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Fred Korematsu Day Celebration

Morris Dailey Auditorium at Tower Hall

San Jose State University

Sunday, January 26, 2014 2:30 PM

F R E D T . K O R E M A T S U I N S T I T U T E P R E S E N T S



State of California

In 2010, a bill establishing “Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution” was

signed into law by California’s Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. California’s Fred Korematsu

Day became the first day in US history named after an Asian American on a state level. Cel-

ebrated every January 30th on Mr. Korematsu’s

birthday, Fred Korematsu Day is a day of special

significance when schools across the state

are encouraged to remember the life of Mr.

Korematsu and recognize the importance of

preserving civil liberties for all people.

State of Hawaii

In May 2012, Hawaii Governor Neil Abercrombie announced that he would proclaim Fred

Korematsu Day on January 30, 2013 in Hawaii. The Korematsu Institute has worked with a local

committee and several community organizations to plan inaugural Fred Korematsu Day events

in Hawaii on January 30, 2013, which are expected to attract several hundred people, including

many school children. The Governor is scheduled to speak at the evening event that day.

State of Utah

On January 18, 2013, Utah Governor Gary Herbert declared January 30, 2013 Fred Korematsu

Day in the state of Utah. The January 18 event at the Utah state capitol was attended by more

than 100 people, including state representatives and numerous individuals who, along with

Mr. Korematsu, were incarcerated at the Topaz, Utah Japanese American internment camp.

For the Fred Korematsu Day 2013 season this January and February, there are nearly 30

events taking place in 11 different states around the country.

ABOUT FRED KOREMATSU DAY



Lloyd LaCuesta WELCOME

Karen Korematsu REMARKS & INTRODUCTION

Miguel Santiago “UNDOCUMENTED” STUDENT

Lloyd LaCuesta INTRODUCTION

Congressman Mike Honda GUEST SPEAKER

Karen Korematsu INTRODUCING JOSE VARGAS

Film Clip “DOCUMENTED”

Jose Vargas/ “Undocumented Students” TIME MAGAZINE COVER

Jose Vargas KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Jose Vargas/ Lloyd LaCuesta Q & A: AUDIENCE QUESTIONS


Short Film “ AMERICAN ”


Bonnie Sugiyama SPECIAL SPEAKER

PSA FRED KOREMATSU DAY

Karen Korematsu CLOSING REMARKS

P R O G R A M



Special Guest

MIKE HONDA

Congressman 17th Congressional District

Mike’s district includes Silicon Valley, the birthplace of inno-vation and the national leader in high-tech development.

He has dedicated his life to public service and is lauded for

his focus on innovation and developing the jobs for the

future, and his work on education, civil rights, immigration,

transportation, and the environment in particular.

During his time in Congress as an Appropriator, he has also secured over a half-billion

dollars for projects benefiting the region, including the BART expansion to San Jose and

funding for a variety of local law enforcement, healthcare, education and public worksinitiatives. As a Congressman for Silicon Valley, Mike is taking a leading role in bring-

ing Democrats and Republicans together to better understand the issues of high-tech,

working to bring more security to the nation’s IT infrastructure and encouraging future

innovation and growth. In this vein, Mike formed the bipartisan Wireless Task Force to

support innovative technologies for next-generation wireless deployment. Mike also

serves as Chair Emeritus of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus.

Emcee

LLOYD LACUES TA

Retired Broadcast Journalist

Adjunct Journalism Professor, SJSU

Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, Lloyd is an American journalist.He was most recently the South Bay bureau chief for the

San Francisco Bay Area TV station KTVU’s news division,

having worked at KTVU for 35 years. He retired from the po-

sition as of June 2012. LaCuesta is of Filipino ancestry.

