RFK Jr.'s autism study to amass medical records of many Americans
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-autism-study-medical-records/
#autism #rfkjr #nazi #eugenics #internment #ConcentrationCamps #NIH #HIPAA

Yeah its pretty fucking crazy that within a couple of months of taking office #Trump was able to set up #ICE, #internment camps across the country, a network of #rightwing agents, & pass the #PatriotAct & other #laws that all gave the state unlimited power to do whatever it wants, wild stuff.

From #Wikipedia: Internment of Japanese Americans

"During World War II, the United States forcibly relocated and incarcerated about 120,000 people of Japanese descent in ten concentration camps operated by the War Relocation Authority (#WRA), mostly in the western interior of the country. About two-thirds were U.S. citizens.

"These actions were initiated by Executive Order 9066, issued by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942, following the outbreak of war with the Empire of Japan in December 1941. About 127,000 Japanese Americans then lived in the continental U.S., of which about 112,000 lived on the West Coast. About 80,000 were Nisei ('second generation'; American-born Japanese with #USCitizenship) and Sansei ('third generation', the children of Nisei). The rest were Issei ('first generation') immigrants born in Japan, who were ineligible for citizenship. In Hawaii, where more than 150,000 Japanese Americans comprised more than one-third of the territory's population, only 1,200 to 1,800 were incarcerated.

"#Internment was intended to mitigate a security risk which Japanese Americans were believed to pose. The scale of the incarceration in proportion to the size of the Japanese American population far surpassed similar measures undertaken against German and Italian Americans who numbered in the millions and of whom some thousands were interned, most of these non-citizens. Following the executive order, the entire West Coast was designated a military exclusion area, and all Japanese Americans living there were taken to assembly centers before being sent to concentration camps in California, Arizona, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Idaho, and Arkansas. Similar actions were taken against individuals of Japanese descent in Canada. Internees were prohibited from taking more than they could carry into the camps, and many were forced to sell some or all of their property, including their homes and businesses. At the camps, which were surrounded by barbed wire fences and patrolled by armed guards, internees often lived in overcrowded barracks with minimal furnishing."

[...]

Prior use of internment camps in the United States

"The United States Government had previously employed civilian internment policies in a variety of circumstances. During the 1830s, civilians of the indigenous #CherokeeNation were evicted from their homes and detained in 'emigration depots' in Alabama and Tennessee prior to the deportation to Oklahoma following the passage of the #IndianRemovalAct in 1830. Similar internment policies were carried out by U.S. territorial authorities against the #Dakota and #Navajo peoples during the American Indian Wars in the 1860s.

"In 1901, during the Philippine–American War, General J. Franklin Bell ordered the detainment of #Filipino civilians in the provinces of Batangas and Laguna into U.S. Army-run #ConcentrationCamps in order to prevent them from collaborating with #Filipino General Miguel Malvar's guerrillas; over 11,000 people died in the camps from malnutrition and disease."

Read more:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_Americans
#ICEDetention #IllegalDeportations #SecretPolice #HumanRightsViolations #ConstitutionalRights #HumanRights #SCOTUSIsCompromised #SCOTUSIsCorrupt #USPol #ForcedDisappearances #MemoryHoled #1798AlienEnemiesAct #PrivatePrisons

The Alien Enemies Act was deployed to imprison both citizens and noncitizens during World War II. Survivors have a few things to say about Trump’s abuse of it now. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/03/26/japan/japanese-incarceration-alien-enemies-act/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #japan #donaldtrump #wwii #japaneseamericans #internment #us #venezuela #immigration #alienenemiesact

7.3: They Sent Us to Camp: My Family's Experience of Internment During WWII

If you meet a Japanese American, it’s also a pretty good bet, they probably won’t spontaneously start talking about what they or their family went through, how they feel about it, and how they or their family recovered from the ordeal.

I (Christina) wanted to rectify that by sitting down with my old friend Chie Furuya, whose parents (as tiny children), grandparents, and other family members were “sent to camp”, to ask her about it. The answers and stories she had for me were both fascinating and unexpectedly heartening. Her people are a resilient, cheerful people and I feel like there are life lessons for all of us here, in terms of withstanding and recovering from severe injustice (and coming out on top).

Ariel’s addition to this episode description is to point out that Japanese internment occurred in Canada in the early 20th century as well. We (by which she means Canada, or perhaps so-called Canada, as she likes to call it) aren't some bastion of anti-racism and tolerant plurality (if we ever were). Check out our blog post for links for further edification if you are interested or want to know more about the Canadian side of the story.

https://youtu.be/nI3FJIJNkak

#SanFrancisco Japanese-American community speaks out against use of Alien Enemies Act against Venezuelans, drawing similarity to the #internment of Japanese-Americans during WWII.
https://missionlocal.org/2025/03/trump-deportations-japanese-internment-alien-enemies-act-venezuela-el-salvador/

Weathered post, Manzanar Internment Camp, Independence, California. April 2021. When we give in to fear and xenophobia we get places like this #shame #manzanar #photography #cemetery #internment camp #blackandwhite #racism #Japanese #xenophobia

(1 of 2) On #ThisDayInHistory in 1972, #BloodySunday, or the #Derry #BogsideMassacre, was done in #NorthernIreland by the UK military. A protest against #internment was fired on, with 14 killed. This helped #IRA recruitment and 1972 was the most violent year of #TheTroubles...

Rest in Power to Fred Toyosaburo Korematsu, an AMERICAN civil rights activist. He resisted the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.
#USPol
#internment
#detention
#concentration
#DegreesOfUnfreedom
#racism
#xenophobia
#HumanRights
#CivilRights
#resist

https://korematsuinstitute.org/

Obelisk, Main Cemetery, Manzanar Internment Camp, Independence, California. April 2021. When we give in to fear and xenophobia we get places like this #shame #manzanar #photography #cemetery #internment camp #blackandwhite #racism #Japanese #xenophobia

when you give in to fear and hatred you get a place like Manzanar. Guard Tower, Manzanar Internment Camp. Independance, California. #manzanar #internment #japan #WW2 #prison #shame #photography #blackandwhite #guardtower

Filmmaker Konrad Aderer is starting production on “They Took My Father Too,” an adaptation of a 1944 story by #internment camp incarceree Fujiwo Tanisaki.

The film focuses on the Tuna Canyon Detention Station, where over 2,000 #Japanese, German, and Italian immigrants were locked up from 1941-1943.

https://rafu.com/2024/11/new-film-will-tell-the-tuna-canyon-detention-station-story/

On February 1943, President #Roosevelt signed an #ExecutiveOrder that created the 442nd Regimental Combat Team.

It was a #Nisei unit, of #Japanese #American #volunteers recruited from U.S. #internment #camps.

“The principle on which this country was founded & by which it has always been governed is that Americanism is a matter of the mind & heart; Americanism is not, & never was, a matter of race or ancestry.” - Roosevelt

(Nisei were treated poorly by their country despite this. #WW2)

#NationalArchives and #Biden - #appointed #Archivist #ColleenShogan directed alterations to #exhibits, obscuring #Inconvenient parts of #US #History, per a recent #WallStreetJournal #report.

The #censored #images featured #CivilRights #Leaders, #ForcedRelocation of #Indigenous #Peoples, and #Japanese #Internment during #WWII.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #DemocraticParty #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Censorship

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/national-archives-accused-censorship-displays-1234723337/