Rabbit Ramblings
Nichi Bei News columnist Chizu Omori, of Oakland, California, is co-producer of the award-winning film “Rabbit in the Moon.” She can be reached at chizuomori@gmail.com. The views expressed in the preceding column are not necessarily those of the Nichi Bei News.
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RABBIT RAMBLINGS: Symposium to address Japanese American community’s fractures
CHIZU OMORI, Nichi Bei Weekly Columnist
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I am excited about a program that is being presented at the Presidio as part of the “Then They Came For Me: Incarceration of Japanese Americans During WWII and the […] READ MORE
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RABBIT RAMBLINGS: UC Berkeley JA alumnae group issues award and scholarships
CHIZU OMORI, Nichi Bei Weekly Columnist
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On March 16 on a beautiful spring day, the Japanese American Women Alumnae of UC Berkeley held its 29th annual scholarship award lunch at the Berkeley Country Club in El […] READ MORE
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RABBIT RAMBLINGS: Reminders of gross injustices
Chizu Omori, Nichi Bei Weekly Columnist
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As we approach February 19, we will again commemorate the date of the signing of the Executive Order 9066 by President Franklin Roosevelt in 1942, the official order that set […] READ MORE
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RABBIT RAMBLINGS: ‘Support our democratic institutions or we might lose them’
Chizu Omori, Nichi Bei Weekly Columnist
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America is still an experiment. That’s the conclusion I come to after experiencing what we went through this last year. We now have a president who blithely ignores all the […] READ MORE
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RABBIT RAMBLINGS: Remembering ‘miracle worker’ Herzig Yoshinaga’s relentless hunt for truth
Chizu Omori, Nichi Bei Weekly Columnist
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I am very saddened by the death of a dear friend, Aiko Herzig Yoshinaga. Of course, it wasn’t a total surprise, since she was in her 90s and had been […] READ MORE
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RABBIT RAMBLINGS: Intraracial alliances in pursuit of justice
Chizu Omori, Nichi Bei Weekly Columnist
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One weekend in late-May, I attended two events that focused on a subject that is dear to my heart, that of forming alliances across racial lines and working toward the […] READ MORE
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RABBIT RAMBLINGS: An intersectional battle for justice
Chizu Omori, Nichi Bei Weekly Columnist
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It has always bothered me that our history of being incarcerated during World War II, based solely on the fact of our being of Japanese descent, has been so obscure […] READ MORE
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RABBIT RAMBLINGS: Time of remembrance
Chizu Omori, Nichi Bei Weekly Columnist
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Last year, we commemorated the 75th anniversary of the signing of Executive Order 9066, the order that authorized the incarceration of more than 110,000 American Japanese during World War II. […] READ MORE
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RABBIT RAMBLINGS: Do something: A call to action from an 87-year-old activist
CHIZU OMORI, Nichi Bei Weekly Columnist
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What a tumultuous year we have had. First of all, Feb. 19 was the 75th anniversary of the passage of Executive Order 9066, signed by President Franklin Roosevelt in 1942, […] READ MORE
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RABBIT RAMBLINGS: Making America hate again
Chizu Omori, Nichi Bei Weekly Columnist
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I guess you could say that we’re living through interesting times, with so much going on on so many different fronts. I never thought I would live to see our […] READ MORE
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