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Educational presentations about the Japanese Latin American internment and redress experience are a top priority for CFJ and JPOHP. These presentations help to educate the public, promote teaching of information in classrooms, recruit volunteers, and encourage further research.

We need your help to urge educational institutions and community-based organizations to invite CFJ/JPOHP speakers. Within educational institutions, we are looking for joint sponsorship by various departments such as Asian American Studies, Ethnic Studies, Latin American Studies, East Asian studies, Political Science, History, Sociology, law schools, etc. We are also looking for sponsorship from diverse community-based organizations, such as churches, civic groups, legal associations, civil and human rights organizations, immigrant rights groups, Japanese American organizations, as well as German/ Italian/ Jewish/ other Asian/ Latino community groups (recognizing their relation to issues from WWII).

• A variety of topics can be covered in the presentations, depending on the interests of the audience:
• Historical background of the JLA deportation and internment experience (highlighting family oral histories) and its relationship to the JA wartime experience
• How US policy and actions violated the constitutional and human rights of citizens and permanent residents of persons of Japanese, German, Italian and Jewish ancestry on 2 continents (US, Caribbean, Latin America)
• The significance of the JA and JLA experience in light of other redress efforts from the WWII period (e.g. "comfort women", victims of massacres and medical experimentation, forced labor)
• Insights from the JA and JLA redress struggle, current update on the JLA situation (including the lawsuit), and relation to other civil and human rights concerns.
  

  For more information to sponsor speakers, please contact CFJ at:

  Campaign for Justice
  P.O. Box 1384
  El Cerrito, CA 94530
  Phone/FAX: (510) 528-7288
  Email: info@campaignforjusticejla.org