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Beyond Barbed Wire launches 4 10-dty tour Pacific Citizen Established 1929 NOttofxS PuWcatton of the Jopcrtese American Cfflzorw Leogue (JACL) $1.50 poripaid (U.5.. CaU / $130 (Jc^ Ak) #2827 /Vol. 125. No, 3 JACL website; www.jacl.org / PC e mAil; paccit ^ aoi com Senate subcommittee approves Leadership development and funds for Manzanar site WASHINGTON - The-Senate ^l^d for the pngect, expects the membership focus of PNWDC/IDC Interior AppropriationB Sub bill to pass withm a few weeks. committee on ^day approved Sue Embr^, head of the Man $310,000 in funding for the Man- zanar Committee who worked to Bi-District/youth conference zanzar National lUatoric Site on get the former camp designated July18. BY car 5une aoyagi as a national historic site, would AniMnlEdher The funds will be iêd for con like to see some of the money struction projects throuôut the It’s often been said: if JACL is used to ' transform the former to remain a viable and relevant site of the WWII internment auditorium into a visitor center. > organization into the next millen camp in Inyo County, Calif., ‘The Manzanar National His nium, it's going to take the coor whidj was transfered to the U5. toric Site represents a lastii^ dinate efforts of both the older National Park Service eariier this symbol to acknowl^ge the tragic and younger members. year. \ historic injustice committ^ I The funding bill must now pass That ’s why the Pacific North agmnst thousands of Americans,' west and totermountain Dis through a congressional confer said Sen. Boxer. She promised to tricts deddedô hold the Young ence committee and be approved work to ensure the federal gw- Adult Asian Pacific Islander by President Clinton. Calif. Rep. emment is committed to main American Conferepe in coiyunc- Robert Matsui who, with Calif taining the historic site for future tion with theif biennial Bi- Sen. Barbara Boxer, sponsored generations. ■ t)istrict Conference on July 18-20 legislation to transfer federal at the B^ Western Southcenter in Seattle, Washington. Immigrants challenge retroactive More than 100 people attended the joint three-day conference application of SSI restrictions that had a jam-packed schedu^ I PNWDC and IDC presented awards of appreciation to former rtatioinal of workshops, district meetings JACL president Denny Yasuhara. Pictured are (from left): Yas Tokita, Nine immigrants from Cali case the law is being applied to and discussions. Nation^ Board Helen Kawagoe, Denny Yasuhara and Teny Yamada. fornia and Oregon filed a class deprive an applicant of seven members Helen JLawagoe, Presi action lawsuit today in U.S. jrears of retroactive benefits. depL Director Herb Yamanishi bi-district conference T think the numbers.' ..District Court in Lra Angeles The plaintiffs contend that this decision by the Adimn- Lori Fujimoto of Public Affairs this conference is a go^ opportu Most of the students who at / Challenging the- government's Richard Uno of General Opera nity to meet community leaders, tended the conference are mem decision to apply the noncitizen istration goes beyond the \aw tions, and Gary Mayeda of Plan' to network, and for the develop bers. of the Japanese American restrictions on eli^bility in enacted by Congress and vie- 'Tates U.S. Supreme Court rul ning and De^ôpment flew in ment of leadership skills,' said Youth Society or JAYS, a Univer last year's welfare law to SSI from California. Warren Furu- Kelly Wicker. PNW Youth«tu- sity of Washington student group beneflts they should haw ings which forbid the reUoactive tani, former Los Angeles School dent Representative, who helped that wrks closely with the Seat received before the^w was pas- application of a law unless Congress clearly states that the Board member, was the keynote organize the youth conference. tle Chapter of JACL. Many of the C se<t^"Althou^ the plaintiffs speaker, and State Representa Unfortunately, there are very few Seattle board members are cur applied for Î disability before law is to be retroactive. The tive Kip Tbkuda (D-37th District) leadership conferences for Asian rent or former members of JAYS. the law was pasa^ on August 22, retroactive application also de prives counties and states of mil and Seattle School Board Mem American youth today, she said. *Ib have a youth conference 1996, in each case, the Soda! ber A1 Sugiyama spoke at a work Approximately 30 students at like this is so important to keep I Securi^ Administration did not lions of dollars they would other shop on political empowerment. tended the event, which offered the JA community alive and make its eligibility determina wise be able to recover for inter im assistance benefits provided Partidpanta also eiyoyed a golf career workshops spedficalJy for youth groups alive,' said Jill tion until