Never Again is Now!: Disrupting Silence and Memorializing Japanese American Incarceration at San José State University
Never Again is Now!: Disrupting Silence and Memorializing Japanese American Incarceration at San José State University is a student-led campaign and artistic movement to remember Japanese American history and call for the recognition and acknowledgement of San José State University’s role in the incarceration of Japanese Americans as a result of Executive Order 9066 during World War II.
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We are raising money to support the design and construction of a permanent mural at the site of Uchida Hall. Our vision for the mural tells this story of resistance to oppression, unity and dismantling institutional racism, the drive for reparatory justice, accepting accountability, and disrupting silence. The reckoning and centering of this history connects the Japanese American incarceration to a much larger movement of allyship and resistance against systems, discrimination, and oppression of historically marginalized communities. It empowers us, as present and future leaders of our generation, to disrupt the silence, speak out against the norm of complacency, and fight injustice.
Ensuring the stories and voices of community and faculty members affected during February 1942 to the present—are properly amplified, preserved, and heard by past, present, and future Spartans is vital for transformative change and social justice at San Jose State. Please consider a contribution today.
“There is a popular saying, we stand on the shoulders of giants. But I like to think that we are standing shoulder to shoulder, making steps and working together across generations so that injustice does not get repeated for the next.”
— Susan Hayase, San Jose Nikkei Resisters
