invalidating Proposition 8 in riages, their six-year-old son Aaron American president and a major setback its entirety. asked, "Will you pretend you're not with the passage of Proposition 8 in As an amici, JACL supports the petitioners' gay?" California and similar constitutional bans claim that no Californian should be denied equal "No," Tun responded. ''We need in Arizona arid Florida. protection. to live proudly." "It was such a bittersweet moment," "The JACL supports the invalidation of And so the small family from said Tun, who is first generation Chinese Proposition 8 because it effectively eliminates South Pasadena is maintaining a PHOTO: P. c. STAFF American. After over 11 years of dating the protections of the state's Equal Protection brave front despite their heartbreak. JUST THE THREE OF US: After the elections, Tim Ky and domestic partnership, Tun and Larry Clause for same-sex couples with regards to their Because long after the new U.S. (left) anq L.my Riesenbach (right) told their son legally married June 17 in a small West president takes office and campaign Aaron , 6, to continue living proudly. See SAME-SEX MARRIAGE/Page 6 See MARRIAGE EaUALITYlPage 6 ALove 01 Science Breeds a Lile 01 Humanity Philly's Chinatown Who Killed Florida's Amendment 1? Fights On To Stop Dr. Gordon Sato DECLARATION OF RIGHTS with some of the Casino Development ic rights.--All natural Eritreans he has helped through By MIYU KATAOKA Reporter ar ~ the right to e n joy and his Manzanar Project. . ·41ness, to be rewar d ed for Many of the marchers held signs prot ect His next project is that read, "No Casino in Chinatown" in Mauritania. and "No Casino." Another sign read, "Foxwoods says: 'You call it an KAMIYA FAMILY PHOTO COURTESY OF THE MORIKAMI MUSEUM AND JAPANESE GARDENS Dr. Gordon Sato has invented a pioneering cancer drug, addiction. I call it a customer base. ,,, Despite the efforts by several The Kamiyas, of the Yamato Colony, are a part of Florida's APA legacy. but much of his life has been dedicated to helping the peo• organizations to prevent a slots par• ple of Africa through his Manzanar Project. lor from being built just blocks away In the Sunshine State, the motto 'we'll get them next time' By CAROLINE AOYAGI-STOM from Chinatown, a Philadelphia City may not be good enough. Executive Editor Council committee recently voted unanimously in favor of a zoning By LYNDA LIN Ever since he was a child, Dr. Gordon Sato has loved science. He's always change. Assistant Editor believed that science could be.used to help people all over the world. The five-hour hearing ended in It's a belief he carried with him to outcries by community residents In an election for change, old racism has stayed the same in Florida with the Manzanar Intemment Camp, a who oppose Foxwoods Casino from the defeat of a ballot initiative .!hat would have ended a legacy of anti-Asian desolate area near California's Death building the casino in their commu• sentiment. . Valley where he spent two of his nity. "It would have been an ideal time to close this dark chapter in the nation's teenage years. "We definitely did not get a fair history," said Dennis Murasaki, a longtime Miami resident and JACL mem• At the age of.80 today, Sato is a process," Helen Gym, a board mem• ber. "But it didn't happen." world-renowned cellular biologist, an ber of Asian Americans United, said. If passed, Amendment 1 would have removed a 1926 provision from the inventor of the cancer drug Erbitux. ''There was no acknowledgement of state's constitution barring Asian immigrants who were op.ce labeled as He's also single-handedly helping the Chinatown's opposition to the casi• "aliens ineligible from citizenship" from owning land. impoverished African peoples of no." Instead, voters at the Nov. 4 general elections reaffinned Florida's status as Eritrea and Mauritania through his Before the hearing; about 600 the only state in the nation with a racially discriminatory law of a bygone era aptly named Manzanar Project. people, many of them children, still on.. the books. Amendment 1 failed with 52 percent voting "no" and 48 See MANZANAR PROJECTlPage 12 See CASINOlPage 10 See AMENDMENT 1IPage 11

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Obits ...... 15 ENTEIlTAlN;\U:NT P\GE ') NATIONSan Francisco, CA 94115, tel: 4151921- ing an approximately 30 percent decline. The market under the long-term guidelines' estab• world is experiencing now. We acknowl• 5225 fax: 4151931-4671, www.jacl.org decline in value of financial investments is lished in the Investment Policy," said Jeffrey edge that our investments are not for imme• JACL President: Larry Oda impacting not only corporate America, but Hattori, chair of the IPc. ''The JACL is fortu• diate use, but for long-term stability. The Nat'l Director: ~d Mori nonprofit organizations with money invested nate to have !PC members who are well decline in the market demands our attention Pacific Citizen Board of Directors: Margie in the market, including the JACL. versed in the market and are dedicated to pro• but is not cause for alarm. Members can be Yamamoto, chairperson; Vacant, EDC; Lisa Market declines discussed in most head• tecting our investments during these turbulent assured that JACL's investments are in safe Hanasono, MDC; Kathy Ishimoto, CCDC; lines, describe stock indices, such as the Dow. times." Judith Aono, NCWNPDC; Justine Kondo, hands .• PNWDC; Jeff Itami, IOC; Ted Namba, The JACL's portfolio includes stocks, but also , Going forward the !PC and national board PSWDC; Naomi Oren, Youth. includes cash and bonds, which are generally are closely watching our investments and The JACL Investment Committee mem• r------, less volatile than equities. As such, the JACL's overall [mancial position as there are immedi• bers include: Jeffrey Hattori, chair; Doug NEWSfAD DEADLINE: FRIDAY investments have not declined as much as , ate consequences for our operating budgets for Urata, secretary; Richard Yada; James BEFORE DATE OF ISSUE. Editorials, news and the opinions headline equity indices. In the 10 months end• the current and upcoming years. The !PC is Aoki; Beth Renge; Kenta Takamori; expressed by columnists other than the ing Oct. 31, 2008, our investments have reviewing the portfolio on a more frequent Floyd Shimomura; non-voting'members: national JACL president or national declined approximately 24 percent from $9.4 basis to monitor market changes and the Larry Oda, Josh Spry, Floyd Mori; Clyde director do not necessarily reflect JACL million to $7.1 million based on estimated fig- national board is taking steps to revise the Izumi, staff. policy. Events and products advertised in the Pacific Citizen do not carry the implicit endorsement of the JACL or us the talents of some of the brightest college We are working jointly with OCA, NAVASA, this publication. We reserve the right to NAT'L DIRECTOR'S REPORT edit articles. minds in the nation. Some of our newer pro• and other Asian American groups in increas• • grams are aimed specifically at the age demo• ing our effectiveness and fund raising capaci• ------~ graphic that will provide new and fresh leader• ty. 'We are no longer an organization that PACIFIC CITIZEN (ISSN: 0030-8579) is a I ship in the decades ahead. works exclusively for and with the JAcommu• published semi-monthly except once in By FLOYD MORI December and January by the Japanese So rather than maintaining the status quo, nity. American Citizens League, 250 E. First we are looking forward to the future with new The communications function of JACL Street, Ste. 301, Los Angeles, CA. 90012 One of my favorite movies is "Fiddler on ideas and new programs in will need a more aggressive OFFICE HOURS - Mon.-Fri., 9 a.m.-5 the Roof." The music is outstanding, and the which our young people and movement towards the p.m. Pacific lime. ©2008. acting is superb. And, of course, the storyline families can become an integral Internet. With new and excit- Annual subscription rates: NON• that pits traditional ways part. 'We are no longer ing platforms that have high MEMBERS: 1 year-$40, payable in of life against the back• With civil and human rights an organization that use among younger genera• advance. Additional foreign postage per drop of a changing soci• year (1st class) - Canada and Mexico as our backdrop, we continue works exdusively tions, it will be necessary to $55, Japan and overseas $60 (Subject ety is a real event in the our work to bring equality and shi~t towards expanding and to change without notice.) Postage paid lives of all who are part fairness to the laws of our for and with the JA perfecting the use of our Web at Los Angeles, Calif. of the recent immigrant nation. But the scope of equali- community. ' site for communicating, ' Pennission: No part of this publication history in America. We ty and fairness reaches beyond fundraising, and developing may be reproduced without express per• can all "relate" to this our own Japanese American membership. While many are mission of the publisher. Copying for conflict in so many community and is broader than wedded to the printed media, other than personal or internal reference aspects of our lives. . what is defined as a right in our Constitution. more are discovering the limitless opportu- use without the express permission of Institutionally, we face the same dilemma. P.c. is prohibited. Our right to good health and access to health nity that lies within the reaches of the com• How can we maintain the strong and impor• care is a new initiative where we are 'seeking puter for both individuals and the organiza• POSTMASTER: Send address changes tant traditions that made the JACL unique and to: Pacific Citizen, clo JACL National fairness in our institutions: We are supporting tion. Headquarters, 1765 Sutter St., San a cut above other community-based organiza• the rights of Filipino veterans and working to - Change is inevitable, necessary, but can Francisco, CA 94115. tions while at the same time move forward in lessen the bigotry against Muslims and Sikhs. be positive and beneficial . • a different kind of society and community than in the past? Can we rebuke old institutional JACL MEMBERS barriers to progress and at the same time Change of Address embrace new and innovative avenues to Edi~or progress and success in our programs? This is Letter to the If you have moved, please the challenge we face. send infonnation to: In many respects we have begun the process Prop. 8 is Unconstitutional National JACL of change. While we like to see an increase in the number of units within the JACL, we have All laws are not fair. All laws are not just, and the ' 1765 Sutter St. . recognized that there is a need for some con• majority isn't always right. San Francisco, CA solidation and realignment of chapters and dis• The rights of the minority must be protected, and, 94115 tricts. We have moved from the biennial in this country, they are. Where? In the national convention to an annual convention Allow 6 weeks for address changes. Constitution with its Bill of Rights. which will allow better continuity and more . Prop 8 is neither fair nor just. Prop 8 is unconsti• To avoid intenuptions in receiving effective budgeting. tutional. Onward! your pc., please notify your paillnas• The national board reflects a newer genera• ter to include periodicals in your tion of leaders and we have been able to bring MAS HASHIMOTO change of address CUSPS Form 3575) younger staff members on board with the addi• WATSONVILLE, CALIF. tion of a fellowship program that provides for PHOTO: KERRY KANEICHI PACIFIC Ei CmZEN NATIONAL NOV. 21-0EC. 18,2008 3 Asian Pacific Americans Show Strength in Nov. 4 Elections Immigration reform is major at California State University, new administration to enact immi• identified as the priority Fullerton was elected to the city gration policies that promote family issue under a new adminis• council. unity. tration. And in Ohio, Steve Austria, who "Most of the Asian American is of Filipino descent, became Obio's community immigrates through the By P. C. Staff and Associated Press first APA representative in Congress, family immigration system, and one taking the total number to 10. of the priorities we will push in a The former silent minority is now In this election cycle, 12 APAs ran new Congress and new administra• entering the most engaged and visi• for Congress and over 50 ran for tion includes resolving family visa ble era of its political history. state offices throughout the country, backlogs so that someone is not The Nov. 4 elections saw histori• according to the Congressional waiting over 20 years to be reunited cally high turnout rates of Asian Asian Pacific American Caucus with his or her sister," Tuyet Le, Pacific Americans and other minori• (CAPAC). executive director of Asian ty communities, according to "I was honored to be part of this American Institute of Chicago, said. APIAVote, a national civic participa• historic campaign of both thought tion organization that helped to get ' and action," Rep. Mike Honda, • out the APA vote in 14 states. CAPAC chair, said. In the presidential elections, a Honda, along ' with Reps. Doris APAs in Election '08 national poll revealed that 62 per• Matsui and Curtis Oda, were re• cent of APAs voted for Se. Barack seven years, to 15 million, said Jane political muscle at the ballot box, but elected to their seats in the House of APAs are flexing their power in Obama, and 35 percent voted for Junn, an associate professor of polit• also more APAs leaders have made Representatives. many key political offices. Here Sen. John McCain. ical science at Rutgers University. history in their ascension to political With this emerging political is a snapshot of some APAs lead• Civil rights groups across the Educated people are more likely to office. power, APA community leaders say ers who were (re )elected to office nation have been weighing in heavi• vote, and 50 percent of the APA pop• In Irvine, Calif., voters elected this is only the beginning of civic in this election cycle. * lyon the impact of the historic elec• ulation has a college degree, com• ' their fJfSt nonwhite mayor, a first engagement. Mazie Hirono - U.S. House, tion. pared with 25 percent of the U.S. generation Korean American who "We as a community now face the ' District 2, Hawaii 'The election of Senator Obama . population. credits his success in part to knock• tasks ahead of working with a new Mike Honda - U.S. House, brings ethnic minorities a step clos• APAs also have the highest natu• ing on 10,000 doors. Sukhee Kang, administration and Congress, and District 14, Calif. er to the time when people can be ralization rate among min9rity 56, served two terms as city council• ensuring that APA concerns and pol• Doris Matsui - U.S. House, looked upon as equals," said JACL groups. man before he became one of the icy issues are included in the agenda District 5, Calif. National Director Floyd Mori in a "Asian Americans around the very few Korean American mayors moving forward," Eunsook Lee, Curtis Oda - state House, statement congratulating Obama country loudly and clearly raised in the U.S. APIAVote board co-chair, said. District 14, Utah and thanking McCain for his "many their voices via the ballot box," In the nearby city of Placentia, 19- APA civil rights groups say the Warren T. Furutani - Calif. years of dedicated service to this Stewart H. Kwoh, executive director year-old Jeremy Yamaguchi has next big challenge is immigration Assembly, 55th District country." of the Asian Pacific American Legal become the youngest elected official reform. Nearly two-thirds of APAs The number of APAs in the u.S. Center, said. in the country's history. The son of a are immigrants, so reform is a prior• * Not a complete listing. has grown 25 percent in the last Not only did more APAs flex their police officer and political science ity. APA groups will be urging the JACL Urges for Passage of Tule Lake Study Bill JACL Joins Amicus Brief Lawmakers are expected to 'Challenging U.S. Detention take up the issue in the Congressionallame-duck The 1ACL has offered r----...___ --~---=-~=== session. its support of an amicus brief in Iqbal v. Ashcroft, By Pacific Citizen Staff an important civil rights case challenging the U.S. In one of the first moves in of a government's post-9fl1 Congressional lame-duck session, unlawful detention and lawmakers are expected to vote on mistreatment of Arab and an omnibus land bill that includes Muslim men. the Tule Lake study provision to Citing a common history lame-duck session to take up discus• who protested their incarceration. make the former World War II of discrimination during sion on the stalling economy. In 2006" the Tule Lake internment camp a part of the World War II when Proponents of the measure say law• Segregation Center was designated National Park system. Japanese Americans were makers are expected to call for a clo• as a National Historic Landmark, the denied their Constitutional The Omnibus Public Land ture on the bill to end debate and nation's highest honor to a historic Management Act of 2008 contains rights and incarcerated in desolate internment camps, the JACL continues to vote. site. The designation was the first many bills to support National Park work to safeguard the civil rights of all persons within the U.S. Days before Congress went into step towards the development of a Service activities across the United The lawsuit was brought by Javaid Iqbal, a Pakistani Muslim who said he . session, the JACL called on its visitor's center to preserve and inter• States. Among them is a section was mistreated in a federal prison and classified as a "person of interest" members and supporters to contact pret the history of JAs incarcerated which would authorize the National because of his race and religion. He said he was continually beaten, subject their senators to urge for support on during WWII. Park Service to conduct a special to extreme temperatures and daily body-cavity searches without any evi• the bill and Thle Lake study. This NPS study will be the next resoUrces study to determine the fea• dence of ties to terrorism. 'The internment camps of World crucial step in the preservation of the sibility of establishing the Tule Lake Iqbal was deported on unrelated identity theft violations, but was never War II, which unjustly housed historic site. The omnibus bill is a Segregation Center as a unit of the found to have engaged in terrorism-related activity. . Japanese Americans who were bipartisan proposal. President According to a recent national report, thousands of Muslims were the sub• NPS. uprooted from their homes, consti• George W. Bush has indicated that "Along with other groups, the jects of "preventative detention" after 9/11 where they were held by federal tute a sad part of our nation's histo• he' would sign it if Congress passes officials until cleared of any wrongdoing. JACL supports the study authoriza• ry," Mori said in the same statement. it. But if Congress does not, negotia• tion for the Tule Lake segregation The brief maintains that national security is not a sufficient basis for tar• Tule Lake in Northern California tions will have to start all over again. center in California," JACL National geting a group for preventative detention based on race or religion. was unique among the 10 War 'The preservation of the camps JAs during WWII were never charged with crimes against their own gov• Director Floyd Mori said in a Nov. Relocation Authority camps because provides a needed reminder of the 11 letter to Sen. Daniel K. Akaka, D• ernment, so the "perspective of history in the World War II case should serve it was where the WRA and Army civil liberties which were violated at Hawaii. as a lesson to those who sit in judgment during times of crisis in today's chose to segregate the 12,000 JAs the time. It is something that must Congress returned Nov. 17 for its never happen again," Mori said . • world," JACL National Director Floyd Mori said in a statement. • 4 NOV. 21-0EC. 18, 2008 NATIONAL PACIFlC ~ CmZEN Work Starts on New Pearl Harbor Visitor's Center · National Newsbytes By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press Writer By P.e. Staff and Associated Press

