Heart Mountain Protests Fort Sill camp
One of the ways we can extend the power of protest against the incarceration of migrant children at Fort Sill is by getting our perspective into the mass media. Here is the statement of the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation which was published in the Salt Lake Tribune on June 17, 2019. Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation…
Update on Fort Sill Protest June 22
As President Trump ramps up his already virulent fear-mongering and criminalization of immigrants and refugees, people of all nationalities are expressing their moral outrage by demonstrating, educating, and standing in solidarity. Trump’s June 12 order to detain children at Fort Sill has not gone unnoticed. Here is the press release from Tsuru for Solidarity with …
Jon Jang – Sounds of Struggle – Part X (The Conclusion)
Come Full Circle, Squaring the Circle (A reprise of Act IX) by Jon Jang. Posted June 17, 2019. For Baby Boomer Generation Asian American composer-improvisers such as Fred Ho, Francis Wong, Glenn Horiuchi and I who grew up in the white middle suburbs during the 1960s and 70s, we were in a position of “honorary…
Call for Action at Fort Sill from Tsuru For Solidarity
by Tsuru For Solidarity. Posted June 16, 2019 Dear Friends and Family, A Call To Action: We cannot stand by when 1400 more asylum-seeking children from our southern border are going to be imprisoned at Fort Sill in July of 2019. This is the place where over 700 people of Japanese ancestry (immigrants and citizens)…
Crystal City, TX – Stand Up for Immigrants in November 2019
Crystal City: Review of March Action and Plan for Return in November By: John Ota. Posted June 6, 2019. EMERYVILLE, CA – On June 2, the Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee (CCPC) reported on its March 30 action and its plan for a return trip to Texas in November. On March 30, the CCPC held a…
Jeanie Low – Weaving History into Art
by Eddie Wong. Posted June 3, 2019. I met Jeanie Low several years ago when I was the Executive Director of the Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation. Back then, I knew her as a genealogist and historical researcher. Jeanie is the author of China Connection: Finding Ancestral Roots for Chinese in America. She lectures and…
Visual Communication’s “At First Light” @JANM
by Eddie Wong. Posted June 2, 2019. “At First Light: The Dawning of Asian Pacific America,” a retrospective of Visual Communications’ documentary work in still photography, film and video from 1970-1990, opened May 25 at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles. I, along with Robert Nakamura and Duane Kubo, was part of the…
Utom – Vibrant music from Florante Aguilar
by Eddie Wong. Posted May 29, 2019. Filipino American musician Florante Aguilar will debut Utom, a new composition inspired by the T’boli people in Southern Mindanao, Philippines, on June 1 and June 9 in San Francisco. The hour-long performance, which includes eight movements, recounts the myth of Lake Sebu’s formation through the stories of Princess Boi Henwu,…
Live in Concert, 1979 -Charlie Chin & Philip Kan Gotanda
by Eddie Wong. Posted May 22, 2019. Producer, singer/songwriter Peter Horikoshi launched the release of two CDs, one featuring Charlie Chin and the other featuring Philip Kan Gotanda, at Eastwind Books in Berkeley, CA on May 18, 2019. Chin and Gotanda shared the bill in a June 2, 1979 concert held at the Chinese Culture…
Nobuko Fujimoto – She Taught Much More Than Piano
by Eddie Wong. Posted May 21, 2019. Every few months, friends, family and former students of piano teacher Nobuko Fujimoto gather at her home in the Crenshaw District of Los Angeles for a musicale, a small, informal concert. Although Mrs. Fujimoto, who is 97 years old, suffers from dementia and is unable to carry on…