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DESCRIPTION:PASSING IT ON: A CELEBRATION OF THE LIFE OF YURI KOCHIYAMA \n\nWhen: 
 \nSaturday, August 2nd, 2014 @ 4:30-9:00 pm\n\nWhere: \nSan Jose, St. 
 Paul's Methodist\n405 S. 10th, San Jose, CA 95112\n\n***This program will 
 be taking donations and charging admission at the door to cover the 
 costs***\n(No One Turned Away for Lack of Funds)\n\n\nA legend among us has 
 passed on to the ancestors, it is now time that we celebrate the time we 
 had with her. \n\nDinner, Vendors, Film, Entertainment, Commemoration 
 \n\nShort Film Honoring - "Yuri Kochiyama: In Her Own Words" \nPerformance 
 of "Yuri Kochiyama" by MC Geologic of the Blue Scholars\n\nEMCEE: Carlos 
 Padilla of the SEIU Hosting...\n\nHear from those who knew and loved her, 
 speakers include: \n\nIlyasah Shabazz - Daughter of Malcolm X\n \nDhoruba 
 al-Mujahid bin Wahad - Former BPP/BLA Political Prisoner \n\nGloria La Riva 
 - Director of the National Committee to Free the Cuban Five \n\nAbdel Malik 
 Ali - Muslim Activist, and Muslim Youth Imam \n\nGerald Smith - Former BPP, 
 Labor Action to Committee to Free Mumia Abu Jamal \n\nRaul "Curly" 
 Estremera - Former Political Prisoner and Prisoner of War, Young Lords 
 Organization, and the Black Liberation Army\n\nSharat Lin - Former 
 President of the San Jose Peace & Justice Center\n\nPastor Goti of St. 
 Paul's Methodist Church\n\nOpen Mic & More...\n\n\nWith Statements and 
 Messages from*:\n\nAkemi Kochiyama-Sardinha - Granddaughter of Yuri 
 Kochiyama\n\nAttallah Shabazz - The Daughter of Malcolm X\n\nHerman 
 Ferguson & The Malcolm X Commemoration Committee - Co-founder of the 
 Malcolm X Commemoration Committee with Yuri Kochiyama\n\nRussell "Maroon" 
 Shoatz - BPP/BLA Political Prisoner\n\nJalil Muntaqim - BPP/BLA Political 
 Prisoner\n\nAnd also a Special Message from behind the walls by Mumia 
 Abu-Jamal...\n\n* Asterisk above indicates these will likely be recorded 
 messages, readings or call ins. \n \n\nFor interest in Participation, 
 Donation, Contribution or Vending/Tabling Contact:\n\nE-mail - 
 sjyurikochiyamalifecelebration[at]gmail.com\nPhone - 408-830-4186\n 
 \n\nDATE: Saturday, 8/2/2014 \nTIME: Doors - 4:30 pm Program till 9:00 pm 
 \nCOST: Donations - $10 (door), $5 (dinner), $25 (Special Rate for Multiple 
 "Passing It On Events")\nLOCATION: St. Paul's Methodist Church \n405 S. 