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii• Hate Crimes Against APAs on the Rise Aging, frail survivors of the 1941 WASHINGTON• Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor gin• The FBI's annual hate gerly sifted dirt as they helped to crimes report shows that break ground on a new visitor's cen• violence against APAs ter for the USS Arizona Memorial. and other minority The current visitor's center - groups has increased across the harbor from the sub• since the previous year. merged battleship - is sinking The report, "Hate because it was built on reclaimed Crime Statistics 2007," land, causing water to seep into its contains data from the basement. Engineers estimate the resolve, he said. The building is due to be complet• largest number of law building will last only a few more "We must always remember our ed by December 2010. enforcement agencies in years. history. While there were painfulles• The Pearl Harbor Memorial Fund the program's 17-year history. But many hate crimes may not be included in The center is where visitors board sons leamed, it is also the source of has raised nearly $54 million of the the FBI's statistics. Some law enforcement agencies choose not to report their ferries taking them to the white our inner strength and our spirit," estimated $58 million cost of the crime statistics to the FBI. memorial straddling the sunken hull Inouye said. "We must never allow center. Donations from individuals Civil rights advocates say that the FBI's statistics make a strong case for of the Arizona. It's also where they that torch to flicker out." will cover more than $22 million of passing the Local Law Enforcemerit Hate Crime Prevention Act, which will learn about the attack through Inouye, 84, witnessed Japanese it, while the federal government is improve both hate crime reporting and anti-hate crime enforcement. exhibits and films, making it vital for fighter planes flying over Oahu on putting up $29.6 million and the conveying the history of the day that Dec. 7, 1941, when he was a 17- state. of Hawaii is paying $2 million. ·SU Takes Steps Toward Asian Studies Minor launched the United States into year-old high school student living · The current center, built in 1980, NEW YORK-After World War II. in Honolulu. He served as a first-aid was designed to accommodate about 10 years of fighting for The National Park Service, which volunteer, helping to treat civilians 2,000 visitors a day. But more than Asian American Studies, runs the memorial, and the Arizona wounded when misfired U.S. anti• 4,000 people have been visiting Syracuse University stu• Memorial Museum Association, aircraft shells fell on homes and daily on average since the 1980s, dents are one step closer to which supports it, have spearheaded businesses. straining its resources. realizing their dream. A the effort to build a replacement vis• In 1943, he joined the 442nd The Arizona sank nine minutes committee set up to make ~ing itor's center so they can continue to Regimental Combat Team, a highly after hit by an aerial bomb the program a reality has tell the story of Pearl Harbor. decorated unit of mostly Japanese dropped by a Japanese plane. It is an been established. U.S. Sen. Daniel K Inouye, D• Americans. In 2000, President underwater grave for more than The committee, set up Hawaii, a World War II veteran, told Clinton presented him with the 1,000 sailors and Marines who wer last semester, has gained the several hundred people gathered Medal of Honor. unable to escape. faculty support and creat• for the groundbreaking Nov. 5 that Herb Weatherwax, a 91-year-old On the Net: ed an official name for the proposal: Transnational Asian Studies Program. walking through the visitor 's center attack survivor, said the new visi• USS Arizona Memorial: The ultimate goal is to create a Transnational Asian Studies minor. The exposes people to the devastation tor's center would help survivors http://www.nps.gov/usar/ committee hopes to officially propose the program next fall to enroll students and despair Americans felt during and the park service tell the story of Pearl Harbor Memorial Fund: in the program for the first time in 2010. the attack. the attack. "I just hope that I live http://www.pearlharbormemoriai.com/ It also instills in them unwavering long enough for it," he said. N.Y. Muslim'Deli Owner Says Police Targeted Her Business Major Study of Chinese Americans Debunks 'Model Minority' Myth WHITE PLAINS, N.y'-A deli owner in suburban New York says police targeted her business for harassment because she is a Muslim and an Arab. "In the long run, increasing men• Chinese Americans, one of the Haifi Tamirni filed a federal civil rights lawsuit accusing the city of most highly educated groups in the toring efforts and leadership oppor• Yonkers and 14 of its police officers of targeting her downtown deli by selec• nation, are confronted by a "glass tunities can enhance the Chinese tively enforcing a local ordinance requiring businesses to close between mid• American community." ceiling," unable to realize full occu• night and 6 a.m. She claims the officers told her Muslims did not contribute Yet this is only half the story. As pational stature and success to match to the city. Shinagawa points .out, the Chinese their efforts, concludes a new study She also claims much of the harassment was directed at her following the American community is character• from the University of Maryland. Sept. 11 attacks. ized by extreme diversity. It is split The returns on Chinese Yonkers City Counsel Frank Rubino said he was unable to comment on nearly 50-50 between poorly educat• Americans' investment in education the lawsuit because the city had not yet been served with the complaint. and "sweat equity" are "generally ed recent immigrants from China lower than those in the general and report goes through 2006, the latest and a more settled, acculturated, Colorado Rejects Ballot Measure available. non-Hispanic White population," educated and prosperous group of to Ban Affirmative Action says the report, "A Chinese "Contrary to popular beliefs, older immigrants and second gener• DENVER-Colorado became the American Portrait". It adds that, on Chinese Americans· often face extra ation Americans. These earlier first state to defeat a referendum that average, Chinese American profes• barriers to economic success, despite arrivals came mainly from Taiwan would bar affirmative action programs sionals in the legal and medical their educational achievements," and Hong Kong. based on race, gender and national ori• fields earn as much as 44 percent says principal investigator Larry H. "It makes for a rather bi-polar pic• gin in public college admissions and less than their White counterparts. Shinagawa, a demographer and ture of wealth and pOverty, high and financial aid decisions. Based on extensive U.S. Census Americans Studies professor who low education levels, white and blue Two days after the general election, data and independent interviews, the directs the University of Maryland collars," Shinagawa says. "It's a pat• officials finally reported that Colorado study ~ffers the most comprehensive AA Studies Program. tern you expect to see after a wave of voters rejected the ballot measure by a and current portrait of the highly "Time and hard work simply immigration. But in this case, the razor-thin margin. diverse Chinese American popula• haven't been enough for Chinese long-term settled population has yet Similar measures were passed in tion. Americans to fully enter into main• to achieve full equal treatment." • Michigan, California and Washington in recent years. Nebraska voters also The research was conducted by stream social and professional cir• approved the ban on Nov. 4. the University of Maryland's Asian cles," Shinagawa adds. "I suspect The full text of "A Portrait of According to the Chronicle of Higher Education, many higher education American Studies Program with there are many reasons such as lan• Chinese Americans" is available officials in Colorado and Nebraska opposed the proposals - a ban on affir• support from OCA, a national com• guage barriers or simply the difficul• online at: mative action programs would force institutions to significantly alter their munity-based organization of Asian ties that go along with being identi• http://www.aast.umd.edu/ocapor• admissions operations. • Pacific Americans. The data in the fied as an 'outsider.'" trait.html. PAClFlC ~ CITIZEN NATIONAL NOV. 21-DEC. 18, 2008 5

AP... . ';'-ftA'-' S.,," $1,000,000· Approved for MIS N in the Hi.$toric Site at NPS Presidio of S.F. ews A November 22 event at the park will celebrate the pro• By Pacific Citizen Staff ject's progress.

