Japanese-American Internment and State Repression Today
Japanese-American Internment and
State Repression Today
With Lorraine Leiko Miyahara
Author of:
A True Story
Memories of a Thirteen Year Old Girl, 1941-1944
As war hysteria swept the west coast in 1941 Japanese American Families were forced from their homes and lands by presidential decree, which gave them only forty-eight hours to leave their homes and abandon their businesses. The government confined more than 120,000 Japanese-Americans in internment camps around the country. Both American citizens and resident aliens were treated as grave security threats. Large signs in bold letters were posted everywhere for all persons of Japanese ancestry, listing the areas and boundaries that were affected.
Hear author Lorraine Leiko Miyahara describe her experience in the internment camps as a child and what present assaults on civil liberties mean for people in the U.S. today. To be followed by a discussion.
Sponsored by the Connecticut Coalition Against Indefinite Detention
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October 16th Campaign Rally Videos
Speakers:
Marissa Janczewska – Moderator and member of CCSU Youth for Socialist Action
Frankie Acevedo – Hartford activist
Caryn Jensen – Youth for Socialist Action, Central Connecticut State University
Elsie Arce – Stop the Raids, Trinity College
Ross Caputi - Iraq War Veteran, Founder of Justice for Fallujah Project (http://thefallujahproject.org/home/)
Marty Goodman – Member and former Executive Board Member, Transit Workers Union local 100 NY, NY; leader in the 2005 NY transit strike
Ralph Poynter – Head of the Lynne Stewart Defense Committee
Chris Hutchinson – Socialist Action candidate for U.S. Congress
Debate Footage
Below is the link to Hutchinson’s 3rd debate at the Hartford Public Library.
Hartford Public Library Debate
Campaign Rally Video
Thank you to D for putting this together.
More footage soon.
Socialism Spotlight: Chris Hutchinson (Hartford Advocate)
| Written by John Stoehr |
| Monday, 25 October 2010 12:00 |
Meet Chris Hutchinson. He’s a socialist. Yes, it’s true. He thinks plenty is missing from today’s political discourse. There’s lots of talk about the size of government, the national deficit and repealing health care reform; there’s none about the dark side of capitalism, especially the neoliberal sort that equates free enterprise with democracy, even though, given the fact of the current recession, they are seemingly at odds. So Hutchinson and the Socialist Action Party collected 5,744 signatures (twice what’s required) to run against U.S. Rep. John Larson. He hopes to take the Democratic incumbent’s seat in the First Congressional district.
“People say I’m a fringe candidate, but Democrats and Republicans are fringe, because they are the parties of the wealthy,” Hutchinson says. “We stand by workers. We appeal to people who are feeling the effects of the economy, which is the majority of people. So we are the majority. We want to show the minority of wealthy people where the real power is. The real power is in the hands of people who work.”
Hutchinson’s platform, called “We Are Paying for Their Crisis,” takes the same populist anger expressed by the Tea Party and directs it at whom he believes is really to blame. The “we” is anyone with a boss. “Their” means the “boss class.” So Hutchinson calls for a massive jobs program (hundreds of billions of dollars), tripling the minimum wage, fewer working hours, a single-payer health care system, free higher education, 100 percent tax over $250,000, no tax under $50,000, and public ownership of banks and corporations.
Campaign Rally pictures
photos by D.D. and D.J.
The speakers appeared in this order there will be video of the rally soon.
Marissa Janczewska – MC, Socialist Action
Frankie Acevedo – Hartford activist
Caryn Jensen – Youth for Socialist Action, Central Connecticut State University
Elsie Arce – Stop the Raids, Trinity College
Ross Caputi – Iraq War Veteran, Founder of Justice for Fallujah Project (http://thefallujahproject.org/home/)
Marty Goodman – Member and former Executive Board Member, Transit Workers Union local 100 NY, NY; leader in the 2005 NY transit strike
Ralph Poynter – Head of the Lynne Stewart Defense Committee
Chris Hutchinson – Socialist Action candidate for U.S. Congress
Hutchinson on NPR
Ken Krayeske, Green Party, and Hutchinson talk about the
their upcoming debate with John Larson and Ann Brickely
before going on NPR.
http://www.yourpublicmedia.org/content/wnpr/colin-mcenroe-show-life-outside-two-party-system
