Reckoning with Redress: The Legacy of Japanese American Incarceration

Forty-five years ago, survivors and descendants of the WWII Japanese American incarceration, testified before the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians (CWRIC) — helping set in motion what would become one of the largest reparations efforts in U.S. history. This year’s Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture marks the 45th anniversary of the 1981 CWRIC hearings and will feature the public launch of Reckoning with Redress — a new cinematic digital history project, along with the lecture “A Debt Owed–Korematsu, Reparations, and the Ever-Recycling Racial Pathology of 1619,” given by Donald Tamaki. Doors will open for light refreshments at 5:30pm. Program begins at 6:00pm. This event is free and open to the public. Seating is first come, first served. Parking Information The Cultural Center Merrill College is located in Merrill College, in the northeast corner of the campus core. Those walking or arriving by Metro bus or campus shuttle can take the steep path heading northeast from the Crown/Merrill bus stop. For those driving from the Main Entrance, stay on Coolidge Drive. Shortly after Coolidge turns left and becomes McLaughlin Drive, turn right at the sign for Merrill College. At the top of the hill, veer right. There is parking for “A,” “B,” and “C” permits along the right. Parking is provided free of charge courtesy of the Humanities Division. There are two accessible parking spaces if you turn left at the top of the hill and two more if you turn right. Parking attendants will be on site to issue parking permits to event attendees. Donald Tamaki is a Senior Counsel at the San Francisco law firm of Minami Tamaki LLP having received his BA and JD from U.C. Berkeley. In the 1980’s, Tamaki served on the pro bono legal team that reopened the 1944 Supreme Court case of Fred Korematsu, a notorious precedent that validated forcing 125,000 Japanese Americans into concentration camps on the claim they were spies. But almost 40 years later, secret intelligen

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