Inouye to Chair Key Senate Committee Legislation has been signed into Sen. Daniel K. Inouye will become chairman of law by the President that provides the Senate Appropriations Committee. The Hawaii $1,000,000 for the support of a Democrat will take over in January when the new Military Intelligence Service (MIS) Congress convenes. Historic Learning Center in the U.S. Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W. Va., stepped down as Presidio of San Francisco. chairman and recommended Inouye, who was in line The provision was included in an for the post by seniority. Senate Majority Leader omnibus bill to continue funding Harry Reid, D-Nev., confinned Inouye as the new from the federal government until chairman. next spring at the request of House The committee, the largest in the Senate, is responsible for the 13 annual Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. and Building 640 was the first home for the MIS language school. appropriations bill~ that pay for government operations. Inouye is currently Congressman Mike Honda, D-Calif. the chairman of the panel's defense subcommittee. Senator Daniel Akaka, D-Hawaii, lived it." Partner Ceremony at the historic site was also credited with supporting Democrats laud County Chairwoman with . More than 6,000 MIS participants of the Military Intelligence Service the funding. served during the War, mostly in the Language School at Presidio Statewide ·Maggie· Award "As Americans, this is a proud day . Pacific, participating in every major Building 640 near Crissy Field West Terri Nomura, a Democratic Party chairwoman of Washington's for us to have the public support for campaign. They provided vital intel• in San Francisco on Nov. 22 from Jefferson County, has received the Warren G. Magnuson Award as the state's this important story to be told," said ligence that saved countless Allied 10:30 am to 12 pm. At 12:30 pm at county party chairperson of the year. Ken Kawaichi, president of the lives, hastening the end of the war the Crissy Field Center will be a the• Nomura was recognized for making the party stronger in each of her two National Japanese American and collectively earning them a atrical reading of the play years as chair. Historical Society (NJAHS), the Presidential Unit Citation. Later, "Betrayed" by award-winning The "Maggie" awards are named for Sen. Warren Grant "Maggie" organization that will oversee the they played a crucial role during the author and playwright Hiroshi Magnuson, who represented Washington State from 1944 until 1981. Center. "... our goal is now within Occupation of Japan, helping rebuild Kashiwagi. reach of preserving a significant but Mitsudo-Koide Receives Award for Medical Service that country and playing a key role in This event is part of the partners' overlooked part of American histo- strengthening the close U.S.-Japan efforts to build public awareness for Dr. Swni Mitsudo-Koide, an active JACLer and past president of the ry." bi-Iateral relations that endures to the MIS story and to raise the flmds New York chapter, was presented with a Special Honoree Award sponsored The Center will be established at this day. necessary in the community to help by the staff and alumni association of New York's Montefiore Medical the actual historic site of the original "MIS Language School graduates leverage the federal appropriations Center. MIS Language School, an unused employed their linguistic skills and and complete the project by 2011. Mitsudo-Koide served as attending pathologist at Montefiore, Bellevue airplane hangar (also known as intimate knowledge of Japanese cul~ This appropriation brings the total and Morrisania Hospitals. She was also on the faculty of the Albert Einstein Building 640), at West Crissy Field ture to help turn a defeated nation ~ aised for the project to $3.58 million College of Medicine. in the Presidio. When completed, the into the U.S.'s strongest ally today," of an estimated $6 million needed As a teenager during wwn, she was confined at the Minidoka Internment Center will offer a permanent exhi• said Col. (Retired) Harry Fukuhara, for completion.• Camp in Idaho. Upon release, she attended Swarthmore College the, bition and public programs. The per• 86, a leading MIS veteran active in Women's Medical College and received specialty training in pathology at manent exhibition will include a re• .the campaign to restore BUilding What: "Retum and Remembrance: Temple University. created classroom and a mission 640. 'This important historic fact is Japanese American Experience @ map room that illuminates the his• Takechi Elected to Omaha Education Board one facet of a complex MIS legacy the Presidio - A Commemorative toric achievements of the MIS. that will forever be preserved and Richard Takechi, Omaha JACL chapter president, was elected to a new Park Partner Ceremony" "The heroic service of the MIS celebrated at the new Center." metro area education board. Where: Presidio Building 640 near stands as an enduring counterpoint To celebrate the project's Takechi brings elected experience from the Omaha City Council to the Crissy Fiel~ West in San Francisco to this wwn injustice," said progress, NJAHS and the National learning community. When: Nov. 22, 10:30 am to 12 pm Rosalyn Tonai, NJAHS executive Park Service/Golden Gate National The Nebraska Legislature formed the learning community to settle school director. "Our hope is to tell the Recreation Area will hold a Return Also: 12:30 pm, at Crissy Field district boundary fights that sparked in 2005. The learning community will whole story, so that the lessons and Remembrance: japanese Center, reading of "Betrayed" by force the 11 metro-area districts to cooperate, share funding and operate learned of war and peace can be told American Experience @ the award-winning author and play• under a voluntary school integration plan. through the lenses of·the people who Presidio - A Commemorative Park wright Hiroshi Kashiwagi Hada is Appointed Denver County Judge Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper has appointed Fund-raiser to Benefit Campaign For Justice Kerry Steven Hada as Denver County Court judge. The San Francisco JACL is spon• In July, a scheduled Hpuse the wartime and redress experiences Hada, a private practice attorney, has more than 20 soring a spaghetti crab feed fund• Judiciary Committee hearing to ofJLAs.• years of experience in law. He also served as an raiser to benefit the Campaign For review HR 662, the Commission on Airborne Ranger infantry officer with the U.S. Army Justice's mission to secure proper Wartime Relocation and Internment Eat for a Good Cause from 1971-1974. He is a foundirig member and past redress for former World War IT of Latin Americans of Japanese San Francisco JACL Crab Feed president of both the Asian Pacific American Bar Japanese Latin American internees. Descent Act, was canceled. Dec. 6 from 5-8 p.m. Association of Colorado and the Minoru Yasui The Dec. 6 event will take place at The bill would have established a Christ United Presbyterian Church American Inn of Court. San Francisco's Christ United commission to investigate and make 1700 Sutter St., San Francisco Hada's appointment fills the vacancy created by the Presbyterian Church. appropriate recommendations on the Advance tickets are $20; $10 for retirement of Judge Melvin Okamoto. ''While we celebrated the 20th wwn abduction and internment of children 12 and under; ticket prices anniversary of the Civil Liberties over 2,200 persons of Japanese at the door will be $30. TIckets may Tsuji. Yamashita Receive City Proclamation Act of 1988, the Japanese Latin ancestry from 13 Latin American be picked up at the Paper Tree store, Los Angeles Councilwoman Jan Perry recently presented two proclama• Americans (JLAs) are still waiting countries by the U.S. government. 1737 Buchanan Mall, in San tions on behalf of the city of Los Angeles to honor Isami ''Mike'' Tsuji and for recognition of the wrong perpe• "We were disappointed to learn Francisco's Japantown. Junwo "Jim" Yamashita, founding members of the Americans of Japanese trated on them by our government. that the commission bill was can• Due to their popularity last year, Ancestry World War IT Memorial Alliance. We wanted to draw attention to their celed at the last minute and no date prawns will be a part of the menu! Tsuji was recognized for donating his time and effort to design and over• work and to provide some financial has been set for it ' to be heard and see the wwn KIA monument in Little Tokyo. Yamashita was honored for assistance to their work," said voted on," said Shimizu. For more iriformanon, call Greg his work in developing the ''EchOes of Silence" CD ROM and Web site: Hiroshi Shimizu, San Francisco The Campaign for Justice also Marutani at 41 JI641-1697 or e-mail www.ajawarvets.org .• JACL chapter president. works to educate the public about [email protected]. /

