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Human Rights and Relations Commission
City Of Edina, Minnesota
Edina City Hall Community Room
4801 West 50th Street Edina, MN 55424
Tuesday, May 23, 2017
7:00 PM
I.Call To Order
II.Roll Call
III.Approval Of Meeting Agenda
IV.Approval Of Meeting Minutes
A.Minutes: Human Rights and Relations Commission March 28,
2017
V.Community Comment
During "Community Comment," the Board/Commission will invite residents to share relevant
issues or concerns. Individuals must limit their comments to three minutes. The Chair may limit
the number of speakers on the same issue in the interest of time and topic. Generally speaking,
items that are elsewhere on tonight's agenda may not be addressed during Community Comment.
Individuals should not expect the Chair or Board/Commission Members to respond to their
comments tonight. Instead, the Board/Commission might refer the matter to sta% for
consideration at a future meeting.
VI.Reports/Recommendations
A.2017 Work Plan Updates
B.Joint Work Session with Council Recap
C.Bike / Pedestrian Facility Master Plan Project
VII.Correspondence And Petitions
A.Correspondence
VIII.Chair And Member Comments
IX.Sta3 Comments
X.Adjournment
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Date: May 23, 2017 Agenda Item #: IV.A.
To:Human Rights and Relations Commission Item Type:
Minutes
From:MJ Lamon, Project Coordinator
Item Activity:
Subject:Minutes: Human Rights and Relations Commission
March 28, 2017
Information
CITY OF EDINA
4801 West 50th Street
Edina, MN 55424
www.edinamn.gov
ACTION REQUESTED:
Approve the Human Rights and Relations Commission March 28th, 2017 meeting minutes.
INTRODUCTION:
ATTACHMENTS:
Description
March HRRC Draft Meeting Minutes
March HRRC Draft Meeting Minutes Revised 2017.05.22
Draft Minutes☒
Approved Minutes☐
Approved Date:
Minutes
City Of Edina, Minnesota
Human Rights and Relations Commission
Edina City Hall, Council Chambers
March 28th, 2017 7:00pm
I. Call To Order
Chair Nelson called the March 28th, 2017, meeting of the Human Rights and Relations
Commission to order at 7:02 pm.
II. Roll Call
Answering roll call were Chair Nelson, Commissioners Arseneault, Beringer, Edwards,
Martin, Kennedy and Rivera. Student Commissioner Sinha.
Staff present: Liaison MJ Lamon, City Management Fellow Kelly Dumais.
Absent Members: Commissioners Edelson and Meek, Student Commissioner Chao.
Commissioner Meek arrived at 7:08.
III. Approval Of Meeting Agenda
Motion by Commissioner Arseneault to approve the March 2017 Human Rights and
Relations Commission meeting agenda. Motion seconded by Commissioner Martin.
Motion Carried.
IV. Approval Of Meeting Minutes
Motion by Commissioner Kennedy to approve the February 2017 Human Rights and
Relations Commission meeting minutes. Motion seconded by Commissioner
Arseneault. Motion Carried.
Chair Nelson welcomed Commissioner Robert Rivera to the Human Rights and Relations
Commission. Commissioners each introduced themselves and welcomed Commissioner
Rivera to the Edina HRRC.
V. Special Recognitions and Presentations
Chair Nelson welcomed Commissioner Robert Rivera to the Human Rights and Relations
Commission. Commissioners each introduced themselves and welcomed Commissioner
Rivera to the Edina HRRC.
Planning Commissioner Ian Nemerov.
The City updates its Comprehensive plan once every 10 years. The Human Rights and Relations
Commission is going to be helping specifically with the chapter on Housing in the comprehensive
plan. Your contribution is not necessarily limited to housing though, there are other areas that
HRRC’s mission intersects with that would create valuable content contributions, transportation for
example. We have a tentative kick off day for the Comprehensive Plan on May 8th.
VI. Community Comment
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VII. Reports and Recommendations
A. 2017 Workplan Updates
• Tom Oye Award: This initiative is mostly complete. The Volunteer Recognition event is
Monday April 3rd, 2017.
• Bias Offense Response Plan: We will review this over the summer, convene the
committee and decide if we are going to recommend any updates. There was a lot of
changes made last year, streamlining and clarifying our process.
• Days of Remembrance: The date for this event is May 7th from 1:00-3:00pm at City Hall.
The speakers are going to be Joni Sussman and Tia Rosland Clark. Joni Sussman’s talk
will focus on her experience growing up with parents who were survivors of the
Holocaust. Tia Roseland Clark’s talk will focus on the Bosnian genocide and her
research interviewing survivors and peace keepers. There will be a question/answer
period following their talks where they will answer questions together.
The poster will be ready this week and marketing efforts will have to start quickly
because the event is coming up soon: Social media, websites, press release, Sun
Current, The American Jewish World, mailing list.
The program for Days of Remembrance will include an exit survey where respondents
will be able to indicate how they learned about the event, what they took away from the
event, and what they liked or did not like about the event.
• Racial Equity Initiative: The Taskforce had a meeting two weeks ago and created an
RFP for a facilitator. It was a thoughtful process with a lot of valuable experience in the
group. The working groups are going to be meeting this next month and will be getting
work plans from the Taskforce.
• Sharing Community, Sharing Values: The topic for this event is going to be “The
Immigrant Experience.” One of the speakers will be a professor from the University of
Minnesota law school. He will give background on the different kinds of immigrants that
there are. We are going to be working with the panelists to figure out what questions
they want us to ask, what messages they want shared during this event. The tentative
date for this event is May 18th from 7:00-8:30, however this might be moved due to how
close it is to the Days of Remembrance event.
• Human Rights Essay Contest: This event is going to be launched in August. We are
going to have preliminary materials to look at for the next meeting.
B. Sanctuary Cities
The topic of Sanctuary Cities came up in a meeting of the Edina Citizens Human Rights
Committee. This topic is not on the Commission’s work plan for 2017. Commissioner Kennedy
is going to draft an advisory communication to the City Council about Sanctuary Cities. In
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addition, the commission is going to ask the City Council about it during their upcoming joint
work session on May 16th.
C. Joint Work Session
The Joint Work Session with City Council is on May 16th from 6:15PM to 6:55 PM. The
schedule for updates will be as follows:
Days of Remembrance- Commissioner Meek
Tom Oye- Chair Nelson
Comprehensive Plan- Commissioner Kennedy
Race and Equity Initiative- Commissioner Arseneault
Sharing Values, Sharing Community- Commissioner Edelson
Essay Contest- Commissioner Kennedy
Bias Offense- No Update
Sanctuary Cities- Commissioner Kennedy
VIII. Correspondence
The Commission expressed appreciation for the work and advocacy of the correspondence they
get from residents.
IX. Chair and Member Comments
Motion by Commissioner Arseneault to approve the payment of $12 for reserving a space
for the Sharing Values, Sharing Community event. Motion Seconded by Commissioner
Kennedy. Motion Carried.
Commissioner Arseneault thanked Chair Nelson and Vice Chair Beringer and welcomed the
newest member of the HRRC Commissioner Rivera.
Commissioner Kennedy announced that the City of Redwing recently approved the Convention on
the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) which makes it so that
Minnesota has more cities that have adopted CEDAW than any other State in the country. She
also shared multiple events with the Commission including “Telling Our Stories: Sexual Violence
From the Holocaust to Our Own Communities” on April 4th from 7:00-9:00Pm at the Kelley Board
Room, Mitchel Hamline School of Law, “Standing UP to Human Rights Challenges in Minnesota
with Commissioner Kevin Lindsey , Minnesota Department of Human Rights.” April 19th from 7:00-
9:00Pm at Edina Community Lutheran Church, and “Nazi Law During the Holocaust and a
Survivor’s Story” on April 26th from 7:00-9:00 pm at Mitchel Hamline School of law Auditorium.
Commissioner Rivera Thanked the Commission for welcoming him and shared that he is looking
forward to their work.
X. Staff Comments
Liaison Lamon shared that the Volunteer Reception is on April 3rd and encouraged everyone to
attend. In addition, there have been a few City Code changes which will affect the Commission.
Board and Commission chairs can now serve three consecutive terms. The names of the Heritage
Preservation Board, the Park Board, and the Board of Equalization have all changed to be
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commissions instead of Boards. Finally, the joint work session no longer counts towards
attendance.
XI. Chair Nelson moved to adjourn the March 28th, 2017 HRRC meeting at 89:27PM. Motion
Seconded by Commissioner Beringer. Motion Carried.
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Minutes
City Of Edina, Minnesota
Human Rights and Relations Commission
Edina City Hall, Community Room
March 28th, 2017 7:00pm
I. Call To Order
Chair Nelson called the March 28th, 2017, meeting of the Human Rights and Relations
Commission to order at 7:02 pm.
II. Roll Call
Answering roll call were Chair Nelson, Commissioners Arseneault, Beringer, Edwards, Martin,
Kennedy, Rivera and Sinha.
Staff present: Staff Liaison, MJ Lamon and City Management Fellow Kelly Dumais.
Absent Members: Edelson and Chao.
Commissioner Meek arrived at 7:08.
III. Approval Of Meeting Agenda
Motion by Commissioner Arseneault to approve the March 28, 2017 Human Rights and
Relations Commission meeting agenda. Motion seconded by Commissioner Martin.
Motion Carried.
IV. Approval Of Meeting Minutes
Motion by Commissioner Kennedy to approve the February 28, 2017 Human Rights and
Relations Commission meeting minutes. Motion seconded by Commissioner Arseneault.
Motion Carried.
V. Special Recognitions and Presentations
Chair Nelson welcomed Commissioner Robert Rivera to the Human Rights and Relations
Commission. Commissioners each introduced themselves and welcomed Commissioner
Rivera to the Edina HRRC.
Planning Commissioner, Ian Nemerov, provided Comprehensive Plan Update.
• The City updates its Comprehensive plan once every 10 years.
• The Human Rights and Relations Commission will be able to assist with the chapter on
Affordable Housing, but not limited to.
• The tentative community kick off day for the Comprehensive Plan is scheduled for May 8th.
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VI. Community Comment
None.
VII. Reports and Recommendations
A. 2017 Workplan Updates
• Tom Oye Award: The Volunteer Recognition event is Monday April 3rd, 2017 where Chair
Nelson will present the 2017 award.
• Bias Offense Response Plan: Will review this over the summer, convene the committee
and decide if we are going to recommend any updates. There were significant changes
made in 2016 to streamline and clarify the process.
• Days of Remembrance: The date for this event is May 7th from 1:00-3:00pm at City Hall.
The speakers are going to be Joni Sussman and Tia Rosland Clark. Joni Sussman’s talk
will focus on her experience growing up with parents who were survivors of the
Holocaust. Tia Roseland Clark’s talk will focus on the Bosnian genocide and her research
interviewing survivors and peace keepers. There will be a question/answer period
following their talks where they will answer questions together.
The poster will be ready this week and marketing efforts will have to start quickly
because the event is coming up soon: Social media, websites, press release, Sun Current,
The American Jewish World, mailing list.
The program for Days of Remembrance will include an exit survey where respondents
will be able to indicate how they learned about the event, what they took away from the
event, and what they liked or did not like about the event.
• Racial Equity Initiative: The Taskforce had a meeting two weeks ago and created an RFP
for a facilitator. It was a thoughtful process with a lot of valuable experience in the group.
The working groups are going to be meeting this next month and will be developing
work plans.
• Sharing Community, Sharing Values: The topic for this event is going to be “The
Immigrant Experience.” One of the speakers will be a professor from the University of
Minnesota law school. He will give background on the different kinds of immigrants.
Committee will be working with the panelists to figure out what questions to ask and
what messages to share during this event. The tentative date for this event is May 18th
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from 7:00-8:30, however this might be moved due to how close it is to the Days of
Remembrance event.
• Human Rights Essay Contest: This event is going to be launched in August. We are going
to have preliminary materials to look at for the next meeting.
B. Sanctuary Cities
The topic of Sanctuary Cities came up in a meeting of the Edina Citizens Human Rights
Committee. This topic is not on the Commission’s work plan for 2017. Commissioner Kennedy
is going to draft an advisory communication to the City Council about Sanctuary Cities. In
addition, the commission is will review the resolution idea with Council at their May 16 joint
work session to gauge Council’s interest.
C. Joint Work Session
The Joint Work Session with City Council is on May 16th from 6:15PM to 6:55 PM. The schedule
for updates will be as follows:
Days of Remembrance- Commissioner Meek
Tom Oye- Chair Nelson
Comprehensive Plan- Commissioner Kennedy
Race and Equity Initiative- Commissioner Arseneault
Sharing Values, Sharing Community- Commissioner Edelson
Essay Contest- Commissioner Kennedy
Bias Offense- No Update
Sanctuary Cities- Commissioner Kennedy
VIII. Correspondence
None.
