Lawrence Lan
@llanComo parte del Programa de Prácticas de la Comunidad Nikkei (Nikkei Community Internship Program), Lawrence estará contribuyendo este verano con la página web de Discover Nikkei en su calidad de practicante de Discover Nikkei en el Museo Nacional Japonés Americano (Japanese American National Museum o JANM); también estará trabajando con la Barra de Abogados Americano Japonesa (Japanese American Bar Association o JABA) para preservar el legado de juristas los nikkei prominentes en la comunidad.
Última actualización junio de 2012
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Conectando movimientos y recuerdos: sobre Serve The People de Karen Ishizuka y la creación y significados del movimiento asiático-americano
17 de junio de 2016 • Lawrence Lan
“Hay que seguir cambiando, porque lo que pasó y de lo que has sido parte ya no está. Las ideas que desarrollamos permanecen en nuestras cabezas... Por eso, nuestro desafío constante es aprender del pasado y no quedar limitados por el pasado”. —Grace Lee Boggs 1 Las palabras de la fallecida pensadora política y activista Grace Lee Boggs ofrecen un buen recordatorio de que en nuestras luchas por la transformación personal y colectiva, debemos aprender del pasado y también adaptarnos …
Investing in the People
8 de agosto de 2012 • Lawrence Lan
As part of the Nikkei Community Internship (NCI) program, I have spent the past eight weeks not only working with the Japanese American Bar Association (JABA) and the Japanese American National Museum (JANM) but also learning more about the non-profit community work being done throughout California’s three Japantowns—Los Angeles’ Little Tokyo, San Jose’s Japantown, and San Francisco’s Nihonmachi. It’s been an eye-opening experience. I’d like to begin by thanking my supervisor from the Japanese American Bar Association, Alex Fukui, for …
Judge Jon Mayeda: The Right Place at the Right Time
7 de agosto de 2012 • Lawrence Lan
Judge Jon Mayeda—a retired Los Angeles County Superior Court judge who currently works with JAMS, an Irvine-based dispute resolution and arbitration company—was always in the right places at the right times…or so he claims when he says, “It felt like the right thing to do.” But luck and serendipity can only go so far before passion and vision come into play. As a pioneering jurist in the Japanese American community, Mayeda was instrumental in the founding of several organizations, including …
Judge Vincent Okamoto: Fighting for Justice - Part 2
4 de agosto de 2012 • Lawrence Lan
Rear Part 1 >> Law School It was in Vietnam that Okamoto first started thinking about the rule of law, and the lack thereof around him at the time. “I really did say to myself—and it sounds kind of corny—that if I am fortunate enough to live through this experience, then when I get back to the world—to America—I’d like to go through something that has rules, where people don’t throw grenades at each other and shoot at each other,” Okamoto …
Judge Vincent Okamoto: Fighting for Justice - Part 1
3 de agosto de 2012 • Lawrence Lan
“I was in a position in Vietnam—to be in an arena where men with guns made the rules. And there really wasn’t anything called the rule of law. Those on the battlefield prevailed not because of better argument or because the facts were on their side. They prevailed because they had superior firepower.” So says Judge Vincent Okamoto who sits on the Los Angeles County Superior Court bench as he begins to explain just how the most highly-decorated Japanese American …
Judge Ernest Hiroshige: Forging Community
31 de julio de 2012 • Lawrence Lan
Anyone who has ever met Judge Ernest Hiroshige, who sits on the Los Angeles County Superior Court bench, knows about his signature bow tie. There’s no huge story behind it—“I just like bow ties,” he said. The influence of his bow tie reaches far beyond the walls of Department 54 at the Stanley Mosk Courthouse. In fact, the 32-year-old veteran of the bench tells a story about Clyde Kusatsu, a friend and actor who wore a bow tie—in honor of …
La juez Kathryn Doi Todd: Redefiniendo las Posibilidades
24 de julio de 2012 • Lawrence Lan
¿Está usted emparentada con Mia Doi Todd?Así lo pregunta Akira Boch, uno de los camarógrafos del Museo Nacional Americano Japonés (Japanese American National Museum), mientras él y Jenni Nakamura instalan el equipo audiovisual para la entrevista en el despacho de la Honorable Kathryn Doi Todd, juez de la Corte de apelación del segundo distrito. La respuesta es sí, y la juez Todd se deleita con las fotos de su hija, Mia – una cantautora prominente - con su bebé recién …
Kizuna’s Youth CAN Program: Investing in the Future of Little Tokyo
13 de julio de 2012 • Lawrence Lan
On a summer evening in Los Angeles’ Little Tokyo, the yelling and antics of 27-year-old Craig Ishii and 24-year-old Kristin Fukushima fill the courtyard of the Japanese American Cultural and Community Center. For what it’s worth, their silliness has a purpose. They are tasked with breaking the icy awkwardness that has settled upon nearly 70 high school students from throughout Southern California. Fortunately, though, Craig and Kristin have done this before. By the end of the half-hour-long icebreaker session, names …
“It’s not fair!”: Remembering Vincent Chin, Thirty Years Later
28 de junio de 2012 • Lawrence Lan
Thirty years ago from this past Saturday, on June 23, 1982, Vincent Chin died. Four nights earlier, on June 19th, Chin had been celebrating his bachelor party in a Detroit, Michigan strip club when he got tangled up with two white autoworkers who mistook Chin (who was Chinese American) for Japanese and blamed him for the rise of Japanese auto industries and the loss of their own jobs. The brief fight was broken up, and Chin and his friends left …
