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Fred Korematsu Day Celebration
Morris Dailey Auditorium at Tower Hall
San Jose State University
Sunday, January 26, 2014 2:30 PM
F R E D T . K O R E M A T S U I N S T I T U T E P R E S E N T S
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State of California
In 2010, a bill establishing “Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution” was
signed into law by California’s Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. California’s Fred Korematsu
Day became the first day in US history named after an Asian American on a state level. Cel-
ebrated every January 30th on Mr. Korematsu’s
birthday, Fred Korematsu Day is a day of special
significance when schools across the state
are encouraged to remember the life of Mr.
Korematsu and recognize the importance of
preserving civil liberties for all people.
State of Hawaii
In May 2012, Hawaii Governor Neil Abercrombie announced that he would proclaim Fred
Korematsu Day on January 30, 2013 in Hawaii. The Korematsu Institute has worked with a local
committee and several community organizations to plan inaugural Fred Korematsu Day events
in Hawaii on January 30, 2013, which are expected to attract several hundred people, including
many school children. The Governor is scheduled to speak at the evening event that day.
State of Utah
On January 18, 2013, Utah Governor Gary Herbert declared January 30, 2013 Fred Korematsu
Day in the state of Utah. The January 18 event at the Utah state capitol was attended by more
than 100 people, including state representatives and numerous individuals who, along with
Mr. Korematsu, were incarcerated at the Topaz, Utah Japanese American internment camp.
For the Fred Korematsu Day 2013 season this January and February, there are nearly 30
events taking place in 11 different states around the country.
ABOUT FRED KOREMATSU DAY
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Lloyd LaCuesta WELCOME
Karen Korematsu REMARKS & INTRODUCTION
Miguel Santiago “UNDOCUMENTED” STUDENT
Lloyd LaCuesta INTRODUCTION
Congressman Mike Honda GUEST SPEAKER
Karen Korematsu INTRODUCING JOSE VARGAS
Film Clip “DOCUMENTED”
Jose Vargas/ “Undocumented Students” TIME MAGAZINE COVER
Jose Vargas KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Jose Vargas/ Lloyd LaCuesta Q & A: AUDIENCE QUESTIONS
Lloyd LaCuesta INTRODUCTION
Short Film “ AMERICAN ”
Lloyd LaCuesta INTRODUCTION
Bonnie Sugiyama SPECIAL SPEAKER
PSA FRED KOREMATSU DAY
Karen Korematsu CLOSING REMARKS
P R O G R A M
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Special Guest
MIKE HONDA
Congressman 17th Congressional District
Mike’s district includes Silicon Valley, the birthplace of inno-vation and the national leader in high-tech development.
He has dedicated his life to public service and is lauded for
his focus on innovation and developing the jobs for the
future, and his work on education, civil rights, immigration,
transportation, and the environment in particular.
During his time in Congress as an Appropriator, he has also secured over a half-billion
dollars for projects benefiting the region, including the BART expansion to San Jose and
funding for a variety of local law enforcement, healthcare, education and public worksinitiatives. As a Congressman for Silicon Valley, Mike is taking a leading role in bring-
ing Democrats and Republicans together to better understand the issues of high-tech,
working to bring more security to the nation’s IT infrastructure and encouraging future
innovation and growth. In this vein, Mike formed the bipartisan Wireless Task Force to
support innovative technologies for next-generation wireless deployment. Mike also
serves as Chair Emeritus of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus.
Emcee
LLOYD LACUES TA
Retired Broadcast Journalist
Adjunct Journalism Professor, SJSU
Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, Lloyd is an American journalist.He was most recently the South Bay bureau chief for the
San Francisco Bay Area TV station KTVU’s news division,
having worked at KTVU for 35 years. He retired from the po-
sition as of June 2012. LaCuesta is of Filipino ancestry.
