Official Web site of the Los Angeles-based Manzanar Committee, sponsor of the annual Manzanar Pilgrimage since 1969 and the more recent Manzanar At Dusk program
MANZANAR COMMITTEE: supports rally held at Fort Sill on June 22; calls on community to rally in protest in Los Angeles Little Tokyo on June 27. LOS ANGELES — On June 23, the Manzanar Committee, sponsors of the annual Manzanar Pilgrimage since 1969, the Manzanar At Dusk program since 1997, and the more recent Katari... Continue Reading →
The following is a joint statement from several Los Angeles-based community organizations, including the Manzanar Committee. LOS ANGELES — Representatives of several community organizations located in, or aligned with, Little Tokyo, will protest the White House’s plans to use Fort Sill in Oklahoma as a detention center for immigrant children and Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s... Continue Reading →
The following is the text of one of the speeches delivered during the 50th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage on April 27, 2019. by Lauren Matsumoto Hello everyone and good afternoon. My name is Lauren Matsumoto. I am the co-President of UC San Diego Nikkei Student Union and one of the student organizers for this year’s Manzanar... Continue Reading →
The following was published in the printed program for the 50th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage, April 27, 2019. by Bruce Embrey In 1969, a small group of students and a handful of Nisei (second generation Japanese Americans; the children of immigrants) who lived behind barbed wire, journeyed to Manzanar to search for answers about their history.... Continue Reading →
The following is an announcement from the National Park Service and the Northwest Youth Corporation. The National Park Service, in conjunction with the Northwest Youth Corporation, is seeking applicants for a summer intern position at the Manzanar National Historic Site in California’s Owens Valley. The Visitor Services Intern greets visitors on-site, orients the visitor to... Continue Reading →
by Bruce Embrey Last year, George Takei was appalled at what was happening on our southern border. He wrote: “...Unless we act now, we will have failed to learn at all from our past mistakes. Once again, we are flinging ourselves into a world of camps and fences and racist imagery—and lies just big enough... Continue Reading →
The 50th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage attracted considerably more media attention than usual, in part because it’s been 50 years since the first organized Manzanar Pilgrimage in 1969. But just as important is that people came in protest of the words and deeds of the Trump Administration—an obviously attractive and important angle for the media to... Continue Reading →
by Bruce Embrey I’ve been wondering what drove more than 2,000 people to this year’s Manzanar Pilgrimage. Why did they endure the blazing sun and the blistering heat to listen to speeches and taiko drums? Why did they come to pray at the Soul Consoling Tower so far from home? To be sure, it had... Continue Reading →
The 50th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage has come and gone. It was certainly a big one, both in numbers, with at least 2,500 in attendance, and in significance. After all, we commemorated the first organized Manzanar Pilgrimage 50 years ago (December 27, 1969). We had some of the people who participated and/organized that first Pilgrimage in... Continue Reading →