6 NOV. 21-DEC. 18, 2008 NATIONAL PACIFIC. CmZEN What Now? APA Community Grapples With Same-sex Marriage Ban "Many APAs understand that it ing that this is about civil marriage was not that long ago that APAs and nothing else," said Riesenbach. were not allowed to marry who they Henry Kameya, whose daughter wanted because of the color-of their is gay, agrees. skin. For this reason, many APAs "Sexual orientation is not a tend to fight fbr the rights of others," choice," said the San Fernando said Namba, who also pointed out Valley JACL chapter member. "As that the city of Tempe, which has a long as we are aware that some large student population was strong• Asian Pacific Islander gays contem• ly opposed to Proposition 102. plate suicide because they lose hope "Perhaps our younger voters have of being understood by the API com• the correct vision on this same-sex munity, we feel a sense of urgency in marriage issue?" our advocacy work." In Florida where Amendment 1, a Reports of churches overwhelm• constitutional change that would ingly supporting a gay marriage ban have struck the anti-Asian Alien don't show the full picture either. Land Law from the books, failed to Shortly before the elections, APA get the 60 percent benchmark to religious leaders held a press confer• pass. But Amendment 2, barring ence in Little To~o to express sup• same-sex marriage, passed. port for same-sex marriage. Among And in Arkansas, voters passed a them was Nakagawa, a Sansei. measure aimed at barring gay cou• 'The Bible does not end with the ples from adopting. last page of the book," said 'And whose rights are next up on the ballot?' "I see that coming down the pipe. Nakagawa, about the strand oftheol• It's a sad, sad thing," said Tim. ogy that says people have to contin• "And whose rights are next up on ually be open to God's revelations to - Larry Riesenbach, who married Tim Ky (right) in a June the ballot?" said Larry. the world. 17 ceremony officiated by Paul-Arevalo, city manager of "You can read the Bible literally West Hollywood, Calif., and attended by family members Moving Forward or seriously. I choose to read it seri• and their six-year-old son Aaron (left). After the elections, controversial ously," he said. exit polls showed that African He recently officiated a same-sex Americans and Latinos strongly sup• wedding between two Sansei ported Proposition 8. But many gay women. It was the same type of cer• (Continued from page 1) marriage over the past five months courts of their role as independent as providing a positive education to interpreters of the state's constitu• rights proponents say these polls are emony as all of the other weddings Hollywood ceremony. the rest of the country," said Pizer. tion. not always accurate. he has performed except for a few For the. first time, he was able to In May, the Calif. Supreme "Should it be so simple to take "It's too easy to find a scapegoat," changes of words here and there. call Larry his husband. No matter Court's decision to legalize same• away rights from a minority with a said Wang. What surprised him was the out• what happens, Tun says he'll never sex marriage led to as many as popular vote?" said Wang, who cited Many like Tun and Larry, are try• pouring of support from community stop. 18,000 such marriages. Because of antimiscegenation laws as examples ing to put their anger aside and work members. About 200 ' people were "He is my husband." Proposition 8, these unions may, be of a majority population discriminat• on broadening coalitions. They told there to celebrate love. But with their marriage status in challenged in court. ing against another minority group their son Aaron that the civil rights 'There would've been more if limbo, what happens now? Across But gay rights advocates say at the -APAs. . movement took many steps forward they could've fit.". the U.S., rallies and vigils continue very least people are talking about The last of the antimiscegenation and backwards. And now Barack to take place like spontaneous out• marriage equality. laws was overturned with Loving v. Obama is president-elect. On the Web: bursts of emotions. Lawsuits have "It's hard to fmd someone in Virginia, the 1967 landmark case, for "Our side also needs to do a much www.jad.org, www.apalc.org, been filed and a child's political art• California who doesn't know about which then civil rights advocate more effective job of communicat- www.lambdalegal.org work continues to stay up like an act Prop. 8," said Karin Wang, vice William M. Marutani argued the of defiance when all other campaign president of programs for the Asian cause for the JACL by special leave MARRIAGE EQUALITY signs have been taken down. Pacific American Legal Center of the court. (Continued from page 1) It's a fight for equality that cuts (APALC). ''To me, Prop. 8 is an attempt to across all racial and socioeconomic About 54 percent of APA voters marginalize people based on who fundamental right to marry," said JACL National President Larry ada. borders, and many say it has only surveyed by APALC in L.A. County they are not what they've done," said Proposition 8, which passed in the Nov. 4. elections, would change the state just begun. supported Prop. 8, said Wang. Young Rev. Mark Nakagawa of the constitution to identify "only marriage between a man and a woman is valid "I believe that same-sex marriage APAs - between the ages of 18 to Centenary United Methodist Church or recognized in California." will be one of the key civil rights 35 - and fluent English speakers in Los Angeles' Little Tokyo. "It's In the past, JACL has been a strong supporter of marriage equality. In issues of the 21st century," said Ted strongly opposed the measure. The consistent with all other race-based 1967, the JACL was an amici in the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of Namba, civil rights chair of the challenge was with the higher popu• laws made to exclude someone." Loving v. Virginia, the seminal case that struck down antimiscegenation laws Arizona JACL. lation of first generation APAs, in 17 states. which anti-gay marriage groups tar• Beyond California "We have not forgotten that as Asian Americans, we, too, were once the APAs in the Divide geted with high concentrations of"in• In the fight for marriage equality, victims of marriage discrimination in this country. Racism was the motivat• "About 400,000 votes divided language media ads. most of the resources came to ing factor back then, and it is incumbent upon us to be vigilant and not allow us," said Jennifer Pizer about the dif• The lesson here is that younger California even though two other homophobia to guide our laws today," said ada. ference between the "no" and ''yes'' people are good on this issue, said states had similar constitutional bans The passage of Proposition 8 overruled portions of the In re Marriage votes on Proposition 8. "We came Wang. 'They get it. That's the silver on their Nov. 4 ballots. Cases where the Calif. Supreme Court held that statutes precluding same-sex close. We fell short and that is heart• lining. It's just a matter of time "We really wanted to win here," marriage were unconstitutional. breaking." before justice will prevail." said Wang. The JACL, in 1994, was one of the first civil rights groups in the nation to Despite the defeat, the senior On Nov. 14, civil rights groups Arizona's Proposition 102, which affirm its support for marriage equality. The organization stated in a resolu• counsel ' for Lambda Legal - a including APALC filed a petition bans same-sex marriage, passed and tion that marriage equality "was a constitutional right that should not be national legal organization that with the Calif. Supreme Court to drew the most votes of all the state denied because of a person's sexual orientation." advocates for the lesbian, gay, bisex• stop the enactment of Proposition 8 ballot measures. 'The JACL has always worked for maintaining the Equal Protection ual and transgender community - on the grounds that, among other "I believe that generally Arizona Clause of the constitution," said JACL National Director Floyd Mori. "Any says she sees this measure as an things, it would mandate discrimina• APAs support same-sex marriage," union of a couple that is based on love, mutual respect, sacrifice, and lifetime example of steady progress. In 2000 tion against a minority group. said Namba, whose 19-year-old commitment should be afforded the same legal rights and process regardless Proposition 22, a similar measure to The court has invalidated a voter daughter Lauren voted for the first of what the union is called by institutions within our society." ban gay marriage in California, initiative before, according to time in the recent elections and con• ''Who one chooses to love and marry should be an individual and person• passed with a higher percentage. APALC. In 1990, it overruled an ini• tributed to the growing strength of al choice, not one limited by illegal and discriminatory laws," said Ron "I see the celebration of love and tiative that would have stripped the the state's APA and youth vote. Katsuyama, JACL vice president for public affairs . • PACIFIC is CmZEN COMMENTARIES NOV. 21-DEC. 18,20087

of Civilians hearings with former Reagan because she knew many intemees giving testimonies in 1981. intemees had already passed away The Commission's findings in and would never receive their apolo• their 1982 report, "Personal Justice gy or reparation checks. Rita Takahashi Reflects On Her'Role on the JACL's LEC Denied," said the internment was After the Civil Liberties Act of based on race prejudice, wartime 1988 was signed the JACL-LEC By KATHY AOKI from the government to help correct hysteria and a failure of political board voted to keep LEC running for Special to the Pacific Citizen the wrong. leadership. two years and have the responsibili• President Ronald Reagan signed Jim Wright, Majority Leader in ties of "overseeing the reparations Rita Takahashi knows fighting for the Civil Liberties Act o( 1988 that the House of Representatives, intro• process." They would have a full• what she believes in is important. gave reparations of $20,000 to each duced the first Redress bill, H.R. time executive director and secretary "I always believed in Redress but surviving intemee and an apology 411 0, in 1983 followed by Sen. working in their D.C. office. I didn't know how long it would take signed by him. Matsunaga's . companion bill, S. Takahashi appreciates the oppor• to achieve this," she said. Takahashi credits individuals 2116, in the Senate. Subcommittee tunity to be involved in LEC, but she l'akahashi was the associate direc• including Clifford Uyeda, former herujngs on these two bills began in also realizes what it takes for some• tor of the JACL's Legislative national JACL president, Colleen 1984. A year later the Redress legis• thing monumental like this to ~ap­ Education Committee (LEC) from Darling, former associate director lation was re-introduced in pen. 1987 to 1989. who worked on JACL's Redress Congress. The House of "No one person can take credit for LEC was Program and Senators Spark Representatives passed the Civil Redress happening," she said. ''This formed in the Matsunaga and Daniel Inouye from RITA TAKAHASHI Liberties Act H.R. 442 on Sept. 17, was a tremendous effort that 1980s to do Hawaii as being key players. 1987. involved building coalitions with lobbying for "Clifford Uyeda had much vision Takahashi said the fundraising other community groups besides JACL and was and Colleen's work on the Hill with , iNo one person committee led by Harry Kajiwara receiving support from JACL mem• responsible for the members of Congress was did an outstanding job raising bers, congressional leaders and so working on invaluable," Takahashi said, who ' can take credit $700,000. She commented that hav• many people. We must be apprecia• Redress legis• also acknowledged Joanne . for Redress hap• ing congressional support is impor• tive and thankful to everyone lation and pro• Kagiwada, a former executive direc• tant but it also takes money to get involved in helping us achieve tecting the organization's tax• tor ofLEC, who played an important penjng.~ things done. Redress." • exempt status. role in seeing the former internees It was emotional for Takahashi to Denny Yasuhara, former national receive their redress and reparations. as I did," she said. "I thought it witness the signing of the Civil Kathy Aoki is a Contra Costa fACL JACL president, spoke to Takahashi ''The members of the LEC worked would only be for a short time." Liberties Act of 1988 by President member. about LEC while she was teaching at toward a common goal of Redress." Takahashi currently works as the Eastern Washington University. She During the time TakahashI served director and a professor at San had an interest in the internment as the associate director of LEC, she COMMENTARY Francisco State University's School since her mother spent time in was also JACL's Washington, D.C. of Social Work. She is a life member Rohwer, Arkansas, during World representative from 1988 to 1989. of JACL and a former chapter presi• Why I Care War II. Takahashi recalled traveling Her two jobs had her attending dent of the Berkeley JACL. By BRANDON MITA through Arkansas with her parents numerous meetings, workshops, Significant events that led up to and how her mother commented fundraisers, giving presentations Redress include President Jinmy As students and young professionals we seem to already have our lives about her camp experience. besides working on Redress legisla• Carter signing the Commission on mapped out. Additionally, as Japanese Americans we are extremely goal• At JACL's national convention in tion and trying to get congressional Wartime Relocation and Internment driven. We know we all want that cute townhouse adjacent to Georgetown 1978, a resolution was passed to ask support. Act in 1980 and The Commission on University, the high-priced 9 to 5 corporate job on K Street and the latest for reparations of $25,000 for each "When I first went to Washington, Wartime Relocation and Internment . Range Rover that will withstand those crazy ice storms that cause numerous surviving internee and an apology D.C. I never expected to stay as long cars to go sliding down Connecticut Avenue. So why care about anything else outside of the mas• ter plan? Why care about anything pertaining to people of color, or even other Asian Americans? For me, I care because I walk the streets of Chicago, San Francisco or right here in our nation's capital, and I see two completely different worlds. More than that, . when I look into a mother's eyes as she tells me that she does not have enough money to buy milk for her three• year-old son, to the close friends who come to me in tears because their lockers have been vandalized with the words "Chink-JAP," I realize that the struggle of others must become my struggle. It becomes my struggle when a close high school friend cannot attend col• lege because her parents' immigration status would place them all in jeop• ardy of deportation. It becomes my struggle when hundreds ~f th?usand~ of people who look like me are imprisoned without rights to a farr tnal or WIth• out a meaningful reason. It is my struggle because I care. I care because to care means that I am human. As students and young professionals, we embody the future of the JACL and America. Sure, we can choose to go about our lives caring about things that are only important to our immediate needs. However, as JAs, we have the ability and the knowledge to inspire change. We have the tools to help those that desperately need it. We have the cre• ativity to be social engineers. And we only need to care .•

Brandon Mita is the fACL national youth representative and has been the D. C. chapter youth chair and the fA CL Eastern District Council youth chair. He is a second year law student at Howard University.

