Manzanar Committee Applauds Inyo County For Taking Important Step Towards Protecting Manzanar, Owens Valley From Large-Scale Renewable Energy Development

LOS ANGELES — On May 6, the Inyo County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to move their Renewable Energy General Plan Amendment (REGPA) to the next step, which will be to draft a Programmatic Environmental Impact Report. The amendment no longer includes the Owens Valley as a “Renewable Energy Development Area,” (REDA) where large-scale, industrial... Continue Reading →

May 7, 2014 1

Letter Calls On LADWP To Abandon Southern Owens Valley Solar Ranch Project

The following is a letter written by Edward R. Bosley, a resident of both the Owens Valley and Los Angeles. April 28, 2014 Mayor Eric Garcetti 200 N. Spring St. Los Angeles, CA 90012 Commissioner Mel Levine Los Angeles Department of  Water and Power  (LADWP) Room 1555-H, 15th Floor  111 North Hope Street  Los Angeles,... Continue Reading →

May 7, 2014 0

LADWP’s Southern Owens Valley Solar Ranch Is Deemed “Butchery and Rape” By Former Manzanar Prisoner

Hank Umemoto, a former Manzanar incarceree, and author of Manzanar To Mount Whitney: The Life and Times of a Lost Hiker, shares more thoughts on the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power’s proposed Southern Owens Valley Solar Ranch, which would be built east of the Owens River, but in a direct line of sight... Continue Reading →

January 22, 2014 23

LADWP Clinging To Old Model For Building Infrastructure: It’s Time For A Mindset Change

We continue to get letters opposing the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power’s proposed Southern Owens Valley Solar Ranch, a 1,200-acre solar energy generating facility that would be built adjacent to Manzanar National Historic Site, in California’s Owens Valley. In this letter, Mary Adams Urashima, Chair of the Historic Wintersburg Preservation Task Force, provides... Continue Reading →

December 21, 2013 24

Community Songfest Fetes Retiring Manzanar NHS Superintendent Les Inafuku – Photos

LOS ANGELES — On December 15, a “Community Songfest,” honoring retiring Manzanar National Historic Site Superintendent Les Inafuku, and to raise funds for the reconstruction of Manzanar’s residential Block 14, which will include barracks, a mess hall, and more, was held at Nishi Hongwanji Buddhist Temple in Los Angeles’ Little Tokyo. Sponsored by the Friends... Continue Reading →

December 16, 2013 0

Proposed Solar Ranch Near Manzanar: Another Threat To Japanese American Historic Sites

by Bruce Embrey LOS ANGELES — After decades of annual Pilgrimages, lobbying and finally, an act of Congress, the Manzanar National Historic Site was created in 1992. The first of ten War Relocation Authority concentration camps built to incarcerate more than 120,000 persons of Japanese ancestry, Manzanar became the first site of conscience that tells... Continue Reading →

December 6, 2013 23

Former Manzanar Incarceree Hank Umemoto Urges LADWP Board To Halt Plans For Southern Owens Valley Solar Ranch

Hank Umemoto, a former Manzanar incarceree, and author of Manzanar To Mount Whitney: The Life and Times of a Lost Hiker, wrote the following letter to the Board of Water and Power Commissioners, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, regarding their proposed Southern Owens Valley Solar Ranch, which would be built east of the... Continue Reading →

October 23, 2013 0

Did You Know There Was Once An Airport At Manzanar?

by Fred Bradford Years ago, I would drive to Lone Pine on the Thursday before the annual Manzanar Pilgrimage, which is always held on the last Saturday of April. The extra day would allow me to drive around the area and sight see. I rarely get that chance if I drive up on Friday. By... Continue Reading →

July 29, 2013 2

Call To Action: STOP The Fence At Tule Lake

Over the last year, the Federal Aviation Administration has moved closer to building a fence to protect the airstrip at the site of the Tule Lake Unit of the World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument that would destroy the historic character of the site. The Tule Lake Committee has launched a petition... Continue Reading →

July 3, 2013 13

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