75th Anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the related issue of US concentration camps during WWII.
In the first hour her guest is Steve Leeper who had worked as the US representative for Mayors for Peace in 2002, which led to his appointment as chairman of the Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation, which houses Hiroshima’s peace and international relations programs including the Peace Memorial Museum and the secretariat of Mayors for Peace.
In the second part of the show the guests are from Tsuru for Solidarity.
Josh Kaizuka is a Sacramento area attorney. He is co-President of Florin Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) and a co-organizer for the Sacramento hub of Tsuru for Solidarity. Josh helps organize the annual Florin Manzanar pilgrimage and has helped organize various protest rallies including protests at the Yuba County ICE Detention facility. He also helps organize educational events, speaks at various events about the Muslim ban, immigration ban, and the parallels to Japanese American history. Josh has represented a news outlet on First Amendment issues and organizes local attorneys to defend people arrested at protests.
Lisa Nakamura, Psy.D., is a clinical psychologist who has a history of being active within the Japanese American community. She has served on the Tule Lake Committee to organize pilgrimages to one of the Japanese American concentration camps, Tule Lake. She facilitated intergenerational groups as well as reflection groups for families at the pilgrimage. Dr. Nakamura completed a dissertation on the effects of the Tule Lake pilgrimage on Japanese American former inmates and their descendants.
