HEAR

"Then Becoming Now” (2019, 24 min.), directed by Emiko Omori, follows the journey of three men who went from incarcerated children to social activists.

The first KALW and Your Call film production will be screening this weekend in the Bay Area at the Ninth Annual Films of Remembrance. This is a project of Your Call's HEAR: Histories of Exclusion And Resistance, a series exploring the connections between Japanese American incarceration and modern civil liberties issues. HEAR is made possible by funding from the California State Library's California Civil Liberties Public Education Program.

Join a live taping of Your Call in our series HEAR, Histories of Exclusion and Resistance. Our next live show is on June 6 at Stage Werx in San Francisco. The event is open to the public and free. Reserve your tickets at Eventbrite.

Join Your Call’s next live show Wednesday, May 29, 6 p.m. at the David Brower Center in Berkeley. Host Rose Aguilar will speak to Nancy Ukai and Judy Shintani about how they are using art to explore the ramifications of Japanese American incarceration during WWII. The event is free. Reserve your tickets on Eventbrite.

Join Your Call’s next live show Thursday, June 6, 6 p.m. at Stage Werx for a discussion on building solidarity to protect civil rights and liberties. Host Rose Aguilar will be in conversation with attorney Don Tamaki who served on the Korematsu v. the United States case, law professor Bill Ong Hing, and Leila Sayed-Taha of the Arab Resource and Organizing Center. The event is free. Reserve your tickets on Eventbrite.

Join us on Friday, April 19, at 6 p.m. at Mills College’s Lisser Hall for a discussion on redress, reparations and restorative justice. Host Rose Aguilar will be in conversation with redress activist Susan Hayase, restorative justice leader Fania Davis, and change-maker Patricia St. Onge.  The event is free. Reserve your tickets on Eventbrite. 

Join us on Friday, April 12, at 5:30 p.m. at Mission High School’s Little Theater for a discussion about the shameful history of incarcerating Japanese American children in the United States and echoes of the past today. The event is free. Reserve your tickets on Eventbrite.

On Sunday, February 17th, at 1pm Your Call will host a discussion about the Day of Remembrance examining mass incarceration of Japanese Americans and shared histories of exclusion. This event is sold out.  

Join us on Thursday, January 31, at 6pm for a discussion about immigrant prisons from WWII to now. Find more information and tickets on Eventbrite. The event is free.