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Sacramento native Richard Montoya's play 'American Night' to Cal Shakes
June 14, 2013

Dana Milbank: Michele Bachmann's decision benefits her party and her nation
May 31, 2013

Japanese dolls returned to owner 70 years after internment camps separate Sacramento schoolgirls
December 05, 2012

Nisei veterans receive country's highest civilian award at Sacramento ceremony
May 26, 2012

1942 class reunion also looking for non-graduates
June 03, 2012

The Buzz: New bill would bar California from honoring indefinite detention law
February 18, 2013

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Internment Camps Videos

Internment camp letters found
November 23, 2012 | KOB Albuquerque, NM

History teachers meet Japanese American sent to internment
June 13, 2012 | KGET NBC 17 Bakersfield

Film looks into New Mexico WWII internment camps
January 06, 2012 | KOB Albuquerque, NM

Internment Camps Wikipedia Information

Internment is the imprisonment or confinementper Oxford Universal Dictionary, 1st edition 1933. of people, commonly in large groups, without trial. The Oxford English Dictionary (1989) gives the meaning as "The action of ‘interning’; confinement within the limits of a country or place". Most modern usage is about individuals, for example the policy of Internment introduced...

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Michele Bachmann’s 5 Wildest Predictions, including Slavery, Sharia and More
May 29, 2013
May 29, 2013 - Now that Michele Bachmann has announced she's not running for reelection, we're beginning to wonder what Congress will be like without her and her...

Jason Salzman: They’re Coming to Take Your Guns! Not.
March 14, 2013
March 14, 2013 - Colorado has emerged as ground zero for the national debate about gun safety. Democratic lawmakers here in my state are considering a set of gun...

Showing of two films on Japanese-American baseball
September 21, 2012
For over a 100 years baseball has played an important role in the life of the Japanese-American community, especially during the internment during World War II...

Paul Kitagaki’s images revisit Japanese internment history
April 27, 2012
Suyematsu Kitagaki, 65, center, and his wife Juki Kitagaki, 53, left, sit with their children, Kimiko, 11, center and Kiyoshi, 14, right, at the WCCA Control...

The Lineup: Photography, music and Festival de la Familia
April 27, 2012
Bee photographer Paul Kitagaki Jr.'s exhibit, "They Wore Their Best … The Japanese-American Evacuation and After."SATURDAY, continuing through May Photo exhibit...

California favorites in print
April 22, 2012
Kevin Starr History professor at the University of Southern California. Author of the multititle series "Americans and the California Dream." • "The World Rushed...

Other local news reports

Our View: Awareness guards against new internment camps
April 09, 2013 | AppealDemocrat
Tule Lake is a nice little Northern California town. The countryside around Tule Lake is pretty, too -- at least it is if you're from there or had the freedom to choose to visit...

Nikiko Masumoto's one- woman play tells stories of Japanese internment
February 17, 2013 | FresnoBee.com: Local
The daughter of organic peach farmer David Mas Masumoto is helping the public learn about the experiences of thousands of Japanese Americans who were sent to internment camps ...

From around the web

George Takei: remember Japanese internment during WWII
June 12, 2013 | Boing Boing
The Star Trek actor George Takei, writes about being interned in California internment camps along with his Japanese-American family during WWII, a particularly important...

Veterans visiting Reno still caution on lessons from internment camps
May 20, 2013 | Latest news updates from RGJ.com
It did not matter that they were Americans. Or that many of them had never even been to Japan. ...

Do not discount government's ability to take away freedom
April 08, 2013 | indystar.com
Try reviewing a little history on the Trail of Tears, the Dredd Scott Decision, internment camps for American citizens of Japanese descent, and of course the ownership and sale...

Sophie Littlefield tackles Manzanar
February 27, 2013 | Books
Littlefield became obsessed with Manzanar after an author friend of hers explained the internment camps, and she ultimately visited the camp, which is now a national park in...

Nexus: fast, exciting technothriller about drug- war crackdown on brain/computer...
December 18, 2012 | Boing Boing
This turns out to be a completely prohibited activity in the USA, where enforcement of a convention against posthuman and transhuman enhancement has spawned a DHS-on-steroids (heh) that can render its arrestees to internment camps ...

Internment Camps on twitter

	RT @DowntownNews: Exhibit recalls Bronzeville, when Japanese were placed in internment camps and Blacks moved into Little Tokyo http://t.co/qmzwESFjhr #dtla Twitter: @subaquatic
	@JACOBAYUBI @NoGOPNo Was it a necessary evil to put American citizens of Japanese descent in internment camps during WWII? Seemed like it. Twitter: @AAPD0418
	Summer break ... Yet I just watched a fascinating documentary about the Chinese Internment camps on PBS 👓👔✏📓📚 Twitter: @Kat_Dee_Lion
	RT @DowntownNews: Exhibit recalls Bronzeville, when Japanese were placed in internment camps and Blacks moved into Little Tokyo http://t.co/qmzwESFjhr #dtla Twitter: @DeeRoxy23
	The courts and the people's representatives also upheld slavery and Japanese internment camps, Ambassador Woosley. Twitter: @JasonARogers
	@MarkDeklin but then again, we did have the witch trials...& the internment camps....& the trail of tears...& oh this is getting depressing Twitter: @kimmiefield

YouTube Videos

Leaked Document: Military Internment Camps in U.S to be Used for Political Dissidents
March 04, 2013

Civilian Internment Camps for Americans
May 08, 2012

U.S. Army Responds To Prison Camp Document
May 10, 2012

Internment Camps Books

Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya
Caroline Elkins, $6.53

Desert Exile: The Uprooting of a Japanese American Family
Yoshiko Uchida, $10.00

Weedflower
Cynthia Kadohata, $2.65

Only What We Could Carry: The Japanese American Internment Experience
Lawson Fusao Inada, $3.57

Dear Miss Breed: True Stories of the Japanese American Incarceration During World War II and a Librarian Who Made a Difference
Joanne Oppenheim, $13.92

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