Keith Kamisugi
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“How should I choose a PR firm? Each time someone asks me this, dozens of answers flutter to the forefront of my mind, but I always choose two fairly tangible criteria: fit and experience.”
It’s the season to give thanks, so to close my 2011-12 term as president of the Asian American Journalists Association, I will be counting down December with a daily shout-out.
Day 19
Thank you to Keith Kamisugi for never hesitating to do legwork that helps raise money for AAJA. I’ll always cherish our fifth-annual KBBQ T-shirt.Day 1; Day 2; Day 3; Day 4; Day 5;
Day 6; Day 7; Day 8; Day 9; Day 10;
Day 11; Day 12; Day 13; Day 14; Day 15;
Day 16; Day 17; Day 18
Korematsu, Yasui, Hirabayashi families file brief in suit against indefinite detention law
The families of Fred Korematsu, Minoru Yasui, and Gordon Hirabayashi this week filed an amicus brief with the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals in Hedges v. Obama, a lawsuit that challenges the constitutionality of a provision of the National Defense Authorization Act For Fiscal Year 2012 (NDAA).
The amicus brief describes a terrifying parallel to the incarceration of Americans of Japanese ancestry during World War II. Under the pretense of national security, the NDAA essentially repeats the decisions in the discredited World War II cases of Korematsu, Hirabayashi, and Yasui, allowing the government to imprison people without any due process rights for an indefinite time.
Download a PDF of the amicus brief at http://repeatinghistory.org.
The principal drafters of the brief were Eric Yamamoto (University of Hawai’i William S. Richardson School of Law), Lorraine K. Bannai (Korematsu Center for Law and Equality, Seattle University School of Law), Bob Rusky, and Cayce Greiner, with contributions by Dale Minami (Minami Tamaki LLP), Anjana Malhotra and Bob Chang (both with the Korematsu Center for Law and Equality, Seattle University School of Law), and other attorneys from the Korematsu, Yasui, and Hirabayashi legal teams.
The 2012 NDAA authorizes the U.S. military to arrest and indefinitely detain anyone, including American citizens on U.S. soil, without a warrant or due process if the military simply suspects them of supporting terrorism. This is exactly what the U.S government did in 1942 to 120,000 Japanese Americans, two-thirds of whom were American citizens, and who spent years in prisons without notice of charges, the right to an attorney, or the right to a trial.
These potential infringements on the constitutional rights of citizens and residents doom us to repeat history and subverts what should have been lessons learned from the wartime imprisonment.
We are reaching out in the next few days to Japanese American and Asian American organizations and communities to raise awareness of this issue.
We would love to have your support. Sign on here:
http://repeatinghistory.org/takeaction/
