Hansen is best known for his pioneering work in developing the new field of oral history as the founding director of the Japanese American Project of the CSUF Oral History Project.

Read reflections on Art's incredible legacy from Manzanar Committee members: manzanarcommittee.org/2025/11/05/r...

“Just as it took a thoroughly engaged community to create these sites, it will require a community-wide effort to defend them. We need to create a powerful, nationwide coalition defending all our parks, especially the sites of conscience,” [said Bruce Embrey, co-chair of the Manzanar Committee.] "

Here’s how it works. The bill would:

1) Stop utilities from baking the money they spend on political influence into rates;

2) Establish new transparency reforms to ensure they follow the law;

3.) Mandate penalties if they break the rules.
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Government shutdown means that Americans are being denied access to information & safety at parks all across the country, as thousands of park staff are now furloughed without pay.Since Trump took office in January, the NPS has lost 24% of its permanent staff. Trump is threatening to cut even more

The story told at Manzanar is “a cautionary tale,” said Bruce Embrey, who co-chairs the Manzanar Committee that his mother, who was incarcerated at Manzanar, co-founded in 1970.

For Embrey, the signage review at parks like Manzanar is “a white nationalist effort to erase our history'

“It is an effort to gut work by the National Park Service from telling the story of the forced removal of indigenous people, chattel slavery, Jim Crow and the unconstitutional incarceration of more than 125,000 persons of Japanese ancestry during WWII. We will not stand for this erasure.”

This dangerous attack on the truth sets the stage for history to be repeated.

“The Trump administration’s attack on the Smithsonian and the national parks is an escalation of their attacks on our civil rights and communities of color,” said Manzanar Co-Chair Bruce Embrey

“The Government ... has all but declared that all Latinos, U.S. citizens or not, who work low wage jobs are fair game to be seized at any time, taken away from work, and held until they provide proof of their legal status to the agents’ satisfaction,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor called the decision “yet another grave misuse of our emergency docket. We should not have to live where govt can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, & appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent.”

We stand with those who are being targeted and demand due process and constitutional rights for all.

#NeverAgainisNow #NoRaids #NoMoreManzanars #NeverAgain #Manzanar

"We have to defy it for our rights and the rights of others. We’ve been through this before. We’re not going away. Democracy is fragile and we need to keep going. I know these are really dark times right now, but remember, there’s always hope.” Glen Kitayama concluded.

Glen Kitayama of the Manzanar Committee said, “We need to decide what kind of world that we want to live in. We cannot normalize impunity. We cannot normalize a police state, like we saw last week … We cannot normalize fascism — call it what it is."

Hosts: National Parks Conservation Association, Go For Broke, Japanese American Citizens League, Japanese American National Museum, Little Tokyo Historical Society, Little Tokyo Service Center, Manzanar Committee, Nikkei for Civil Rights & Redress, Nikkei Progressives, Tuna Canyon Detention Station

The program included WWII incarceration survivors, community activists, and allies who demanded that this injustice never happens again. The speakers drew parallels of the recent attacks by the Trump + ICE to detain and deport immigrants with what happened to Japanese Americans in WWII.
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