Volunteer with Nakayoshi at the SF International Asian American Film Festival!
Come volunteer with Nakayoshi at the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival (SFIAAFF)! Benefits include: Vouchers for festival screenings Meeting film industry professionals and fellow film enthusiasts Official Festival T-shirt Volunteer Appreciation Party Working off parking or traffic tickets incurred at various cities throughout the Bay Area through Project 20 Hanging out with your […]
There are Bigger Fish to Fry Than Miley Cyrus
The following is a guest posting from Conrad Ohashi, another JACL young professional and friend of Nakayoshi: Asian American Nation, what is wrong with us? There is an economy in shambles, rampant unemployment, 3 wars that we need to pull out from, and for another 330 days we have our generation’s “internment camp” right across […]
Bay Area Day of Remembrance 2009
As you may have read in our Monthly Update at the beginning of January, Nakayoshi will be taking part in this year’s Bay Area Day of Remembrance event on Sunday, February 22, 2009. Before you read more details on the event below, we’d like to give the following announcement: The Day of Remembrance committee is […]
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Couldn’t say it any better than Jay Smooth, watching this video blog put a giant smile on my face. Definitely check him out if you haven’t already, you’re missin out! A fellow Nakayoshi member came across this clip on Hyphen’s Blog, and I couldn’t help but share.
Reflections on Redress
In commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, the Pacific Citizen, the newspaper of the Japanese American Citizens League, called for submissions on the topic of Redress. This is the article I wrote, which was recently published in the 2009 New Year’s Edition of the Pacific Citizen. Hope to hear […]
Summer Study Abroad in Kobe, Japan!
Applications now available for the 2009 Nikkei Cultural Heritage Program. This year, the Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Northern California has teamed with the Japanese American Cultural and Community Center in Los Angeles, the Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Washington and the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaii. Up to 6 participants from each […]
Thanksgiving
Happy Thanksgiving everyone! We hope that today, you are all surrounded by loved ones and friends on this warm fall holiday. Looking back on on this past year, Nakayoshi has a lot to be thankful for and on this day, we recognize and are extremely grateful to those who have made this long road possible. […]
JACL Signs onto Prop 8 Amicus
This press release was sent this morning from NCWNP Regional Director Patty Wada. For more information on how you can get involved in these issues, e-mail Nakayoshi at nakayoshi.ncwnp@gmail.com or contact the JACL NCWNP Regional Director Patty Wada via phone at (415) 345-1075 or e-mail ncwnp@jacl.org. JACL SUPPORTS INVALIDATION OF PROPOSITION 8 SAN FRANCISCO, CA […]
SFGate: Gays and Asians, not so strange bedfellows
In the midst of the excitement I’ve observed (and felt!) around San Francisco from the election of Barack Obama, there is still a lot of remorse and frustration at the passing of Proposition 8. Although APIA’s were seen to be one of the few ethnic minority groups that support same-sex marriage rights overall in polls, […]
National JACL Blog now up and running
I came across a link to the JACL blog on the National JACL website a while ago, but no posts had been made at the time. Lo and behold, today my RSS reader showed there were two posts made today on the JACL blog! Looks like they’re off to a good start: This is the […]