As President Biden prepares to leave office, he has indicated that he is commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 inmates on federal death row. Biden has indicated in the past that he was against [...] Continue Reading
The Prison Industrial Complex
Manzanar: Living History and Remembering the Past
“We can never fully right the wrongs of the past. But we can take a clear stand for justice and recognize that serious injustices were done to Japanese Americans during World War II.” —President [...] Continue Reading
Manzanar: Vivir la Historia y Recordar el Pasado
POR VIC BEDOIAN “Nunca podremos corregir por completo los errores del pasado. Pero podemos adoptar una postura clara a favor de la justicia y reconocer que se cometieron graves injusticias contra [...] Continue Reading
Surviving Injustice
Douglas “Chief” Stankewitz, the Monache man from Big Sandy Rancheria (Fresno County), has never wavered in his fight for freedom. Sentenced to death in October 1978, Stankewitz has lived through five [...] Continue Reading
Day of Remembrance
It was an historically ironic location for the Japanese American Citizens League’s annual Day of Remembrance—the Fresno Fairgrounds, where thousands of American citizens were held for months living in [...] Continue Reading
Día del Recuerdo
Fue un lugar históricamente irónico para el “Día del Recuerdo” anual de la Liga de Ciudadanos Americano-Japoneses: el recinto de la feria de Fresno, donde miles de ciudadanos estadounidenses de origen [...] Continue Reading
Japanese Concentration Camps in Images
In 1942, the infamous Executive Order 9066, signed by then President Franklin D. Roosevelt, ordered all Japanese immigrants and Japanese Americans living on the West Coast to be interned in [...] Continue Reading
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
Campo de Concentración de la II Guerra Mundial une a Asiáticos y Latinos
Madres y abuelas abrazaban a sus niños en los trenes que circulaban por esta zona seca del sur de Texas, sin saber qué les esperaba al final de la línea. Eran peruanos de ascendencia japonesa, [...] Continue Reading
Prison Industrial Complex Wants Boston Back
(Editor’s note: Boston Woodard wrote a series of articles for this paper from 2005 to 2018 when he was serving time for a crime he committed more than 40 years ago. The articles about life on the [...] Continue Reading
Prison Industrial Complex Wants Boston Back
(Editor’s note: Boston wrote a series of articles for this paper from 2005 to 2018 when he was serving time for a crime he committed more than 40 years ago. The articles about life on the other side [...] Continue Reading