IX. Chair and Member Comments
Motion by Commissioner Arseneault to approve the payment of $12 for reserving a space
for the Sharing Values, Sharing Community event. Motion Seconded by Commissioner
Kennedy. Motion Carried.
• Commissioner Arseneault thanked Chair Nelson and Vice Chair Beringer and welcomed the
newest member of the HRRC Commissioner Rivera.
• Commissioner Kennedy announced that the City of Redwing recently approved the
Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)
which makes it so that Minnesota has more cities that have adopted CEDAW than any other
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State in the country. She also shared multiple events with the Commission including “Telling
Our Stories: Sexual Violence From the Holocaust to Our Own Communities” on April 4th
from 7:00-9:00Pm at the Kelley Board Room, Mitchel Hamline School of Law, “Standing UP
to Human Rights Challenges in Minnesota with Commissioner Kevin Lindsey , Minnesota
Department of Human Rights.” April 19th from 7:00-9:00Pm at Edina Community Lutheran
Church, and “Nazi Law During the Holocaust and a Survivor’s Story” on April 26th from 7:00-
9:00 pm at Mitchel Hamline School of law Auditorium.
• Commissioner Rivera thanked the Commission for welcoming him and shared that he is
looking forward to their work.
X. Staff Comments
• Volunteer Reception is on April 3rd
In addition, there have been a few City Code changes which will affect the Commission.
• Board and Commission chairs can now serve three consecutive terms.
• The name of the Heritage Preservation Board has been changed to Heritage Preservation
Commission
• Park Board name has been changed to Parks and Recreation Commission
• Joint work session meeting with Council no longer counts towards attendance.
XI. Adjournment
Chair Nelson moved to adjourn the March 28th, 2017 HRRC meeting at 8:27PM. Motion
Seconded by Commissioner Beringer. Motion Carried.
Date: May 23, 2017 Agenda Item #: VI.A.
To:Human Rights and Relations Commission Item Type:
Report and Recommendation
From:MJ Lamon, Project Coordinator
Item Activity:
Subject:2017 Work Plan Updates Information
CITY OF EDINA
4801 West 50th Street
Edina, MN 55424
www.edinamn.gov
ACTION REQUESTED:
None.
INTRODUCTION:
1) Days of Rememberance Recap & Survey Results (Arseneault)
2) Comprehensive Plan
Board/Commission 101 Traning, May 3
Community Kickoff Event, May 8
Next Steps
3) Sharing Values Sharing Community (Edelson)
4) Essay Contest (Kennedy)
ATTACHMENTS:
Description
2017 Approved Work Plan
Committee and Working Group Rosters
2017 DOR Working Group Report
Approved by Council 12/6/16
Board/Commission: Human Rights and Relations Commission
2017 Annual Work Plan
Initiative
1
Council Charge
☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☒ 4
Target Completion
Date
Budget Required
(Staff Liaison)
Staff Support Required
(Staff Liaison)
☐ New Initiative ☐ Continued Initiative ☒ Ongoing Responsibility April 2017 $75 for plaque +
possible cost for new
printed materials
• Register attendance at
event
• Track nominations
• Update website
Tom Oye Award
• In 2017 the committee will develop an annual theme.
Progress Report:
Initiative
2
Council Charge
☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☒ 3 ☐ 4
Target Completion
Date
Budget Required
(Staff Liaison)
Staff Support Required
(Staff Liaison)
☐ New Initiative ☐ Continued Initiative ☒ Ongoing Responsibility August 2017 None. • Coordinate Meetings
• Maintain record of meetings
about incidents Bias Offense Response Plan – review and update, if needed, annually
Progress Report:
Initiative
3
Council Charge
☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☒ 4
Target Completion
Date
Budget Required
(Staff Liaison)
Staff Support Required
(Staff Liaison)
☐ New Initiative ☐ Continued Initiative ☒ Ongoing Responsibility April 2017 $300 for marketing
materials and
refreshments
Day of Remembrance Event
Progress Report:
Initiative
4
Council Charge
☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☒ 3 ☐ 4
Target Completion
Date
Budget Required
(Staff Liaison)
Staff Support Required
(Staff Liaison)
☒ New Initiative ☐ Continued Initiative ☐ Ongoing Responsibility December 2017 $1000 fee for
workshop facilitators
• Event coordination
• Communications
• Marketing Serve as lead Commission for City’s new racial equity initiative as
assigned by City Council and the task force. [Initiative attributes to
Human Rights City Designation]
Progress Report:
Approved by Council 12/6/16
Initiative
5
Council Charge
☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☒ 4
Target Completion
Date
Budget Required
(Staff Liaison)
Staff Support Required
(Staff Liaison)
☐ New Initiative ☒ Continued Initiative ☐ Ongoing Responsibility October 2017 $300 for marketing
materials and
refreshments,
depending on event)
• Event coordination
• Communications
• Marketing Sharing Values, Sharing Communities
Progress Report:
Initiative
6
Council Charge
☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☒ 4
Target Completion
Date
Budget Required
(Staff Liaison)
Staff Support Required
(Staff Liaison)
☒ New Initiative ☐ Continued Initiative ☐ Ongoing Responsibility May 2017 $200 for marketing
$100 for award
Communications
Marketing
Manage essays Human Rights Essay Contest
• Develop an annual theme
• Develop age categories
Progress Report:
Initiative
7
Council Charge
☐ 1 ☒ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4
Target Completion
Date
Budget Required
(Staff Liaison)
Staff Support Required
(Staff Liaison)
☒ New Initiative ☐ Continued Initiative ☐ Ongoing Responsibility December 2017
Assist as requested with development of the City’s new
Comprehensive Guide Plan. [Initiative attributes to Human Rights
City Designation]
Progress Report:
Parking Lot: (These items have been considered by the BC, but not proposed as part of this year’s work plan. If the BC decides they would like
to work on them in the current year, it would need to be approved by Council.)
Transgender Rights – Educational presentation or other efforts to ensure welcome and safe environment for all within the city
Recognition for Community Members whose work addresses issues of racism (e.g., an MLK Award)
Proposed Month for Joint Work Session (one time per year, up to 60 minutes): June
EHRRC ROSTER: 2017 Committees and Working Groups
Responsibilities Chair Members Term Notes
Committee Tom Oye Award
Review nomination form & criteria to determine need for revision; Provide summary to commission; Update letters to nominees and nominators; Press Release / PSA on Ch. 16; Secure "award" for presentation; Present Award
Martin (2016)Catherine Beringer Cindy Edwards Kristina Martin Prasoon Sinha Renew Annually
Review of nomination criteria; Preparations for media/PR/announcements in fall; Volunteer Award Ceremony in spring (usually April)
Committee Bias Offense Response Plan Review plan, and if needed, propose updates to commission
Pat Arseneault Ellen Kennedy Michelle Meek Jim Nelson Renew Annually
Working Group Days of Remembrance
Adopt theme, create agenda, determine speakers; Set up holocaust survivors videos to run on Ch. 16; Work with Communications Department on poster update and program; Ensure event is marketed; Distribute posters; Secure refreshments for event; Send thank you notes; Update DOR historical notebook
Pat Arseneault Catherine Beringer Michelle Meek Connie Chao Prasoon Sinha Lina Lin Jan Seidman Neeti Singhal
Renew Annually
Process usually starts in fall and ends in April to coincide with National Holocaust Museum Days of Remembrance
Racial Equity Initiative TBD
HRRC to serve as lead Commission for City's race and equity initiative
Committee Sharing Values, Sharing Community Plan an event to advocate and embrace social justice and understanding in our community
Heather Edelson Michelle Meek Jim Nelson Connie Chao
Terms end December 2017
Committee, Working Group, Rep to External Committee
EHRRC ROSTER: 2017 Committees and Working Groups
Responsibilities Chair Members Term Notes
Committee, Working Group, Rep to External Committee
Committee Human Rights Essay Content
Develop theme, criteria, age categories, and timeline for acceptance of entries, review of entries, and announcement of winners; Secure awards
Heather Edelson Cindy Edwards Ellen Kennedy Connie Chao Prasoon Sinha
Terms end December 2017
Committee Comprehensive Guide Plan Assist as requested with development of City's new Comprehensive Plan
Heather Edelson Cindy Edwards Ellen Kennedy Jim Nelson Prasoon Sinha
Terms end December 2017
HRRC Rep to External Committee Edina Community Council
Council serves as Steering committee for Edina Family Services Collaborative; Attend meeting of the social service agencies serving Edina, the Edina school district, and other South Hennepin metro communities. Share information, participate in budget process
N/A Ellen Kennedy (3 year term: 2015-16; 2016-2017; 2017-2018)
Renew every 3 years (before start of school year)
Meets (7:30-9:00 a.m.) every other month during the school year (September - May)
HRRC Rep to External Committee Human Services Taskforce
Review requests for funding proposals from human service providers who serve Edina populations in need; Make recommendation to Council on the city's annual funding to providers
N/A
Renew biennially (at or before September Commission meeting)
Taskforce comprised of reps from Boards and Commissions; Meets every other year (next in 2017), 4 times in Oct/early Nov to consider requests; Meets with Council to make recommendation
5/23/17
Days of Remembrance (DOR) Report to HRRC
DOR Working Group:
HRRC members: Pat Arseneault, Catherine Beringer, Michelle Meek
Student Commissioners: Connie Chao and Prasoon Sinha
Community members: Lina Lin, Neeti Singhal, Jan Seidman
The 2017 DOR event was held on May 7, 2017 at city hall.
2017 Event Details:
• Working Group for planning
• Paid Advertisements
o Star Tribune
o Full page color insert in Sun Current
o Posters
o Facebook
• Mayor gave introductory remarks
• Two guest speakers with personal / family stories and then Q & A as a panel
• Short survey for attendees for feedback
o Emphasized the value of have speakers telling personal and family stores
Guest Speakers:
• Joni Sussman, past-president of Jewish Council of Minnesota and the Dakotas
and daughter of Holocaust survivors
o Ms. Sussman shared her mother’s story of imprisonment in the Stutthof
concentration camp in northern Germany.
• Tea Rozman Clark, Co-Founder and Executor Director of Green Card Voices, a
non-profit organization that digitally records the personal stories of American
immigrants as a way to increase understanding between immigrant and non-
immigrant populations
o Dr. Rozman Clark described her personal experiences living in Yugoslavia
at the start of a conflict that would last for 10 years, and of her return years
later to conduct research in the town of Srebrenica where over 8,000
Muslim Bosnians were killed in 5 days.
• A Q&A session followed the speakers’ presentations. The Q&A session was
extremely informative and interactive. Audience members appeared to be truly
engaged with the speakers.
Take-aways include:
• DOR working group (of 3 commissioners, 2 student commissioners and 3
community members) worked well as a team and there were no glitches during
the event
• Speakers’ personal and family stories of survival in the Holocaust and other
genocides make a very powerful and engaging presentation
• Would be helpful in future to provide an overview / historical context for the
Holocaust and the genocide pm which speakers are presenting, including an
explanation of the Holocaust and what defines a genocide
• Prep speaker(s) with the theme
• Important to include theme per year, and a standard question, re: What can the
members of the community do to prevent such heinous acts from happening
again
• Q and A worked well; best part, led to community engagement
Date: May 23, 2017 Agenda Item #: VI.C.
To:Human Rights and Relations Commission Item Type:
Report and Recommendation
From:MJ Lamon, Project Coordinator
Item Activity:
Subject:Bike / Pedestrian Facility Master Plan Project Action
CITY OF EDINA
4801 West 50th Street
Edina, MN 55424
www.edinamn.gov
ACTION REQUESTED:
Approve HRRC representative to the Bike / Pedestrian Facility Master Plan project team.
INTRODUCTION:
The HRRC has been asked to have a representative on the City of Edina's Bike and Pedestrian Facility Master
Plan project team.
The first meeting was held on Friday, May 19 and Commissioner Edwards attended as the HRRC
representative.
Commissioner Edwards will provide an update on the project and the HRRC should select an official member to
serve on this project.
Date: May 23, 2017 Agenda Item #: VII.A.
To:Human Rights and Relations Commission Item Type:
Correspondence
From:Kelly Dumais, City Management Fellow
Item Activity:
Subject:Correspondence Information
CITY OF EDINA
4801 West 50th Street
Edina, MN 55424
www.edinamn.gov
ACTION REQUESTED:
INTRODUCTION:
ATTACHMENTS:
Description
Correspondence
Correspondence 2
Correspondence 3
Correspondence 4
Working together
to address racism
Charleston, West Virginia made headlines last year when local police and
community groups announced plans to improve, race relations. Here's a look
at how this remarkable agreement came together and what it means for other
cities grappling with racism and police violence.
