Revolution Books, New York City
New York City, Revolution Books
HOURS: Tues-Thurs-Fri-Sat-Sun 2-7 pm
LOCATION: 437 Malcolm X Blvd (at 132nd St) (2/3 train to 135th St)
New York, NY 10037
CONTACT: 212-691-3345
revbooksnyc@yahoo.com
revolutionbooksnyc.org
Revolution Books, Berkeley
Berkeley Revolution Books
HOURS: Tues-Fri 12:30-7pm; Sat & Sun 1:00-6pm
LOCATION: 2444 Durant Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94704
CONTACT: 510-848-1196
revolutionbooksberkeley@gmail.com
www.revolutionbooks.org
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Film Screening & Discussion of Defiant to the Last, Resistance at the Tule Lake Jail with Filmmaker Emiko Omori and Satsuki Ina, author of The Poet and the Silk Girl
Friday, November 20th, 7 p.m.
About the Film from the Defiant to the Last website:
"Based on lies and wartime propaganda, during WWII the U.S. government forcibly removed and incarcerated more than 125,000 innocent Japanese Americans in ten American concentration camps, solely because of their race.
"At all the prison sites, despite the mythology of quiet compliance, Japanese Americans showed moral courage, resisted, and refused to accept the government’s abuse. Defiant to the Last tells the story of the Tule Lake Segregation Center where dissident Japanese Americans were demonized and punished for speaking out against the false wartime incarceration."
Revolution Books is showing this film because the story of resistance to the unjust treatment of the Japanese Americans in WW II resonates deeply with our own time, when immigrants’ rights are stripped away, they are demonized, and some deported to torture prisons in countries they’ve never lived in - and people who oppose this treatment are attacked and vilified by the government.
This is a time for defiance, for voices of conscience to speak out, and for revolution. Defiant to the Last brings crucial experience and important lessons from the past, and we are very glad to be able to bring Satsuki Ina and Emiko Omori to our store.
Director Emiko Omori was incarcerated as a toddler with her family at Poston Concentration Camp, Arizona. She studied film at San Francisco State University. Omori's defining work, Rabbit in the Moon, explores the Japanese American incarceration experience.
Satsuki Ina was born at Tule Lake. She is a licensed psychotherapist specializing in community trauma and author of The Poet and the Silk Girl. She is a cofounder of Tsuru for Solidarity, a nonviolent, direct-action project of Japanese American social justice advocates educating, advocating, and protesting to close all U.S. concentration camps.
We are sharing this case from the series, American Crime, #89: 120,000 People of Japanese Descent Put in U.S. Concentration Camps During World War 2.