Global Black Caucus Events

Sunday, January 16

Zoom - ONLINE

Why We Can't Wait

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Global Reparations Task Force Chair; Germany DPCA Voting Rep; Saxony Chapter Chair

As the Reparations Study Bill (H.R. 40) draws closer to a full U.S. House vote, it is increasingly clear that reparative justice is the most powerful means of reversing generational racial disparities. 

On January 16 at 5:30 p.m. CET, organizers from Nikkei Progressives, Nikkei for Civil Rights and Redress, and Human Rights Watch will speak with DA on the history of the Japanese-American post-WWII Reparations and Black Reparations movements, how such redress has impacted both groups, and why we should continue fighting for this legislation at local, state, and national levels.
Our special guests will include:
  • Dreisen Heath who is a researcher and advocate in Human Rights Watch's United States Program examining and advocating on racial justice issues in the US context. She leads Human Rights Watch's domestic research and advocacy on reparations and reparative justice.
  • traci kato-kiriyama, a writer, performer and community organizer with Nikkei Progressives, who is a passionate fighter for Black American Reparations.
  • Kathy Masaoka, a Co-Chair of Nikkei for Civil Rights and Redress, a seminal organization in the historic fight for Japanese-American reparations and advocates for the passage of the 1988 Civil Liberties Act which brought the first form of reparative justice for victims of WWII-era internment camps.

 

WHEN

Sunday, January 16, 2022 at 11:30 AM Eastern Time (US & Canada) Time

CONTACT

Reparations Task Force
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