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Shut Down Berks – August Action
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,
August 4, 2020
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,
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
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
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
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
The Trump administration announced new regulations today that would remove the Flores settlement’s protections for child welfare, permitting indefinite detention of migrant children and families
On May 12th, 1942 guards at Ft. Sill shot and killed Kanesaburo Oshima, a father of 11 from Hawaii, in the back of the head
On February 19, 1942, President Franklin D Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, authorizing the displacement and incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans on the West Coast.
On June 22nd, 2019, dozens of Japanese American WWII Concentration Camp survivors and descendants traveled from around the country to protest the planned detention of