If you are interested in contacting Brandon about creating StudentIYoung Professional'initiatives, contact him via email at: [email protected] 8 NOV. 21-0EC. 18,2008 VOICES PACIFIC !iilI CmZEN

[ PETER SHIGEKI FRANDSE.N ] [ HARRY HONDA 1

THE SHIGEKI SHAKE DOWN VERY TRULY YOURS Green Peace? And About Issei Pioneers in Alaska

Hello, my name is Peter and I do not own a car. WITH so MUCH political play about Alaska the past Alaska. Okay, living in Manhattan, maybe that is not such a huge confes• several months, plus getting a photograph with Japanese Yasuda had been a cook aboard a Coast Guard cutter sion. Living in a large metropolitan area illuminates the best and characters inscribed on a wooden pole at the cemetery in "Bear" in 1898, became a fur trader in the Arctic Slope, worst of living a green lifestyle. Skagway for, no doubt, a sourdough who died sometime learned to speak Inupiat (the Eskimo language), On the one hand, public transportation is simple and convenient to in 1900, invites us to spin some tales of Issei pioneers of Athabascan (of Indians in the Alaska interior), English and use with subway vehicles that harness the friction of braking at every Alaska. The photo came from Mas and Marcia Hashimoto married Nevelo, an Eskimo woman. stop to produce energy. On the other hand, a toasted bagel with two of Watsonville after their recent cruise to Alaska. He built schoolhouses for Eskimo children, delivered eggs, cheese and bacon at any given deli or street vendor will cost My Japan-born friends who helped in reading the char• the mail and acted as a banker at times. During WWII, he you.one paper wrap, one paper lunch bag, three napkins and a plastic acters were..surprised to read Nakano Densaburo (the was interned in New Mexico but returned after the war bag. name on the pole) had died in Alaska. and died in 1958. A romanticized story, "Arasuka Was it Kermit the Frog that sang, "It's not easy being green" ? Our tales are gleaned from two sources: Tooru Monogatari" of Yasuda's life by Jiro Nitta, has been made Going green seems to be the latest and easiest trend. It's like the Kanazawa's "Sushi and Sourdough" (1989) and Kazuo into a Japanese motion picture. new black. But unlike parachute pants and slap bracelets, this is one Ito's "Hyakunen Sakura" (1968), translated by Shinichiro The most colorful accounts of Issei in Alaska come fad that I don't think is going away anytime soon. Nakamura, and Jean S. Gerard: ''Issei, a History of from Sotaro Kawabe, who signed his articles under his Over the summer, when the presidential campaigns were in high Japanese Immigrants in North America" (1973). pen name, "Sawado" (Sourdough?), when he spent eight gear with politicians promising the clouds in the sky and Qil was Jujiro Wada [1872-1937], perhaps the most fabulous, months as the Klondike rush was ending in 1909·10. He pushing over $150 a barrel, it was really easy to get on the green was a Klondike prospector, the musher who initiated the estimated four or five hundred Japanese all over Alaska, train to __ (fill in the blank). 1,OOO-mile Iditirod Trail from Seward to Nome, lived with many of them having jumped ship. They were engaged as We were promised domestic/national security, economic security, Eskimos in Kotzebue, and was renowned as a superman merchants, clerks, cooks at mine kitchens or as prospec• environmental security, job security, and the list went on and on. Just who won long-distance races in Nome, Fairbanks and tors. about any ill that ailed society could be fIxed by greening. I even Dawson, where the Klondike gold rush began in 1896. There was even a "Jap" mine at Willow Creek, 50 miles read about inner city schools -that have gardens for students to tend One was a 50-mile race he won in March 1907 in 7 north of Anchorage that was closed during the winter due and learn many life lessons. hours, 49 minutes, 10 seconds in Nome Eagles Hall, as to frigid temperatures. After the winter break, they hitched If I sound cynical, let me emphatical• reported in a newspaper for posterity, carrying an their 10 to 20 dog teams to work the mine. ly state that I fully endorse the green American flag in his hand the last two laps, believing he Main food items were bacon, used oil for pancakes, 'Going green movement. I do honestly believe much was an American citizen, an honor conferred on him by rice; and flour pre-mixed with salt, sugar and baking pow• seems to be the good will come from a "Green Collar" the govemor of Alaska. der to bake bread by adding water. A fully loaded sled economy. There are 'So many areas of Mogasaburo Sakamoto, a postwar resident in Wapato, with tools and supplies negotiated about six miles a day. latest and easiest innovation that are ripe for the plucking. prospected for gold dust for 12 years in the Yukon River Wada Ju's list included cornmeal, beans, evaporated trend. It's like Recently, I was hungry and broke so I near Fairbanks [1902-1 914]. As he couldn't afford a dog, apples, potatoes and a 100-lb. sack of sugar. attended a Lunch 'n Learn, one of my the new black. ' he pulled his own sled for a while, packed with a fur-lined The Issei prospectors slept with only one blanket in a favorite things in dental school. The idea sleeping bag, tools, utensils, and food. He spent the win• cavern sheltered by rocks overhead or dug a trench and is simple: food is provided while a lec• terS in Juneau, rented a house at $12 a month, visited a hot piled up rocks for shelter. They hunted for hares and ture is presented. It has become a stan• springs spa or passed time gambling or imbibing whiskey. grouse, a knife to dress the game to feed their dogs and dard forum to disseminate information to the student body or Tooru Kanazawa (mentor for Bill Hosokawa as Tooru more important, carried a hammer to crack rocks, using a select student groups outside of the rigid curriculum. graduated in joumalism in 1931 at UniverSity of magnifying glass to check for gold dust. This particular Lunch 'n Learn featured Jeremy Mao, one of Washington, ahead of Bill) also found various accounts While prospecting for gold is fascinating, the bulk of Columbia Dental School's foremost stem cell researchers. I have where Wada was named James, Jujiira, Jujira and correct• Issei (and prewar Nisei) in Alaska experienced life at the heard Dr. Mao speak about his work before, but it always strikes ly as Jujiro. salmon canneries - as early as 1899 when Issei contrac-. me as incredibly futuristic and progressive. He and his col• Another legendary pioneer named in Kanazawa's novel tors in San Francisco, Seattle or Portland sent Japanese leagues successfully cloned a jaw joint of a mouse using a stem is Frank Yasuda, a "tightfisted, opportunistic and unsavory boys to work in the canneries, being paid around $150 for cell line and a biocompatible template. character." When he tried to raise the price.of flour, the half a year, meals included. My dad, perhaps yours, emi• Think about what this means in the human world. Imagine a miners reacted so violently that he built a stockade around grated as teenagers and earned their fIrst U.S. dollar in the world where a person in need of a hip replacement or shoulder his trading post in Barrow, the northernmost settlement in Alaska canneries .• surgery can donate stem cells from their skin or bone and create new joint with the very same DNA, cells, and makeup as the previous joint. This type of world would be amazing and renew• WeLL..:ICH IRO_ ... A able. PRESIDENf-ELECT EVEtJ JANlE WONDER 'F There is a magnitude of empowerment that accompanies dis• O~AMA MAY MOVE I'LL GET A covery. I cannot help but see the renewing force of stem cell HAS OpeNED CLOTHING . research as a metaphor for the greatly needed "renewable" solu• THE DOOR FOR INTO THE. tions that we need. WHliE HOUSE.. ALLOWANCE? From the early days of patents, Americans have thrived at . ALL OF US. inventions and discoveries. We must continue in that tradition. Much of the power structure of the next century will be deter• mined by who can leverage technology the best, fastest and cheapest. With China and Iildia producing a vastly increasing number of engineers each year, we desperately need to kick start our research and development, particularly in green technology. So as we end another calendar year, pat ourselves on our backs for a gre?lt election victory, we must not forget the flowing orato• ry of President-Elect Obama's campaign and demand production from his promises . . Because, at this time in this country, too much depends on going green.•

Peter Shigeki Frandsen is currently a student at Columbia University, College of Dental Medicine. He is also a Mt. Olympus JACL member. PACIFIC iii CmZEN ENTERTAINMENT NOV. 21-DEC. 18,20089 Q&A. 8 Questions w.ith Renee Tajima-Pena The Acaderny Award nominee talks aboutfamily ghosts and her latest, 'Calavera Highway.'