LaCuesta served in the Army as a broadcast journalist for the American Forces Korea

Network. He attended California State University, Los Angeles and San Jose State Uni-

versity (SJSU), earning a B.A. in journalism and political science. He won the Sigma Delta

Chi Award for reporting while at SJSU. He received an M.A. in Journalism from Universityof California, Los Angeles. He worked as a writer for KNX/CBS Radio in Los Angeles and

the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, and as a producer for KABC-TV in Los Angeles and

KGO-TV in San Francisco. He started work at Oakland based television station KTVU in

1976. He has taught journalism at SJSU and Menlo College.

LaCuesta has won six Emmy Awards from the National Academy of Television Arts and

Sciences. He received a lifetime achievement award from the Asian American Journal-

ists Association (AAJA) in 2004. He was the first national president of the AAJA, and

is the director of the AAJA’s Study Tours Program. He was the first president of Unity

Journalists of Color.



Keynote Speaker

JOSE ANTONIO VARGAS

Pulitzer Prize Journalist

“Documented” Film Documentary Writer & Director

Jose Antonio Vargas is a journalist, filmmaker and thefounder of Define American, an independent cam-

paign that elevates the immigration conversation

through media and culture. In June 2013 his latest

film, “Documented,” premiered at the American Film

Institute’s AFI Docs festival in Washington, D.C.

Vargas has been a

journalist for over a decade, writing for some of the most

prestigious news organizations in the country, including

the San Francisco Chronicle, the Huffington Post and the

Washington Post, where he was part of the team that

won a Pulitzer Prize for covering the 2007 massacre at

Virginia Tech. He’s covered a wide range of issues, from

technology’s and social media’s impact in politics, the

HIV/AIDS epidemic in the nation’s capital and the histor-

ic 2008 presidential campaign. His 2006 series on AIDS in

Washington, D.C. inspired a feature-length documentary ,“The Other City,” which he co-produced and wrote. It world premiered at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival and aired on

Showtime. In the fall of 2010, Vargas wrote an exclusive profile of Facebook CEO Mark

Zuckerberg for The New Yorker.

Shortly thereafter, stunning the

media and political circles and

attracting world-wide coverage,

Vargas then told the biggest jour-

nalistic story of his career: himself.

In the landmark essay for the New

York Times Magazine titled “My

Life as an Undocumented Immi-

grant,” published in June 2011, he

revealed his undocumented status.

A year later, Vargas popularized the

term “undocumented Americans”

in describing the country’s popu-

lation of 11 undocumented immi-

grants in a June 2012 cover story

for TIME magazine titled “WE ARE

AMERICANS* (*Just not legally).”



BONNIE SUGIYAMA,

Director - Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender

Resource Center and Women’s Resource Center at SJSU

Bonnie Sugiyama’s undergraduate and graduated career

in student affairs started at Sacramento State University,working for six years with the Women’s Resource Center,

the last two years of which she was the graduate assistant

coordinator of the PRIDE Center. During her time at Sac.

St. she worked on various GLBTIQ issues, including: Queer

history month, GLBTIQ in sports, sexual assault, Intersex

awareness, domestic violence, Trans identity development, safe zone program develop-

ment, bisexuality myths, etc. Her last position was at Sonoma State University as the

Director of the Center for Culture, Gender and Sexuality. Her most significant work at

SSU was the revisioning of a lecture series to reflect issues of social justice and educate

students on the complexities of intersectionality though our multiple identities.

MIGUEL SANTIAGO

“Undocumented Student”

Is a DREAMers student at San Jose State University

(SJSU) that continuously has been very active in

the push for Comprehensive Immigration Reform.

He volunteers at Asian Law Alliance and is a peer

mentor to the dream students at DCP High School.

Miguel is an activist in both the Japanese and Lati-

no population in San Jose and is passionate about

social justice.

DEFINEAMERICAN

Define American founded in April 2011 by Jose Antonio Vargas

Whatever your background or beliefs, our campaign is about asking how we

define what it means to be American,and elevating the conversation about how we engage as citizens.

To start, the conversation is about immigration. Our immigration system is

broken — and fixing it requires a conversation that’s bigger

and more effective than the one that we’ve become accustomed to.

We hope you’ll join us in asking new and better questions.

Define American is a project of Public Interest Projects,

a nonprofit public charity.



