Join JACL Chicago's Kansha Project in folding 1,000 cranes! Help bring the spirit of kansha to Manzanar through JACL Chicago’s Kansha Project Fold-a-Crane event! Join members of the Kansha Alumni Leadership Board as we fold one thousand origami cranes (senbazaru) that will be delivered to Manzanar cemetery as an offering of peace, gratitude, and remembrance by the 2019 Kansha Project cohort. 🌸🌸 We will be gathering as a community of Kansha Project alumni and supporters to fold cranes at one…

Join us for the 2019 Kansha Project Culmination! Meet this year's participants as they share their reflections from their trip to LA's Little Tokyo and Manzanar National Historic Site. Participants will also present personal projects that express their impressions and insights from their experience. The Kansha Project is a JACL Chicago program that connects self-identified Japanese Americans, ages 18-25, to the continuing legacy of the Japanese American community’s incarceration during World War II. The program centers around an educational trip…

Join us to hear a conversation between this panel of amazing organizers as they help us understand some of the organizing work that’s happening in Chicago around immigrant detention and deportation, incarceration, and surveillance, and how the Nikkei (Japanese diaspora) community can show up: Arianna Salgado, Organized Communities Against Deportations Muhammad Sankari, Arab American Action Network Sharlyn Grace, Chicago Community Bond Fund Miya Sommers, Nikkei Resisters (Bay Area) Moderated by: Brandon Lee, Asian Americans Advancing Justice   #NeverAgainIsNow is a…