BY LIDA SHEPHERD
8 AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMM
The Rev. Ron English facilitates an anti-racism training for Charleston police officers. Photo: AFSC/ Bryan Vana
ur first meeting with Charles-
ton Police Chief Brent Web-
ster in October 2015 was
slightly tense—for obvious
reasons. We were sitting
around a table to discuss the
glaring racial disparities in
L
arrests by the Charleston Po-
lice Department.
According to the department's own
data, in our small city of just over 50,000
people, the arrest rate for Black people was
more than double that of whites.
At the table with the police chief: A team
of student and faith leaders, representatives
from community organizations—includ-
ing AFSC, ACLU, NAACP-Charleston, and
Black Ministerial Alliance—and staff from
the county public defender's office.
Before delving into the problem at hand,
each of us shared why we thought it was
critical to address racism in our society.
We wanted to emphasize that this meeting
wasn't about singling out the Charleston
Police Department as a racist institution,
but rather about taking steps to confront
the broader problem of systemic racism in
our city and across the nation.
Takeiya Smith, AFSC's racial justice
intern at the time, described how she had
been pulled over and unduly questioned
by police on several occasions, for no ap-
parent reason other than being Black.
Pastor Matthew Watts, a community
leader on Charleston's West Side, recount-
ed the time he was handing keys to his son
on the sidewalk of his own neighborhood
when he was challenged by a police officer,
who suspected drugs.
I talked about how—unlike others
at the table—I don't worry that one day
my four-year-old daughter, who is white,
might not walk away, unharmed, from an
interaction with police.
Tensions rose when police tried to ex-
plain disparities in the number of arrests
with the number of 911 calls coming from
the West Side of Charleston, a predomi-
nantly Black neighborhood. But to their
credit, community members didn't let this
tension shut down negotiations. Instead,
we all agreed that it would be helpful to
have more police data on arrests so we
could better analyze the issue.
Responding to community concerns
Our 2015 meeting with Chief Webster
grew out of a Call to Action for Racial
Equality (CARE) community event orga-
nized by AFSC and partners the previous
year. More than 150 people had gathered
to discuss racial issues facing our city,
identifying community-police relations as
a pressing concern.
The meeting was also the beginning of
a yearlong collaboration. The CARE coali-
tion, which now includes leaders from the
police department, met monthly to de-
velop concrete initiatives to improve race
relations in our city, and in the fall of 2016,
Chief Webster held a press conference with
coalition members to announce the eight-
point plan of action we developed together.
The plan includes:
• De-escalation training: All Charleston
officers completed de-escalation train-
ing last year, and five have become cer-
tified de-escalation trainers through the
nationally accredited Racial Intelligence
Training & Engagement curriculum.
• Publishing monthly arrest statistics:
Data includes race, age, gender, and cause
of arrest, educating officers and commu-
nity members about crime trends and
possible causes of racial disparities.
• Body cameras: Officers began wear-
ing body cameras and implementing
national best practices to ensure the
devices protect both officers and com-
munity members.
• Youth advisory council: A new coun-
cil of at least 10 young people—ages 18
to 25, across race and religious differ-
ences—are now planning events where
youth and police can interact and will
make recommendations for continu-
ing to improve relations between youth
and officers.
• Anti-racism trainings: All officers
from the police chief to new recruits
have completed—or will undergo—a
series of daylong trainings facilitated by
AFSC and other organizations.
• Roll-call presentations bycommunity
QUAKER ACTION • SPRING 2017 9
HOW CAN MY COMMUNITY WORK
TO ADDRESS RACISM IN POLICING?
What we learned in Charleston that could
inform your community's efforts:
1. Build a broad coalition of people
and organizations. Our coalition
includes faith leaders, young people
negatively affected by experiences
with police, advocacy and social
service organizations, and the public
defender's office.
2. Focus on a specific problem and
solutions to address it. We focused
on racial disparities in arrest rates,
rather than every issue related to
racism in policing. Having a clear
focus made it more manageable for
us to research the problem, propose
solutions, and develop a final plan
of action.
Be open and honest in all
communications. Before our.first
meeting with police leadership,
our coalition shared our concerns,
proposals, and supporting materials
through emails with Chief Webster
and Corporal Errol Randle. We didn't
want anyone to feel blindsided by
concerns or information presented.
Be prepared for whatever
defensiveness may arise. Help
people feel safe and heard. In
meeting with police, we make sure
not to single out the department
or certain officers. Instead, we talk
about how we all operate under
this system of institutional racism
and share personal stories about
how we're affected, so we can find
common cause. You're not going
to get anywhere if people feel like
they're being attacked or shut down.
Understand resistance from
community members. People often
asked us, "Why bother?" Many have
had negative interactions with police,
or have family members who have,
and have a deep mistrust of police.
Some feel that they are forsaking
their community if they support
our coalition's efforts. I'm hopeful
that the initiatives we're working
on—such as the youth council, which
encourages dialogue between young
people and police—will help to chip
away at some of that.
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members: New opportunities have
been created for officers and commu-
nity leaders to hear from one another.
• Community Service Awards: Com-
munity leaders will work with police
officers to create community policing
standards—and then recognize all of-
ficers meeting those standards annually.
. Collaborating on advocacy issue
Police and community leaders are weir
ing together to advocate for state poli)
changes to reduce recidivism and he
people returning home from prison.
This plan of action is significant, outli
ing concrete steps that the Charleston P
lice Department has begun to implemer
As part of an effort to address racial disparities in arrests, Charleston police now take part in de-
escalation trainings as well as anti-racism trainings. Photo: AFSC/Bryan Vana
"We want to be better. We want to learn. Being able to
be engaged with the CARE coalition is awesome and
allows us to listen and learn, and learn how to work
together. We used to go to community meetings—as
law enforcement, we're kind of pushed to the front and
lead things. Now we like to listen."
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`Being involved with the Call to Action for Racial Equality coalition has shown me the
power of working together on concrete solutions to the problems facing our community,
specifically around police relations. The challenges of institutional racism we deal with
here in West Virginia are not unique, and this initiative represents a solid first step
working on the local level to address systemic abuses of power and privilege."
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What's more, the collaborative process
through which we reached this agreement
has already helped deepen the relationship
between police and the community. That's
important for three reasons:
1. We're better equipped to deal collec-
tively with violent or deadly incidents if
they happen.
2. We have an understanding of our mutu-
al self-interest in addressing racism—as
well as mass incarceration—not only in
policing but also in other parts of the
criminal justice system, and are ready
to tackle policy solutions together.
3. We're better poised to take on new op-
portunities or struggles as they arise,
with open lines of communication and
mutual trust.
Since the press conference last fall, the re-
sponse from across the country has been
overwhelming. The Charleston Police De-
partment has received calls from around
the state and across the country praising
the department's efforts, including from
other police departments and government
officials who want to replicate this effort.
Here in Charleston, the response from
community members has been one of cau-
tious optimism. People understand that
certainly there are no quick, easy solutions
to systemic racism in our society, and that
we still have a lot of work to do, but this is
a step in the right direction.
West Virginia hasn't historically been on
the forefront in addressing racial and eco-
nomic inequality, but I'm proud to say that
for once, we might be leading the pack. •
Lida Shepherd works with AFSC's West
Virginia Economic Justice Project, a com-
munity organizing and advocacy program.
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QUAKER ACTION • SPRING 2017 11
Standing with
the Movement
for Black Lives
ast fall, the American Friends Service Committee endors,
the Movement for Black Lives policy platform. The natior
network represents more than 50 organizations and the
sands of individuals working to end state-sanctioned k
ings and systematic oppression of African Americans.
The Vision for Black Lives platform demands:
1. Ending the war on Black people, including the crimin
ization of Black youth in our justice and education syster
and the use of past criminal history to determine eligibil:
for housing, education, employment, and voting.
2. Reparations for past and continuing harms again
African Americans, including full and free access to lifetir
education for all Black people and mandated public sch(
curriculums that examine the impacts of colonialism a:
slavery.
3. Investments in education, health, and safety a
divestment from criminalizing and harming Bla
people, including reallocating government funding fr(
policing, incarceration, and militarism—in the U.S. a
abroad—to education, employment, and other programs tl
benefit communities.
In January, Philadelphia protesters called on Congressional leaders to enact
just, humane policies. Photo: AFSC/Tony Heriza
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4. Economic justice for all and collective ownership i
Black people, including a progressive restructuring
tax codes to redistribute wealth and federal and state j
programs to support the most economically marginalis
Black people.
5. Community control of laws, institutions, and polici
including democratic oversight of law enforcement agenc
and ending privatization of education.
/*omen's march
in Des Moines, IA.
Pfrato: ,AFSC/J•hn
Create a legacy of peace.
Become a Friend for the Future.
Include AFSC in your will or estate plan and help
ensure AFSC's next century of peace-building
work. The members of our Friends for the. Future
legacy society are laying the foundation of support for
peacemakers around the world addressing the root
causes of war, violence, and injustice.
To find out how to become a Friend for the Future,
call Alyssa Chatten at 1-888-588-2372,
email GiftPlanning@afsc.org, or visit us
online at afsc.org/friendsforthefuture.
6. Full and independent Black political power and Black
self-determination, inclUding ending the criminalization
of Black political activists and allowing full access to voting
for all people, including those who are incarcerated.
The Vision for Black Lives platform recognizes that oppres-
sion aimed at any one of us diminishes all of us. Being so connect-
ed, we must work together across issues and geography to build
nonviolent power for change.
The policy platform proposes actions at the federal, state,
and local levels and offers resources for individuals and groups.
It is a treasure trove for meetings, churches, and other groups
who want to delve deeply into how they can help build lasting
peace with justice. n
MORE: policy.m4b1.org
Resources from AFSC
The Movement for Black Lives policy platform aligns with
key areas of AFSC's work: building peace, immigrant rights,
ending mass incarceration, economic justice, and ending
racism and discrimination.
Here are some examples of AFSC's work to transform the
systems that perpetuate racism and injustice in the U.S.
and abroad:
Youth Undoing Institutional Racism
AFSC's Youth Undoing Institutional Racism (YUIR) programs
are a multi-city youth-led network mobilizing people of
all ages to work against racist systems that oppress us
all. Hundreds of youth participate annually in anti-racist
workshops called AFSC Freedom Schools. Dozens of young
people participate in ongoing YUIR groups that organize for
change at the individual, community, and national levels.
MORE: afsc.org/yuir
Ending mass incarceration
For decades, AFSC has called for transformative and
restorative justice approaches in the criminal justice
system. We've also been a leader in the movement to
end solitary confinement and the privatization of prisons,
detention centers, and criminal justice services—which
feed the bottom line of corporations while failing to make
our communities safer.
MORE: afsc.org/mass-incarceration
Investigate your investments
In order to challenge the economic systems that sustain
and profit from the violation of human rights, AFSC has
long supported economic activism, including boycott and
divestment campaigns. Our online Investigate tool allows
users to screen their investments for companies that profit
from mass incarceration or the occupation of Palestinian
territories.
MORE: afsc.org/economic-activism
Coins, Cops, and Communities
Young'Chicagoans worked with AFSC last summer to
develop ways to open conversations about policing
and what real community safety could look like if we
invested our resources differently. Last summer, AFSC
worked with young people in Chicago to develop tools
for popular education on the costs of policing and what
real community safety could look like if we invested our
resources differently. Our "Coins, Cops, and Communities"
toolkit contains activities for exploring the costs of policing
and what community safety can look like beyond policing.
MORE: afsc.org/coins-cops-communities
QUAKER ACTION • SPRING 2017 15
anctuaryberywhere
A new AFSC initiative helps people create safe, welcomin
spaces for all people in their communities.
BY LORI FERNALD KHAMALA
i i ould you harbor me? / Would I
harbor you? // Would you harbor
a Christian, a Muslim, a Jew / a
heretic, convict or spy? // Would
you harbor a runaway woman, or child, / a
poet, a prophet, a king? // Would you har-
bor an exile, or a refugee, / a person living
with AIDS? ..."
This Sweet Honey in the Rock song
haunted me last year, as I grappled with
the election of a man who has threatened
to curtail the rights of immigrants, Mus-
lims, and other members of marginalized
communities.
I wanted to be a refuge to those who
need it, but when it came down to it, who
would I harbor? Who would my Quaker
community harbor? What does it mean
to keep someone safe? What does it mean
for targeted communities to keep them-
selves safe?
