Today is the 70th anniversary of the signing of Executive Order 9066, which cleared the way for the forced removal and incarceration of more than 110,000 people of Japanese ancestry 11,000 people of German ancestry (including Jews) and 3,000 people of Italian ancestry. This anniversary is being commemorated by Japanese American communities all over the U.S.
Today is the 70th anniversary of the signing of Executive Order 9066, which cleared the way for the forced removal and incarceration of more than 110,000 people of Japanese ancestry 11,000 people of German ancestry (including Jews) and 3,000 people of Italian ancestry. This anniversary is being commemorated by Japanese American communities all over the U.S.
I’m proud to have my film Films of Remembrance, a film program put on by community organizations in San Francisco’s Japantown. In the name of fighting terrorism, the past decade has seen waves of government surveillance, arrest, deportation and detention, targeting more than a hundred thousand people, mostly non-citizens, from predominantly Muslim countries.
As I write this
- More revelations are emerging of the NYPD’s surveillance of Muslim college students across the entire East Coast.
- yet another “terror plot” seems to have been produced using fake explosives supplied by law enforcement.
- Politicians and media are
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