Yuri Kochiyama, Internment, and the Activist Life | Mickey Z.

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Mickey Z. -- World News Trust

June 5, 2014

“Our ultimate objective in learning about anything is to try to create and develop a more just society.”

- Yuri Kochiyama

One of the primary components of a corporate-owned media existing within a white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy is conditioning the masses as to which of our fellow humans should be deemed a hero or a villain; whom are we to worship or mourn or demonize or ignore.

Case in point: The recent death of a charismatic and tireless justice-seeker, someone who’d been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize and endured on this mortal coil until the age of 93.

You make the call: Do we lionize or marginalize?

Please allow me to introduce a few more details: I’m talking about a woman. A Japanese-American woman. A Japanese-American woman named Yuri Kochiyama who is perhaps best known for pushing the U.S. government into apologizing for and offering reparations for that time the Land of the Free™ -- in the midst of taking on the architects of prison camps -- interned more than 100,000 of its own citizens without due process.

If you don’t remember that time, well, chalk up another win for a corporate-owned media existing within a white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy and read on.

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