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PILGRIMAGE: Bus transportation from Los Angeles also announced. LOS ANGELES — Watashi wa Manzanar: Continuing Our Civil Rights Legacy is the theme for the 46th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage, sponsored by the Manzanar Committee, scheduled for 12:00 PM PDT on Saturday, April 25, 2015, at the Manzanar National Historic Site, located on U.S. Highway 395 in... Continue Reading →
LOS ANGELES — Saving Payahüüpü: The Owens Valley Solar Story, is a documentary short that looks at the land, people, history and future of California’s Owens Valley, including the Manzanar National Historic Site, all of which face a grave threat from the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power’s (LADWP) proposed Southern Owens Valley Solar... Continue Reading →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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