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Meet Hilda & Ivan, in sanctuary in Austin
Meet Hilda & Ivan, in sanctuary in Austin Hilda & Ivan folding tsuru! We met Hilda and her son Ivan in 2019 during a press
December 22, 2020
Meet Hilda & Ivan, in sanctuary in Austin Hilda & Ivan folding tsuru! We met Hilda and her son Ivan in 2019 during a press
Participate in Dr. Donna Nagata’s Yonsei Research Project A message from Satsuki Ina: There is scarce data collected about Japanese Americans and their experience of
Statement on Department of Justice’s Draft Report on Family Separation As Japanese Americans whose community was targeted by unjust mass incarceration and separation of families
Seattle Tsuru for Solidarity joins La Resistencia Action to Block the Deportation of Victor Jiménez by Nina Wallace Photo by La Resistencia On Tuesday, August
Chicago Obon at Cook County Jail On Sunday, August 16th, Nikkei Uprising, the Tsuru for Solidarity regional hub in Chicago, organized an Obon ceremony outside
Protest and Healing in front of Governor Wolf’s Home On Saturday, August 1st, 2020, Tsuru for Solidarity members from New York City, Philadelphia, and Washington,
“If you have come here to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with
Shut Down Berks Rally Outside of Berks County Detention Center On Friday, July 17th, Tsuru for Solidarity joined with the Shut Down Berks Coalition, Families
ART FORCING CHANGE: LOOK UP Over the July 4th weekend, 80 artists, including Karen Ishizuka of Tsuru for Solidarity, joined together to launch XMAP: In
Tsuru Rising! Speech By Emily Akpan It’s hard to recognize yourself when you’re grieving. In this moment, there are no words to describe what it
Tsuru Rising! DC Protest By David Inoue Tsuru for Solidarity DC, Maryland, and Virginia advocates gathered to hang strings of 1,000 cranes on the fence
Tsuru Rising! Tanforan by Kim Miyoshi On June 7, 2020 – over one hundred Japanese Americans came together for a Tsuru Rising Vigil at the
Tsuru Rising Statement By Nina Wallace, Seattle I think all of us are holding onto a lot of grief and anger right now. For George
Statement of Solidarity with Black Communities As survivors and descendants of U.S. World War II concentration camps, we express our moral outrage and heartbreak over
Statement from Satsuki Ina on the separation of families in detention during the COVID-19 pandemic In 1943, thousands of innocent people of Japanese ancestry were
Dear Tsuru Friends and Supporters, With all that is going on in the world and the necessary postponement of our Tsuru for Solidarity Caravan and
from the Seattle Times (photo by Greg Gilbert) Erin Shigaki is an important part of the Tsuru for Solidarity movement. Her artwork has been a
Last week, on February 20th, the California State Assembly voted unanimously to approve House Resolution 77. Proposed by State Assemblyman Al Muratsuchi, HR 77 is
View this post on Instagram A post shared by TsuruForSolidarity (@tsuruforsolidarity) on Feb 25, 2020 at 4:52pm PST This is what solidarity looks like. Hundreds
General inquiries: tsuruforsolidarity@gmail.com “We want to be the neighbors that we didn’t have when they came for us.” On 78th Anniversary of Executive Order to
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: JANUARY 31, 2020 CONTACT: tsuruforsolidarity@gmail.com Three years after his first Muslim Ban, Trump announced today that he is expanding it to six
https://youtu.be/toGeeH9T6do On Saturday, January 11, 2020, members from over 25 social justice, community, labor and faith organizations converged on the Yuba County Jail in Marysville,
STATEMENT ON TREATMENT OF IRANIAN AMERICANS AT BORDER Tsuru for Solidarity is alarmed by reports that Iranian Americans have been singled out to be held
Thank you so much to Gerry and Gail Nanbu, and to everyone who stepped up to meet the Nanbu challenge. Thanks to your generosity, we