The Enemy Alien Files:AWRIC COMMUNITY DELEGATION TRAVEL TO WASHINGTON, D.C.
A delegation of nine AWRIC participants and supporters delivered the AWRIC Report and DVD to the US Congress in Washington, DC, during the week of May 15, 2006. The delegates met with Congress members to urge them to use this important historical information when considering current and future legislation that would fund fact-finding investigations and public education about the WWII period.
The delegates also met with and gave the report to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, a body of the Organization of American States, as it weighed a petition from Japanese Peruvians who were forcibly taken from Peru and interned at Crystal City, Texas.
AWRIC Community Delegates were Grace Shimizu, Director of the Japanese Peruvian Oral History Project (JPOHP); Karen Ebel, daughter of a German internee; film-maker Judith Ehrlich-Bertoni; former Japanese Peruvian internees Art Shibayama, Libia Yamamoto and Blanca Katsura; graphic designer Noreen Rei Fukumori, former Japanese American internee Ruth Ichinaga; and Samina F. Sundas, Executive Director of American Muslim Voice