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“Just as it took a thoroughly engaged community to create these sites, it will require a community-wide effort to defend them. We need to create a powerful, nationwide coalition defending all our parks, especially the sites of conscience,” [said Bruce Embrey, co-chair of the Manzanar Committee.] "

History Being Erased Before Our Eyes: Pushing Back on Attempts to Whitewash U.S. History  | ACLU of Northern CA

Thanks to @aclu_norcal for this blog highlighting the work of the Manzanar Committee and others to push back against the Trump regime's illegal attempts to whitewash history.

#ProtectOurParks #NoMoreManzanars #NoErasure

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Our sincere condolences to Kent's family and friends.

As the founder and first president of the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA), he was a fierce advocate for economic and racial justice.

Rest in Power Kent Wong.

California passes bill curbing utilities use of ratepayer money for political spending State lawmakers last week made California the seventh state to pass a bill limiting investor-owned utilities from using customer money to pay for political and lobbying costs.

Here’s how it works. The bill would:

1) Stop utilities from baking the money they spend on political influence into rates;

2) Establish new transparency reforms to ensure they follow the law;

3.) Mandate penalties if they break the rules.
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Government shutdown means that Americans are being denied access to information & safety at parks all across the country, as thousands of park staff are now furloughed without pay.Since Trump took office in January, the NPS has lost 24% of its permanent staff. Trump is threatening to cut even more

National parks remove signs about climate, slavery and Japanese detention The removals come after President Donald Trump issued an executive order in March seeking to remove “improper partisan ideology” from federal institutions.

Actions by the Trump administration to remove signage that discusses slavery, Japanese-American incarceration during WWII, and climate change are absolutely unacceptable.

We unequivocally stand against this erasure

#NoErasure #ProtectOurParks

The story told at Manzanar is “a cautionary tale,” said Bruce Embrey, who co-chairs the Manzanar Committee that his mother, who was incarcerated at Manzanar, co-founded in 1970.

For Embrey, the signage review at parks like Manzanar is “a white nationalist effort to erase our history'

As Trump Targets National Parks that 'Disparage Americans,’ Advocates Warn California History Is At Stake | KQED Everything from national park exhibits to gift store merchandise is now under review by the Trump administration for materials that "inappropriately disparage Americans." Advocates ask: What will this...

Check out this important coverage from KQED about the Trump administration's attempts to erase our history and our efforts to take a stand against this white nationalist effort.

#NoErasure #ProtectEveryPark #NeverAgainIsNow #NeverAgain #NoMoreManzanars

“It is an effort to gut work by the National Park Service from telling the story of the forced removal of indigenous people, chattel slavery, Jim Crow and the unconstitutional incarceration of more than 125,000 persons of Japanese ancestry during WWII. We will not stand for this erasure.”

This dangerous attack on the truth sets the stage for history to be repeated.

“The Trump administration’s attack on the Smithsonian and the national parks is an escalation of their attacks on our civil rights and communities of color,” said Manzanar Co-Chair Bruce Embrey

Join us on Monday, September 15 at 5pm PT for a virtual event - Silencing History: Protecting Truth in Public Spaces and Museums

Speak out against the Trump Administration's efforts to erase history

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#NeverAgainIsNow #NoErasure #NeverAgain #NoMoreManzanars

“The Government ... has all but declared that all Latinos, U.S. citizens or not, who work low wage jobs are fair game to be seized at any time, taken away from work, and held until they provide proof of their legal status to the agents’ satisfaction,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor called the decision “yet another grave misuse of our emergency docket. We should not have to live where govt can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, & appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent.”

We stand with those who are being targeted and demand due process and constitutional rights for all.

#NeverAgainisNow #NoRaids #NoMoreManzanars #NeverAgain #Manzanar

Supreme Court upholds 'roving patrols' for immigration stops in Los Angeles The high court says agents may stop and question people they suspect are undocumented based on them working at a car wash, speaking Spanish or having brown skin.

The parallels between what is happening today against communities of color, including Latino, Asian, and African people, and what happened to our Japanese and Japanese American community in 1942 are alarming and unacceptable.

#NeverAgainisNow #NoRaids #NoMoreManzanars #NeverAgain #Manzanar

"We have to defy it for our rights and the rights of others. We’ve been through this before. We’re not going away. Democracy is fragile and we need to keep going. I know these are really dark times right now, but remember, there’s always hope.” Glen Kitayama concluded.

Glen Kitayama of the Manzanar Committee said, “We need to decide what kind of world that we want to live in. We cannot normalize impunity. We cannot normalize a police state, like we saw last week … We cannot normalize fascism — call it what it is."

