Homer Yasui, 95, has a message: 'Stand up, do something! Be counted. Help us.”
described why they had partnered with La Resistencia in organizing the day’s demonstration and pledged to continue standing together to close the center and end private prisons in the state.
Mike Ishii, a lead organizer of Tsuru for Solidarity who was at Sunday’s protest, expects the June event to be “the largest gathering of Nikkei [Japanese descendants] since World War II.” The rallying cry: “Never Again Is Now.”Sunday's protest at the immigrant detention center in Tacoma is a prelude to a larger gathering planned for Washington, D.C., on June 6.
Mizu Sugimura, 64, was born 10 years after her parents “got out of camp.” She carried a decorated baby blanket on Sunday to symbolize their efforts to start anew after the war. “They’re bringing me home and they’re hopeful for the future, new baby, everything. But you carry all of your experiences with you,” she said of the lingering effects of her parents’ incarceration, passed down to the next generation.
With any luck, Grandpa will be one of the Japanese American camp survivors taking Tsuru for Solidarity’s “never again” message directly to Washington, D.C., in June, though perhaps not to“No, no! I’m afraid he’ll tweet something back at me,” he said of not wanting to talk to the president. “He might fire me!”
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