POR IVÁN WIELIKOSIELEC El 15 de mayo de 2018, el por entonces presidente Donald Trump autorizaba la construcción de un muro en la frontera mexicana de 300 millas. ¿La razón? “proteger al país de [...] Continue Reading
Racism
Barbed Wire Baseball
It is a date that will live in infamy—Feb. 19, 1942. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066. It disrupted the lives of more than 120,000 Japanese [...] Continue Reading
WWII-Era Internment Camp Unites Asians and Latinos
Mothers and grandmothers clutched children close on trains rolling through this dry stretch of south Texas, not knowing what waited for them at the end of the line. They were Peruvians of Japanese [...] Continue Reading
Protecting Indigenous Rights
According to Fresno City Council Member Miguel Arias, Fresno is the first city in California to make changes to its Municipal Code that end discrimination against Indigenous people. The amendment also [...] Continue Reading
Neglect and Fatal Defects
The Fresno County Board of Supervisors (BOS) seems incompetent, indifferent and neglectful as they preside over a county care and service crisis. Several examples of the board’s offensive and obdurate [...] Continue Reading
The “Other” Incarcerated Japanese
During World War II, more than 100,000 Japanese Americans were taken by U.S. authorities and placed in concentration camps around the country. The government argued that these Japanese Amercans might [...] Continue Reading
Kidnapping of the Naganuma Family in Peru
“I was 20 months old when I arrived with my family at the Crystal City camp [in Texas], so I don’t remember those events,” said Kazumu Naganuma. “I learned about this experience thanks to my older [...] Continue Reading
Protecting Indigenous Rights and Stoping Discrimination based on Caste
Protecting Indigenous Rights and Stopping Discrimination Based on Caste According to Fresno City Council Member Miguel Arias, the City of Fresno is the first city in California to [...] Continue Reading
Death and Injustice in Fresno
There is an unequal justice system in Fresno. One for the police and the rich. Another for the poor and working class. For the unhoused of Fresno, there is often no justice. Some recent examples of [...] Continue Reading
An Infamous Event That Sparked a “Forgotten” Memory
(Editor’s note: This is the first of a series of articles regarding the incarceration of Japanese Americans in 1942–1945. This project is made possible through a grant from the California Civil [...] Continue Reading
Acknowledgement and Apology of Historical Injustice
California Attorney General Rob Bonta issued a formal apology acknowledging the state Attorney General Office’s past complicity in the unjust deprivation of Japanese Americans’ civil rights and civil [...] Continue Reading
Nazi Activity Increases in the San Joaquin Valley
Nazi propaganda was distributed in Visalia and Hanford recently, Nazi swastikas have appeared in Fresno and the California Department of Justice (DOJ) reports that hate crimes are on the rise in the [...] Continue Reading