LaCuesta served in the Army as a broadcast journalist for the American Forces Korea
Network. He attended California State University, Los Angeles and San Jose State Uni-
versity (SJSU), earning a B.A. in journalism and political science. He won the Sigma Delta
Chi Award for reporting while at SJSU. He received an M.A. in Journalism from Universityof California, Los Angeles. He worked as a writer for KNX/CBS Radio in Los Angeles and
the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, and as a producer for KABC-TV in Los Angeles and
KGO-TV in San Francisco. He started work at Oakland based television station KTVU in
1976. He has taught journalism at SJSU and Menlo College.
LaCuesta has won six Emmy Awards from the National Academy of Television Arts and
Sciences. He received a lifetime achievement award from the Asian American Journal-
ists Association (AAJA) in 2004. He was the first national president of the AAJA, and
is the director of the AAJA’s Study Tours Program. He was the first president of Unity
Journalists of Color.
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Keynote Speaker
JOSE ANTONIO VARGAS
Pulitzer Prize Journalist
“Documented” Film Documentary Writer & Director
Jose Antonio Vargas is a journalist, filmmaker and thefounder of Define American, an independent cam-
paign that elevates the immigration conversation
through media and culture. In June 2013 his latest
film, “Documented,” premiered at the American Film
Institute’s AFI Docs festival in Washington, D.C.
Vargas has been a
journalist for over a decade, writing for some of the most
prestigious news organizations in the country, including
the San Francisco Chronicle, the Huffington Post and the
Washington Post, where he was part of the team that
won a Pulitzer Prize for covering the 2007 massacre at
Virginia Tech. He’s covered a wide range of issues, from
technology’s and social media’s impact in politics, the
HIV/AIDS epidemic in the nation’s capital and the histor-
ic 2008 presidential campaign. His 2006 series on AIDS in
Washington, D.C. inspired a feature-length documentary ,“The Other City,” which he co-produced and wrote. It world premiered at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival and aired on
Showtime. In the fall of 2010, Vargas wrote an exclusive profile of Facebook CEO Mark
Zuckerberg for The New Yorker.
Shortly thereafter, stunning the
media and political circles and
attracting world-wide coverage,
Vargas then told the biggest jour-
nalistic story of his career: himself.
In the landmark essay for the New
York Times Magazine titled “My
Life as an Undocumented Immi-
grant,” published in June 2011, he
revealed his undocumented status.
A year later, Vargas popularized the
term “undocumented Americans”
in describing the country’s popu-
lation of 11 undocumented immi-
grants in a June 2012 cover story
for TIME magazine titled “WE ARE
AMERICANS* (*Just not legally).”
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BONNIE SUGIYAMA,
Director - Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender
Resource Center and Women’s Resource Center at SJSU
Bonnie Sugiyama’s undergraduate and graduated career
in student affairs started at Sacramento State University,working for six years with the Women’s Resource Center,
the last two years of which she was the graduate assistant
coordinator of the PRIDE Center. During her time at Sac.
St. she worked on various GLBTIQ issues, including: Queer
history month, GLBTIQ in sports, sexual assault, Intersex
awareness, domestic violence, Trans identity development, safe zone program develop-
ment, bisexuality myths, etc. Her last position was at Sonoma State University as the
Director of the Center for Culture, Gender and Sexuality. Her most significant work at
SSU was the revisioning of a lecture series to reflect issues of social justice and educate
students on the complexities of intersectionality though our multiple identities.
MIGUEL SANTIAGO
“Undocumented Student”
Is a DREAMers student at San Jose State University
(SJSU) that continuously has been very active in
the push for Comprehensive Immigration Reform.
He volunteers at Asian Law Alliance and is a peer
mentor to the dream students at DCP High School.
Miguel is an activist in both the Japanese and Lati-
no population in San Jose and is passionate about
social justice.
DEFINEAMERICAN
Define American founded in April 2011 by Jose Antonio Vargas
Whatever your background or beliefs, our campaign is about asking how we
define what it means to be American,and elevating the conversation about how we engage as citizens.
To start, the conversation is about immigration. Our immigration system is
broken — and fixing it requires a conversation that’s bigger
and more effective than the one that we’ve become accustomed to.
We hope you’ll join us in asking new and better questions.
Define American is a project of Public Interest Projects,
a nonprofit public charity.
