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While the testimony footage for this session is incomplete and disjointed, the testifiers provide their heartbreaking experiences of personal loss, trauma, and discrimination. \r\n\r\nIntroduction by Kennedy Kabasares of PULLproject Ensemble, \"Tales of Clamor\". \r\n\r\nEvening Session Testifiers: \r\nMary Iwasaki, \r\nFrank Endo, \r\nMartha Okamoto, \r\nMarge Taniwaki, \r\nMo Nishida, \r\nJane Nishio, \r\nBill Shinkai, \r\nEwan Yoshida, \r\nMary Oda, \r\nLinda Morimoto, \r\nMr. Tsuboi \r\n\r\nTo commemorate the 40th anniversary of the 1981 Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians (CWRIC) Los Angeles hearings, Visual Communications and Nikkei for Civil Rights & Redress (NCRR) presents SPEAK OUT FOR JUSTICE, the entire gavel-to-gavel tape coverage of the Los Angeles hearings, held August 4 - 6, 1981. We are releasing the full 26 hours of tapes, comprising over 150 testimonies from those impacted by Executive Order 9066, including special introductions by various community members. 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