“They want to remove us. We’ve been removed too many times. …We’re saying no more, never again.”
[Editor’s Note: Where will all the guards, sycophants, stooges, torturers, toadies, killers and the morally empty needed for the fascist coup come from? Get real, they are all around us. Time to get serious about resistance. — Mark L. Taylor]
Democracy Now! (6/25/19)
Democracy Now! was there when five Japanese-American elders, survivors of U.S. internment camps, engaged in civil disobedience Saturday outside the Fort Sill Army post in Oklahoma, where the Trump administration plans to indefinitely detain 1,400 immigrant and refugee children starting next month.
Fort Sill was an internment camp for 700 Japanese-American men in 1942. It was one of more than 70 sites where the U.S. government incarcerated about 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II, including one of 14 U.S. Army bases. President Obama first used Fort Sill in 2014 to detain migrant children seeking asylum from violence in Central America. Descendants of internment camp survivors were also present at the peaceful protest.
We feature a video report from Fort Sill and speak with Mike Ishii, co-chair of Tsuru for Solidarity. Ishii was at Fort Sill Army Base Saturday and helped organize the act.
Link to Story, Transcript and 18-Minute Video