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KAREN KOREMATSU,
Executive Director and Co-Founder
Fred Korematsu Institute
The daughter of the late Fred T. Korematsu and in 2009
co-founded the Fred T. Korematsu Institute for CivilRights and Education in San Francisco. She shares her
father’s passion for social justice and education. Karen
continues to advance his legacy by advising the institute
with its program, development and outreach, and Chairs
of the Korematsu Institute’s Advisory Council. One of her
significant accomplishments was working with Assembly member Warren Furutani in
successfully establishing the “Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitu-
tion” for the state of California on January 30 in perpetuity. Fred Korematsu is the firstAsian American in United States history that has been honored with a statewide day.
The official launch was on January 30, 2011.
Since her father’s passing in 2005, Karen has been carrying on her father’s legacy
through education as a civil rights advocate and public speaker. She speaks to K-12
public and privates schools, universities, law schools and organizations. Some speaking
engagements around the country have included UC Berkeley, UC Davis, Seattle Uni-
versity School of Law, Northwestern School of Law, Fourth District Court of Appeals in
Riverside, CA and University of Michigan. Karen has given presentations on Fred Kore-
matsu K-12 curriculum to the California State Conference on Social Studies, Service-
Learning Leadership, California Council for the Social Studies Conference, Hawaii State
Social Studies Teachers Conference and many other state teacher’s workshops. National
presentations have included the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) Confer-
ence and the National Forum on Education Conference (CEP).
As of 1983 Karen has been a volunteer with the Asian Law Caucus and in 1989 co-found-
ed the Fred T. Korematsu Civil Rights Fund. Since 2000, previously she has served onthe Asian Law Caucus Board of Directors. Karen is a key member of both the National
Advisory Board of the Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality at Seattle Univer-
sity School of Law and the Fred T. Korematsu Professor of Law and Social Justice at the
William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawai’i at Monoa. She also sits on the
National Board of Directors for the Asian American Justice Center in Washington, DC.
PROGRAM ADDENDUM: Speaking with Miguel Santiago, "undocumented" student
is Mirna Henriquez, "Student Advocates For Higher Education" (SAHE), SJSU will
talk about her org and the advocacy work on campus. And spoken word artist Akiko
Aspillaga will appear after Bonnie Sugiyama. Akiko is co-director, ASPIRE (Asian
students Promoting Immigrant Rights through Education".
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D O C U M E N T A R Y F I L M
Writer and Director Jose Antonio Vargas began working on this documentary shortly
before “outing” himself as undocumented in a 2011 New York Times Magazine essay,
“My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant.” He then
traveled around America, telling his story and con-
necting with others with similar experiences. Along
the way, he reconnected with his mother, whom he
had not seen in 20 years. When he was 12, she had
sent him from
the Philippines
to the United
States to live with his grandparents in Mountain
View, Calif.
“Immigration, to me, is not a political issue, it’s not
a Latino or Asian issue -- it’s an American story,” Vargas said. “The film is in honor of 11 million un-
documented immigrants -- many of us Americans in all but papers. And the film is dedi-
cated to parents everywhere who dream of better futures for their children.”
But Jose’s story is merely one of 11 MILLION undocumented immigrant stories.
A Special Charity Engagement
by MVLA COMMUNITY SCHOLARS
Personal Appearance by
Jose Antonio Vargas
Monday, January 27, 2014, 7pm
Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts
500 Castro Street, Mountain View
KAPOR CENTER FOR SOCIAL IMPACT
Personal Appearance by
Jose Antonio Vargas
Kaiser Center auditorium,
Tuesday, January 28, 2014
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
300 Lakeside Dr #206, Oakland
BAY AREA FILM SCREENINGS AND INTERVIEWS
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D O C U M E N T A R Y F I L M
American explores the experience of DREAMers, undocumented immigrants who came
to the United States as children, in a 12-minute short documentary. Produced and di-
rected by two Stanford Law students, Tiffany Yang and Jennifer Gonzalez, it was shot in
730p HD video in San Francisco, CA.
The filmmakers’ desire was to create four entwining narratives
that painted a picture of the struggles, pain, inspirations and
hope that result from an “undocumented” immigrant status.
