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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHappy birthday to Yuri Kochiyama
https://www.google.com/doodles/Its with great pleasure that Google celebrates Yuri Kochiyama, an Asian American activist who dedicated her life to the fight for human rights and against racism and injustice. Born in California, Kochiyama spent her early twenties in a Japanese American internment camp in Arkansas during WWII. She and her family would later move to Harlem, where she became deeply involved in African American, Latino, and Asian American liberation and empowerment movements. Today's doodle by Alyssa Winans features Kochiyama taking a stand at one of her many protests and rallies.
Kochiyama left a legacy of advocacy: for peace, U.S. political prisoners, nuclear disarmament, and reparations for Japanese Americans interned during the war. She was known for her tireless intensity and compassion, and remained committed to speaking out, consciousness-raising, and taking action until her death in 2014.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Kochiyama
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Happy birthday to Yuri Kochiyama (Original Post)
Bonobo
May 2016
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Behind the Aegis
(53,956 posts)1. Kicking for exposure
Ex Lurker
(3,813 posts)2. Her legacy is rather ambiguous
She also was a supporter of Mao, even after the excesses of the Cultural Revolution were exposed. She backed the Shining Path terrorists in Peru, and she praised Osama Bin Ladin. Link from Vox, hardly a right wing source. http://www.vox.com/2016/5/19/11713686/yuri-kochiyama
linuxman
(2,337 posts)3. I don't celebrate Maoists.