Friday, May 7, 2021
Yuri Kochiyama was a Japanese-American activist who dedicated her life to social change and civil rights in the black, Latino, Native American and Asia-American communities. Kochiyama was born May 19, 1921, in a small town south of Los Angeles. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, she and her family were forcibly relocated to internment camps along with tens of thousands of other Japanese-Americans. In the 1980s, she pushed for reparations and a formal government apology to Japanese-Americans through the Civil Liberties Act. In addition to advocating for compensation for Japanese American incarceration, she was also involved in anti-imperialist and anti-Vietnam War protests, labor organizing, and supported the development of Ethnic Studies programs. - Written by Allison Houn for the International Students Club AAPI Heritage Month Celebration
The Environmental Action Club’s tree planting event has finally been wrapped up. Thank you to the people who volunteered and bought trees for the Tree-Plenish planting event! It would not have been possible without all your work! At the end of the event, we sold 216 trees. Again, thank you for participating and/or buying trees for this event!
Miss Garrity is seeking reliable, hardworking students to do a Community Service ALP for the Yearbook next year!
ALP students would be responsible for:
Photographing the community with a focus on trying to get candid shots of every person in the school
Learning how to edit photos in Photoshop
Learning how to use the Picaboo software
Creating backgrounds and collage layouts
Homework would include attending and photographing events, performances, etc.
