Konrad Aderer

I'm proud of my NYC, and amazed at how far we've come since 9/11. I have to say I'm still nervous because all the anti-Muslim, white supremacist hate thrown at him is very much still around, percolating and scheming. But for now, I'm happy for this victory.

Yang doesn't care. He's just peddling his vague both-sides "anti-politician" stance because that's the full depth and breadth of what he has to offer.

On November 5, a chance to review how this particular community fought for redress for gross violations of constitutional rights, and won.

In the old days, warmongering GOP moves were couched in gravitas and reams of official justification. It was bullshit, but even bullshit legitimization, when based on international norms, had the grace of helping maintain those norms.

Now, war is waged with a smirk. This is a dangerous era.

This city belongs to all of us. The ones who just got here, the ones who grew up here, the ones who never stop showing up for each other.

We protect New York because we love it. Join Hands Off NYC on October 29 to learn how we defend our city together.

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It’s Media Literacy Week (Oct 27–31)! At Densho, we believe that media literacy is essential to preserving memory, challenging bias, and ensuring that history is told with care and truth.

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS - Tamiko Nimura seeks to highlight people who are resisting—through direct action, advocacy, arts and culture.

We Who Resist is a 6-essay series conversations with Nikkei individuals and organizations about their stories of resisting oppression.

"I am both in mourning and angered that so many of our elders (and many of them long gone) devoted their lives trying to prevent what is happening now to vulnerable communities."
- @tamikonimura.bsky.social

The sites of Japanese American incarceration are administered by the National Park Service. The DOGE pillage and the regime's relentless "anti-DEI" attacks have endangered my community's work to preserve and interpret this history...so anyone with a stake or interest please tune in!

I interviewed Junko Kobayashi at the last Tule Lake Pilgrimage. Her foundational scholarship interprets Tessaku as a continuation of a Japanese-language literary movement that flowered in the U.S. in the years before World War II. buff.ly/s9igFod

This is really disheartening. NBCs Asian America team was really strong - they were crucial in the coverage of incarceration survivors leading a protest movement against family detention in 2018. Dedicated coverage of historically targeted groups is an important part of their moral leadership.

Mamdani is Kinda Sorta Almost with Hochul The Democratic nominee stopped short of endorsing the governor's reelection campaign.

To me it's that Mamdani exploits his current political strength at all times. Hochul still hasn't signed on to tangibly help his proposals, so why give away the endorsement she needs from him more than vice versa? www.politico.com/live-updates...

In a broad view this debate had heavy old v. young energy. Cuomo came off listless and out of touch. Both the older candidates struggled to understand many of the questions.

Mamdani not endorsing Gov. Hochul was ballsy - my take is it's his strong instinct to use every bit of his leverage.

I'll admit it - the Dem attack android fills an emotional need of mine.

Just kids...stout, beardy 27-35 year-old kids blowing off steam, what's wrong with you?

Uh, do you mean this WIC? www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...

Shortly before the pandemic I began my obsession with Tessaku ("Iron Fence"), the Japanese-language literary journal of Tule Lake Segregation Center...and last year I started production of film adaptation and hybrid documentary expanding on a 1944 short story from the second issue. buff.ly/LxiolpO

Book cover: Transpacific Convergences: Race, Migration, and Japanese American Film Culture before World War II by Denise Khor

Before World War II, Japanese Americans saw many Japanese films at cinemas and community venues. Denise Khor's book Transpacific Convergences reveals this transnational public sphere of cinema and ideas across the Pacific, which we recreate in They Took My Father Too.
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All right mister smartypants, whadja get don witcha five hard drives plugged in all day?

Paramjit Singh: Sikh man with brain tumour detained by US immigration Paramjit Singh, an Indian passport holder, has lived in the US on a green card since 1994.

The latest tactic in Trump's cruel anti-immigrant agenda? Depriving people of life-saving medical care.

After being interrogated by CBP in an airport for five days, Paramjit Singh — a Sikh man from India battling a brain tumor and a heart condition — was rushed to the ER for a medical emergency.

Kenji Liu: "when we look at the ICE detention camps being built now, it’s not hard to draw a connection—between a presidential executive order and unchecked federal power. I think people forget that this happened to Japanese Americans—in Little Tokyo. (Los Angeles)"

Talk of Asian immigration as an "invasion" dominated politics in the early 20th century. But folks eager to see Asians locked up en masse had to wait for an actual war to trigger the Alien Enemies Act. Now we have a gov't willing to reinvent words like "invasion" and "insurrection."
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Nice to find you here though! Here's a post by a colleague of mine which explains about a Tessaku translation project underway now: resisters.com/2023/12/14/p...

Hey Jed! You posted on my 2024 birthday about Tessaku, which has been my focus since 2019. The literary journal, not the tessaku-com project which grabbed the name. That description irks me because Tessaku ran for more than a year, a significant proportion of the WW2 incarceration period.

I'm not even the real target audience for this but close to people who are and it's perfect 🤣

A clipping from my research around U.S. Japanese-language literature, which I'm excavating and reimagining as a filmmaker. Scholars of Japanese diasporas from Yuji Ichioka to Duncan Ryuken Williams have worked to free Asian American history from assimilationist biases. buff.ly/4LI028A

Don't tell me that.

Y'know, having Drumph in charge is going to make certain people loads and loads of money. And the wealthiest in the world will be like 3 of the worst possible people.

This phrenological chart is too close to mine for comfort. #anxiety