Session 2

Authors

• Northeastern Illinois University Archives

Document Type

Video

Publication Date

9-21-2021

Comments

Stop Repeating History!: A Conversation About U.S. Detention and Deportation

• Moderator: Michael Ishii, co-founder and co-leader of Tsuru for Solidarity, co-chair of New York Day of Remembrance Committee, chair New York Japanese American Oral History Project 
  
  
• Mari Dom-Lopez, deputy program director and advocate for detained unaccompanied immigrant children at Young Center for Immigrant Children
  
  
• Guerline Jozef, president of Haitian Bridge Alliance, co-creator of Faith in Action and Immigration Justice Movement
  
  
• Chizu Omori, 91-year-old activist who was interned at Poston, worked on the 1981 redress, plaintiff class action seeking Japanese American redress, which went to Supreme Court, co-producer of "Rabbit in the Moon," a film which won many awards, protested in Fort Bliss, Texas, where children are held in detention, member of Tsuru for Solidarity, and Tule Lake Committee
  
  
• Fred Tsao, senior policy counsel at Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR)

Recommended Citation

Northeastern Illinois University Archives, "Session 2" (2021). With Liberty and Justice for All: Racism, Redress and Reparations, A Conference Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the Chicago Redress Hearings, September 22-23, 2021. 2.
https://neiudc.neiu.edu/jarc-conf2021/2