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DESCRIPTION:Film Screening: Discussion of Defiant to the Last, Resistance at the Tule 
 Lake Jail .\nFollowed by discussion with Filmmaker Emiko Omori and Satsuki 
 Ina, author of The Poet and the Silk Girl\n\nAbout the Film from the 
 Defiant to the Last website:\n"Based on lies and wartime propaganda, during 
 WWII the U.S. government forcibly removed and incarcerated more than 
 125,000 innocent Japanese Americans in ten American concentration camps, 
 solely because of their race.\n\n"At all the prison sites, despite the 
 mythology of quiet compliance, Japanese Americans showed moral courage, 
 resisted, and refused to accept the government’s abuse. Defiant to the 
 Last tells the story of the Tule Lake Segregation Center where dissident 
 Japanese Americans were demonized and punished for speaking out against the 
 false wartime incarceration."\n\nRevolution Books is showing this film 
 because the story of resistance to the unjust treatment of the Japanese 
 Americans in WW II resonates deeply with our own time, when immigrants’ 
 rights are stripped away, they are demonized, and some deported to torture 
 prisons in countries they’ve never lived in - and people who oppose this 
 treatment are attacked and vilified by the government.\n \nThis is a time 
 for defiance, for voices of conscience to speak out, and for revolution. 
 Defiant to the Last brings crucial experience and important lessons from 
 the past, and we are very glad to be able to bring Satsuki Ina and Emiko 
 Omori to our store.\n\nWatch the trailer for the film. 
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=631_T12Tuv8\n\nDirector Emiko Omori was 
 incarcerated as a toddler with her family at Poston Concentration Camp, 
 Arizona. She studied film at San Francisco State University. Omori's 
 defining work, Rabbit in the Moon, explores the Japanese American 
 incarceration experience.\n\nA writer, activist, and psychotherapist, 
 Satsuki Ina has spent her professional career seeking to understand the 
 long-term impact of collective and historic trauma. When her parents 
 protested their unjust incarceration during WWII, they were segregated to 
 the maximum security Tule Lake Concentration Camp where Satsuki was born. 
 She is Professor Emeritus at California State University , Sacramento and 
 works as a consultant specializing in community trauma. Her book,The Poet 
 and the Silk Girl: A Memoir of Love, Imprisonment, and Protest (Heyday 
 Books) was released in 2024 and the audiobook version is available now at 
 Libro FM and other audiobook outlets.\n\nWe are sharing this case from the 
 series, American Crime, #89: 120,000 People of Japanese Descent Put in U.S. 
 Concentration Camps During World War 
 2.\nhttps://revcom.us/en/a/447/american-crime-89-people-of-japanese-descent-put-in-us-concentration-camps-en.html\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2026/11/08/18890100.php
SUMMARY:Film: DEFIANT to the LAST-Resistance at the Tule Lake Jail
LOCATION:Revolution Books\n2444 Durant Avenue\nBerkeley, CA 94704
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2026/11/08/18890100.php
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