For years, Renee Tajima-Pefia and her husband Armando Pefia talked about searching for his father Pedro who vanished as if in a dream during childhood. "But life happened," said Renee. More specifically, marriage, a baby and an untimely . death happened. The marriage was to Armando and later came baby Gabriel. The death of Rosa, Armando's mother, was devastating to her sons - all seven of them, said the Sansei ftlmmaker perhaps best known for her Academy Award-nominated docu-. mentary, "Who Killed Vmcent Chin?" But it also raised some questions about the Pena's family past that needed answers, so Renee, Armando, his brother Carlos and.Gabriel piled into a car for a trip across America to bring Rosa's ashes back to her native Texas. part of the Chicano student blowouts They captured all of the mw emotions with a camem. going on all over the southwest at the "Calavem Highway," is Renee's latest documentary about her own family's haunted time. Utey were demanding ethnic past. While screening the ftlm in Dublin, Ireland, she caught up with the Pacific Citizen studies, better educational opportuni• through e-mail. - Lynda lin ties, hiring Mexican American teach• ers (the Rio Grande Valley is and was Pacific Citizen: How difficult was it to make overwhelmingly Mexican American). .- this fIlm when the subjects are your family The boycotters at Edcouch Elsa members? were expelled and their case became Renee Tajima-Pefia: It was difficult for all of the fIrSt major legal victory for the us because Armanoo and Carlos were dredging up Mexican American Legal Defense a painful history that they had' never quite recon• Fund. A few years later I was involved ciled. They were talking a lot between themselves, in various strikes and walkouts unbeknownst to me, about what they were finding demanding Asian American studies at out, or afraid they would find out. On the other my school in California. Even though hand, these guys grew up without a father, and we came from different cultures and RNDING ROOTS: Renee [are] very, very independent. I'm a part of the fam• economic backgrounds, this politiciza• Tajima-Peiia (right) took ily, so they certainly weren't impressed that I was tion and immigration heritage means her husband Armando a ftlm director, and by nature aren't given to tak• we both 'get it' about the other's back• (above, left), brother-in-law ing direction. Plus my kid is a pretty hardheaded ground. little guy. The three of them were a handful to say My family was interned at Heart Carlos (above, right) and the least. Mountain, Wyoming. Last year my son Gabriel on the road What PC: You include footage of giving birth to husband, Gabriel, and another with a camera to make dIes war sllveil Gabe. Talk about the importance of this scene. Mexican American friend and his son 'Calavera Highway.' RTP: The ftlm explores how these seven broth• went on a fishing trip to June Lake and PHOTO: WILLIAM SHORT "A Passage Through SEVEN ers learned how to be men and fathers without the they stopped to show the kids LIVES is a stunning and perceptive benefit of a father of their own. That scene was Manzanar. I thought that was cool. shitake and different teas. It was very familiar to memoir/history of Japanese culture central to establishing that theme with the narrator PC: In the backdrop of this family profile is her because she had grown up in ruml Mexican and imperialism befere and after the and central character, my husband Armando, and a dark spot in American history - the Bracero American communities with medicinal herbs and. World War II. his own emotional journey. What is interesting to Project and subsequent deportations tore fam• folk medicines. I remember I was once walking "Kyo Takahashi weaves a majestic me about Armando and his brothers is they've ilies apart. What parallels do you see between with her in Central Park in New York and she tapestry, using the history of Japan become very involved dads, despite growing up the past and present day immigration policy? noticed some kind of herb she recognized from and bloody battlefields as the warp, with absent fathers. RTJ;l: Huge parallels. When I read abOut ICE Texas. I had to stop her from picking it up because and lives of people who were involved PC: What was the biggest challenge of trav• raids and little kids watching their parents being of all the rat poisons and stuff they use in the city. in the war, as the weft. Every fact was eling by car halfway across the country with a rounded up and detained, I can't help but think PC: Annando made a life-changing revela• blended in carefully with artistic il• child? those children are like Armando's brothers watch• tion about the identity of his father. Has he lustrations, creating a shocking and RTP: Gabriel was about four when we shot the ing their father being hauled away by immigration come tenos with it in real life? enlightening panorama. to ftlm. We actually took two vans - one for the authorities when they were little boys. I grew up "This book is a valuable addition RTP: But the fIlm was documenting real life! characters and essential filming crew so that we with my grandparents, who could never go home for those not familiar with Quaker His conclusion in the fIlm basically describes Friends' supportive actions for Japa• could shoot while driving. The other one was for for over 50 years because the Issei couldn't what he believes about the situation. In the end, nese Americans who were sent to the luggage, equipment, running errands, etc. To tell become naturalized citizens until what, 1959? So his mother was the central force in her sons' lives, internment camps. " -from Reviews you the truth, tmveling on a documentary is gen• the idea of how families are tom apart is very real and the notion of a father was not important in the erally a lot of fun. We hire people we enjoy spend• tome. end. He's told me it's something you could never A Passage Through ing time with, and it's basically, 'road trip!' We PC: I laughed out loud at the scene where really reconcile. But he has his own son now, and talk, joke around, hang out together. Annando . pushed miso soup as a possible he's got all his brothers . . SEVEN LIVES PC: Did you see any similarities in answer to cancer. Was this your influence? PC: What are you doing in Dublin?· And -The Pacific War Legacy• Annando's family history and your own? RTP: No, that was all Armando. He lived in the what is your next project? by KYO TAKAHASHI RTP: My family started immigrating from Sawtelle neighborhood of Los Angeles for years, RTP: I'm showing two films, 'Calavera 6"x 9" paperback, 504 pages includes . Japan at the same time Armando's family started ever since he was in graduate school.at UCLA. Highway' and 'The New Americans' in a Master's over 250 illustrations, 25 maps, and charts. migrating to Texas, during the early 1900s. His That's an old Japanese American community, so class I'm giving here. I am executive producing $23.99 grandfather landed in the Rio Grande Valley to he has always been familiar with Japanese food. 'Whatever It Takes.' The director is a very talent• 10% goes to the AFSC Peace Fund harvest oranges and pick cotton; my grandfather And he's a bookworm, which we make a lot of fun ed, first-time director, Christopher Wong. You can *' went to Hawaii to cut cane on the sugar planta• of in the ftlm. So when his mother was diagnosed available at Amazon.com see a trailer of the film on the Web site: tions. with cancer, he researched alternative medicines www.whateverittakesdoc.com.• Alibris.com We also had the same political coming of age in and macrobiotic diets. 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It was Their mother, Rosa, complelely got into rniso, www.pbs.org/pov/calaverahighway. 10 NOV. 21-0EC. 18,2008 NATIONAL PACIFIC iii CrnZEN Protestors Continue to Fight Proposed Casino·in Philly's Chinatown (Continued from page 1) '''The reputation of casi• urging the APA communities to join nos would cause many their fight. marched to City Hall from people to reconsider Both organizations' Web sites Chinatown in an effort to convince whether they want the!r sport the YouTube video, created by the committee that the community families to be in proximity Asian Americans United, which does not need the Foxwoods Casino. to their environment," pleads for city officials to favor the '''The political leaders have taken Leong said. public interest. the backseat and are completely Leong, who was born "We could see how it profits umesponsive," Gym said, "They and raised in Chinatown, (Foxwoods) to have a casino within threw their hands up and said that led a petition with the a block of a community," Ellen there's nothing that they could do." local· church congrega• Somekawa, executive. director of At the hearing, several dozen tions to stop the casino Asian Americans United, said in the Chinatown residents shared their from being built in the video, "an Asian community that fears of gambling addictions that area. Since Oct. 25, Leong they target for their gambling pro• could possibly destroy families and has collected more than motion programs." ¢1.e negative influences the casino 25,000 signatures of Although the population of APAs may expose to the community's Philadelphia locals who PHOTO: MATI RONG is less than four percent in younger residents. are against the new devel- Philly Chinatown residents and supporters show their displeasure with Connecticut and less than five per• ''I'm concerned about the pro• opment of the slots parlor. Foxwoods Casino and their proposed move into the neighborhood. cent in Philadelphia, Foxwoods posed casino because of effects that "We will continue to ______makes 30 percent of its revenue from gambling does to the life of individ• garner signatures," Leong said. "As Regardless of the petitions and venient access to numerous public Asian patrons. uals, family and community. I've our community is a center for Asians protests, the state and city council transportation options is a feature "What we are asking for is for our seen families broken because of throughout the region, we felt that supported the proposal to build the that makes surrounding areas of city leaders to look for the public gambling," Harry Leong, a we should go outside to let others. casino in Gallery Mall. Chinatown an ideal location for the interest and not to look at the interest Chinatown resident, said. "A num• know of the plight that we have." Even though many people fear the slots parlor. of Foxwoods," Somekawa said, ber of businesses have changed However, this zoning change is a casino would bring only negative '''The selling point for the casino is "And not to look at the interests the hands as a result of gambling." step forward for the Connecticut• effects to the community, the City that it would be an anchor business wealthy investors who hope to prof• Eighty percent of surveyed busi• based Mashantucket Pequot Indians Council and Foxwoods Casino in the area," Leong said, "Other it off of other people's losses." nesses in the .Chinatown area are group, which proposed to build a emphasize that the project is far from businesses will come into the area, strongly opposed or are deeply con• $670 million slots parlor near Though the odds are against them, being set in stone. although they may be undesirable cerned about the casino proposal and Chinatown after its initial plan of Chinatown residents vow to keep "We are at an early process of ones." only 16 percent supported the idea, building a casino by the Delaware fighting on. evaluating the location," Maureen Prior to the Nov. 1 march to City Gym said. River waterfront was heavily criti• "Chinatown is a fragile institu• Garrity, a representative from Hall, several organizations such as The possibility of increased pros• cized and protested against. tion," Gym said. "(Building a casi• Foxwoods Casino, said. Asian Americans United and Casino titution, loan sharks and crime worry A final hearing for the zoning law no) would destroy Chinatown from Though Garrity said that "nothing Free Philadelphia had been trying to the residents of the community. took place Nov. 13. its people first." • is a done deal," she added the con- bring more awareness to the issue by PACIHC iiii:= CmZEN NATIONAL NOV. 21-0EC. 18, 2008 11 AMENDMENT 1 though the US. Constitution bars it. The wave of Alien. Land Laws Select Participants Now for JACL (Continued from page 1) began in 1913 in California, where D.C. Leadership Conference residents felt threatened by Issei percent voting "yes." A 60 percent The}ACUOCA D.C. Leadership Conference is just around the corner. It's farmers. At the time, Asian immi• threshold of "yes" votes was needed grants were prohibited from becom• time for chapter presidents to select candidates for this prestigious event and to make a constitutional change. ing US. citizens, so state laws bar• send the information to their district governors. It was the closest the state's now ring land ownership to "aliens ineli• This annual leadership trairiing conference is a joint program organized by 82-year-old so-called Alien Land gible for citizenship" directly target• the JACL, which includes participants from the Organization of Chinese Law had ever come to being edAPAs. Americans (OCA), the second largest Asian Pacific American civil rights repealed. But Florida's APA history stretch• organization in the United States. "It's disappointing," said Wmnie. PHOTO COURTESY OF MORIKAMI MUSEUM es back to the early 1900s when the This four-day conference provides an opportunity for 30 emerging leaders Tang, president of the South Florida first group of pioneering Issei settled of the JACL and OCA to leam firsthand about current national public policy chapter of the Organization of Yamato Colony settlers in 1922. near the modem day city of Boca issues facing our communities. Chinese Americans (OCA), who has Raton. Jo Sakai arrived in Florida in Each JACL district can send two participants 'in addition tei potential alter• been working to repeal the law since had even its strongest supporters 1903 to establish the Yamato n~te candidates. Except for personal incidental expenses, all other conference 2002. predicting the amendment's failure? Colony. costs including lodging and meals will be covered. In the post election fervor, many Amendment 1 sponsor Rep. The colony was established reasons have been given for the fail• Ronald Brise, D-North Miami, said The district will be responsible for a $500 tuition for each participant sent because political leaders wanted to ure of Amendment 1 - the most it's all of the above. by the district. Each district chooses its own deadline for applications. bring Japanese farmers to Florida for popular being the poor wording of ''1his is something that is a shame District governors must have their applications submitted and approved to economic reasons, said Tom the measure itself, which reportedly for the state of Florida to not pass," the JACL D.C. office by Jan. 15, 2009. Gregersen, cultural director of the confused voters. Even people who said Brise. ''Everyone assumed that The conference will , also be a great opportunity for leaders within the Morikami Museum in Delray knew the history of the Alien Land this was such a no-brainer that we JACL to learn about the workings of Washington, D.C. and nonprofits. Beach. ''The economy was in the Laws didn't know if a "no" vote didn't think we had to spend money The JACUOCA D.C. Leadership Conference will be held March 6-10, doldrums and they wanted to bring meant "yes" to a repeal, said Tang. to educate people. All of us who 2009, in Washington, D.C. • in people from elsewhere with And the amendment's use of hot• were players should take some expertise in farming." button words like "aliens" and blame." To apply, go to: www.jacl.org The Yarnato Colony's intent was "property rights," only stirred oppo• to have families settle and farm on sition from anti-immigrant groups Legacy of JA Pioneers their properties. The state's Alien that misinterpreted the archaic label Removing the Alien Land Law Program Seeks WWlllnlernees 10 Receive Diploma Land Law, which was enacted in of "alien ineligible for oitizenship" from Florida's state constitution The Sacramento County Office of Education is accepting applications for 1926 and gave the Legislature the to mean the undocumented and would have no effect or fiscal its Operation Recognition program to award high school diplomas to quali• power to take land away from JA potential terrorists. impact. The provision is unenforce• residents, was not invoked in fying veterans and Japanese Americans whose education was interrupted by So Florida voters killed able today because of equal protec• Florida. the World War IT internment. Amendment 1. tion laws, so it would simply strike Yuri Long, whose grandfather The program was adopted in 2001 to honor contributions and sacrifices But who was really to blame? Was out racist words. Henry Kamiya was a colony settler, of individuals who missed completing high school because of relocation or it ignorance of a part of Asian Pacific "I regret that it didn't pass," said spent a few years of her childhood in because of their service in the US. military during WWII or the Korean American history most often learned Steve Geller, a former Florida state the colony. War. in college, prejudice, or the lack of a senator who has compared the Alien "I remember feeding chickens, Sacramento County residents have until May 8, 2009, to request diplomas real educational campaign that in the Land Law to a provision in the state for themselves or for qualifying family members. weeks leading up to the elections constitution allowing slavery even See AMENDMENT 1/Page 13 A diploma awards ceremony is scheduled for May 26. ''These veterans and Japanese American citizens went on to make count• less contributions throughout their lives," said Dave Gordon, Sacramento Cal~oi:nia County superintendent of schools. "Operation Recognition is our opportu• • Blue Shield of nity to honor them for the sacrifices they made." • Ntlu~ Member uflhe aJ\I¢Sbjel!lA:!$~ . ~ . . Applications are available online at www.scoe.net or by mail to Operation Recognition, P.O. Box 269003, ~acramento, CA. 95826-9003.