Communities of color, religious mi-
norities, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgen-
der, and queer (LGBTQ) individuals have
long faced discrimination. Here in North
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Carolina—where I live—public officials have
significantly weakened protections for these
groups over the past five years.
During his campaign, Trump prom-
ised to deport millions of undocumented
immigrants, stirring hate among support-
ers and stoking fear in immigrant commu-
nities, which alteady saw a record number
of deportations under former President
Barack Obama.
People I know and love have been af-
fected. An undocumented friend of mine
has lived in North Carolina for more than
15 years. Her husband now wants to sell
their house to have extra money in case
they need to move back to Mexico quickly.
Another friend, who is Muslim, told me he
feels anxiety and uncertainty about what's
to come and about comments his children
have heard from schoolmates.
It's clear that undocumented immi-
grants, refugees, Muslims, LGBTQ, and
Black communities will face increased at-
tacks in the coming years. In the month fol-
lowing the election alone, the Southern Pov-
erty Law Center documented 1,094 hateful
incidents, the majority of which were anti-
immigrant, followed by anti-Black incidents,
then anti-Muslim, then anti-gay.
We don't know which discriminatory
policies may be enacted first, but we know
what was promised in campaign speeches
over the past year: in addition to mass de-
portations, a Muslim registry, the end of
the Deferred Action program for young
immigrants, and stop-and-frisk policing
targeting African Americans.
At the same time, we also know that
as long as there has been oppression, there
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have been movements of resistance and
protection—the Underground Railroad
during slavery, Kindertransport during
the Holocaust, the protection of conscien-
tious objectors during the Vietnam War,
and the Sanctuary Movement that began
in the 1980s to offer safe havens to refugees
fleeing war in Central America.
That leads us to ask: In an environ-
ment in which the attacks may look dif-
ferent, what does sanctuary look like? And
how do we create a community that pro-
tects many different targeted groups?
Resources to create safe spaces
everywhere for all people
AFSC has started a new initiative called
#SanctuaryEverywhere to offer resources
for people to create safer spaces in schools,
neighborhood streets, places of worship, or
wherever we are.
#SanctuaryEverywhere takes the lead
from directly impacted communities, and
finds ways for community members and
allies to engage on many levels. The initia-
tive is inherently intersectional, or in less
jargon-y terms, we're saying "your strug-
gle is my struggle."
The initiative is grounded in the belief
that we are all in this together and that we
must ensure that all residents of our com-
munity are safe, welcomed, and included.
That means we:
• Welcome immigrants and refugees, in-
cluding working to halt deportations,
and opposing police collaboration with
immigration authorities.
• Stand with Muslim and Jewish commu-
nities, including protecting all targeted
religious groups from attacks in our
communities and in public policies.
• Support the Movement for Black Lives,
including interrupting anti-Black vio-
lence and policies that promote the war
on Black people.
• Protect LGBTQ people, including push-
ing back against discriminatory practices
and policies at the local, state, and fed-
eral levels.
As part of the initiative, AFSC has created a
#SanctuaryEverywhere webpage that serves
as a "one-stop-shop" with resources for cre-
ating sanctuary in schools, college campuses,
congregations, and in cities and states.
Visit afsc.org/SanctuaryEverywhere to
find resources from AFSC and other orga-
nizations, such as:
• Tips for bystanders to intervene in pub-
lic instances of violence or harassment,
while ensuring the safety of everyone
involved.
• #SanctuaryEverywhere signs to display
in your community.
• Toolkits for congregations on providing
sanctuary to immigrants.
• Model policies for schools on creating
welcoming, inclusive environments for
all students.
• Sample resolutions from cities that have
passed sanctuary ordinances.
• Ways to spread the word by sharing
#SanctuaryEverywhere resources online.
We hope to eventually equip thousands of
people across the country with more tools
and training to interrupt hateful acts and
government actions that put our commu-
nities at risk, and to encourage the adop-
tion of policies and practices that create
greater safety and a welcoming environ-
ment for all. We hope you will join us in
creating #SanctuaryEverywhere. •
Lori Fernald Khamala is the director of the
AFSC North Carolina Immigrant Rights
Program in Greensboro.
MORE: afsc.org/SanctuaryEverywhere
SC's #SanctuaryEverywhere webpage include resources such as sanctuary toolkits for congregations (left), model policies for schools and cities, and sters for resistance (right). Photos (left to right): AFSC/Denver, AFSC/Chicago
QUAKER ACTION • SPRING 2017 13
January 31, 2017
Lois Langer Thompson, Director
Hennepin County Library
12601 Ridgedale Drive
Minnetonka, MN 55305
Dear Director Thompson,
Why does the Hennepin County Library catalog still use the subject
heading ILLEGAL ALIENS when the American Library Association last year
condemned the term as "dehumanizing, offensive inflammatory, and
even a racial slur," reCOmmending -117—hEa replay IINDErlIMENTED
IMMIGRANTS7 ,.--
Please don't "explain" tat HCL must wait for th timid Library of
Congress to make the ange first. HCL could ve done it long ago.
iti And_can7tUrely do it right now. The continu presence of ILLEGAL
_A LIENS is at once hurtful, misleading, an ironistic, and embarrassing.
With best wish
cl---Santo Ferman (T
Head Cataloger
Hennepin Count Library
1973-1999
ALA Honorary ember
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Attachments:
ALA "Resolution on Replacing the Library of Congress Subject Heading
'Illegal Aliens' with 'Undocumented Immigrants" (1-12-16)
Partial HCL heading list
Sample "Illegal Aliens" assignments
cc: Star Tribune
Edina Sun Current
City Pages
Edina Human Rights & Relations Commission
Sen, Melissa Franzen
American Libraries
Unabashed Librarian
2015-2016 ALA CD#34_1016_act
2016 ALA Midwinter Meeting
Resolution on Replacing the Library of Congress Subject Heading "Illegal Aliens" with
"Undocumented Immigrants"
Whereas the terms "illegal" and "alien," when used in reference to people, have undergone
pejoration and acquired derogatory connotations, becoming increasingly associated with nativist
and racist sentiments;
Whereas the appropriateness of the word "alien" as a legal term is being questioned, with the
New York Times Editorial Board calling for it to be retired and the state of California passing SB
432 to remove it from the state's labor code;
Whereas referring to undocumented immigrants as "illegal" is increasingly viewed as
dehumanizing, offensive, infl7mmatory, and even a racial slur;
Whereas a national campaigns such as "Drop the I-Word" and #WordsMatter are urging news
media to stop using the word "illegal" to describe immigrants;
Whereas many news organizations have committed to not using the word "illegal" to describe
immigrants, including the Associated Press, USA Today, ABC, The Chicago Tribune, and the LA
Times;
Whereas college students have petitioned the Library of Congress to retire the subject heading
Illegal aliens;
Whereas there is no explicit mandate from Congress that LC must follow the U.S. Code
terminology in this matter;
Whereas the ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) Thesaurus and MeSH (Medical
Subject Headings) both use the term Undocumented immigrants, and both are produced by
federal government agencies;
Whereas the ALA Policy B.3 (Diversity) states that "ALA recognizes the critical need for access to
library and information resources, services, and technologies by all people, especially those who
may experience... discrimination on the basis of appearance, ethnicity, immigrant status...;" and
Whereas the ALA Policy B.1.1 (Core Values of Librarianship) states that all library users should
receive "accurate, unbiased, and courteous responses to all requests;" now, therefore, be it
Resolved, that the American Library Association, on behalf of its members:
urges the Library of Congress to change the subject heading Illegal aliens to
Undocumented immigrants.
Mover: Laura Koltutsky (SRRT Councilor)
Seconder: Peter Hepburn (Executive Board)
Approved by
American Library Association Council
Boston ,9 MA
1-12-16
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[ NEWS AND COMMENT
Information Bias in Library Catalogs
TIMOTHY BINGA
Sanford Berman (see preceding News
and Comment piece) has been work-
ing tirelessly for years to improve the
Library of Congress Subject Headings
(LCSH) and keep the subject headings
and classification system up to date.
As mentioned in his article, Berman
points out a subtle bias that is created
because library catalogs do not truly
represent the subject heading and clas-
sification that is indicated. His example
of climate change denialism is but one
classification that should be added, and
it is not correctly represented with the
term climate change skepticism.
As Berman mentions, the Library of
Congress is slow to make changes. This
is not only because they are a conser-
vative institution but because they are
undergoing a "modernization" of cata-
loging rules. The Library of Congress is
moving toward a new system that will
provide many other access points to in-
formation than were found in older li-
brary catalogs. It still takes considerable
effort to make even the simplest of sub-
ject heading changes to become more
modern, or remove an archaic item, and
it seems as though the Library of Con-
gress might not be working as fast as
they could to modernize the classifica-
tion schemes.
Library Information Systems are
heading toward more social interaction
that allow for tagging materials by pa-
trons. These systems do not necessarily
have formal subject headings from the
Library of Congress; however, the sys-
tem is trying to overcome some of these
issues, current relevance being one im-
portant one. This is done with a social
tagging element as both patrons and
librarians are using keywords (such as
denialism, AIDS denialism, etc.). This
is not formalized, which in itself is a
problem. Since anybody can tag, there
is no control, and there is no guarantee
that the tag is relevant to everyone. This
also creates another bias.
Knowing there is a bias in the infor-
mation helps us to think critically about
the information that is represented in
the library catalogs. As a part of their
profession, librarians and information
specialists try to remove these biases.
But even our profession can sometimes
create these problems, both unwittingly
and on purpose.
Earl Lee, in his book Libraries in
the Age of Mediocrity (Jefferson, NC:
McFarland and Co., 2001) points out
that there have been many issues with
cataloging library materials, particularly
with those of a controversial nature.
The example I use in -my article "Li-
brary Collections on Unbelief" in the
New. Encyclopedia of Unbelief (Amherst,
NY: Prometheus Books, 2007) shows
how books dealing with evidence for
and against the existence of. Jesus, are
placed incorrectly in the subjects "Athe-
ism" or "Christianity—Controversial
literature" versus the correct heading of
"Jesus Christ—Historicity" Many rea-
sons could be to blame for this, but Lee
points out that this type of book usually
is cataloged by a subject expert, which
would likely be in religion or philoso-
phy, and there could be a bias there.
Also, many book creators and pub-
lishers today are cataloging their own
materials, and this becomes a library
cataloging issue too. They are using
subject headings that are not always
correct but ones that would sell books
better. We see some of those effects in
skeptical book sales; Joe Nickell's Uni-
versity Press of Kentucky books were
promoted as paranormal books, placed
in the New Age section of Barnes and
Noble, and had only secondary subject
headings of skepticism. Good librarians
might change the subject headings a bit
for their own library, but many don't
have the time or the ability to do this.
I support the improvement of the
LCSH with those suggestions Berman
has written about here. Hopefully we
will still see information professionals
continue to help patrons make informed
decisions on what they are looking to
read.
Timothy Binga is Director of Libraries at
the Center for Inquiry.
POI For in-depth interviews
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and politics, join
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at pointofinquiry.org.
Skeptical Inquirer I May/June 2017 9
Library Catalogs Deny Science Denial
SANFORD BERMAN
Many libraries stock works such as Donald Prothero's Reality
Check: How Science Deniers Threaten Our Future (2013),
Stephen Epstein's Impure Science: AIDS, Activism, and the
Politics of Knowledge (1996), Chris Mooney's The Republican
War on Science (2005), Nicoli Nattrass's Mortal Combat:
AIDS Denialism and the Struggle for Antiretrovirals in South
Africa (2007), Seth Kalichman's Denying AIDS: Conspiracy
Theories, Pseudoscience, and Human Tragedy (2009), Pieter
Fouri and Melissa Meyer's Politics of AIDS Denialism: South
Africa's Failure to Respond (2010), Nicoli Nattrass's The
AIDS Conspiracy: Science Fights Back (2012), John Cook's
Climate Change Denial (2011), Naomi Oreskes and Erik M.
Conway's Merchants of Doubt (2011), Robert Kenner's 2015
documentary film Merchants of Doubt, Michael Specter's
Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific
Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives (2009),
Hannah Allen's Don't Get Stuck! The Case Against Vaccinations
and Injections (1985), Paul A. Offit's Deadly Choices: How
the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All (2010), Mark A.
Largent's Vaccine: The Debate in Modern America (2012), Paul
A. Offit's Autism's False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine,
and the Search for a Cure (2008), PBS's Frontline documen-
tary Vaccine War (2010), Viera Scheibner's Vaccination: 100
Years of Orthodox Research Shows That Vaccines Represent an
Assault on the Immune System (1993), and Eleanor McBeans's
Poisoned Needle (1957).
