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DESCRIPTION:<strong>POETS GLORIA ALVAREZ\, AMY UYEMATSU TO RECITE WORKS REL
 ATED TO WWII JAPANESE AMERICAN MASS INCARCERATION\, REMOVAL OF ONE MILLION
  PEOPLE OF MEXICAN ANCESTRY AT JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM</strong>\
 n\nLOS ANGELES.—Poets Gloria Alvarez and Amy Uyematsu will recite from t
 heir works that relate to the unconstitutional World War II incarceration 
 of 120\,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry and the so-called Mexican “re
 patriation” of the 1930s in which federal\, state and local governments 
 conspired to remove over one million individuals of Mexican descent from t
 he United States at the <strong>2006 Day of Remembrance program set for Sa
 turday\, Feb. 18\, beginning at 2 p.m. at the Japanese American National M
 useum</strong> in Little Tokyo. The program is free and no reservations ar
 e required.\n\nThe Day of Remembrance was created to commemorate the date 
 when President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 on Feb. 19\, 1942\, l
 eading to the unlawful forced removal and imprisonment in domestic concent
 ration camps of members of the Japanese American community. Each year\, a 
 program is held to remember the historic events that led to the false impr
 isonment and to highlight other contemporary issues related to civil right
 s. This year’s theme is <strong>"Claiming History: Justice Along Color L
 ines"</strong> and will also feature Nikkei for Civil Rights and Redress (
 NCRR) addressing this issue as it pertains to different communities today.
 \n\nAlvarez is a Chicana poet/intermedia artist as well as a literary tran
 slator and curator. A writer in residence at the Social and Public Art Res
 ource Center at East Los Angeles College\, she is also affiliated with the
  Getty Research Institute for the History of the Arts and Humanities and B
 eyond Baroque Literary Center. Her books of poetry include La Excusa/The E
 xcuse and Emerging en un Mar de Olanes and her poems have been included in
  various anthologies. Her epic play Los Biombos/The Screens was produced b
 y Cornerstone Theater and directed by Peter Sellars\, who has directed sev
 eral of Alvarez’ theatrical works.\n\nSansei Uyematsu began writing poet
 ry as an undergraduate at UCLA during the rise of the Asian American Movem
 ent of the late 1960s and 1970s. Her books include <em>30 Miles from J-Tow
 n</em>\, which won the 1992 Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize\, and <em>Nights
  of Fire\, Nights of Rain</em>. She most recently released <em>Stone Bow P
 rayer</em>. A featured poet at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books\, s
 he was one of 24 poets in the MTA’s Los Angeles Poetry in Motion project
 .\n\nCalifornia State University\, Los Angeles Professor Francisco E. Bald
 errama\, who co-wrote the book\, <em>Decade of Betrayal: Mexican Repatriat
 ion in the 1930s</em>\, will serve as keynote speaker for the program. As 
 Prof. Balderrama will explain\, high unemployment during the Great Depress
 ion motivated certain politicians\, non-governmental organizations and ind
 ividuals to blame the Mexican American community for the problem. Federal\
 , state and local governments worked together with civic organizations to 
 force out members of this community from states as far north as Michigan. 
 Besides the forced removal\, Prof. Balderrama believes almost two million 
 individuals were affected when members of their families\, over half of th
 em American citizens\, left the country.\n\nAlso Congressman Xavier Becerr
 a\, on behalf of Japanese Latin Americans\, will describe his efforts to p
 ass legislation to create commissions to examine the World War II events a
 nd to apologize to those who were wrongly denied their civil rights. Japan
 ese Latin Americans were illegally held during World War II after being fo
 rced to leave South America (which was instigated by the U.S. government)\
 , but their efforts to acquire redress have been rebuffed.\n\nAlayne Yonem
 oto will emcee the program. A reception will follow the program. The 2006 
 Day of Remembrance program is co-sponsored by Nikkei for Civil Rights and 
 Redress\, the Japanese American Citizen League\, Pacific Southwest Distric
 t (JACL-PSWD)\, and the National Museum. For more information\, call NCRR 
 at (213) 680-3484\, the JACL-PSWD at (213) 626-4471\, or the National Muse
 um at (213) 625-0414.\n\nJapanese American National Museum\n369 East First
  Street\nLos Angeles\, CA 90012\n<a href="http://www.janm.org/">www.janm.o
 rg</a>
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