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<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">Information provided by Deborah Gitlitz:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<i><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">***please pardon the cross-posting***</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The Minoru Yasui Day Essay Contest is now open for submissions!</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Folks who work with teens/students</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">, take note! Here’s a chance for your middle or high school teens
to <b>win money </b>-- and learn important facts about Oregon history and civil rights at the same time.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">What:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">
<b>The 2018 Minoru Yasui Day Essay Contest</b> (deadline: March 1)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">What Makes It Useful, Interesting, and Easy for You to Take Advantage Of:</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Free, streaming, primary-source-based, inspiring, one-hour
<b>documentary</b>. (Common Core connection!)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level2 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The film is about Oregon lawyer Minoru Yasui and the Japanese American internment during World War II.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
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</span></span></span><![endif]><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Based in Oregon history</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> and pertinent to current events.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Teens can write an
<b>essay </b>for a chance to <b>win cash</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Works as a
<b>library program</b> <b>or in partnership with a classroom.</b> (<b>Curriculum </b>
materials available!)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Quick Particulars:</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Teens watch a short, free documentary film about civil rights history in Oregon.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline">
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The film is
<i>Never Give Up! Minoru Yasui and the Fight for Justice</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline">
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">It’s about the US government’s internment of Japanese-American Oregonians during WWII, and Min Yasui’s legal challenge to that practice. Lots of interesting
footage and live interviews.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline">
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Educators (including librarians) can get a link to screen the documentary for free.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline">
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Here are just a few of the ways you might use the documentary:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Show it at your library.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Stream it and discuss it at a Teen Council or TAB meeting.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline">
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Partner with teachers to show it in the classroom.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Discuss it with a book group.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The documentary and its related websites are chock full of primary source materials -- great for supporting teachers and students with the Common Core standards.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="http://www.minoruyasuifilm.org/">www.minoruyasuifilm.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Teens who submit an essay by March 1 have the chance to win a cash prize, have their work web published, and read their essay in Portland on March 28, designated
by the state legislature as Minoru Yasui Day in Oregon (travel subsidies to Portland provided).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">To access the film online, or to ask other questions, simply contact Holly Yasui at
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue"><a href="mailto:info@minoruyasuifilm.org">info@minoruyasuifilm.org</a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">The Min Yasui legacy project and Oregon Nikkei Endowment are sponsoring the 2018 Minoru Yasui Day Essay Contest, open to all Oregon middle-school and high-school students. Please see:</span><a href="https://www.minoruyasuitribute.org/essaycontest"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">https://www.minoruyasuitribute.org/essaycontest</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> for complete contest rules, and</span><a href="http://www.minoruyasuifilm.org/oregon-projects"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">http://www.minoruyasuifilm.org/oregon-projects</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> for a flyer. Educators including librarians and teachers
are encouraged to screen the new documentary film, <i>Never Give Up! Minoru Yasui and the Fight for Justice</i> (</span><a href="http://www.minoruyasuifilm.org/"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">www.minoruyasuifilm.org</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">)
and to help students to prepare their essays, which will be accepted from January 1 – March 1, 2018, by discussing the resource materials available on the Minoru Yasui Tribute website, and responding to the essay prompt, which is: “</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Explain
the lessons learned from the life and legacy of Minoru Yasui and the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. How do those lessons inform your position on current U.S. policies on immigration and national security?”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">The film can be accessed online by contacting Holly Yasui at
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:blue"><a href="mailto:info@minoruyasuifilm.org">info@minoruyasuifilm.org</a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">. Other resource materials
are available at</span><a href="https://www.minoruyasuitribute.org/copy-of-resources"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">https://www.minoruyasuitribute.org/copy-of-resources</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">, including copies of legal and historical documents
related to Yasui’s legal case; unpublished writings by Yasui himself and others; and a bibliography, filmography and list of internet websites containing extensive information about Min Yasui. Middle-school curriculum materials for teachers are available through
the Oregon Nikkei Legacy Center, please contact Cynthia Bayse at </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:blue"><a href="mailto:cynthia@oregonnikkei.org">cynthia@oregonnikkei.org</a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Minoru Yasui was the first Japanese American attorney in Oregon, and in 1942, he challenged the
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">discriminatory military orders that led to the forced removal of all persons of Japanese ancestry from the West Coast and their imprisonment in War Relocation Authority (WRA) camps inland.
He spent 9 months in solitary confinement in the Multnomah County Jail awaiting his appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court which, in 1943, ruled against him. In spite of the great injustices that he, his family and community endured, Minoru Yasui continued for the
rest of his life to defend the democratic ideals upon which our country was founded, and the human and civil rights of all people. In 2015, President Barack Obama posthumously awarded Minoru Yasui the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the first and only Oregonian
to receive that highest civilian honor in the nation. In 2016, the Oregon State Legislature voted unanimously to designate March 28 – the day he initiated his legal test case – as Minoru Yasui Day.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">The Essay Contest winners in both the middle-school and high-school categories will receive cash prizes and their work will be published in the Minoru Yasui Tribute Project webpage.
First place winners and runners up will receive travel subsidies in order to read their work at a special awards ceremony in Portland on Minoru Yasui Day, March 28, 2018. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Posted on behalf of Holly Yasui, film director, who would like to encourage students to participate in the essay contest.
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