But if you don't already know the author or title and so
make a subject search in the online catalog under "Science
Denialism," 'AIDS Denialism," "Climate Change Deni-
alism," or "Antivaccine Movement," you will likely find .
nothing. It will seem that the library doesn't really have such
materials, although they do.
Why? Because the Library of Congress has not recognized
these topics as subject headings. Since most American librar-
ies (and many others) will not assign headings (i.e., access
points) to relevant resources in their collections unless the
8 Volume 41Issue 3 I Skeptical Inquirer
Library of Congress has done so first, the practical effect is
that the subject searches in nearly all catalogs will not reveal
items on AIDS, science, and climate change denial, as well as
the antivaccine movement, despite their having resources on
these themes.
In order to improve access for interested citizens and
scholars to such "denialism" books, films, and documents, the
Library of Congress must create and then currently and ret-
rospectively assign appropriate descriptors to cataloged ma-
terials. I (and perhaps others) have formally asked them to do
so. Thus far, they haven't.
What might help in persuading the Library of Congress
to establish and use these needed rubrics is a statement from
the Center for Inquiry urging such action. Support letters
from individual CSI members, plus SKEPTICAL INQUIRER and
Free Inquiry readers, would also be helpful. Correspondence
should be directed to:
Cataloging Policy & Support Office
Library of Congress
Washington, DC 20540-4305
For background on the "currency" and other problems in
Library of Congress subject and descriptive cataloging, see
my Joy of Cataloging (1981); "Jackdaws Strut in Peacock's
Feathers: The Shame of 'Standard' Cataloging," Librarians at
Liberty, June 1998, p. 1, 4-21; and quarterly "Berman's Bag"
columns in the Unabashed Librarian. Also, Prejudices and An-
tipathies: A Tract on the LC Subject Heads Concerning People
(1993 edition).
Sanford Berman, former Head Cataloger at Hennepin County Li-
brary in Minnesota, is an advisor for the Journal of Information
Ethics. His latest book is Not in My Library: `Berman Bag' Columns
from the Unabashed Librarian, 2000-2013 (2013).
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Nahed Hattar
by Sanford Berman,
U*L Contributing Editor
On 12/6/16 I submitted this "letter
to the editor" (or guest editorial)
to American Libraries (50 E. Huron
Street, Chicago, IL 60611):
Dear Colleagues ,
After much agitation, the Library
of Congress in March 2016 announced.
that it intended to cancel the
subject heading, "Illegal aliens,"
replacing it by two new rubrics,
"Noncitizens" and "Unauthorized
immigration." The broader descriptor,
"Aliens," would also be dropped, in
favor of "Noncitizens."
The ALA Subject Analysis Committee
(SAC) created an "Illegal aliens"
Working Group, chaired by Tina Gross,
which reviewed LC's proposed changes
and on July 13 issued a report that
supported substituting "Noncitizens"
for "Aliens," but compellingly argued
that "Illegal aliens" itself should
be transformed into one new form
only: "Undocumented immigrants." The
report included detailed proposals
for new and revised heading entries,
featuring precise scope notes and
extensive cross-references.
In the meantime, LC's intended
changes aroused opposition among
several Republican House members,
who attached a rider to the
FY 2017 House Legislative Branch
Appropriations Act (H.R. 5325),
instructing LC to retain its current
terminology. That bill passed on
June 10. Subsequently, Rep. Diane
Black (Tennessee) introduced separate
legislation, the Stopping Partisan
Policy at the Library of Congress
Act (H.R. 4926), which specifically
requires that "Aliens," "Illegal
aliens," and related headings be kept
"in the same manner as the headings
were in effect during 2015." Black's
bill has been referred to the Committee
on House Administration.
Treading warily, LC invited comments
on its plan "from the library community
and the general public." Its online
survey concluded on July 20, 2016,
the comments to be reviewed by the
Policy and Standards Division and
"final disposition of the proposals
... announced later this year."
Right now (12/8/16) there has been
no formal implementation of LC's
original plan, nor has LC either
accepted or rejected the SAC revisions.
In any event, it seems unlikely
that "illegal aliens" will soon be
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replaced with anything, especially
given the Congressional objection
and pending bill. So perhaps it's time
to stop whining and hand-wringing
about the House know-nothings who may
have thwarted the "illegal aliens"
reform and instead defy and outwit
them. How? By individual library
systems and consortis implementing
the superbly-crafted SAC recommendations
themselves. Congress has no direct
control or dominion over non-federal
public, school, and academic libraries.
And most of those entities already
have automated authority control,
making it relatively easy, for
instance, to flip "illegal aliens"
to "undocumented immigrants," thus
both, scrapping an anachronistic,
pejorative heading and improving
topical access by employing widely
familiar terminology.
The SAC work ups can be efficiently
used as templates for local revision.
We can wallow in a mix of sorrow, fury,
helplessness, and cynicism at the
Congressional interference or we can
exert our own professional autonomy,
expertise, social commitment, and
initiative to do what is right and
helpful even if LC itself can't or won't
(or does so awkwardly and ineffectually).
With best wishes,
/s/Sanford Berman
ALA Honorary Member
On 12/2/16 I sent this "Readers Write"
contribution to the Star Tribune (425
Portland Avenue, Minneapolis, MN 55488):
Dear Neighbors,
Two recent Op-eds addressed the topic
of homeless people and libraries.
Neither, however, mentioned that in
1990, the American Library Association
adopted a policy on "Library Services
to Poor People," modeled on a similar
declaration earlier approved by the
Minnesota Library Association.
The ALA policy states, in part that
The American Library Association
promotes equal access to information
for all persons, and recognizes
the urgent need to respond to the
increasing number of poor children,
adults, and families in America.
These people are affected by a
combination of limitations,
including illiteracy, illness,
social isolation, homelessness,
hunger, and discrimination, which
hamper the effectiveness of
traditional library services.
Therefore, it is crucial that
libraries recognize their role
in enabling poor people to
participate fully in a democratic
society, by utilizing a wide
variety of available resources
and strategies. Concrete programs
of training and development are
needed to sensitize and prepare
library staff to identify poor
people's needs and deliver
relevant services.
Among 15 specific policy objectives
are these:
Promoting the removal of all barriers
to library,and information services,
particularly fees and overdue charges.
Promoting the publication, production,
purchase, and ready accessibility
of printand nonprint material that
horiestly address issues of poverty
and homelessness, that deal with
poor people in a respectful way,
and that are of practical use to
low-income patrons.
Promoting full, stable, and ongoing
funding for existing legislation
programs in support of low-income
services, and for pro-active
library programs that reach beyond
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traditional service-sites to poor
children, adults, and families.
Promoting the incorporation of
low-income programs and services
into regular library budgets in
all types of libraries, rather
than the tendency to support these
projects solely with 'soft money"
like private or federal grants.
Promoting equity in funding adequate
library services for poor people
in terms of materials, facilities,
and equipment.
With best wishes,
/5/Sanford Berman
Former Head Cataloger,
Hennepin County Library
I mailed this missive on 12/3/16:
"You Said"
Minnesota Women's Press
970 Raymond Avenue (Ste. 201)
St. Paul, MN 55114
Dear Friends,
Promoting direct representation
of poor people and anti-poverty
advocates through appointment to
local boards and creation of local
advisory committees on service to
low-income people, such appointments
to include library-paid transportation
and stipends.
Promoting training to sensitize
library staff issues affecting
poor people and to attitudinal
and other barriers that hinder
poor people's use of lihraries.
Promoting the implementation of
an expanded federal low-income
housing program, national health
insurance, full-employment policy,
living minimum wage and welfare
payments, affordable day care,
and programs likely to reduce,
if not eliminate, poverty itself.
Promoting among library staff the
collection of food and clothing
donations, volunteering personal
time to anti-poverty activities
and contributing-money to direct-
aid organizations.
These socially responsible, robust,
and participatory objectives represent
a commitment by the library profession
that, unhappily, has not been fully
realized in most American libraries.
A December 2016 letter writer rightly
condemns trivializing "the annihilation
of 6,000,000 Jews (and of 4,000,000
others: queers, communists, Catholics,
mentally ill and disabled people)."
Not mentioned are Slays, socialists,
and Jehovah's Witnesses. But the most
glaring - and unfortunately typical
- omission in such victim inventories
are Roma ("Gypsies"). As many as one
and a half million perished during
the Holocaust. Some underwent fiendish
"medical experiments." All experienced
brutality and degradation. Indeed,
their persecution by the state actually
predates the Third Reich. Like the
writer, I, too, am Jewish (well, a
pious Jewish atheist), but I reject
"Jewish exceptionalism." Jews and
Roma were persecuted and exterminated
by the Nazis for almost identi-
cal reasons, as racial inferiors and
"vermin." Yet the Romani experience
is routinely overlooked or downplayed
in histories and remembrances. What
happened to them they call the Porajmos.
It should never be forgotten. Or
del inked from the Holocaust.
With best wishes,
/s/Sanford Berman
YO For catalogig implications, see my
"Whose HoloCaust Is It Anyway? The 'H'WoRp
in Libraiy Catalogs," Reference Librarian,
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nos. 61/62 (1998), pages 213-25,
copublished in Robert Hauptman and
Susan Hubbs Motin, editors, The Holocaust:
Memories. Research. Reference (Haworth
Press, 1998), pages 213-25.
Acording to the Dec. 16, 2016/Jan. 17,
2017 Free Inquiry (pages 18-19)
On September 25, a gunman shot dead
56-year-old Nahed Hattar, a prominent
Christian blogger, as he was about
to enter a courthouse in Amman, Jordan,
to face charges that a cartoon he had-
shared online was offensive to Islam.
Apparently created by the anonymous
artist "M80," the cartoon "showed a man
in a tent lying in bed between two women
while smoking a cigarette, ordering
Allah to get him some refreshments."
Even though Hattar "apologized and
removed the carton," he received nearly
200 death threats. Earlier, he had
been detained by police "for postings
critical of Jordan's king."
Free Inquiry observes that
Western media gave modest coverage
to Hattar's death and funeral, but
they followed a familiar pattern in
refusing to publish the cartoon at
the center of the story. Users of
social media could locate the image
with varying degrees of difficulty,
but consumers of mainstream print
and broadcast media were once again,
limited in their ability to form a
full understanding of the story
because the image at its heart had
-been suppressed.
As an antidote to the hypocrisy and
timidity of conventional media, Free
Inquiry fully reproduced the "offending"
graphic, together with translated
dialogue, not only in its journal but
also on its website:
www.secularhumanlsm.org.
The online version first appeared
on 9/30/16, International Blasphemy
Rights Day.
Sanford Berman, U*L Contributing
Editor, Author of Not in My
Library, "Berman's Bag Columns
from The U*N*A*B*A*S*H*E*D
Librarian 2000-2013," (McFarland,
20131. eri.wikipedia.org/Wiki/
Sanford Berman
Five Surprising Places To Find Islamic
History-In Me United States
by Furcian Shaikh
In the current climate of political
rhetoric against Islam and Muslims,
it can be hard to remember that the
United States has always been a country
that has respected and acknowledged
the contributions of people, places
and ideas from outside its borders.
While we often think of its inheritance
from Greece or Rome, here is a quick
tour of five surprising places where
Islamic history, verses, or symbols
have been represented and recognized
by US institutions.
1) Harvard Law School
The tour starts just inside the
entrance of the Faculty Library at
Harvard Law School, where the Words
of Justice exhibit presents 33
quotations representing history's
greatest expressions of justice.
Displayed prominently at the entrance
wall are three quotations, the first
by Augustine of Hippo, the second from
the Magna Carta, and the third a verse
from the Holy Quran (Chapter 4., verse
135), which reads: "0 ye who believe!
Stand out firmly for justice, as
witnesses to Allah, even as against
yourselves, or your parents, or your
kin, and whether it be against rich
or poor: for Allah can best protect
both." The passages of the exhibit
were chosen by Harvard Law faculty
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Think Globally,
Resist Locally
their moral duty—or so they will be told—to lend their
voices to the cause. (Artists are always being lectured on
their moral duty, a fate other professionals—dentists, for
example—generally avoid.) But it's tricky telling creative
people what to create or demanding that their art serve
a high-minded agenda crafted by others. Those among
them who follow such hortatory instructions are likely to
produce mere propaganda or two-dimensional allegory—
tedious sermonizing either way. The art galleries of the
mediocre are wallpapered with good intentions.
What then? What sort of genuine artistic response
might be possible? Maybe social satire. Perhaps some-
one will attempt the equivalent of Jonathan Swift's "A
Modest Proposal," which suggested the consumption
of babies as an economic solution to Irish poverty. But
satire, alas, tends to falls flat when reality exceeds even
the wildest exaggerations of the imagination—as it is in-
creasingly doing today.