 10th, San Jose, CA 95112 \n\nFor More Info: \nPhone - 408-791-7471 or 
 408-830-4186 \nEmail - sjyurikochiyamalifecelebration [at] gmail.com 
 \n\n\nRELATED PROGRAMMING: \n\nIn Commemoration of Black August & In Honor 
 of Yuri Kochiyama a Three City Mini Tour of Speakers..\n\nCOMMUNITY PANELS 
 & DISCUSSIONS ON \nBlack August, The Legacy of Malcolm X \nOrganizing, 
 Resistance and COINTELPRO \n\nJOIN PANEL & COMMUNITY DISCUSSION 
 WITH\n\nIlyasah Shabazz \nThe Daughter of Malcolm X, she is a Trustee of 
 the Malcolm X & Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial, Educational, and Cultural 
 Center in NYC, and the author of “Growing Up X” (2002) and “Malcolm 
 Little: The Boy Who Grew Up to be Malcolm X” (2014)\n\nDhoruba bin Wahad 
 \nFormer Field Secretary of the NY Black Panther Party, Co-Founder Black 
 Liberation Army, Former Political Prisoner and Prisoner of War, author of 
 "Still Black, Still Strong" (1993), subject of the documentary film 
 "Passin' It On" (2001) and the book "The Savage City: Race, Murder, and a 
 Generation on the Edge" (2011) by T.J. English\n\nErnesto Vigil \nFormer 
 Vice Chairman of the Crusade for Justice under Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales, 
 author of "The Crusade For Justice: Chicano Militancy and the Government's 
 War on Dissent" (1999), featured in the documentaries: "Chicano! The 
 History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement" (1996), "Ruben 
 Salazar: Man in the Middle" (2014) \n\nLOCATION & TIMES:\n\nPassing it On 
 (Part One): Generation to Generation - Oakland (Friday, 8-1-2014)\nOs 
 Qilombo\n2313 San Pablo Ave., Oakland - 6-9 pm (Food, Discussion, Hip 
 Hop/Spoken Word)\nInfo: 510-338-7933 or info[at]qilombo.org\n\n\nPassing it 
 On (Part Two): Justice For All - San Jose (Saturday, 8-2-2014)\nAfrican 
 American Community Service Agency\n304 N. 6th Street, San Jose - Noon to 
 4pm (Lunch and Discussion, doors @ 11)\nInfo; 925-699-7636 or 
 sjblackaugust[at]gmail.com\n\nPassing it On (Part Three): Community in 
 Resistance - San Francisco (Sunday, 8-3-2014)\n2969 Mission Ave & 26th, San 
 Francisco - 4-7 pm (Food & Discussion)\nInfo: 415-821-6545\n\n\nMumia on 
 Yuri:\n------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
 \n\nWho Was Yuri Nakahara Kochiyama? \n\n"Her name was Yuri, a Japanese 
 woman born in the United States. I hesitate to call her a 
 Japanese-American, for to do so suggests she was a citizen. In light of how 
 she, her family and her community were treated during World War II, 
 especially after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941, to call any of them 
 citizens would be an exaggeration. \n\nYuri was barely 20 when she, her 
 parents, her brothers and the Japanese living on the West Coast — some 
 110,000 children, women and men — were forced to leave their homes, their 
 schools, their jobs and businesses, and were transported to concentration 
 camps in the nation’s interior. Two-thirds of these people (like Yuri) 
 were born in the U.S., and thus American citizens according to the 
 Constitution. \n\nThis meant nothing. They were Japanese — that was 
 enough. \n\nShe remembered her experiences in those camps as a naïve 
 “banana” (yellow on the outside, white on the inside). She recounted to 
 oral historians: “I was red, white and blue when I was growing up. I 
 taught Sunday school, and was very, very American. But I was also 
 provincial. We were just kids rooting for our high school. Everything 
 changed for me on the day Pearl Harbor was bombed. On that very day, 
 December 7th, the FBI came and took my father. He had just come home from 
 the hospital the day before. For several days we didn’t know where they 
 had taken him. Then we found out that he was taken to the federal prison at 
 Terminal Island. Overnight, things changed for us.” \n\nIn December, 
 1944, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that “military necessity” was the 
 basis of the mass evacuation and detention of tens of thousands in the 
 Korematsu case. \n\nYuri would later become a strong supporter of Malcolm X 
 and the Black Freedom Movement. She joined and worked in various liberation 
 organizations and grew to become an icon of the Black freedom and 
 Asian-American rights movements. \n\nBorn Yuri Nakahara on May 19, 1921 (4 
 years to the date before Malcolm was born), she married Bill Kochiyama. The 
 Kochiyama's moved to Harlem in 1960, where they worked for the Civil Rights 
 movement, in education and fair housing practices. \n\nYuri Kochiyama, 
 freedom fighter, after 93 summers, has become an ancestor." \n\n- Mumia 
 Abu-Jamal \n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/07/25/18759146.php
SUMMARY:Passing it On: Celebrating the Life of Yuri Kochiyama (A Commemoration)
LOCATION:St. Paul's Methodist Church \n405 S. 10th, San Jose, CA 95112
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/07/25/18759146.php
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