Community
November 6, 2017
COMMUNITY
CALENDAR
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“Islamophobia in Our Communities”
Nov 18, 2:30-4pm, Multnomah County Central Library (801
SW 10th Ave, Portland). Attend “Getting to Know Muslim
Communities,” a workshop with Gulzar Ahmed. The event
provides background on the meaning of Islamophobia, data on
religious prejudice, information about the effects of prejudice on
Muslim and non-Muslim communities, and possible solutions to
combatting the phobia. For info, call (503) 988-5123 or visit
<events.multcolib.org>.
Mandarin computer basics
Nov 18 & Dec 16, 10:30am-12:30pm, Multnomah County
Central Library (801 SW 10th Ave, Portland). Attend classes to
learn basic technology skills for computers, taught by friendly,
patient staff in Mandarin. For info, or to register (required),
call (503) 988-5123 or visit <events.multcolib.org>.
“Minoru Yasui: Historical
Lessons to Be Remembered”
Nov 19, 1:30-3:30pm, Multnomah County Central Library
(801 SW 10th Ave, Portland). Attend “Minoru Yasui: Historical
Lessons to Be Remembered,” a talk by Peggy Nagae and George
Nakata about Minoru “Min” Yasui, the late civil-rights leader
who deliberately protested the military curfew laws on Japanese
Americans during World War II, and was subsequently arrested,
leading him to challenge the constitutionality of the order. Nagae
was the lead attorney for Yasui’s coram nobis case. Nakata, a
second-generation Japanese American, was a personal friend of
Yasui, who, along with his family, lost everything during World
War II and spent many years in an internment camp. For info,
call (503) 988-5123 or visit <events.multcolib.org>.
“National Geographic Live”
Nov 20, 7:30pm, Newmark Theatre (1111 SW Broadway,
Portland). Attend “Coral Kingdoms and Empires of Ice,” a
“National Geographic Live” talk by underwater photographer
David Doubilet and aquatic biologist and photojournalist
Jennifer Hayes. The duo talk about their explorations of the coral
triangle — which is the center of the world in terms of marine
biodiversity and includes the Philippines, Indonesia, and Kimbe
Bay, Papua New Guinea — as well as their exploits in Antarctica
filming leopard seals, penguins, shipwrecks, and icebergs and in
Canada’s Gulf of St. Lawrence, witnessing whales, wolfish,
salmon, and the harp seal. For info, or to buy tickets, call (503)
248-4335 or visit <www.portland5.com>.
Free “Attracting Pollinators” workshop
Nov 29, 6-8:30pm, Whitaker Ponds Nature Park (7040 NE
47th Ave, Portland). Attend “Attracting Pollinators to the Urban
Garden,” a free sustainable garden workshop at which
participants learn about the bees, flies, beetles, moths, and
butterflies that provide vital pollination services in urban
gardens, and also discover which plants can help attract and
support them. For info, or to register (required), call (503)
935-5368 or visit <www.emswcd.org>.
$2 Days at OMSI
Dec 3, 9:30am-7pm, Oregon Museum of Science & Industry
(1945 SE Water Ave, Portland). Take advantage of low-cost
admission to the Oregon Museum of Science & Industry (OMSI)
during the first Sunday of each month. The $2 ticket includes
general admission to the museum. For info, call (503) 797-4000 or
visit <www.omsi.edu>.
“Architecture of Internment:
The Buildup to Wartime Incarceration”
Dec 16-Jan 16, 10am-8pm (Mon-Thu), 10am-6pm (Fri-Sat),
1-5pm (Sun), Corvallis-Benton County Public Library (645 NW
Monroe Ave, Corvallis, Ore.). View “Architecture of Internment:
The Buildup to Wartime Incarceration,” a travelling exhibit
highlighting the role of Oregonians in the decision to incarcerate
Japanese Americans during World War II. The display features
personal letters and proclamations from Oregonians to
then-governor Charles Sprague in 1941 and 1942 advocating for
the exclusion and incarceration of Japanese-American
Oregonians, along with his responses; blueprints of potential
“Assembly Center” and “Relocation Camp” locations such as race
tracks and fairgrounds; letters from Japanese Americans
expressing outrage about the injustice; and more. For info, call
(541) 766-6926 or visit <www.cbcpubliclibrary.net>.