after its passage. tournament, a tour of the histor the youth in the fields of busi Yamagiwa, 22, last year's -presi People often wait several years while individuals were waiting ic Nihonmachi area, and the ness, education, health, media, dent of JAYS. Currently, JA^ is for a determination of disability. for a determination from the Social Security AdministratioD. Seattle Buddhist Ibmple Bon law, and social services. ‘The the only JA student group in Normally, they are compensated Odori festival. time of year was bad,’ said Seattle. for this delay by payment of ben Among the plaintifis are re This was the first time the Wicker, noting that many stu efits due from the date of appli fugees from Laos and Cambodia, and legal residents from Mexico, PNWDC and IDC had held a dents were away for the summer See BI^DiSTRICT/page 3 cation if they were disabled youth conference silongside their bslidays. “But we’re happy with throughout this period. However, Poland and the former Yugo in the case of immigrant apli- slavia. cants the administration has ad- For further information con <^ted a policy of applying the tact Gerald A. McIntyre at PAN A is set for 21st century, Chile new noncitizen restrictions even 310/204*6015 ext. 1 or Victor to payments that were due before Hwang at the Asian Law Cau the new law was passed. In one cus, 415/391-1655, ext. 31. ■ named host for'99 confab BY HARRY K. HONDA Cl) Australia, with Yoehi Ho- or out of college for several Ettttor Emeritus saka of Sydney representating, years, continued to exhibit their WWII Internees get H.S. diploma MEXICO CfTY-Seeds of the has become the 12th nation to enthusiasm. Close to 50 .met at V ' first Pan American- Nikkei join PANA. Invitations have been the Kaikan, the Japanese Mex CAROUNE AOYAGI Japanese American classmates, were forced to leave their beloved Association (PANA) convention given to Ecuador and Venezuela . ican Association's cultural cen- staged here in 1981, inddentally (2) The workshops, now cover tm:\^ Lidia Okuma of Mexico, a ANAHEIM. Calif: — At first school to live in internment at the same place —the Liceo niite hours in three Sessions over Sansei who rendered the final glance you might think Ruth camps. The students were part Mexicano Japones,— have taken two days —ample time for the report in Spanish, EInglish and Matsuda, 70, and Tbru Sugite, ofthe 120,OOQ,JAs who, by order subjects to be addressed by dele Japanese all by herself, was a 72, garbed in royal blue robe and of the United States Govern root and been watered by deter mination to step into the 21st gates, though hampered some “first' cap, look out of place at Anaheim ment, were placed in barbed wire century. More than 500 delates what by the lack of translators. *<?ommunication ’ will be Hi^ ^hool's graduation ceremo- enclosed camps'until the end of .and participants attended the Japanese was a common lan stressed during Che coming bien ny. World War II. ninth biennial convention July nium thresh e-mail and In But these two belong bere just Both Matsuda and Su^ta guage.- 24-27. (3) Youth, most of them in col- ternet, Brian Kobashigawa of as mudi as the more tl^ 300 eventually completed their hi^ Washington, D.C., disdosed. graduating •teenagers who at school education in the Poston, (4) *^6 PANA Economic Com tended the event on June 12 at Arizona camp. mittee (Commision Empresarial Anaheim ’s Glover Stadium. “Wth all this excitement, it CLPEF curriculum summit APN) was established, com That ’s because after more than feels great, ” said Matsuda after prised of representatives of area fifty years, Matsuda and Sugite receiving her diploma. T wish I scheduled for August 2*3 Japanese chambers of commerce finally received their high school was 18 ag^. ” Seeing the stu SAN FRANCISCO—As part of and industry in the rune PANA diplomas from Anaheim. dents heading off to graduation Ium-r4)y gathering the brightest its ipitiative to integrate the educators in the country on this countries (Argentina, Brazil, Matsuda bad been a freshman parties and dinners after the cer- lessons learned frozn the intem- issue, we can have a national Canada. Chile. Mexico, Para- and Sugite a sophomore in 1942 inent into the nation ’s education See Diplomas/page 5 impact on the curriculum for ftK ây, Peru, USA, Uruguay) with when tbey, along with 27 of their system, the Civil Liberties Public tore generations. ” j invitations to Ecuador arid Ven Question Fund will co-host a The p(irpo8e.nf this summit: ezuela. The committee will serve curriculum summit Aug. 2-3. • to encourage CLPEF grant as a dearing bouse and be based This effort will plant the seeds recipients and others to collabo in Peru, PANA-USA/East, said a for future generation,' noted rate, to share resources and delegate Francis Sdgi.

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