Science fiction, fantasy, and speculative fiction have of-
ten been used to register protest in times of political pres-
sure. They have told the truth, but told it slant, as Yevgeny
Zamyatin did in his 1924 novel We, which anticipated the
Soviet repressions to come. Many American writers took
to science fiction in the McCarthy years because it allowed
them to criticize their society without being too easily
spotted by the powers intent on quashing criticism.
Some will produce "witness art," like those artists who
have responded to great catastrophes: wars, earthquakes,
genocides. Surely the journal-keepers are already at
work, inscribing events and their responses to them, like
those who kept accounts of the Black Death until they
themselves succumbed to it; or like Anne Frank, writ-
ing her diary from her attic hiding place; or like Sam-
uel Pepys, who wrote down what happened during the
Great Fire of London. Works of simple witnessing can
be intensely powerful, like Nawal El Sadaawi's Memoirs
From the Women's Prison, about her time behind bars in
Anwar Sadat's Egypt, or Yan Lianke's Four Books, which
chronicles the famines and mass deaths in China during
the Great Leap Forward. American artists and writers
have seldom been shy about exploring the fissures and
cracks in their own country. Let's hope that if democracy
implodes and free speech is suppressed, someone will re-
cord the process as it unfolds.
N THE SHORT RUN, PERHAPS ALL WE CAN EXPECT
from artists is only what we have always expect-
ed. As once-solid certainties crumble, it may be
enough to cultivate your own artistic garden—to
_ do what you can as well as you can for as long as
you can do it; to create alternate worlds that offer both
temporary escapes and moments of insight; to open win-
dows in the given world that allow us to see outside it.
With the Trump era upon us, it's the artists and writ-
ers who can remind us, in times of crisis or panic, that
each one of us is more than just a vote, a statistic. Lives
may be deformed by politics—and many certainly have
been—but we are not, finally, the sum of our politicians.
Throughout history, it has been hope for artistic work
that expresses, for this time and place, as powerfully and
eloquently as possible, what it is to be human. I
How cities can counter the power
of President Trump.
BENJAMIN BARBER
We need to
focus less
on who is
in the White
House and
more on who
is in City
Hall.
Benjamin Barber
is the distinguished
senior fellow at
Fordham School
of Law's Urban
Consortium.
N THEIR PENULTIMATE PRE-ELECTION ISSUE, THE EDITORS OF THE
New Yorker wrote confidently: "On November 8, barring some
astonishment, the people of the United States will, after two hun-
dred and forty years, send a woman to the 1",ire House." Yet two
months later, Donald 'Trump is moving into the White House, while
the American majority is left trembling in astonishment—an enervating
astonishment that has, for the most part, generated only noisily ineffectual
protest and self-lacerating despair.
Yet we do have a constructive political alternative to astonishment: We have
cities. The American political map is not blue states versus red states, two multi-
cultural liberal coasts flanking a homogenized heartland of rural/suburban con-
servatism. Rather, it's a nationwide canvas of rural and exurban red, accented
evenly right across the continent with splotches of blue. These blue clusters are
blue cities, where people live because they believe in public goods, appreciate
diversity, support creativity, and define their relationship to the interdependent
planet in terms of cooperation rather than rivalry, networking rather than inde-
pendence. They face forward, moving with history's winds at their backs. They
recognize that globalization cannot be rolled back but must be democratized.
They look to bridges, not walls, as instruments of accommodation.
It is these cities and their denizens that offer us a progressive path forward,
notwithstanding Trump or the rising reactionary European nationalists at war
with the European Union. We need to focus less on who is
in the White House and more on who is in City Hall. Ur-
ban district councils can count for more than the Senate.
Congress may be bent on undermining democracy, but
the metropolis is where the antidote—checks on abusive
central-government power—can be found.
There is a potent vertical separation of powers implicit
in the Ninth and 10th Amendments to the Constitution,
and it can serve as both a check on the abuse of execu-
tive authority in the White House and a prompt to actions
that can preserve and even advance the progressive agen-
da in dark times. Particularly when they act in concert,
cities—home to nearly 63 percent of the US population—
can secure and promote sustainability, immigrant rights,
tolerance for diversity, and a struggle against terrorism that
doesn't become a war on Islam. More immediately, cities
can shield their communities against assaults on the rights
and civil liberties of immigrants, Muslims, minorities,
women, and other people under threat from a xenophobic
central government and nationalist politicians.
The vertical separation of powers isn't just a theory; it's
a rationale for the resistance and action by cities already
well under way. Jacques Derrida asked some 20 years ago,
"Could the city, equipped with new rights and a greater
sovereignty, open up new horizons of possibility, previous-
ly undreamt of by international law?" The answer, clearly,
is yes. And mayors, sensing the "new rights," know it.
These mayors, and the residents who make their cit-
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ies spin, have been grabbing hold of this new authority, using it to fight for
opportunity and against inequality since well before Trump set his sights
on the White House. We have seen it in cities like New York and Chicago,
where the Fight for $15 was born more than four years ago. We have seen
it in the successful, city-based campaigns for paid-sick-leave legislation, fair-
workweek initiatives, and universal pre-kindergarten programs.. And a cou-
ple of years ago, we saw it when a coalition of 25 mayors and local leaders,
recognizing the need to embrace and protect new immigrants, launched Cit-
ies for Action. Since then, the coalition, which has grown to more than 100
mayors, has supported President Obama against the Supreme Court ruling
in United States v. Texas, which blocked his executive actions on immigration.
The coalition also includes a number of sanctuary cities that have promised
to protect immigrants.
California, which is the world's sixth-largest economy, is also in effect
America's largest city (with Oakland's ex-mayor as its governor and San Fran-
cisco's ex-mayor as its lieutenant governor). It is pledging to counter federal
actions aimed at sanctuary cities and undocumented immigrants. It has the
full-throated support of sitting mayors like Eric Garcetti of Los Angeles.
It may seem hyperbolic to refer to such bold municipalities as "rebel cit-
ies," as geographer David Harvey has done in describing today's "urban revo-
lution." But then you hear Governor Jerry Brown insisting that "If Trump
turns off the satellites, California will launch its own damn satellite!" Or you
catch New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio challenging Trump in a bracing
speech just two weeks after the election: "If all Muslims
are required to register, we will take legal action to block
it. If the federal government wants our police officers to
tear immigrant families apart, we will refuse to do it....
If the Justice Department orders local police to resume
stop-and-frisk, we will not comply," de Blasio vowed.
These are fighting words, as the mayor acknowledged,
recalling that the principle of governance by the people is
rooted in the Constitution and "decided at the local level."
The Declaration of Independence, he noted, affirms that
governments are "instituted deriving their just powers
from the consent of the governed"—and, de Blasio added
pointedly, "We don't consent to hatred."
HAT MAYORS ARE REALIZING IS THAT
a fundamental devohition of power is
under way—one that began well before
the triumph of reactionary populism
in Europe and the United States. This
devolution revolution acknowledges the bottom-up char-
acter of democratic sovereignty and puts muscle on the
bones of the vertical separation of powers; it is rewriting
the social contract in the very way that Derrida foresaw.
The federalist principle, encoded in the Ninth and 10th
Amendments (the Second Amendment isn't the end of the
Bill of Rights), offers the rationale for a vertical separa-
tion of powers: "The enumeration in the Constitution of
certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage
others retained by the people," reads the Ninth. And "the
powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitu-
tion, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the
states respectively, onto the people," adds the Tenth.
As a result, the Constitution empowers us to defend
such sacred rights as inclusion, diversity, sustainability, and
social justice. When a Trump-administration "patriot"
cries, "U-S-A, U-S-A!," an urban patriot will proudly re-
spond, "We are the world!"
In Hershey, Pennsylvania, right before the election,
Trump taunted: "From now on, it's going to be America
first. There is no such thing as a global anthem, a global
currency, a global flag." Yet city dwellers will demur. A
global anthem? How about the "Ode to Joy" (the choral
movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, with its stir-
ring line "All people will become brothers")? A global cur-
rency? How about H2O: Water creates and sustains life
on our planet without borders and can only be protected
and conserved through cooperation. As for the global flag
that Trump can't conjure, just Google Blue Marble—that
very first image of our stunning Earth taken in 1972 from
outer space, in which neither frontiers nor nations can be
seen, only a bounteous but vulnerable planet.
For all his bombast, Trump's nationalism is in fact pa-
rochialism. Once upon a firm-, it was "liberal" nations that
aspired to universality, while local jurisdictions were pro-
vincial and particularistic. Today, the valence is reversed:
Cities speak to global common goods—marriage rights,
minimum wage, climate action, creative culture, respect
for diversity, refuge for immigrants whilenations have
turned inward and xenophobic. Urbanity is a global -virtue
associated with diversity and multiculturalism; nationalism
has a parochial character that hunkers down behind walls.
In this new world without borders, where no one na-
tion can solve global problems alone, the cosmopolitan
voice is, also history's voice. So as we watch the Republican
Party try to undo Obama's legacy and close the road to
immigration and inclusion, we need to listen to the voice
of cities: to mayors Eric Garcetti of Los Angeles and Mar-
ty Walsh of Boston on the coasts, but also to mayors from
the heartland like Megan Barry of Nashville and Kasim
Reed of Atlanta; to notable Democratic mayors like Bill
de Blasio of New York and Michael Hancock of Denver,
but also to Republican mayors with urban agendas like
Mick Cornett of Oklahoma City and Richard Berry of
Albuquerque, who are attuned to urban challenges rather
than party ideology. They will tell you that what they
share with Paris and Cape Town and Seoul and London
is as important as what they share with Washington, DC.
They will remind us that in order to hear the voice of
England after Brmit, we must listen to the voice of Mar-
vin Rees, the newly elected biracial mayor of Bristol, and
of Sadiq Khan, a Pakistani bus driver's son who is now
the mayor of London. They will rebuke the claim of the
National Front's Marine Le Pen—who says that France
and the United States are finally bound together by a
shared contempt for Muslims and fear of immigrants—
by pointing to Anne Hidalgo, the Spanish-born mayor
of Paris. Hidalgo is the new chair of the C40 Cities Cli-
mate Leadership Group, and she's working to forge a
"Metropolis of Greater Paris" that incorporates both the
wealthy inner city and the immigrant suburbs.
Trump is no more the sole source of an American
view on immigrants than Geert Wilders, Holland's
anti-Muslim rabble-rouser, is the sole voice of the Dutch
view. Listen, rather, to Ahmed Aboutaleb, the immensely
popular Moroccan-born mayor of Rotterdam, or to Jozi-
as van Aartsen, the mayor of The Hague, who hosted the
founding meeting this past September of a new Global
Parliament of Mayors, which may become for cities what
the United Nations once hoped to be for nations.
TAKE.
Benjamin Barber
argues that cities
offer the natural
antidote to
Trumpism. These
organizations
are making that
vision real:
) The Global
Parliament of
Mayors: An inter-
national body of
mayors dedicated
to working to-
gether to address
global challenges.
globalparliament
ofmayors.org
Local Progress:
A nationwide net-
work of hundreds
of local officials
committed to ad-
vancing progres-
sive public policy.
localprogress.org
) Cities for Ac-
tion: A coalition
of cities dedicated
to supporting
immigrants and
inclusive immigra-
tion policies.
citiesforaction.us
CITIES RISING
A NATION SERIES
WAN
Collective action:
New Yorkers take on
Trump Tower.
In this
new world
without
borders,
the cosmo-
politan
voice is also
history's
voice.
S TRUMP ASSUMES POWER, THE SIMPLE
truth he will have to accept is that nation-
states are in trouble, not least because of the
kind of assaults on their legitimacy that he
_ _ embodies. And national governments are in
disarray, from Brazil and Belgium to Hungary and the
Philippines—not least because they've refused to rec-
ognize the blunt realities of interdependence. The road
to prosperity, no less than the road to global democracy,
runs not through nations but through cities.
To be sure, the country still counts. America surely
must hear the voice of the "forgotten" voters who put
Donald Trump in the White House: the angry rural whites
and the neglected high-school dropouts and the women
for whom race and class weigh more heavily than gender.
