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OBJECT ID

ddr-densho-1024-115

PARENT COLLECTION

Digital Library of Japanese American Incarceration Films

DESCRIPTION

On the evening of August 4, 1981, NCRR arranged a special evening session at the Little Tokyo Towers in Los Angeles, so that people who worked during the day could attend and participate in the CWRIC hearings. While the testimony footage for this session is incomplete and disjointed, the testifiers provide their heartbreaking experiences of personal loss, trauma, and discrimination.

Introduction by Kennedy Kabasares of PULLproject Ensemble, "Tales of Clamor".

Evening Session Testifiers:
Mary Iwasaki,
Frank Endo,
Martha Okamoto,
Marge Taniwaki,
Mo Nishida,
Jane Nishio,
Bill Shinkai,
Ewan Yoshida,
Mary Oda,
Linda Morimoto,
Mr. Tsuboi

To 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. Learn more and watch the rest of the footage at vcmedia.org/speakout

See this item in the Digital Library of the Japanese American Incarceration Films at: https://archive.org/details/ddr-densho-1024-115.

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CONTRIBUTOR

Densho

PREFERRED CITATION

Courtesy of Japanese American Film Preservation Project, Densho

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