Naomi Ishisaka

2 months ago | tri-cityherald.com | Naomi Ishisaka

Courage. It was the absence of it from allies and people of conscience in 1942 that led to 110,000 people of Japanese descent - including my family - being forced by the federal government from the West Coast into incarceration camps during the war. Courage was also in short supply last week, as the venue for a commemorative Day of Remembrance event was abruptly rescinded by the Pike Place Market Foundation. The Day of Remembrance falls on Feb. 19, the anniversary of President Franklin D.

2 months ago | seattletimes.com | Naomi Ishisaka

Courage. It was the absence of it from allies and people of conscience in 1942 that led to 110,000 people of Japanese descent — including my family — being forced by the federal government from the West Coast into incarceration camps during the war. Courage was also in short supply last week, as the venue for a commemorative Day of Remembrance event was abruptly rescinded by the Pike Place Market Foundation. The Day of Remembrance falls on Feb. 19, the anniversary of President Franklin D.

2 months ago | tri-cityherald.com | Naomi Ishisaka

Whew. Is 2025 over yet? The past two weeks have felt like a year, with an onslaught of executive orders, firings, attacks on DEI and transgender rights, a federal budget freeze and then an unfreeze, a massive push to downsize the federal workforce, an end to civil rights litigation, a suggestion to "clear out" Gaza of Palestinians and so much more. Education, health, climate, jobs, civil rights. Everything you can imagine is under threat.

2 months ago | seattletimes.com | Naomi Ishisaka

Whew. Is 2025 over yet? The past two weeks have felt like a year, with an onslaught of executive orders, firings, attacks on DEI and transgender rights, a federal budget freeze and then an unfreeze, a massive push to downsize the federal workforce, an end to civil rights litigation, a suggestion to “clear out” Gaza of Palestinians and so much more. Education, health, climate, jobs, civil rights. Everything you can imagine is under threat.

Jan 20, 2025 | tri-cityherald.com | Naomi Ishisaka

It's hard to imagine a more dissonant juxtaposition of events than to have the day we honor the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. overlap with the day we again inaugurate President-elect Donald Trump. A similar accident of the calendar won't happen again until 2053, but in a perverse way, the confluence of events offers us an opportunity to take more honest stock of where we are as a country and how far we have yet to go. The Rev.