Bill Clinton spoke prophetically about them back in 1995,
in the wake of an earlier revolution that became known as
Newt Gingrich's "Contract With America." Back then; a
wave of disgruntled rural voters elected 60 new and deeply
parochial members of Congress, flipping the House of
Representatives to Republican control and blocking most
of what Clinton was trying to enact. The president spoke
wisely at a Camp David confab I attended back then, where
he took on angry liberal staffers and even his own wife:
I know how you feel. I understand Hillary's sense
of outrage. It makes me mad, too. Sure, we lost our
base in the South; boys voted for Gingrich. But let
me tell you something. I know these boys, I grew
up with them. Hardworking, poor white boys who
feel left out... Think about it, every progressive
advance our country has made since the Civil War
has been on their backs. They're the ones asked to
pay the price of progress. Now, we are the party of
progress, but let me tell you, until we find a way to
include these boys in our programs, until we stop
making them pay the whole price of liberty for
others, we are never going to unite our party, never
really going to have change that sticks.
Clinton's prophetic words come tumbling down across
the decades, a frenzied echo from an American past that,
having been ignored, defeated Hillary and now stands
ready to take the future of the United States hostage. But
however justified the anger, however deaf that Democrats
and liberals have been to the voices of these "poor white
boys," we cannot afford to make war on each other, or
on history. In remembering America's forgotten, we can-
not forget the world of 7.3 billion people, most of whom
are neither American nor white nor "Western," and the
majority of whom live in cities, with whom our survival is
inextricably bound, and from whom no wall can divide us.
We cannot permit President Trump to transform the
resentment of power into its concentration and abuse.
This will now be the task of cities, which must find a
way to acknowledge these grievances without scapegoat-
ing the very people whom the aggrieved are encouraged
to blame. It is cities that must find a way to allow blacks
and whites to join in opposition to monopoly power
rather than, by being set against each other, to ensure its
consolidation. It is in cities like Chicago—where Mar-
tin Luther King Jr., toward the end of his life, devoted
himself to the pursuit of racial justice in his Operation
Breadbasket, and where gang violence and urban murder
today belie the proud dreams of cosmopolitans—that ur-
ban sovereignty will have to prove itself.
Ironically, Donald Trump is a city boy from Queens.
So despite his gift for manipulating the fears and resent-
ments of those who despise everything the city stands for,
maybe Trump can find a way to listen to the voice of cities
"as well as those of the suburbs and countryside. Or maybe
cities will make him.
Despite Trump's Islamaphobic Travel Bans,
The Freedom to Return as a Necessary Aspect
of Immigrant Justice!
by lo,Sunwoo
(Below is the text of the speech lo gave at the March 16
rally in SF against the Muslim Ban.)
I am a member of HOBAK (hella organized bay area
koreans) and Ieumsae, a Corean drumming collective who
carry on the traditions of the peasant farmers in our homeland.
We recognize that here in this land, we are on occupied
Ohlone territories. We stand in solidarity with indigenous
peoples who have fought for centuries against — and continue
to resist - the occupations of US and European colonizers.
We recognize that these lands have been traveled by
migrants since the beginning of time. We recognize the
sacred relationship to the land between those who plant the
seeds, water the fields, and gather the crops.
We Coreans come here today to be with you with our
drums and our solidarity because it is what we have been
taught to do by our ancestors who have fought in many rebel-
lions, fought against colonial rule and military dictatorship,
survived wars and current US occupation in the South and
Cold War military aggression in the North. We build com-
munity to maintain our ancestral knowledge so that one day
we can plant the seeds, water the fields, gather the crops and
hold ceremony in our homeland.
And as much as this country, the United States of
Am erikka, would like to steal away these lessons, and force
us into silence about the structural state violence that wrote
us into the U.S. experience...as much as this country would
like us to assimilate into "good immigrants", "good people
of color", who stay silent about the conditions of living in
a police state....as much as this country would like us to
give away our labor unconditionally as a form of "meritoc-
racy,", we say NO!.
Thankfully, because of our histories and our experiences,
we know how to recognize systemic oppression and mass
exploitation. We have found each other to remember who
we are in diaspora, how powerful we are, especially when
we stand up for our truth. And we also see ourselves in you.
We are here to say NO to rampant Islamophobia that is
used for warmongering abroad and increased repression and
hate violence domestically ~~
We are here to say NO to false Western Feminisms that
say that Arab and Muslim women need to be policed and
controlled for their own good by regulating how they dress,
move and practice their faith.
We are here in solidarity with all Arab and Muslim
people fighting a political climate that is violent and dehu-
manizing, that has real and dramatic consequences all over
the world.
We believe in the freedom of migration: to stay, to move
and return to wherever we seek home and safety.
We are here as products ofthe Korean War. This unended
war has waged for over 60 years and that has turned our home
into a permanent installation of the cold war, and a struggle
for power and control in the Pacific Region by the U.S.
What does this mean for a freedom to return? One very
painful result of this war is the "division" of the Korean pen-
insula into North and South, a military standoff, not between
the South Koreans and the North Koreans, but the U.S. and
North Korea. This division denies the right to return to
normal relations with our brothers and sisters in the North.
In the South, the U.S. occupation has inflicted much pain
as well, in the form of military bases, missile defense systems,
environmental pollution like Agent Orange, the destruction of
sacred sites, and most insidiously, the imposition of cultural
hegemony that encourages us to mimic the United States in
hating North Koreans, our very blood.
This US occupation in Korea serves one purpose: ad-
vancing the neoliberal agenda and U.S. control of-Asia.
This is what it means to bargain with the U.S.
So for us, here in the middle of this Empire, it is ouLtime
to reclaim our resources and our rights to self-determination
and demand a peaceful reunified Korea, an end to the occupa-
tion, and an end to the Korean War.
For many of you here, you can relate. You can picture
this in your own life, or the story of your own family, and
the story of your people. When I say WAR, I mean one that
destroys your means for livelihood. Land.. Food. Water.
Industry. Education. WAR that denies love between you and
everyone who has ever cared for you or nurtured you. forces
mothers and fathers and children to lose each other. siblings,
cousins, aunties and uncles, grandparents. People left
behind. WAR that props up misogyny and homophobia,
that forces women into sexual slavery or camptowns, sells
women and men into work camps or guestvvorkerprograms,
and coerces children into overseas adoption. .
This is the violent trauma that produces migration to
the U.S.- Whether it is military aggression or economic dis-
placement, this is how many of us got here. And now that
violence is furthered with hate fueled ignorant islamaphobic
attacks like the "muslim ban." It is furthered by a climate
of hateful ignorant racist scapegoating of immigrants. This
target on our Muslim families is another extension of this
global war on people of color.
And the racist dimension of the scapegoating that we
are expected to internalize makes us think it is somehow
our fault. The insanity of a "war on terrorism" is somehow
our fault. The economic crisis we are in which is balanced
on the backs of migrants and guestworkers and braceros is
somehow our fault. But, we know it is NOT our fault. It
is the banks, Wall St., corporate welfare, the Trumps, the
Clintons, the Bushes, the Driscolls, the Waltons, the Military
Industrial Complex. ,
Palestine, Yemen, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Er-
itrea, Ethiopia, Nigeria, S Sudan, Congo, Somolia, Jamaica,
Haiti, Puerto Rico, Phillipines, Guam, Cambodia, Laos,
Vietnam, Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, Chile, Bolivia,
Colombia, Brazil. All over the world, this is our story.
As Coreans here in the U.S., like many of you, who
have what W.E.B. du Bois calls "double-consciousness" and
want to rets,, to our ancestral ways, we see the work we are
doing not just as a duty to be on the streets and fight, but
as an act of collective healing.. We stand with you all, and
will fight hard with you to say no to this and all other racist
attacks on the muslim, immigrant and indigenous commu-
nities. TOGETHER WITH A WILL TO RETURN, we are
,Itere40441aarate,,deeolonize, and-buia:.something betterand
in solidarity with you and to especially stand up for our Arab
and Muslim Family!
TooJeng!
HOBAK (Hella Organized Bay Area Koreans) and leum-
sae (ee-um-seh) represent a non-hierarchical collective of
young Koreans in the Diaspora living in the Bay Area. They
organize for economic and racial justice from their broad
intersectional experiences as korean immigrants, feminists,
queer folks, trans folks, mixed race folks, and adoptees
It has paved a narrow and dangerous road of free trade
andneo-colonial relationships. So what this means is that
each year, the rice farmers and the tangerine farmers fight
being starved out of the "liberalized free market" because of
price fixing by US multinational corporations. In addition
to, fightiawfor.thoiv,,voosookia4imii4o4x6thayi,thet4o4ime' and time again, must leave their fields to organize against
displacement as military bases steal more of their land, pol-
lute more of their water, and plot more war and aggression.
Resisting. Deportations
by Deeg
The republikkkans had campaigned as proud racists who
will throw out immigrants. So it's no surprise that the new
bad president's (NBP) new "homeland security" secretary,
john kelly, told congress in January that immigration and
customs enforcement agents (ICE, aka La Migra) and the
border patrol would no longer be "kind of hobbled or, you
know, hands tied behind their back."
So in the past few months we have seen ICE agents
stalking the LA courts to arrest people as they showed up
for court dates, arresting people who showed up at ICE
for scheduled renewal appointments, moving a critically
ill Salvadoran woman' awaiting brain surgery from a texas
hospital to a detention center, deporting an arizona mother
who had been in the country for 20 years, and:conducting
sweeps of immigrant communities on the pretext of arresting
"criminals." In contrast to second-term-obama policy, during
these sweeps supposedly designed to arrest individuals with
criminal warrants, ICE arrested many non-targeted people
who were in the area and couldn't prove they had documenta-
tion. On March 1, dreamer Daniela Vargas who had spoken
at a rally about an ICE raid and detention of her father and
brother, was arrested when she came to her appointment to
renew her DACA (Deferred Action on Child Arrivals) status.
(Public pressure and good lawyering caused her to be released
on an "order of supervision" on March 10). It's happening
all over the country — a Pacifica high school student spoke in
January about her fears for herself and other undocumented
students and their families.
The NBP was not inaugurated without a fight, and much
of the fight included the attacks on immigrants. In the Bay
Area demonstrations .on J20 and the Women's Marches
strongly focused on racism and attacks on immigrants and
Muslims. The International Womens Day demonstration in
SF marched to ICE, demanding that the ICE jail be removed
from this sanctuary city. In Oaldand, the IWD march went
to the Alameda County Sheriff to demand that he stop co-
operating with ICE.
But the party was on and, as promised, the new ad-
ministration started with immigrants and Muslims. One
week after the inauguration the NBP sprung a Muslim ban
trap, catching many people in transit — held in tsa areas of
airports, or prohibited from boarding flights. All across the
country, from LA to Boston, Dallas to Seattle, airports and
roads were blocked. At SFO thousands of us filled two levels
of the international terminal (IT) on January 28 and 29, led
by the Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC) and
the Alliance of South Asians Taking Action (ASATA). (It
turns out that when the SF government makes a decision
to hold back the cops, the airport can be a very convenient
place to demonstrate, easily accessible by public transit and
parking, plentiful bathrooms, and an impromptu food table
that stretched outside the terminal from one entrance to the
next.) Across the country, volunteer attorneys helped travel-
ers. States, cities and non-profits including the ACLU filed
lawsuits. The federal courts eventually stayed that ban, and
also stayed a subsequent ban issued March 6 to take effect
March 16.
On February 16, immigrants stayed home from work,
businesses closed, and students stayed home or walked out
of schools in the Bay Area and across the country in the Day
Without Immigrants.
The Public Policy Institute has estimated that there are
5.4 million people living in California who are not citizens,
of whom 3 million are undocumented immigrants. The Cali-
fornia legislature has therefore promised to take on both the
Muslim ban and ICE actions against. immigrants. Three major
bills were introduced this year. SB 54 would improve the
2013 "TrustAct" by prohibiting local governments from par-
ticipating in immigration enforcement or detaining someone
on an immigration hold. Unfortunately, it would require state
prison authorities to notify the FBI when someone convicted
_of a "violent felony" is going to be released, and would permit
a county sheriff to notify the FBI of the pending release of
someone previously convicted of a "violent felony," but who
is currently convicted of a misdemeanor. The only official
opposition to SB 54 is the california sheriff's association and
the califomia peace officers association.
Another bill, SB 6 would appropriate money to the state
department of social services to contract with legal services
organizations to provide assistance to detained people facing
removal (deportation) actions. SB 31 would prohibit public
agencies from providing personal information to a database,
based on religion, national origin, or ethnicity for immigra-
tion or law enforcement purposes.
Sanctuary Cities/Counties
Generally, a sanctuary city or county policy provides
some protection for undocumented immigrants, refugees or
asylum seekers, by limiting the actions local law enforce-
ment, schools, or government agencies will take. Commonly,
sanctuary ordinances prohibit local law enforcement from
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taking on immigration duties, including arresting people on
the basis of their known or suspected immigration status. The
NBP has announced plans to deputize large numbers of local
law enforcement to act as border patrol or ICE agents. That
idea was announced after his plan to mobilize the national
guard to protect the borders or arrest immigrants didn't find
much traction.
