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Japantown Task Force

Hope you will join us for the 2/28 Peace Plaza Community Briefing! See below for additional events and announcements.

2月28日に行われるピーズプラザの説明会にぜひご参加ください。その他イベントやお知らせは下記からどうぞ。

 

2/28: Community Briefing on Peace Plaza Cultural Elements

We need your feedback! Join us for the Peace Plaza Community Briefing conducted via Zoom, 6:30-7:30 pm on Tues, 2/28. The JTF Peace Plaza Committee, co-chaired by Jon Osaki and Richard Hashimoto, has been working closely with the City’s design team to develop the cultural elements that will be part of the Peace Plaza renovation, slated to begin in 2024. The community briefing will review options for the Eternal Flame, the Water Feature, an interpretive panel, signage, and more. To receive the Zoom link for the meeting, RSVP here.


皆様の意見が必要です!2月28日(火)午後6時半から7時半まで、JTFのピースプラザ委員会主催、ピースプラザの文化的要素におけるコミュニティ説明会が行われます。JTFのJon Osaki とRichard Hashimotoの両名が代表する委員会は、永遠の炎、水、平和の能筆、歴史散策のパネル、岩、ピースパゴダ、解釈標識など主要な文化的要素に関して、市のピースプラザ修復(2024年から施工)プロジェクト・デザインチームと共に取りまとめてきました。その内容における一般対象の説明会を行います。ご参加予約はhereからどうぞ。

 

2/26: Japantown History Walking Tour (in Japanese) by JTF. RSVP here.  

2月26日日本語によるジャパンタウン歴史散策第2弾が行われます。今回は宝探しも実施しますので、ぜひご家族揃ってどうぞ。ピースプラザの前に午前11時に集合してください。1時間で歴史的な建造物などの説明を行います。予約は上記リンクからどうぞ。

 

2/25: 12th Annual Films of Remembrance by Nichi Bei News. Purchase tickets here.

 

Important Message from Don Tamaki, California Reparations Task Force

“Following the murder of George Floyd on May 25, 2020 triggering the largest protests in U.S. history calling for a racial reckoning, by September, 2020, the Cal Legislature passed AB 3121 creating the Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans, with a Special Consideration for African Americans Who are Descendants of Persons Enslaved in the United States (Task Force or Reparations Task Force). https://oag.ca.gov/ab3121

 

The purpose of the Task Force is: (1) to study and develop reparation proposals for African Americans; (2) to recommend appropriate ways to educate the California public of the task force's findings; and (3) to recommend appropriate remedies in consideration of the Task Force’s findings.  I am one of the nine members of the Task Force appointed by the Governor and by the Legislature https://oag.ca.gov/ab3121/members.

 

We convened in June of 2021, and on June 1, 2022, fulfilled our first charge of publishing a sweeping, nearly 500 page report drawing a through line from the harm of 246 years of slavery, 90 years of Jim Crow and racial terror, and decades more of continuing discrimination---to today’s outcomes—which are at once shocking but sadly, not surprising.   Here’s the link to the Report: https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/media/ab3121-reparations-interim-report-2022.pdf

 

It’s a lot to read, so check out the 29 page Executive Summary, https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/media/ab3121-interim-report-executive-summary-2022.pdf or the Introduction which give previews to the Report. Or you can browse selected chapters such as “Segregation—the Root of Many Evils” which covers housing.   

 The Task Force is now focusing on developing recommendations for remedies to be submitted to the Legislature by June 30, 2023 at which point the Task Force will sunset.  Simultaneously, we are developing recommendations to educate the public as to why reparations are long overdue.

With respect to  defining “what” we are asking of organizations, the organizations listed below have endorsed the levels they feel comfortable doing, including:

  •  Endorsement of the Task Force’s Interim Report;  

  • Endorsement of the mission and work of the Task Force, but not the Interim Report;

  • Endorsement of the general concept of studying reparations for African Americans and promoting awareness and conversation, but not specifically the Task Force, or the Interim Report; and

  • Endorsement by drafting their own customized resolutions

 

We hope that endorsing organizations will post endorsement lists on their websites, adopt reparations support initiatives that align with their mission, and actively publicize broad support of reparations.

