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Taiwanese American artist and activist, talks about love for CID (she grew up there), fears and hardships during early days of pandemic, making artwork to support the neighborhood and BLM, race/identity issues among APA communities

Presents background information, related tales, and activities for celebrating five Chinese festivals--Chinese New Year, the Lantern Festival, Qing Ming, the Dragon Boat Festival, and the Moon Festival.

There were demands that all Japanese be removed from the West Coast and not just aliens from restricted zones. As raids were made in the Monterey area in Northern California, Japanese aliens were being moved inland in California, but many were facing…

Additional sites that were to be off limits to enemy aliens and japanese Americans were announced by the Western Defense Command. The list included tunnels, bridges and radio stations in addition to several military areas in the state.

Enemy aliens were being evacuated from prohibited military zones in California in areas such as Terminal Island, California and the process was being finalized as the deadline approached to empty these areas of all enemy aliens. In the meantime, a…

With the evacuation of Japanese from the Puget Sound area, a suggestion was made that (native) Indian labor from British Columbia be used to make up for the labor shortage.

The last remaining areas of the Puget Sound corridor still having Japanese residents were soon to be emptied of them as new exclusion orders were put into effect. Japanese residents of southwestern King County, western Pierce County and Kitsap County…