Now available from @Chinmusicpress. Finalist in Creative Nonfiction for the Washington State Book Award. @FrankAbe blogs at Resisters.com.
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Haunted by History, Japanese Americans Fight Trump’s Immigration Crackdown nytimes.com/2025/11/30/us/ja… via @NYTimes
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Our film on the largest organized resistance to wartime incarceration is now on a streaming platform. "Conscience and the Constitution" premiered 25 yrs ago on PBS. You can now watch it on the Nichi Bei Foundation's Films of Remembrance On Demand service. resisters.com/2025/11/30/for…
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Join @KCLS on August 9 for a talk by author @FrankAbe about the parallels between present day mass deportation, Japanese American wartime incarceration, and his graphic novel, We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration: kcls.bibliocommons.com/event…
ALT Photo of author Frank Abe next to the book cover of We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration
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Tonight, YURI is proud to be in conversation with our dear friend @WeHerebyRefuse @FrankAbe and his co-editor Floyd Cheung as they present their new @PenguinBooks anthology, THE LITERATURE OF JAPANESE AMERICAN INCARCERATION.
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Thanks to Adam Smith at @SampanNewspaper in Boston for this interview on Mitsuye Endo and @WeHerebyRefuse, on the occasion of her award of the Presidential Citizens Medal. sampan.org/2025/immigration/…
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Resistance to injustice. In NYC, join a distinguished panel of jurists & legal scholars from the @FordhamNYC Center on Asian Americans and The Law for a special screening on February 25 of CONSCIENCE AND THE CONSTITUTION. RSVP: go.activecalendar.com/Fordha…
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Start the new year right with a 2025 "Resisters of the Pacific Northwest" calendar from Friends of Minidoka, with material on the Minidoka draft resisters, the Mothers Society that objecting to draft of of their sons, & 1st Day of Remembrance. Order: minidoka.org/shop/p/2025-res…
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In the face of Trump’s mass deportation agenda, CA must set a model of inclusion for the nation.
Our leaders must IMMEDIATELY use every tool at their disposal to protect and defend our immigrant neighbors - and our deepest values.
Please read and share our full statement ⬇️
ALT For families and communities across our state, this moment has brought an onslaught of heartbreak, anguish, and dread. Yet it has also brought determination to fight for a better world. Our state’s leaders must immediately use every tool at their disposal to protect and defend our immigrant neighbors - and our deepest values. Donald Trump has promised a horrifying agenda of mass detention and deportation that will tear immigrant parents from citizen children, bring chaos to our neighborhoods, dispossess community members who have long called California home, and jeopardize public safety and trust. Every step of the way, he’ll invoke vile racist tropes to demonize our neighbors who are immigrants. His words and actions have already caused significant fear and hardship. But here in California, we believe that everyone is created equal. And we know that immigrants are a vital and inseparable part of our communities.
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Fight back. Teach the history of wartime incarceration that the president-elect is invoking as the precedent for his program of mass deportation & 21st century American concentration camps. Read our graphic novel available from: chinmusicpress.com/product-p…
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Fight back. Teach the history of wartime incarceration that the president-elect is invoking as the precedent for his program of mass deportation & 21st century American concentration camps. @PRHHigherEd has just issued this Teachers Guide for our anthology from @PenguinClassics.
We are pleased to announce that the Teacher's Guide for The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration edited by @FrankAbe and Floyd Cheung is now available!
Find the guide written by Laura Reis Mayer here: assetbucketpublic.7169.prh.c…
ALT Book cover for the Literature of Japanese American Incarceration
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We are pleased to announce that the Teacher's Guide for The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration edited by @FrankAbe and Floyd Cheung is now available!
Find the guide written by Laura Reis Mayer here: assetbucketpublic.7169.prh.c…
ALT Book cover for the Literature of Japanese American Incarceration
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First interview post-election. It speaks for itself.
See the full Q an A with Bianca Vandenbos at her Book Notions blog: booknotions.com/qa-with-fran…
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On Monday 10/21 at 7pm our Seward Park store welcomes Frank Abe and special guest with Vince Schleitwiler as they discuss the book, The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration @FrankAbe @PenguinClassics
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Los Angeles, CA: JANM Book Club: Literature of Japanese American Incarceration on Oct. 12 from 2:00pm to 3:30pm PDT @jamuseum discovernikkei.org/en/events…
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It’s an honor to serve as featured speakers for @DenshoProject’s fall fundraiser. Densho is the gold standard in preservation of camp history and an indispensable resource for us in building our anthology for @PenguinClassics. Join us Oct. 10.
Join Densho for our Virtual Fundraiser! Tune in on 10/10 to hear from @FrankAbe, Floyd Cheung, & Andrew Leong as they share the lesser known stories they’ve brought to light through translating & editing "The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration."
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Thank you very much for sharing your difficult experiences during the WWII, Takashi-san! We have learned a lot and will continue to share your thoughts with our readers from now on. @HeartMountainWY @MasakoMiki @apacurator @jamuseum @FrankAbe @gaihou1
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@FrankAbe - We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration
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In Sacramento, join me and @sharony360 on 10/16 for a screening of "One Fighting Irishman" and discussion of the graphic novel, @WeHerebyRefuse, moderated by Sacramento Sup. Ct. Judge Kara Ueda at Matsui Federal Courthouse. Sponsored 9th Judicial Hist. Soc. & @PacificMcGeorge.
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We take it as a sign that we've made the big time when we see the @SeattleChannel’s animation of the Jim Akutsu chapter of our graphic novel being streamed on board @AlaskaAir flights!
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