There are two other major ways in which jails cooperate
with ICE. First, federal law requires counties to submit the
fingerprints of arrested people to the FBI, vvhich maintains a
national database. The FBI sends those fingerprints to ICE.
This then enables ICE to submit a detainer request to the jail.
This practice, which may violate the 4th and 5'h amendments,
asks the jail to hold the person for an additional 48 hours
past when the person was eligible, for release, so that ICE
can detain or arrest the person. Sanctuary cities and counties
generally prohibit holding a person in custody for the purpose
of immigration, but some do not prevent local law enforce-
ment from informing ICE that a person is due to be released.
ICE can also request to interview an incarcerated person
for the purpose of determining immigration status. Legally,
the person's participation in the interview is "voluntary," just
as voluntary as most things are for people in prison. Only
a few local ordinances prohibit ICE from using the jail to
interview the people incarcerated there.
Many local governments in California have long-
standing sanctuary policies dating back to the need to protect
refugees from El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Haiti, and
South Africa. San Francisco became one of the first sanctu-
ary cities in 1985, to protect people seeking asylum from El
Salvador and Guatemala. It has been broadened several times
since, but it still currently permits some notifications of ICE.
Until February, San Francisco had also participated in a joint
task force with the federal homeland security department.
In 1986 Oakland had adopted a City of Refuge ordinance
to protect refugees from Haiti, El Salvador, Nicaragua and
South Africa. This ordinance was expanded in 2008. Oakland
is now also considering withdrawing from a joint task force
with homeland security. In January, Santa Ana, a city in
Orange County that is 46 percent immigrants, adopted one
of the strongest sanctuary ordinances in California to date.
Other California counties with a policy that does not
fully cooperate with ICE include: Sonoma, Napa, Sacra-
mento, Contra Costa, Alameda, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz,
Monterey, San Bernardino, Los Angeles, Riverside, Orange,
and San Diego as well as the city of Berkeley. In Santa Cruz
- —41Yli e oo s era ed with ICE and other federal a en-
ctes in what were represented as gang rai s s.'urmg ose
raids, at least 10 immigrants who were not involved in the
criminal warrants were detained on immigration charges.
Santa Cruz authorities claim that homeland security lied to
them about the raids. Santa Cruz has had a sanctuary city
policy for 30 years.
The City of Pacifica is in San Mateo County, a county
which is now one-third immigrants of whom an estimated
57,000 are undocumented. In February, the San Mateo
County Board of Supervisors adopted an ordinance affirm-
ing that they support all community members, "regardless
of ethnic or national origin, gender, race, religion, sexual
orientation or immigration status." The ordinance prohibits
the use of county resources for immigration enforcement,
but still permits ICE into the jail, and still permits county
employees including sheriffs to cooperate with ICE for "the
protection of public safety."
This January, a network of groups formed the Pacifica
Progressive Alliance, which includes a new group, Pacifica
Social Justice. PSJ is working on ways to resist ICE. We have
started a petition campaign to get a sanctuary city ordinance.
Pacifica's school districts (yes, there are two in this small
town of 40,000), have both adopted resolutions prohibiting
sharing of student information with immigration.
Several other cities in San Mateo County are also work-
ing on becoming sanctuaries. In February Daly City adopted
a resolution "affirming commitment to support all community
members irrespective of immigration status," but refused
to designate Daly City as a sanctuary city. Also in January,
Redwood City jointed the "welcoming cities initiative," a
warm and fuzzy declaration about everyone being welcome,
but with no actual policy or teeth. The welcoming cities
initiative is, no surprise, funded by the clinton foundation.
The NBP has issued an executive order banning federal
funding to "sanctuary cities." It is unlikely that this order is
legal, since there is a 2012 court decision limiting the federal
government's ability to deny funds. Several cities, including
San Francisco, have sued the federal, government over this
order, arguing that even the threat is damaging.
In some states, such as texas, the governors or legislators
are taking action against sanctuary cities, or passing laws that
require cities to cooperate with ICE.
Resisting ICE
The Bay Area and Los Angeles have had "Migra Watch"
type programs for several years. These programs include
a hotline, legal observers, and lawyers. A person who is
confronted by ICE is advised NOT to open the door or talk
with them, but to pass the ICE agents a card asserting their
constitutional rights to not talk with them and to due process.
Targeted people should notify the hotline. The hotline will
dispatch one or more legal observers to verify that there is
indeed an ICE action. If there is, the goal is to document what
the ICE'agents do, in order to provide evidence that may be
used to throw out the arrest, and to publicize abuses. If a
person is detained, the hotline will try to locate the person
in the system, and dispatch a lawyer to represent them. ICE
generally manages to arrest people without a court order
(sometimes using an "administrative warrant"), and people
who appear before the immigration court judges rarely have
legal representation.
San Francisco has authorized over $3 million to be paid
to non-profits for immigration defense. Recently, mayor lee
agreed to a very small $200,000 increase to the public de-
fender's budget to provide legal support. A similar program
in New York City represented 2000 people in the first 3 years.
During those years, deportations were reduced from 1200 per
year to 500. According to public defender Jeff Adachi, San
Francisco is home to 100,000 noncitizens, of whom 44,000
are undocumented.
In California, at least compared to texas, we are rela-
tively lucky. The state legislature may weaken. SB 54 but at
this time they are unlikely to prohibit sanctuary city policies.
The campaigns for sanctuary city ordinances then provide a
chance to meet people in our geographic communities, and
discuss how we can effectively stop ICE. Fighting ICE on
your, or your neighbor's, doorstep is not ideal. We must find
ways to prevent ICE from even heading our way, including
ways to take direct action that don't jeopardize people tar-
geted by ICE, possibly by blocking their vehicles at the ICE
office, rather than once they are in our communities.
Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair
Rescheduled
It will now take place in
Oakland
September 16, 2017.
More details to come.
by Daniel
It's been tough at City College of San Francisco. For
a long, long time. Particularly over the past several years
with its accreditation under threat. It's been tough for public
education in California. Charter schools are commonplace.
Affiuenter (and whiter) areas in parts of the East Bay want
to secede from their school districts. It's a proven way of
undesegregating public schools. Community colleges in San
Francisco used to be free for people attending them. That
started to change when the (now blessedly dead) reagkkkan
was governor. He began instituting fees for some services.
This paved the way to charging for classes. From $0.00 per
course credit in 1982 to $46.00 at CCSF today.
Free public education is a great idea. Everybody gets an
education. Albeit an idea observed more in the breech than
not. People of color are underserved, expelled, not graduated,
arrested. But free public education is one of those things we
fight for. And attacks on public education are part of the right-
wing's efforts to undo any and every sign of social progress
achieved over the last 150,000 years. Recently the struggle
has been at CCSF. And the right-wing was stopped.
Even now, with 1/3 of its student body forced out because
of cuts, CCSF is still one of the largest community colleges in
the country. It was described in 2007 in the New York Times
as one of the best community colleges in the country. About
4 years ago .ACCJC (Accrediting Commission for Com-
munity and Junior Colleges) threatened to revoke CCSF's
accreditation, which would have forced it to shut down. This
wasn't done out of concern for academic incompetence. AC-
CJC, under the influence of organizations like Corinthian
(operator of Heald college). Remember them? The private
"schools" that screwed tens of thousands of students out of
their education and money. Places like CCSF are a threat to
corporate institutions. Lower cost, public (and often effec-
tive) education challenges the anti-democratic tendencies of
the corporate world.
And then came along the Save CCSF coalition. Made
up of students, faculty and Other members of the community
started fighting the attempts to shut down CCSF. And they've
been winning. They resisted and won against the state take-
over of CCSF. They forced ACCJC to back down from the
attempt to immediately revoke the school's accreditation.
Recently it was announced that CCSF's accreditation had
been secured for the next seven years. They've fought against
budget cuts and class closures. And they've been winning.
Tuition at CCSF is once again going to be free, for those who
can attend. The struggle continues to keep CCSF a place that
is, accessible to more people than just those who are headed
-to corporate America.
.And the fight goes on. Land adjacent to the main cam-
pus is being targeted for development in a way that is going
to be of no benefit to the human beings who remain in San
Francisco.
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subject heading, JAPANESE-AMERICAN -EVACUATION AND RELOCATION,
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The internment camp at Tule Lake housed 20,000 Japanese-Americans. (Photo courtesy of the National Park Service)
Internment history, firsthand
Hannah Semba visited South View Middle School March 22
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Students thanked Hannah Semba after her presentation last Wednesday. (Sun Current staff photo by Ethan Groothuis) BY ETHAN GROOTHUIS
SUN CURRENT NEWSPAPERS
Dec. 7 was a cool day, normal for
Mount Vernon in Washington state.
Hannah Semba remembered it
being a calm Sunday morning, so
calm that her brother even decided
to go pheasant hunting.
But the year was 1941, Hannah
was 'a Japanese-American, and ev-
erything her family knew was about
to change.
For the 75th anniversary of
Japanese internment, South View
Middle School teacher Erica Gard-
ner had her sixth grade class read
"Desert Exile " by Yoshiko Uchida,
a book detailing Uchida's experi-
ences as a child imprisoned with her
family in Topaz, Utah.
Semba, now 91-years-old, was
invited to speak with the class
March 22.
Students took turns asking Sem-
ba about her experience and how it
affected her outlook on life.
The day after the attack on Pearl
Harbor, the. FBI came to her home
and told her family they could not
go beyond five miles of from home.
This meant Semba could no longer
go to high school, as it was outside
the five-mile limit.
On Feb. 19, 1942, President
Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Ex-
ecutive Order 9066, which set up
internment camps to house the
120,000 Japanese-Americans who
were forcibly removed from their
homes on the west coast.
Semba and her family were given
one week's notice to pack up only
what they could carry and leave
their home and property, having no
idea where they were going or how
Hannah Semba described to a sixth-
grade class what it was like living in an
internment camp in the 1940s. (Sun Cur-
rent staff photo by Ethan Groothuis)
long they would be gone.
"Being 15, you could only carry
so much," Semba said, detailing
how they tied their possessions with
a rope to keep them in their suit-
cases.
They put her family on a train
and sent them to Tule Lake camp-in
California, near the Oregon border,
in a camp with 20,000 others.
"I was shocked to see so many
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Japanese," Semba said. "I was the
only minority in school [at Mount
Vernon]."
In camp, the family was escorted
to barracks, each one split into four
or five family units with canvas cots
(there were five children), a potbelly
stove and bare light bulb, nothing
else.
There were no interior walls, ta-
bles or chairs.
Tule Lake camp was built on a dry
lake bed, which was so sandy that
they would experience sandstorms,
as well as the extremes of snow in
the winter and very hot summers.
The mess hall and latrines were a
half block away.
"There was no shower curtain, so
you may be showering alone or with
15 people," Semba said.
At 15, Semba did not have a job,
but the rule was that families need
to be self-sufficient.
They grew lettuce, cabbage,
squash, and if they were lucky,
would get dried fish.
"We soaked it so it could become
soft," Semba said. "We had very
little meat, but the diet was sustain-
able."
Several students asked how, over
two years with a lackluster school
system, kids could possibly stay en-
gaged.
"I'm sad to say many of us were
bored," Semba said. "You can only
play so much baseball."
They would make their own
games for fun, including variations
of Ante-I-Over, or putting old cans
on shoes to try to make as much
noise as possible.
Only those who were farmers
were allowed to leave camp, and
for the most part they were kept in
the dark about the war or how long
they would be staying in internment
camps.
Eventually, they were released,
and Semba was accepted to Ma-
calester College thanks in part to
the work of the National Japanese
American Relocation Council.
Semba said that as she took the
train to Minnesota, she finally felt
like she was home again being able
to see trees and other vegetation.
"All we had [at Tule Lake] was
sagebrushes," Semba said.
She transferred to the University
of Minnesota one year later after
the war ended to major in food
science. She stayed in Minnesota,
married, and raised four children in
south Minneapolis, where she still
resides.
She said of the many life lessons
she learned, the importance of edu-
cation was one of the most crucial.
"I made sure [my children] stud-
ied and did well in life." Semba said.
"I want you to learn this ... we are
all Americans ... and you have an
obligation to our country. You must
vote. Not everyone has that privi-
lege. Please use it."
When asked if anything in the po-
litical climate nowadays reminded
her of her time 75 years ago, her re-
sponse was simple.
"No matter what our national-
ity, we should remember that we are
equal, we are Americans, and we
must stand together," Semba said.
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"No matter what our nationality, we should
remember that we are equal, we are Amer-
icans, and we must stand together."
Hannah Samba
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