The Enemy Alien Files:Website Launch
March, 2008: The Enemy Alien Files website is now up and running. Funded by a grant from the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, it is both a culmination of years of work and an ongoing work-in-progress. Check back as new material is added.
Upcoming Events
Saturday, June 28th, 2-3:30 pm
"New & Emerging Voices" Program
at the Oakland Museum of California
to feature DVD highlights of
"Inalienable: Immigrant Rights - Youth Voices from World War II and Post 9/11."
A free public program co-sponsored by the Oakland Museum of California, National Japanese American Historical Society (NJAHS), and the Enemy Alien Files Consortium & Partners will include DVD highlights of "Inalienable: Immigrant Rights -- Youth Voices from World War II and Post 9/11," the ground-breaking, cross-cultural public education program presented at the Oakland Museum of California this past April. For information, please call NJAHS at 415.921.5007. Other youth-produced DVDs to be presented include: Tokyo Stories; Find My Voice, Speak My Truth, Hear My Story; and $20 A Day in Japantown '07.
The DVD "Inalienable: Immigrant Rights" features intergenerational panels of former internees of Japanese, Italian and German descent in the U.S. and from Latin America, identified as "enemy aliens" during World War II -- heard alongside stories by Arab, South Asian, Muslim and Latino youth impact by post-9/11 policies and practices.
With a grant from the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, the Enemy Alien Files Consortium and Partners produced a new educational resource website, www.enemyalienfiles.org, and presented the public convocation, "Inalienable Immigrant Rights," as a step toward understanding the immediate and long-term human impact of policies such as restrictions, special registration, detention, incarceration, deportation and rendition on diverse youth, families and communities during World War II and today.
The EAF Consortium includes NJAHS, Japanese Peruvian Oral History Project, Campaign for Justice - Redress Now for Japanese Latin Americans, the American Italian Historical Association-W. Regional Chapter, and the German American Internee Coalition. EAF Partners are the American Muslim Voice, Arab Resources Organizing Committee, Council on American Islamic Relations - SF Bay Area, and the National Network of Immigrant and Refugee Rights.