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Intrigued, he called the listed num• But most of all, she says, "He's a ber and before long he was having a PROJECT really good person." five-hour lunch at the Sato resi• (Continued from page 1) Their mothers were longtime dence. friends so it was natural that "He's just smart. He just looks at "Since I was a child I loved sci• Nakamura and Sato developed a things in different ways," Hauck, 63, ence and I envisioned science would close bond during their childhood in said. "He should have gotten a help poor people, and it can," said Southern California. Theywere even Nobel Peace Prize years ago." Sato from his home just north of in the same block, Block 29, during Sato may not have a Nobel Prize Boston. "In Manzanar I thought their time at Manzanar. to his name but he has been honored about the desert a lot so when I was In camp, Nakamura recalls Sato with several awards over the years in Africa I thought about the desert talking about his vision to help peo• including the Blue Planet Prize of . .. it came from my experiences at ple through his love of science. 2005 and the 2002 Rolex Award. Manzanar." He wanted to show "that we were Close to two decades after first What came to Sato was a simple, people with dignity, with self-worth, Dr. Gordon Sato has spent the past'several years helping the impov• introducing the Manzanar Project, yet revolutionary idea. He had been and someday he would do some• ised people of Eritrea and Mauritania. Sato shows little sign of slowing in Eritrea during the Ethiopian thing to prove this," she said. "He down. famine. Shortly after the war ended, had a vision. He helps people any- morries to continue operating the Nathan is one of six Sato kids, a ''My role at this point in life is not he was driving along the African where in the world." Manzanar Project. biologist by degree but currently the to be in the field. I've already done coast when he noticed some thriving Like Nakamura, many former "Science is easy but politics and owner of the Malie Kai Chocolate that," he said. "I'm sort of the mangrove trees amidst a barren Manzanar intemees have given gen- culture are difficult. This was a big company in Hawaii. administer now, getting funds and desert landscape. erously to the Manzanar Project, a disappointment for me," said Sato, Recently he's been talking to his distributing funds. It's a job I hate; The blossoming trees were near project" that also helps to pass on the who has personally used hundreds of father about helping out more with I'd much rather be in field." freshwater that emptied out into the lessons of life behind barbwire. thousands of dollars of his own the project he first learned about "I'm very proud of my father. He Red Sea. He soon discovered that if ''When I talk to people I see a gen- money to fund the project. while in his 20s. never ceases to amaze me. He can't three things - nitrogen, phospho• eration gap," Sato said. "Internees "He really needs help on this proj• ''We want to inject new life into sit still. He's go, go, go," Nathan rous and iron ~ were injected into who have seen the hardship of camp .. ect to proliferate it," Nakamura said. the project," he said. said. seawater, mangroves and other can sympathize with what I'm trying ''We need to get the younger people Nathan and his Japanese wife are But with his father getting on in plants could grow. to do. The young people who involved, to have an ownership in planning a new direct mail piece, age, Nathan hopes he can be the There are now over a million haven't experienced it, not as this thing." perhaps a new Web site and efforts to bridge to help ensure the Manzanar mangrove trees near the Eritrean much." raise funds in Japan. He also Project continues far into the future. town of Hergigo, a place with about Even at 80, Sato isn't slowing The Next Generation believes the Manzanar Project quali• "My father is getting on in years, 3,000 people. Sato and his staff of and he needs more help," he said. "I down. He still travels all around the Nathan Sato, 51, admits that when fies for carbon credits for its efforts about 50 Eritreans have also helped world on speaking engagements and his father first told him about the to reduce global warming. want this thing to have a life of its to breed thousands of goats and own, to build up the project to he plans to head to Mauritania next Manzanar Project several years ago His help on the project will be a sheep that feed on the mangroves. A month where he recently brought the he didn't really get it. welcome addition for Sato who still become self-sustaining so the project diet of these trees with some fish• Manzanar Project. "I didn't understand it. But in the works on the Manzanar Project daily will still carry on." .. meal enables the sheep and goats to With a current staff of five people, with little help. produce milk for their litters, another last lO years I've come to appreciate several mangrove trees and grasses Jack Hauck is his lone paid staff To donate to the Manzanar Project: one of Sato's discoveries. what he has accomplished, what he are being planted to help the has already accomplished," said member in the United States. A P.O. Box 98, Gloucester, MA 01931. Today, this small Eritrean town is Mauritanians. Unlike Eritrea, the Nathan from his home in Honolulu. social worker by training, Hauck For more information, 978/468- thriving, all due to Sato's efforts and mangroves this time will be planteQ first learned about Sato's work in 2658, manzananJlangrove@hot• discoveries. "It's a simple idea. It's a simple but inland with seawater pumped in very radical idea." Africa in an AOL pop-up notice. mail. com, www.themanzanarpro• "My impression of Africa is that from the Atlantic Ocean, a project ject.com. when I look and see people who are that required new draining tech- poor and starving it is because of niques to avoid seawater buildup. mismanagement, corruption and Sato hopes the project will be as lack of thought," he said. 'There is successful as Eritrea. Car Loans As Low As no reason for them to be poor and One factor in his favor is the sup• hungry. We've solved how to make port of the Mauritanian government, the deserts of the world grow things something he still does not have in 4.50% APR* with seawater." Eritrea. The Eritrean government's 100% Financing on New Cars • 100% Financing on Used Cars past support of~ Qaeda and Su~ An Idea is Born has prevented Sato from seeking Grace Nakamlilll isn't shy about funding from the United Nati9ns or Refinance Existing Loans' her admiration for her childhood the U.S. government. friend. 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The grass• to repeal the law "to stand up for the &APA, Native American Pacific Islander (CQntinued from page 11) roots movement was active enough rights_of our community." Institutions Receive 810 Million in Grants and seeing a Japanese bath," said to get 48 percent to vote to get rid of In the future, he envisions a Long, a Nisei who now lives in Los the provision, said the Sansei. "We younger and more diverse pan• The u.s. Department of AAPI communities to encourage Angeles. didn't get as much media coverage Asian coalition. Education awarded approximately youth to pursue post-secondary edu• By World War IT many of the pio• because of the lack of funding.'" "It is hoped that with a couple $10 million in grants to six -Asian cation. neering families had moved on, and Proponents of ballot initiatives more years worth of sustained American and Native American The National Council of Asian Pacific Islander Serving Institutions Pacific Americans (NCAPA) con• the Yamato Colony was used as an usually create a funding mechanism community education and more Army Air Corp. training area. for advertising, but one was not set effective intra-group and inter• (AANAPISI): City College of San gratulates these six institutions on "I was surprised that [the Alien up for Amendment 1, said Brise. group grassroots orgamzmg, Francisco (CA), Foothill-De Anza being the first to receive the Land Law] is still on the books and But on the upside, Amendment 1 Floridians of all backgrounds will Community College (CA), Guam AANAPISI grant. that the people of Florida voted ·to has drawn more attention to the be able to work together to effect Community College (GU), Seattle '''The Asian American and Pacific keep it," said Long. cause, said Tang. Now they have to ch~ge," said Malik. Community College (WA), Univ. of Islander community is thrilled about work to get the measure on the 201 0 But some are already saying it Hawaii at Hilo (Hl), and Univ. of the inauguration of the AANAPISI Maryland-College Park (MD). program," said Floyd Mori, NCAPA Looking to 2010 ballot. may be too little, too late. For the last few years, Geller has With Geller termed out of his These six schools are the first chair and JACL national director. fought a lonely battIe to repeal the Is It Too Late? Senate seat, a new friend is need• grant recipients of this historic pro• "NCAPA organizations have been law. ''We are going back to basics," ed in the legislature. Brise said he gram due to their exceptional five• working closely with Congressman ''1 did everything I could do," said said Tang about working closely would work with the APA commu• year plans that address the specific David Wu and CAPAC over several Geller, a sponsor of Amendment 1 with lawmakers to repeal the provi• nity to sponsor a similar measure needs of Asian American and Pacific years in advocating for passage, and who recently termed out of the sion. "If we don't do it now, it's in 2010. Islander (AAPI) students. we look forward to working collec• Florida Senate. "I got it through leg• going to stay on for generations." Geller's successor Sen. Eleanor Similar to other minority serving tively with institutions, federal agen• islature. I got press coverage Jor it. I New Mexico, Kansas and Sobel did not respond to the institution programs, the AANAPISI cies, students and communities to did my job." Wyoming repealed similar laws in Pacific Citizen's requests for com• program seeks to increase the capac• ensure that the program will foster During a historic presidential elec• recent years. But it took two tries in ment. ity of higher education institutions to maximum benefits for AAPI stu• tion, it wasn't easy. But he said he New Mexico, where a group of law' . Since the ballot initiative has better serve disadvantaged college dents." did not get help from the communi• . students made it their cause to not let failed once, Geller said it may be students. Individual plans differ The AANAPISI program was ty that was directly affected by the the issue fade away from the public difficult to get other lawmakers to between the six awarded institutions championed by Congressman Wu, Alien Land Law - Florida's esti• agenda, said Gabriel 1. Chin, a law take up the cause. from constructing a new resource D-Oregon, and the' Congressional mated two-percent APA population. professor at the University of It will take time, but the lesson center for AAPI students; to recruit• Asian Pacific American Caucus "I would have hoped for more Arizona. learned from ¢.is election is that ing more AAPI students into sci• (CAPAC), as chaired by Congress• support than I received," said Geller. "A similar effort is needed in APA political participation is on ence, engineering, technology and man Mike Honda, D-Calif., into law Promises were made, but when it Florida," said Chin. the rise, said Chin. mathematics (STEM) fields; to in 2007. came down to it, he didn't hear of Answering the call is Muhammed "My hope is someday there is a strengthening an Asian American The Higher Education Opportun• any local APA leaders speaking at Malik, a 26-year-old St. Thomas political price to be paid for ignor• Studies Program. ity Act exp"anded the program's any community functions. University law student. As a Florida ing the political interest of APAs." All six applications include out• scope and extended the program to '''That doesn't require money, it native of South Asian descent, Malik reach to their respective surrounding 20l3 . •