‘Never Again Is Now’ - Rafu Shimpo Activists Call for Action Following ICE Raid in Little Tokyo By J.K. YAMAMOTORafu Shimpo A crowd estimated at over 500 attended a rally Aug. 23 outside the Japanese American National Museum for a Day ...

Check out the great coverage by the @rafushimpo of our #NeverAgain Day of Action

#NeverAgainIsNow #NoErasure #NoRaids #protecteverypark #nomoremanzanars #Manzanar

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‘Never Again is Now’: Day of action held in defense of national parks and U.S. history Pat Sakamoto was born in Manzanar War Relocation Center during World War II. Her family experienced detention, ostracism, separation, post-traumatic stress, and following release, lingering prejudice.

Great coverage of our Day of Action to #ProtectEveryPark at Manzanar in the Inyo Register. Thanks to the 100+ people, incredible speakers and our partners NPCA INYO350 and Friends of the Inyo for such a powerful event.

We stand together to say #NeverAgainIsNow #NoErasure #NoRaids #NoMoreManzanars

Protest over history at Manzanar Japanese internment camp Amid fears that their history will be erased by new Trump administration guidelines, Japanese Americans and others protested at Manzanar National Historic Site.

"At a protest last weekend at Manzanar, where his mother was once incarcerated, Embrey and about 100 others decried censorship attempts and voiced support for the site’s mission to tell an unvarnished version of this chapter of American history."

#ProtectEveryPark

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Hosts: National Parks Conservation Association, Go For Broke, Japanese American Citizens League, Japanese American National Museum, Little Tokyo Historical Society, Little Tokyo Service Center, Manzanar Committee, Nikkei for Civil Rights & Redress, Nikkei Progressives, Tuna Canyon Detention Station

The program included WWII incarceration survivors, community activists, and allies who demanded that this injustice never happens again. The speakers drew parallels of the recent attacks by the Trump + ICE to detain and deport immigrants with what happened to Japanese Americans in WWII.
#NeverAgain

YouTube video by manzanarcommittee Never Again Day of Action 2025

Over 500 people gathered on Saturday August 23rd in Little Tokyo to take a stand against the Trump administration’s attacks on truth, justice and democracy.

Check out the video by Alan Kondo of Nikkei Progressives here on the Manzanar Committee YouTube:
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People spoke out against the Trump Administration imposed budget cuts and QR codes attempting to erase the history at the site and drew parallels to the recent raids and detention of communities, similar to what happened for people of Japanese ancestry in WWII.

#NeverAgainIsNow

YouTube video by manzanarcommittee Protect Every Park - Day of Action

Check out the full program at the #ProtectEveryPark Day of Action at Manzanar National Historic Site where about 125 people gathered on Saturday August 23, 2025 to demand #NoErasure #NoRaids #NeverAgainisNow

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Japanese American groups blast use of Fort Bliss, former internment camp site, as ICE detention center “The use of national security rhetoric to justify mass incarceration today echoes the same logic that led to their forced removal and incarceration,” one advocate said.

The use of national security rhetoric to justify mass incarceration today echoes the same logic that led to the incarceration of Japanese Americans. It is inconceivable that the US is once again building concentration camps, denying the lessons learned 80 years ago.

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Black and white photograph of a young Japanese woman holding a baby in her arms. They both have tags hanging from their coats as they await a bus ride that will take them to a concentration camp.

Join us for a Day of Action to defend the truth of WWIl Japanese American incarceration history. Hear from incarceration survivors, community activists, and allies to honor our history and demand that this injustice never happens again. #ProtectEveryPark

Saturday, August 23, 10am @ JANM Plaza

Manzanar Committee Co-Sponsors NPCA National Day of Action FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 14, 2025 The Manzanar Committee is co-sponsoring the National Park Conservation Association’s (NPCA) #ProtectEveryPark Day of Action on Saturday, August 23, 2025. This …

We demand an end to the unjust and illegal incarceration of immigrants, residents and citizens. We demand an end to attacks that attempt to erase our history.

Join us to take action on Saturday August 23rd

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The Largest Immigrant Detention Center in The U.S. Has Opened. What You Need to Know More than $1 billion will be invested to expand the center's current 1,000-bed capacity to hold up to 5,000 people

During World War II Japanese American families were incarcerated behind barbed wire fence, guarded by military police without due process and in violation of the Constitution. Today, many communities of color are facing the same injustices, and even at the same locations.

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We are seeing horrific history repeat itself and we are standing up to defend truth, justice and democracy.

#NoRaids #NoErasure #NeverAgainIsNow

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