Video: Assembly on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians
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"Here, in America?: the Assembly on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians" was a grassroots public education event presenting and documenting little-known first-person accounts of U.S. government human rights violations during World War II and post-9/11. The event was held on April 8-9, 2005, at Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco. A distinguished panel of scholars and community leaders heard testimonies from former internees of Japanese, German and Italian descent who were caught up in the U.S. "enemy alien" program. Several of the individuals who testified were abducted from Latin America for purposes of hostage exchange with Japan and Germany.
This Assembly expanded on the work of the Congressional commission hearings of 1981 which led to the passage of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 and reparations for over 82,000 Japanese American internees. This Assembly focused on the hidden stories of the immigrants and US citizens of German, Italian and Japanese ancestry who have not yet received proper acknowledgment or redress for the violation of their rights. These little-known stories and those from communities now identified as "the enemy" since 9/11 have relevance for all people in the United States, regardless of race or ethnicity.
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