Millions of women can’t go back to work because of child care. Our climate is changing more and more rapidly. Billionaires and giant corporations manipulate our tax laws to pay nothing or next to nothing. We can’t move our country forward without tackling these crises head on.
I, too, sing America...
Tomorrow,
I'll be at the table
When company comes.
Nobody'll dare
Say to me,
"Eat in the kitchen,"
Then.
Besides,
They'll see how beautiful I am
And be ashamed—
I, too, am America.
~Langston Hughes
Executive Order 9066, which was signed on this day 79 years ago, set in motion the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans. We use this occasion to recommit to standing with those who are vulnerable to the same injustices that our community experienced. #DayOfRemembrance#DOR
My grandfather who was a well known plumber in San Francisco’s J-Town had to design and build the sewer system for the camp (Rohwer) he was imprisoned in.
Under EO9066, 120,000 people were sent to incarceration camps. They lived in temporary tar-paper barrack-like structures surrounded by barbed wire, searchlights, and guard towers. #DayofRemembrance
Americans of Japanese ancestry & Japanese nationals living on the Pacific Coast and in southern Arizona were ordered to register & report to temporary detention centers. Evacuees were allowed to bring only what they could carry. #DayOfRemembrance
Iku Tsuchiya used this suitcase.
Executive Order 9066, which was signed on this day 79 years ago, set in motion the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans. We use this occasion to recommit to standing with those who are vulnerable to the same injustices that our community experienced. #DayOfRemembrance#DOR
A decision motivated by discrimination and xenophobia, the internment of Japanese Americans was a betrayal of our most sacred values as a nation that we must never repeat.
Today is hereby proclaimed as “A Day of Remembrance: Japanese American Evacuation."https://t.co/PsMSjlXk7T
To commemorate today's #DayOfRemembrance, I'm proud to join a discussion about the award-winning documentary @thentheycamedoc today at 4pm PT. I hope you'll join this important conversation.
Register here: https://t.co/ptUFLszgPk
My mom was 16 ready to graduate and with a college scholarship, instead she was imprisoned in Rohwer, AK and taught guards to read and write, but never got to graduate.
Today is the Day of Remembrance. On this day in 1942, FDR signed Executive Order 9066, which led to the incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans living on the West Coast. We lost our jobs, our homes, and our freedom. We #NeverForget today, so that it can #NeverAgain happen.
@reesewaters Now that's just not fair!
He also said black people should be happy because "we allow them to play quarterback".
He's chock full o' reasons black people should be satisfied.