 

So far, we’ve gotten the following endorsements, with many pending, and a plan to reachout to civil rights, bar associations, professional societies, the faith community, labor, education, etc. in the works.  

 

  • ACLU Southern California

  • ACLU Northern California

  • ACLU California Action

  • ACLU San Diego Imperial Counties

  • Alameda County Bar Association

  • American Constitution Society (National)

  • Asian American Bar Association of the Bay Area

  • Asian Pacific American Women Lawyers Alliance

  • Asian Pacific American Bar Association of L.A. County

  • Association of Black Psychologists

  • Black Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles

  • California Black Women’s Health Project

  • Community Coalition

  • Charles Houston Bar Association

  • Congregation Shaar Zahav in San Francisco

  • Equal Justice Society

  • John M. Langston Bar Association

  • Japanese American Bar Association

  • Korean American Bar Association of Southern California

  • Mexican American Bar Association

  • National Conference of Black Lawyers

  • OnTrack Program Resources, Inc.

  • Philippine American Bar Association

  • Thai American Bar Association

  • Safe Passages

  • Southern California Chinese Lawyers Association

  • South Asian Bar Association of Southern California

  • StopRepeatingHistory.Org

  • Urban Peace Institute

  • Village Project, Inc.”

    Please consider endorsing the work of the Task Force! Jon Osaki is gathering statements and letters of support and can be reached at josaki@jcyc.org. You can find out more about Jon’s award-winning film “Reparations” at this link.

2020年5月25日に起こったジョージフロイドの不当な死により、全米で最大の人種差別に対する抗議が始まり、同年9月AB3121というアフリカンアメリカンの人種差別による権利見直しに対する規定が通過し、そのためのタスクフォースが結成されました。そして全ての人種がアメリカで差別なく暮らせるように書類がまとめられました。その内容に対して支持をお考えください。ご意見等はJon Osaki josaki@jcyc.orgまでどうぞ。彼の”償い”というフィルムもご覧いただければより内容が理解できると思います。

 

Need your input on FCC Broadband Map

  • The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has put out a map of broadband/high speed Internet. For those of you who live and work in Japantown, you know how painfully slow the Internet is in the neighborhood, with a few exceptions. It is VERY important that we *challenge the accuracy* of the FCC’s Broadband Map. For example, the JTF office is located in the JACL National Headquarters Building at 1765 Sutter and, despite multiple attempts to secure high-speed Internet access, the property does not have this capability regardless of whether the Internet service provider is AT&T, Comcast, Verizon, T-Mobile, satellite, or something else. The map covers locations nationally, so please help make it accurate! Lookup your address here.

アメリカ連邦コミュニケーション・コミッションではインターネットのスピードを網羅した地図をアップしました。地図に記載されたスピードと違うようであれば、申し立てにて正確なスピードをアップデートできます。例えばJTFのオフィスはJACLのアメリカの本社ビルにあり、安定したハイスピードインターネットはどのプロバイダー、AT&T, Comcast, Verizon, T-Mobileの衛星、その他を使用しても確立できませんでした。住まわれているエリアで正確なスピードが表記されるようご協力ください。

 

UPCOMING JTF MEETINGS IN MARCH

For agendas and Zoom links, go to the JTF website.

  • Mon, 3/6/23, 5:30-7pm: Cultural Heritage Sustainability Committee

  • Tues, 3/28/23, 5-6 pm: Peace Plaza Committee

  • Thurs, 3/9/23, 6-8 pm: Land Use & Transportation Committe

  • Wed, 3/15/23, 6-8 pm: JTF Board Meeting Hybrid 

          

    JTF各委員会の3月定例ミーティングの開催日と時間のお知らせです。議題内容やZoomリンク等は、JTF website からどうぞ。

 

Japantown Task Force, Inc.
1765 Sutter Street, 3rd floor
San Francisco, CA 94115
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