KAREN KOREMATSU,

Executive Director and Co-Founder

Fred Korematsu Institute

The daughter of the late Fred T. Korematsu and in 2009

co-founded the Fred T. Korematsu Institute for CivilRights and Education in San Francisco. She shares her

father’s passion for social justice and education. Karen

continues to advance his legacy by advising the institute

with its program, development and outreach, and Chairs

of the Korematsu Institute’s Advisory Council. One of her

significant accomplishments was working with Assembly member Warren Furutani in

successfully establishing the “Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitu-

tion” for the state of California on January 30 in perpetuity. Fred Korematsu is the firstAsian American in United States history that has been honored with a statewide day.

The official launch was on January 30, 2011.

Since her father’s passing in 2005, Karen has been carrying on her father’s legacy

through education as a civil rights advocate and public speaker. She speaks to K-12

public and privates schools, universities, law schools and organizations. Some speaking

engagements around the country have included UC Berkeley, UC Davis, Seattle Uni-

versity School of Law, Northwestern School of Law, Fourth District Court of Appeals in

Riverside, CA and University of Michigan. Karen has given presentations on Fred Kore-

matsu K-12 curriculum to the California State Conference on Social Studies, Service-

Learning Leadership, California Council for the Social Studies Conference, Hawaii State

Social Studies Teachers Conference and many other state teacher’s workshops. National

presentations have included the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) Confer-

ence and the National Forum on Education Conference (CEP).

As of 1983 Karen has been a volunteer with the Asian Law Caucus and in 1989 co-found-

ed the Fred T. Korematsu Civil Rights Fund. Since 2000, previously she has served onthe Asian Law Caucus Board of Directors. Karen is a key member of both the National

Advisory Board of the Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality at Seattle Univer-

sity School of Law and the Fred T. Korematsu Professor of Law and Social Justice at the

William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawai’i at Monoa. She also sits on the

National Board of Directors for the Asian American Justice Center in Washington, DC.

PROGRAM ADDENDUM: Speaking with Miguel Santiago, "undocumented" student

is Mirna Henriquez, "Student Advocates For Higher Education" (SAHE), SJSU will

talk about her org and the advocacy work on campus. And spoken word artist Akiko

Aspillaga will appear after Bonnie Sugiyama. Akiko is co-director, ASPIRE (Asian

students Promoting Immigrant Rights through Education".



D O C U M E N T A R Y F I L M

Writer and Director Jose Antonio Vargas began working on this documentary shortly

before “outing” himself as undocumented in a 2011 New York Times Magazine essay,

“My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant.” He then

traveled around America, telling his story and con-

necting with others with similar experiences. Along

the way, he reconnected with his mother, whom he

had not seen in 20 years. When he was 12, she had

sent him from

the Philippines

to the United

States to live with his grandparents in Mountain

View, Calif.

“Immigration, to me, is not a political issue, it’s not

a Latino or Asian issue -- it’s an American story,” Vargas said. “The film is in honor of 11 million un-

documented immigrants -- many of us Americans in all but papers. And the film is dedi-

cated to parents everywhere who dream of better futures for their children.”

But Jose’s story is merely one of 11 MILLION undocumented immigrant stories.

A Special Charity Engagement

by MVLA COMMUNITY SCHOLARS

Personal Appearance by

Jose Antonio Vargas

Monday, January 27, 2014, 7pm

Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts

500 Castro Street, Mountain View

KAPOR CENTER FOR SOCIAL IMPACT

Personal Appearance by

Jose Antonio Vargas

Kaiser Center auditorium,

Tuesday, January 28, 2014

7:30 pm - 9:30 pm

300 Lakeside Dr #206, Oakland

BAY AREA FILM SCREENINGS AND INTERVIEWS



D O C U M E N T A R Y F I L M

American explores the experience of DREAMers, undocumented immigrants who came

to the United States as children, in a 12-minute short documentary. Produced and di-

rected by two Stanford Law students, Tiffany Yang and Jennifer Gonzalez, it was shot in

730p HD video in San Francisco, CA.

The filmmakers’ desire was to create four entwining narratives

that painted a picture of the struggles, pain, inspirations and

hope that result from an “undocumented” immigrant status.

