DETAILS
WHEN: October 16, 2024 | 5:30pm-8:00pm PDT
WHERE: Kennedy Learning Center
Robert T. Matsui U.S. Courthouse
501 I Street, Room 4-200
Sacramento, CA 95814
& virtually over Zoom
COST: Attendance is free!
“They Refused: Two Views on Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration” features the documentary “One Fighting Irishman,” about civil rights attorney Wayne Collins, and the graphic novel “We Hereby Refuse.” Following viewings, Sacramento Superior Court Judge Kara Ueda will moderate a discussion with filmmaker Sharon Yamato and author Frank Abe. A reception will follow the discussion. All are welcome!
This program is co-sponsored by the Sacramento Federal Bar Association and the Asian/Pacific Bar Association of Sacramento.
MEET OUR PANELISTS AND MODERATOR
Panelist, Frank Abe
Graphic Novelist, Author of We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration
Frank Abe is co-editor with Floyd Cheung of a new Penguin Classics anthology, The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration. He is lead author of a graphic novel, We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration, a Finalist in Creative Nonfiction for the Washington State Book Award. He won an American Book Award as co-editor of John Okado: The Life and Rediscovered Work of the Author of No-No Boy, in which he authored the first-ever biography of Okada and traced the origins of his novel. He wrote and directed the award-winning PBS documentary Conscience and the Constitution and helped organize the first-ever “Day of Remembrance.” He is currently developing a new stage adaptation of No-No Boy.
Panelist, Sharon Yamato
Documentary Filmmaker, One Fighting Irishman
Sharon Yamato is a writer/journalist, TV producer, and independent filmmaker with more than four decades of experience in media and TV/film production. Her films include Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn, A Flicker in Eternity, and Moving Walls, for which she wrote an accompanying book, Moving Walls: The Barracks of America’s Concentration Camps, featuring photos of NY photographer Stan Honda. Her most recent film, One Fighting Irishman, tells the little-known story of attorney Wayne Collins, who spent 23 years working to regain citizenship for more than 5,000 Japanese Americans at the infamous Tule Lake Segregation Center during WWII. Yamato also co-authored Jive Bomber: A Sentimental Journey, a book by the founding president of the Japanese American National Museum. She has written articles for the Los Angeles Times and is currently a columnist for the Los Angeles daily newspaper, The Rafu Shimpo.
Moderator, Judge Kara Ueda
Superior Court of California, County of Sacramento
The Hon. Kara Ueda is a judge for the Sacramento County Superior Court in California.
Judge Ueda earned a bachelor’s degree in environmental policy, analysis, and planning from the University of California, Davis. She completed a J.D. at the University of California, Davis School of Law in 2000. Judge Ueda became a Superior Court judge in 2020.