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NEW YORK Sat., Dec. 13-Silver Sat., Dec. 6-New York JACL Festival 40th Anniversary Concert; Bells Arts and Crafts Sat. 7 p.m., Sun., 3 p.m.; Zellerbach . 0-4 E Holiday Fund Raiser; noon-3 p.m.; Hall, UC Berkeley; featuring Grand Frure; 1 p.m.; vent Peking Duck House, 236 East 53rd Master Seiichi Tanaka and San Cente at St. Mary's St.; $50; honoring Grant Ujifusa. Cathedral, 1111 Gough - Francisco Taiko with more special RSVP: Lillian, 973/680-1441. St.; featuring hand craft• WASIllNGTON, D.C. guests; Sunday special guest artist, ed items from over 70 Kitaro; tickets start at $38. TIckets: Mar. 6-10, 2009-2009 510/642-9988 or artisans from through- The San Francisco Taiko Dojo will host the International Taiko Festival 40th JACL/OCA D.C. Leadership www.tickets.berkeley.edu. out California and Anniversary Concert, Nov. 22-23 at U.C. Berkeley's Zellerbach Hall. Conference; Doubletree Hotel, 1515 Hawaii; part of the pro------Nov. 29-30, Dec. 5, 6, 12, 13, 19, T_,," Rhode Island NW; each JACL dis• ceeds benefit Kimochi, Inc. llUO: Mochitzuki; 8-3 p.m.; Wintersburg gallery hours 10-3 p.m., Tue.-Sun.; 20--Berkeley Artisans - Holiday trict may send two participants; great Kimochi, 415/931-2294 or Presbyterian Church, 13711 Chinese American Museum, 425 N. Open Studios; Lewis Suzuki Studio, opportunity of leaders within JACL 2240 Grant St.; Suzuki will show his www.kimochi-inc.org. Fairview St.; $3.50/lb; deadline to Los Angeles St. in the El Pueblo de to learn about the workings in Through Dec 31 Exhl'bl't order is Mon., Dec. 1 (mochi must Los Angeles Historical Monument; recent work and a few of his earlier . . • - , Washington, D.C. and non-profit works. Info: 510/849-1427. ''Transforming Kami - The Art of be picked up by 3 p.m. on Dec. 6. To $3/adults, $21seniors and students, organizations. Info: wwwJacl.org. SACRAMENTO Origami"; NJAHS, 1684 Post St.; order: Jun Fukushima, 562/865- free for museum members; Lee's ftIIdwest S J 31 2009-Fl . JACL 12-5 p.m. Mon.-Fri. and the first Sat. 5039 or BJ Watanabe 714n79-414O trademark images capture the per• at., an., onn of the month. Info: 415/921-5007 or or [email protected]. sonal stories amidst a public sphere DAYTON Officer Installation and Fundraiser [email protected]. LOS ANGELES of social and political movements Sun., Dec. 14-JACL Holiday Reception, "Strength Through Sat., Dec. 6-Spirit of the Season 7 from the 1970s to the present day. Party; 2-6 p.m.; Wright State Unity"; 2-4 p.m.; Sacramento State Central Calfornia by Hiroshima; 7:30 p.m.; Info: www. carnla.org. University; potluck. Library Art Gallery, 6000 J St.; spe• CLOVIS Aratani/Japan America Theatre; spe• SAN DIEGO cial awards to Amos and Mary Feb. 14-16, 2009-CC-NCWNP• PaciTlC Northwest cial holiday concert by Hiroshima Sun., Dec. 14-Book signing and Freeman and Georgette Imura; PSW JACL Tri-District Conference; KENT, Wash. with Terry Steele and Tetsuya lecture, "Japanese Americans in keynote speakers, Carole events include: golf tournament, · Through Dec. 19-Exhibit, Nakamura; $36.50/orchestra, San Diego"; 2 p.m.; Downtown Hayashino, Jerry Enomoto and Kiyo local tours, Saturday mixer, youth "Kenjiro Nomura: Ail Artist's View $31lbalcony, $28/JACCC members San Diego Public Library - Sato; $251Fl0rin JACLers, students dance, plenary sessions and dedica• of the Japanese American and groups of 10. TIckets: 213/680- Central Branch, 820 E. St.; author and seniors, $30/general admission. tion of the Pinedale Memorial. Internment"; Wed.-Sat. noon-4 p.m.; 3700. Info: www.jaccc.org. Susan Hasegawa will be on hand Info: 916/525-0716 or Kent HistOljcal Mw ~ eum , 855 East Southern Calfornia Through May 31, 2009- to sign copies of the book. Info or Smith St.; Nomura's work provides GARDEN GROVE Exhibition, "Asian Roots!American RSVP: 619/236-5800.• scenes of daily life, as well as a sense SOUP TO SUSHI Sat., Dec. 6-SELANOCO JACL Reality: Photographs by Corky Lee; of the architecture and landscape of (a special coIlecti6n of favorite recipes) . Minidoka. Info: www.kenthistorical• museum.org. New Deluxe 3-Ring Binder Cookbook With (562) 598-9523 ~ Over 750 Recipes Established 1965 • Imperial Jewelry g.. Co. $25 (plus $5.50 handling) Rne Jewelry' Custom Designing • Repair Wesley United Methodist Women 11072 Los Alamitos Blvd. 566 N. 5th Street Los Alamitos, CA 90720 San Jose, CA 95112

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Once again the Holiday's are fast approaching. Our second edition of "CENTE• NARY FAVORITES" is available and would make a great gift. There are 200 new recipes in a 3-ring binder and-- is typed in large print for easy reading. A 584 page book of Western-style and Asian-style cooking. A special section on Japanese New Year dishes and sushi preparation with step-by-step instructions and diagrams. Our book can be ordered by mail for $30 plus $6 for postage/han• dling (shipped within the USA). Checks made payable to Centenary UMC-Cookbook Project and send to Centenary United Methodist Church, 300 S. Central Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90013. Books are also available for pick-up at church or regional locations. Call for more information, (213) 617-9097. To ensure delivery before Christmas, all orders should be submit• ted by December 1. PACIFIC 5iI CmZEN OBITUARIES NOV. 21-DEC. 18,200815 . Glen (Fumiko); 1 gc.; 1 ggc.; and daughter, Amy (Ken Helmes); 5 gc.; 14; survived by son, Rolland brother, Wallace (Forni). 5 ggc.; and sister-in-law, Suzuko (Blanca); daughter, Michele and 3 In Memoriam '· 2008 Iwami, Noboru, 87, Hilo, (Bob) Alves. gc. All the towns are In California except as noted. Hawaii, Oct. 17; WWII veteran, Mayeda, Dr. Kazutoshi, SO, Las Okada, Yukiye, 92, Los Angeles, Army; survived by wife, Barbara; Vegas, Oct. 19; former JACL vp for Nov. 3; survived by daughters, Ajari, Charles Shiro, 85, This compilation appears on a space• Concord, Oct. 22; US. Army veter• available basis at no cost. Printed obit• daughter, Iris; son, Eric; 3 gc.; 1 public affairs, MDC governor and Dorothy (Tosh) Masukawa and an; survived by daughter, Mary; uaries from your newspaper are wel• ggc.; and brother, Masaru. Detroit chapter president; was a pro• Betty (John) Hatakeyama; 3 gc.; 2 sons, Brian and Paul; daughter-in• comed. 'Death Notices,' which appear Koildo, Dr. Mark Minoru, 90, fessor of human genetics at Wayne ggc.; sisters, Yoshika (Fred) Misaki in a timely manner at request of the law, Tes; 1 gc.; and sister, Betty. Spokane, Wash.; survived by sons, State University; survived by wife, and Kikuye (Noki) Iida; and brother, family or funeral director, are published Kiyoshi Shimokaji. Akamatsu, Haruko, 91, at the rate of $20 per column inch. Text Mark Jr. (Katie)and Michael Betty; daughters, Karen and Kathy; as Snodgrass, Alice Mikami, N orthhampton, is reworded necessary. (Jackie); daughter, Bette (Bruce son, Mike; 4 gc.; and 1 ggc. Palmer, Alaska, Oct. 12; survived by Mass., April 25; Dona and Lori; 5 gc.; 1 ggc.; broth- Johnson); 6 gc.; and sisters, Rosalia Mayeda, Masami, 93, Orange, son, Jack (Jeannie). survived by son, er, Ben Fuchiwaki; and sisters, (Clem) Miyaya, Molly (Tom) Arima Oct. 24; WWII veteran, MIS; sur• John (Sharon); Marie Masushige and Lilly Kakita. and Mabel (Yosh) Ogata. vived by children, Richard, Ted and Suto, Henry Eiichi, SO, Altadena, Dale. Oct. 17; survived by wife, Miyeko; daughter, Fujimura, Yoshiyuki J., 91, Los KOsai, Joseph H., 74, Tacoma, Norma; 3 g.c.; Alamitos, Nov. 4; 442nd veteran; Wash.; Army Mukai, Yoshio Joe, 90, Spokane, daughters, Eileen (Willy) Ma and and sister, survived by wife, T~ako; daughter, veteran; sur• Wash., Oct. 25; survived by wife, Nadine (Fred) Ford; 2 gc.; and Hiroko Nancy (Kevin) Godfrey; son, Ernie vived by wife, Haruko; sons, Bob and Jim; daugh• brother, Arther (Kazuko) Suto. Shikuma. 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Army veteran; Gardens; survived by wife, Chris; Eng; 6 gc.; brother, Aizo (June); sis• Nagata, Mitsu, 84, Glendale, an; survived by survived by wife, Jean; son, Jay four children; five grandchildren; ters, Hatsorni Higa and Reiko (Dick) Nov. 8; survived by sons, Hideo wife, Chieko; (Bernadette); daughter, Dana and two brothers. . Hara; and sisters-in-law, Fusako (Kazuyo) and Toshio (Shioko); son, Larry (Marvin); 6 gc.; and sister, Mitsuko Iizaki, Eiko, 74, Gardena, Oct. Kosai and Janet Kosai. daughter, Mariko (Toshio) Ishida; 6 (Carol Uchida); gc.; and 1 ggc. (John) Hamakami. 31; survived by husband, Henry; Kubota, Tsugio, 88, Lodi, Oct. daughters, Faye daughter, Charlene (Hidetsugo) Fuchiwaki, Hilo, 90, Arroyo 18; WWII veteran, Army; survived Ogata, Shigemi Tommy, 83, Tomoyasu and Yasuda; son, Geoffrey; sister, Gardena, Oct. 31; survived by sis• ·Grande, Aug. 8; MIS veteran; sur• by wife, Florence; children, Glenn, Sandra (Renato) Michiko Mori; and step-mother, ters, Sally Hirota, Natsue (Steven) vived by wife, Iso; daughters, Susan, Carrie, Kristine, Elizabeth and Halili; and 4 gc. Hideko Mori. Nakano, Mitzy (Ted) Ozaki, Yoshie DEATH NonCE Gregory; and 6 gc. Yamada, Masaru, 82, Syracuse, Isobe, James, 76, Gardena, Oct. . Masumiya, Asami, 92, Los Ueno, Anne Ogata, and Charlotte Utah, Oct. 28;' survived by wife, ALICE M. FUJIKAWA 24; survived by wife, Ellen; daugh• Angeles, Nov. lO; survived by sons, (Dennis) Masaki; and brothers, Kiyoko; daughters, Julie (Paul) A memorial service celebrating ter, Debbie (Dave) Sugimoto; son, Seigo (Helen), Hayarni (Kay), the life of Alice May Fujikawa will Yuji (Meiko) and Asao (Kim); Kimura and LoRee (Wallace) be held at Grace FirstPresbyterian Shigeki (Chino), Katsurni (Ursula), Crandall; 8 gc.; brother, Sadamu and Church, 3955 North Studebaker Makoto and Ronald. Ted; and sisters, Misuko (Shige) Rd, Long Beach, Calif., on Sat., · UBOTA Ogawa, Atsumi, 72, Oxnard, Oct. Shimada and Aiko (Bob) Okada. Nov. 29, commencing at 11 a.m. KKEI Following the service, a reception MORTUARY Yamashiro, Stanley, 61, Los hosted by the Fujikawa family will Whereabouts Angeles, Oct. 31; survived by take place at the Church. daughter, Nikki; sister, Lily This section nlns on a space Mrs. Fujikawa passed away after ·REllABLE. COMPASSIONATE, PERSONALIZED· available basis at no charge. 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MISSION FROM BUDDHA PRODUCTIONS presents A LANE NISHIKAWA film ·ONLY THE BRAVE" LANE ~ISHIKAWA JASON SCOTT LEE MARK DACASCOS YUJI OKUMOTO TAMLYN TOMITA Jm FAHEY PAT NORIYUKI MORITA GUY ECm Composers DAN KURAMOTO KIMO CORNWELL Costume Designer LARRY VELASCO Production Des~ner ALAN E. MURAOKA Ednor CHISAKO YOKOYAMA Director of Photography MICHAEL WOJCIECHOWSKI Producers mn: HAYASHI JAY KOIWAI Producer KAREN CRISWELL Written. Produced and Directed by LANE NISHIKAWA © 2007 MISSION fROM BUOOHA PROOUGTlONS. llG All RIGHTS RESERVm www.OnlyTheBraveMovie.com r------:------.. ------, Go to www.OnlyTheBraveMovie.com to order DVDs of ONLY THE BRAVE, or send check or money order HOLIDAY SPECIAL payable to Mission From Buddha Productions to: Mission From Buddha Productions, P.O. Box 420866, San If you order 2 or more DVDs by December 25, Diego, CA, 92142. Contact Mission-From Buddha Productions at (858)565-2021 if ordering 10 or more. we will include an extra DVD to give to a friend. NAME

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