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| | | | | By Clarence Lusane | - ( Tomdispatch.com ) - On February 19, 1942, two months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066. It initiated a Department of Defense program that resulted in the rounding up and incarceration of about 122,000 individuals of Japanese descent. They were to be placed in federal "relocation centers" that would popularly become known as "internment camps." As it happened, they were neither. They were prisons set up to house and... | |
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| | | | | Pathetic turnout for far right ' Manchester Protest' When Claire Walsh, the organiser of the much-vaunted and much-hyped Manchester Protest, aka N ... | |
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| | | | | "It may be tempting, in such circumstances, to believe that being good-the quintessential model minority-and patriotic towards America will spare us from the worst. But neither amounts to a foolproof shield against racism." | |
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| | | A key vote on funding for designing the light-rail extension has been pushed to September. | ||