Panama Canal Zone: Japanese Peruvians en route to U.S. Internment Camps. April 2, 1942. U.S. Army Signal Corps Photo. National Archives. Courtesy of National Japanese American Historical Society.
Campaign for Justice was founded in 1996 as a collaborative effort by individuals and organizations including the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, Nikkei for Civil Rights & Redress (formerly known as the National Coalition for Redress/Reparations), and the Japanese Peruvian Oral History Project.
Campaign for Justice has two primary goals. First, it continues to help former Japanese Latin American internees secure proper redress. Second, it works to educate the public about the wartime and redress experiences of the Japanese Latin Americans.
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April, 2008 - The coram nobis legal teams support our efforts. Read the letter... A BIG Thank You to our donors for supporting us! Read more in our latest newsletter! February, 2008 - A warm welcome to Christine Oh, who joins as Legislative Campaign Manager. Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus letter to Day of Remembrance participants, commemorating the 30th anniversary of Day of Remembrance events and the 20th anniversary of the enactment of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988. FCNL supports Commission Bill The Friends Committee on National Legislation sent a letter urging House Members to support H.R. 662 January, 2008 - Grace Shimizu receives Community Justice Award from San Francisco chapter of JACL Read the article in the Hokubei Mainichi Read the article in Asian Week March, 2007 - Los Angeles Times Editorial in support of JLA Commission Bill on March 18, 2007 The LA Times published an op-ed piece supporting the Commission Bill. February, 2007 - Reintroduction of Commission Bill in U.S. Congress This bill, the "Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Latin Americans of Japanese Descent Act" (H.R. 662 and S. 381), would establish a federal commission to study the wartime violations committed by the U.S. government against Japanese Latin Americans during World War II. The bill was reintroduced in Congress by U.S. Senator Daniel Inouye (D-HI) and in the House by Rep. Xavier Becerra (D-CA), both with bipartisan support. Click here for More Info on Bill See Senator Inouye's website to read his press release on the Commission Bill
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