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DESCRIPTION:40th Anniversary San Jose Day of Remembrance of Executive Order 
 9066\n\nTHEME 2020: No Camps, No Cages!\n\nWHEN: Sunday, February 16, 2020 
 @ 5:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.\n\nWHERE: San Jose Buddhist Church Betsuin, 640 
 North Fifth Street, San Jose, CA\n\nFree and open to the public. Seating is 
 limited.\n_______________________________________________________________\n\nThe 
 40th Anniversary San Jose Day of Remembrance event commemorates the 
 anniversary of the signing of Executive Order 9066. The order, signed on 
 February 19, 1942, led to the forced removal and incarceration of 120,000 
 people of Japanese descent during World War II. Hundreds of people will 
 gather together at this annual event not only to remember that great civil 
 liberties tragedy but also to reflect on the rising tensions that are 
 building within our communities today.\n\nThe 2020 San Jose Day of 
 Remembrance event will feature the return of Japantown's native son, the 
 Honorable Norman Y. Mineta to the program and will be kicked off with a 
 special music and dance collaboration from San Jose Taiko and the Wesley 
 Jazz Ensemble.\n\nThe 2020 event carries the theme "No Camps, No Cages." 
 During the past few years, the story of Japanese American incarceration has 
 intersected with several national stories including Justice Sonia 
 Sotomayor's scathing dissent in Trump v. Hawaii to migrant detention 
 centers.\n\nLast June, community activists, including former Japanese 
 American incarcerees, gathered in front of the gates of Fort Sill, Oklahoma 
 to protest the Trump administration's plan to move 1,400 migrant children 
 to this site. During World II, Fort. Sill imprisoned approximately 700 
 Japanese American men.\n\nMany prominent Americans, including former first 
 lady, Laura Bush, and actor George Takei, drew stark parallels between 
 Japanese American wartime incarceration and the "zero-tolerance" border 
 policy\n\n"I cannot for a moment imagine what my childhood would have been 
 like had I been thrown into a camp without my parents. That this is 
 happening today fills me with both rage and grief: rage toward a failed 
 political leadership who appear to have lost even their most basic 
 humanity, and a profound grief for the families affected."-- George Takei, 
 actor and activist\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/01/10/18829612.php
SUMMARY:40th Anniversary of San Jose Remembrance Day of Japanese Descent Imprisonments WWII
LOCATION:San Jose Buddhist Church Betsuin, 640 North Fifth Street, San Jose, CA\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/01/10/18829612.php
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