This evening gathering draws on community voices and collective action. How do we carry forward the lessons of Japanese American incarceration into the struggles of today? How do communities transform trauma into resilience, and resilience into solidarity?

The program will feature Dr. Satsuki Ina, co-founder of Tsuru for Solidarity, a grassroots movement that draws on the memory of incarceration to stand against immigrant detention and racial injustice. She will be joined by speakers from Hawaiʻi’s local communities who are organizing, healing, and imagining new futures of justice and belonging: Salmah Rizvi (ACLU Hawai'i) and Monisha Das Gupta (Ethnic Studies, UH Mānoa) and moderated by Kyle Kajihiro (Hawai'i Peace and Justice).