CONSCIENCE AND THE CONSTITUTION aired on PBS in November, 2000. Watch on Amazon Prime. Get bonus features on the Two-Disc Collectors DVD at https://xitter.cf/t.co/8CXjcGl2Ym
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Our film on the largest organized resistance to wartime incarceration is now on a streaming platform. "Conscience and the Constitution" premiered 25 yrs ago on PBS. You can now watch it on the Nichi Bei Foundation's Films of Remembrance On Demand service. resisters.com/2025/11/30/for…
In New York City on Feb. 25, join a distinguished panel of jurists and legal scholars from the Fordham University Center on Asian Americans and The Law as they discuss resistance to injustice at a special screening of CONSCIENCE AND THE CONSTITUTION. go.activecalendar.com/Fordha…
Resistance to injustice. In NYC, join a distinguished panel of jurists & legal scholars from the @FordhamNYC Center on Asian Americans and The Law for a special screening on February 25 of CONSCIENCE AND THE CONSTITUTION. RSVP: go.activecalendar.com/Fordha…
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Thank you very much for sharing your difficult experiences during the WWII, Takashi-san! We have learned a lot and will continue to share your thoughts with our readers from now on. @HeartMountainWY @MasakoMiki @apacurator @jamuseum @FrankAbe @gaihou1
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Thanks, @FrankAbe, for this shout out about the War Relocation Authority files for the Heart Mountain draft resisters on our site. Your groundbreaking work on their history helped lead the way.
resisters.com/2024/04/04/now…
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Thanks to a JACS program grant from @NatlParkService, we have digitized and posted the War Relocation Files of the 80+ @HeartMountainWY incarcerees who resisted the draft during World War II. You can find the files, including Shigeru Fujii';s , here: heartmountain.org/collection…
We look forward to a 4th year of training educators in the true story of camp resistance and use of “We Hereby Refuse” and “Conscience and the Constitution”in the classroom.
We’re proud to be part of the @NEH_Education Landmarks of American History and Culture program again in 2024. You can learn more about our program and apply here:
heartmountain.org/neh-worksh…
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As redress leader William Hohri stated, "James Omura was the first Japanese American to seek redress from the United States."
Keep reading about James Omura in the Densho Encyclopedia: encyclopedia.densho.org/Jame…
ALT Photo of James Omura taken by Michi Weglyn in her New York home in 1988. Courtesy of Frank Abe, Densho
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In the early 1980s Omura wrote his memoirs, with the goal of vindicating the Japanese American community and himself for the wartime damage inflicted by the US government and the JACL. He testified at the congressional hearings on redress in Seattle.
ALT George Nozawa, James Omura, George Uyeda, Tom Oki, Dave Kawamoto, Mits Koshiyama , Clifford Uyeda, Kozie Sakai outside of Bamboo Garden restaurant in Mt. View, California, 1980s. Courtesy of Frank Abe, Densho.
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Nisei resister & journalist James Omura was born #OTD in 1912 on Bainbridge Island, WA. Possibly the earliest Nikkei to pursue governmental redress, Omura was the lone Nikkei journalist to editorialize against drafting imprisoned Nisei without first restoring citizenship rights.
ALT James Omura standing before Voluntary Headquarters, Pacific Coast Evacuee Placement Bureau. Denver, Colorado, 1942. Courtesy of Frank Abe, Densho.
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When we started our project to digitize the War Relocation Authority files of the @HeartMountainWY Fair Play Committee members, not all of the files were available. We went back to the @USNatArchives to finish the job.
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Happy 98th birthday to @HeartMountainWY board member Takashi Hoshizaki, the sole surviving member of the Heart Mountain draft resisters from World War II. Here he is with our board chair @HiguchiJD. Thanks for everything you've done for us, Takashi!
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“’No-No Boy’ is the great Japanese American novel.” 📖 Written by John Okada and rediscovered in the 1970s, it conveys the complex experiences of Japanese Americans returning to Seattle after years of incarceration during World War II. youtu.be/Yv7uX3FgrKA?si=A5e2…
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ALT John Okada in 1945 during World War II.
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Reminder that AAAS annual conference submissions are open! Please submit your panels and papers for the April 25-27 2024 conference in Seattle. sessionize.com/aaas-annual-c…
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.@HeartMountainWY “Resister” Takashi Hoshizaki turned 18yo while incarcerated. Resisting the draft he wrote “I will fight if you restore my rights” At 97 he serves on HM board & now exhibit displayed in our museum @elmunc @FrankAbe @WeHerebyRefuse
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#OTD in 1944, readers of the @HeartMountainWY Sentinel got their first reports on the trial of the 63 men who resisted the military draft. The paper's coverage skewed heavily against the resisters. That treatment lasted for years in some parts of the Japanese American community.
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Thanks to all who came to @ElliottBayBooks to hear Art Hansen and @GailKuromiya celebrate the paperback release of Yosh Kuromiya’s memoir of draft resistance at Heart Mountain, BEYOND THE BETRAYAL, published by @UPColorado. Yosh was the conscience of the Fair Play Committee.