Yang and Gonzalez approached filming with three goals in mind:
challenging the presumptions we have about what constitutes
“American” identity; challenging the strictly Latino racialization
of undocumented immigrants that we see in today’s media; and
challenging the “straight A” student image that we have created
for what constitutes a “legitimate” DREAMer. The filmmakers hope American authenti-
cally portrays individuals who are whole and complete despite—or perhaps becauseof—their immigrant status.
Each of the featured participants in
the film—Putri, Rodrigo, Alondra, and
New—have gone public about their un-
documented status and are active advo-
cates for the rights of undocumented im-
migrants and immigration reform. Priorto filming, each participant had recently
received Deferred Action for Childhood
Arrivals (DACA). Although DACA is not a
path to citizenship, it has allowed each of these exception young people to continue
to pursue their own American dreams without the constant fear of deportation. They
continue to advocate for reforms that will ensure that their families and others like them
will eventually have a legal path to citizenship in the country they call home.
A M E R I C A N
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The Fred T. Korematsu Institute for Civil Rights and Education advances pan-ethnic civil
and human rights through education.
The Korematsu Institute is a program of the Asian Law Caucus, which is a member of the
Asian American Center for Advancing Justice. Founded in 1972, the Asian Law Caucus is
the nation’s first legal and civil rights or-
ganization serving low-income Asian Pa-
cific American communities. Its mission
is to promote, advance, and represent
the legal and civil rights of the Asian and
Pacific Islander communities.
The Asian Law Caucus, together with
Karen Korematsu, the daughter of Fred
Korematsu, co-founded the Korematsu
Institute in 2009 to commemorate the
25th anniversary of the reversal of Kore-
matsu’s conviction.
The Korematsu Institute education pro-
grams include:• Curriculum: Developing and distribut-
ing FREE curriculum about Fred Kore-
matsu’s story, the Japanese American incarceration, Asian American history, and current
civil rights issues, to classrooms around the United States
• Fred Korematsu Day: Promoting Fred Korematsu Day community involvement through
school curriculum, community events, and support for bill legislation and resolutions
around the country
The Korematsu Institute distributes FREE Korematsu Teaching Kits to any teacher who
requests one on our web site, korematsuinstitute,org.
Kits include:
• A 100-page Korematsu Teacher’s Guide, lled with lesson plans for K-12 students
• Multiple videos for K-12 students, now featuring Japanese and English subtitles for
deaf and hard-of-hearing students and educators, as well as a video discussion guide
• The graphic novel Fred Korematsu: All American Hero• The booklet Patriot Acts: Narrative of Post-9/11 Injustice, which features oral histories of
youth and their experiences following 9/11
• A Fred Korematsu Day poster
• An Asian American and Pacic Islander Civil Rights Heroes poster
If you are a teacher or you know a teacher who would be interested in these FREE kits,
please help us spread the word. Thank you for teaching Mr. Korematsu’s story!
A B O U T T H E K O R E M A T S U I N S T I T U T E
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Cesar E. ChavezCommunity Action Center, SJSU
S P O N S O R S :
Staffed totally by volunteers, JAMsj provides permanent and
rotating exhibits, a research and lending library, teacher workshops,
children’s activities, book club, film screenings, guest speakers, and
panel discussions. For information about our services and events,
please access our website: www.jamsj.org. We welcome you to visit
Thurs - Sun, 12:00 - 4:00 pm or with a tour group on special days andhours by arrangement.
535 North Fifth Street San Jose, California 95112 Phone (408) 294-3138
Established by Associated Students in July 2005, the Cesar E. Chavez
Community Action Center (CCCAC) connects SJSU students with
community service opportunities that deepen the educationalexperience while promoting the lifelong commitment to civic
activism at the heart of the Cesar Chavez legacy.
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S P E C I A L T H A N K S :
C O M M U N I T Y O R G A N I Z A T I O N P A R T N E R S :
Eric Paul Fournier, Fournier Films
Komo Gauvreau, JAMsj
Jessica T. Savage, Multimedia Journalist
Keith Kamisugi, PR/Communications
Ken Korematsu, Graphic Design
Maribel Martinez, CCCAC
ASIAN LAW CAUCUS