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DESCRIPTION:Author Reading with Satsuki Ina\n\nIn 1941 US President Franklin D. 
 Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066 and invoked the 1798 Enemy Aliens 
 Act, and 125,000 people of Japanese descent, including newlyweds and 
 American citizens Itaru and Shizuko Ina, were forcibly removed and 
 incarcerated in remote concentration camps for years, without charges, 
 trial or due process.\n\nMany of their homes, property and businesses were 
 stolen by their white neighbors, and never returned. These fundamental 
 violations of basic rights and US constitutional rights were a consequence 
 of war time patriotism and racism and intended by the government to 
 intensify that hysteria - to unite the country behind racism and patriotism 
 against “the enemy”.\n\nSatsuki Ina was born to Itaru and Shizuko 
 during their imprisonment. She is a psychotherapist and an activist and 
 weaves their story together in this moving mosaic through diary entries, 
 photographs, clandestine letters, and heart-wrenching haiku. She reveals 
 how this intrepid young couple navigated life,love, loss, and loyalty tests 
 in the welter of World War II-era hysteria.\n\nFrom Heyday, the 
 publisher:\n\n"The Poet and the Silk Girl illustrates through one 
 family’s saga the generational struggle of Japanese Americans who 
 resisted racist oppression, fought for the restoration of their rights, and 
 clung to their full humanity in the face of adversity.\n\n"With 
 psychological insight, Ina excavates the unmentionable, recovering a 
 chronicle of resilience amid some of the severest blows to American civil 
 liberties. As she traces the legacies of trauma, she connects her 
 family’s ordeal to modern-day mass incarceration at the U.S.-Mexico 
 border.\n\n"Lyrical and gripping, this cautionary tale implores us to 
 prevent the repetition of atrocity, pairing healing and protest with 
 galvanizing power."\n\nIn this time when Trump MAGA fascism is 
 incarcerating and deporting immigrants to hell hole prisons without due 
 process, along with a furious onslaught of other fascist measures, when the 
 government is declaring it is acting under the authority of very same Enemy 
 Aliens Act which was used against the Japanese in World War II and has not 
 been used since,\n\nRevolution Books is proud to host Satsuki Ina and we 
 invite everyone to come, listen and engage on these crucial questions. 
 \n\nNEVER AGAIN IS NOW! \nOrder the book at www.revolutionbooks.org.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/03/28/18874978.php
SUMMARY:Satsuki Ina presents her memoir: THE POET AND THE SILK GIRL
LOCATION:Revolution Books, 2444 Durant Ave. Berkeley, CA 94704
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/03/28/18874978.php
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