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“Only the Oaks Remain” on view
at ONLC through January 8
“Only the Oaks Remain: The Story of the Tuna Canyon
Detention Station” is currently on view at the Oregon
Nikkei Legacy Center in northwest Portland. The exhibit
tells the true stories of those targeted as dangerous enemy
aliens and imprisoned in the Tuna Canyon Detention
Station, located in the Tujunga neighborhood of Los
Angeles, by the U.S. Department of Justice during World
War II. Rare artifacts such as photographs, letters, and
diaries bring the experiences of prisoners — who included
Japanese, German, and Italian immigrants as well as
extradited Japanese Peruvians — to life.
During the decade before World War II, the U.S.
government compiled lists of people they saw as potential
risks to national security. When the war began,
Presidential Proclamations 2525, 2526, and 2527
authorized the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and
other agencies to arrest such individuals — mostly
spiritual, educational, business, and community leaders
from the Japanese, German, and Italian immigrant
communities. The government also rounded up Japanese
people and other individuals who had previously been
forcibly removed from Latin America.
Following the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7,
1941, the Department of Justice took over a vacated
Civilian Conservation Corps camp in the Tujunga
neighborhood and converted it into a detention station by
installing 12-foot-high barbed-wire fences, guard posts,
and flood lights. The detention station became one of
many initial confinement sites set up by the government.
Targeted individuals were quickly arrested in their
homes, leaving behind confused and frightened families.
Most detainees were later sent to Department of Justice
or Army internment camps.
“Only the Oaks Remain” commemorates the history of
the Tuna Canyon Detention Station and seeks to educate
the public about the violation of civil rights that occurred.
The exhibit features photographs, letters, diaries,
interviews, declassified government documents, and
other items that serve to illuminate a largely untold story
that goes beyond the more widely-known story of the mass
incarceration of Japanese Americans.
By taking an unprecedented look at the war’s impact on
a disparate group of detainees and examining striking
similarities as well as differences among them, the
display encourages present and future generations to
learn from our nation’s mistakes.
“Only the Oaks Remain” is organized by the Tuna
DETENTION AT TUNA CANYON. “Only the Oaks Remain: The
Story of the Tuna Canyon Detention Station,” an exhibit that tells the true
stories of people who were targeted as dangerous enemy aliens and im-
prisoned by the U.S. Department of Justice during World War II at the
Tuna Canyon Detention Station in the Tujunga neighborhood of Los An-
geles, is on view at the Oregon Nikkei Legacy Center through January 8.
(Photos courtesy of the Tuna Canyon Detention Station Coalition)
Canyon Detention Station Coalition, a nonprofit
organization dedicated to raising public awareness about
the site’s history. It is working to develop a permanent
Tuna Canyon Detention Station Memorial, which will
include a plaque and educational posts installed along a
walking path lined with mature oak trees.
The exhibit, held at the Oregon Nikkei Legacy Center,
located at 121 N.W. Second Avenue in Portland, is on view
through January 8. To learn more, call (503) 224-1458, or
visit <www.oregonnikkei.org> or <www.tunacanyon.org>.
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shout out “Long Live the
King” or hold up cellphones
to take photos or selfies
with the processions in the
background.
Boonjerd Buasawat, a
61-year-old fruit vendor
from the resort island of
Phuket, waited near the
cremation site since for
days and slept there
overnight.
“I want to be here
together with a group of
people who dearly love
their king,” he said. “Our
love won’t die until we too
pass and follow him.”
Thais braved tropical
heat and torrential mon-
soon rains to secure street-
side vantage points to
witness the funeral.
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military
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An activist was detained
after writing on Facebook
that he planned to wear red
clothing on the day of
Bhumibol’s cremation, a
color associated with sup-
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ments ousted in coups in
2006 and 2014.
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