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  March 2024 Issue 1
  In this issue 
 
Call To Action: Stop The Tule Lake Fence
Taken From Their Families Exhibit
The Poet and the Silk Girl
2024 Day of Remembrance Film/Photos
   
 
  Stop The Fence
Save Tule Lake
 
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and Modoc County have restarted planning to build a massive 3-mile long, 8-10 foot high security fence surrounding the Tulelake airfield that occupies most of the Tule Lake concentration camp site.

They say a fence is necessary to protect the Tulelake airfield from wildlife strikes, but, according to the FAA, 98% of collisions are with avian wildlife. The proposed fence would do nothing to prevent bird strikes.

The FAA has given us a very tight April 1, 2024 deadline for public comment on how to mitigate the harm of their proposed fence on the concentration camp site -- a place where more than 27,000 Japanese Americans were imprisoned during WWII and where 331 men, women and children died.

It is URGENT and IMPORTANT that individuals and organizations respond to this FAA deadline for public comment.

Please write to the FAA and Modoc County and tell them the only way to mitigate damage to the concentration camp site is by NOT building the fence. Ask for a feasibility study that will examine moving an airfield, an inherently destructive and incompatible use for a historically significant concentration camp site that cannot be moved. For more background visit the Tule Lake Committee website.

We have only a few more days to respond to this renewed existential threat to the Tule Lake site. Email your comment to Mitch Crosby, Modoc County Roads Commissioner, and tell the FAA and Modoc County that operating an airfield in the middle of a concentration camp site is an unacceptable choice. Please add the Tule Lake Committee to the cc: savetulelake@gmail.com.

THANK YOU from the Tule Lake Committee!

Tule Lake Committee Board of Directors
Hiroshi Shimizu, Chair
Barbara Takei, Chief Financial Officer
Ken Nomiyama, Secretary
Harriet Fukushima
Satsuki Ina
Tamiko Nimura
Stan Shikuma
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Taken From Their Homes 
  Event info and registration
 
 Poet and the Silk Girl
 

2024 San Jose Day of Remembrance Recording and Photo Gallery
 
2024 DoR Film
Watch 2024 San Jose Day of Remembrance program on J-Town Community TV
 
Photo Gallery
 
DoR 2024 Photo by Chris Cassell
Photo by Chris Cassell, Pro Bono Photo
 
These photos may be used freely for non-commercial purposes, including journalism, provided that the photographer and Pro Bono Photo are credited. The photographers at this event were Chris Cassell and Alfred Leung.

2024 San Jose Day of Remembrance Photo Page 1
2024 San Jose Day of Remembrance Photo Page 2
Taiko Photo by Chris Cassell
San Jose Taiko. Photo by Chris Cassell, Pro Bono Photo
Nina Chuang Photo by Alfred Leung
Featured Speaker Nina Chuang. Photo by Alfred Leung, Pro Bono Photo
 
 
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San Jose, CA  95157

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