![]() The university dutifully sent his degree to “Apt. His father was about to graduate when he and other Japanese Americans were rounded up at gunpoint, he said, and forced to live at Tanforan Racetrack in San Bruno, California. Also among his keepsakes is a mailing tube addressed to his father from the University of California, Berkeley. Among an album of family pictures, he has a copy of the $20,000 redress check his mother received. Tamaki’s parents – natives of the San Francisco Bay Area – were also in an internment camp. Here she poses with her parents while incarcerated. “The fact that I got the letter from the president … that was very important.”Īmy Iwasaki Mass was a first grader when her family was forced to live in an internment camp in Wyoming. “If we didn’t get reparations, if we felt we are still being put down by the government, I think that for me it would be hard to fight,” Mass said while looking at family photos from their time in the concentration camp in Heart Mountain, Wyoming. Mass said she is thankful for her payment, but the apology has the largest meaning for her. Passage of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 gave affected Japanese Americans the $20,000 payment and a formal letter of apology from President Ronald Reagan. “But I do think Japanese Americans as a group do understand what it’s like to be excluded on the basis of race.” “There is no equivalence really between four years in a concentration camp and 400 years of systemic exclusion and discrimination,” Tamaki said. More than 200 multiracial organizations have signed on to show support for California’s reparation proposals, including bar associations, philanthropies, academic organizations, and social services and civil rights groups, said Don Tamaki, a member of the California Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans. ![]() ![]() Stephanie Elam/CNNĭeep blue, liberal California – and separately the city of San Francisco – has formed panels to examine reparations as a way for these governments to contend with systemic discrimination that historically held Black people down and pushed them out. The eight-part original series from FX is now available on Hulu.Amy Iwasaki Mass reads her 1981 testimony in favor of redress for Japanese Americans held in internment camps during World War II. “It’s fantastic to see and to play as well.” “There’s really, really strong women,” said Wing (“Alex Rider,” “Wolfe”). The series has a new character, Destiny, a tearaway teen played by Talitha Wing who has inherited her father Gaz’s tendency to get her friends into trouble, but has a steely determination to get on in life. “He and Alice have invested really beautifully in other female characters.” “You know, from the original to the series, I felt that Simon had been incredibly generous,” said Lesley Sharp, who returns as Jean. Original star Hugo Speer, who once taught King Charles III a dance routine from the movie at the then-prince’s 50th birthday party, was sacked from the show after allegations of inappropriate conduct, but does make a brief appearance in the series.īeaufoy co-wrote the series with frequent collaborator Alice Nutter, the Chumbawamba singer who’s also written for “Trust” and “The White Princess.” Unlike the movie, the new TV series doesn’t just focus on the plight of working class men women are front and center in the story, no longer just sidelined as wives. It co-stars original castmembers Tom Wilkinson, Mark Addy, Wim Snape, Paul Clayton and Paul Barber. The men of “The Full Monty” - older but not necessarily wiser - do not strip in the TV series, but are struggling to keep up with developments in modern society and, in some cases, to survive. The 1997 movie was nominated for four Academy Awards, including best picture, and won one for Anne Dudley’s score. ![]() The death of the car industry there is similar to the death of the steel industry in Sheffield,” Carlyle said. “One of the principal reasons why it did have such an appeal worldwide, particularly in Europe, was that places like Sheffield exist all over Europe, and all over the U.S., if you think of it, you know, probably Detroit or something like that. Robert Carlyle, who plays grifter Gary “Gaz” Schofield, attributes that success to its universal themes. The original movie was a surprise international hit, earning nearly $260 million and even spawning a musical in 2000 and a play in 2013. ![]()
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