FUNDRAISER FOR MICHIGAN IMMIGRANT RIGHTS CENTER (MIRC)
MIRC's federal funding was recently terminated, compromising their ability to serve unaccompanied children in Michigan and provide court-based assistance to immigrants facing removal proceedings. They need help to maintain their presence for immigrant communities in Washtenaw County and across Michigan. Every dollar raised helps them continue their services for children and other individuals navigating an increasingly complex and adversarial immigration system.

Join us for an evening with Satsuki Ina, a wonderful activist who was born in the Japanese American internment camps, as she discusses her book "The Poet and the Silk Girl: A Memoir of Love, Imprisonment, and Protest"

Book description:
The Poet and the Silk Girl illustrates through one family's saga the generational struggle of Japanese Americans who resisted racist oppression, fought for the restoration of their rights, and clung to their full humanity in the face of adversity. With psychological insight, Ina excavates the unmentionable, recovering a chronicle of resilience amidst one of the severest blows to American civil liberties. As she traces the legacies of trauma, she connects her family's ordeal to modern-day mass incarceration at the U.S.-Mexico border. Lyrical and gripping, this cautionary tale implores us to prevent the repetition of atrocity, pairing healing and protest with galvanizing power. 

Satsuki currently works with other internment camp survivors to fight injustices such as family separation at the border. See https://tsuruforsolidarity.org/