Yang and Gonzalez approached filming with three goals in mind:

challenging the presumptions we have about what constitutes

“American” identity; challenging the strictly Latino racialization

of undocumented immigrants that we see in today’s media; and

challenging the “straight A” student image that we have created

for what constitutes a “legitimate” DREAMer. The filmmakers hope American authenti-

cally portrays individuals who are whole and complete despite—or perhaps becauseof—their immigrant status.

Each of the featured participants in

the film—Putri, Rodrigo, Alondra, and

New—have gone public about their un-

documented status and are active advo-

cates for the rights of undocumented im-

migrants and immigration reform. Priorto filming, each participant had recently

received Deferred Action for Childhood

Arrivals (DACA). Although DACA is not a

path to citizenship, it has allowed each of these exception young people to continue

to pursue their own American dreams without the constant fear of deportation. They

continue to advocate for reforms that will ensure that their families and others like them

will eventually have a legal path to citizenship in the country they call home.

A M E R I C A N



The Fred T. Korematsu Institute for Civil Rights and Education advances pan-ethnic civil

and human rights through education.

The Korematsu Institute is a program of the Asian Law Caucus, which is a member of the

Asian American Center for Advancing Justice. Founded in 1972, the Asian Law Caucus is

the nation’s first legal and civil rights or-

ganization serving low-income Asian Pa-

cific American communities. Its mission

is to promote, advance, and represent

the legal and civil rights of the Asian and

Pacific Islander communities.

The Asian Law Caucus, together with

Karen Korematsu, the daughter of Fred

Korematsu, co-founded the Korematsu

Institute in 2009 to commemorate the

25th anniversary of the reversal of Kore-

matsu’s conviction.

The Korematsu Institute education pro-

grams include:• Curriculum: Developing and distribut-

ing FREE curriculum about Fred Kore-

matsu’s story, the Japanese American incarceration, Asian American history, and current

civil rights issues, to classrooms around the United States

• Fred Korematsu Day: Promoting Fred Korematsu Day community involvement through

school curriculum, community events, and support for bill legislation and resolutions

around the country

The Korematsu Institute distributes FREE Korematsu Teaching Kits to any teacher who

requests one on our web site, korematsuinstitute,org.

Kits include:

• A 100-page Korematsu Teacher’s Guide, lled with lesson plans for K-12 students

• Multiple videos for K-12 students, now featuring Japanese and English subtitles for

deaf and hard-of-hearing students and educators, as well as a video discussion guide

• The graphic novel Fred Korematsu: All American Hero• The booklet Patriot Acts: Narrative of Post-9/11 Injustice, which features oral histories of

youth and their experiences following 9/11

• A Fred Korematsu Day poster

• An Asian American and Pacic Islander Civil Rights Heroes poster

If you are a teacher or you know a teacher who would be interested in these FREE kits,

please help us spread the word. Thank you for teaching Mr. Korematsu’s story!

A B O U T T H E K O R E M A T S U I N S T I T U T E



Cesar E. ChavezCommunity Action Center, SJSU

S P O N S O R S :

Staffed totally by volunteers, JAMsj provides permanent and

rotating exhibits, a research and lending library, teacher workshops,

children’s activities, book club, film screenings, guest speakers, and

panel discussions. For information about our services and events,

please access our website: www.jamsj.org. We welcome you to visit

Thurs - Sun, 12:00 - 4:00 pm or with a tour group on special days andhours by arrangement.

535 North Fifth Street San Jose, California 95112 Phone (408) 294-3138

Established by Associated Students in July 2005, the Cesar E. Chavez

Community Action Center (CCCAC) connects SJSU students with

community service opportunities that deepen the educationalexperience while promoting the lifelong commitment to civic

activism at the heart of the Cesar Chavez legacy.



S P E C I A L T H A N K S :

C O M M U N I T Y O R G A N I Z A T I O N P A R T N E R S :

Eric Paul Fournier, Fournier Films

Komo Gauvreau, JAMsj

Jessica T. Savage, Multimedia Journalist

Keith Kamisugi, PR/Communications

Ken Korematsu, Graphic Design

Maribel Martinez, CCCAC

ASIAN LAW CAUCUS

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