WE HEREBY REFUSE: a graphic novel

Haunted by History, Japanese Americans Fight Trump’s Immigration Crackdown nytimes.com/2025/11/30/us/… via @NYTimes

Our film on the largest organized resistance to wartime incarceration is now on a streaming platform. "Conscience and the Constitution" premiered 25 yrs ago on PBS. You can now watch it on the Nichi Bei Foundation's Films of Remembrance On Demand service. resisters.com/2025/11/30/for…

Join @KCLS on August 9 for a talk by author @FrankAbe about the parallels between present day mass deportation, Japanese American wartime incarceration, and his graphic novel, We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration: kcls.bibliocommons.com/events/67eef59…

Tonight, YURI is proud to be in conversation with our dear friend @WeHerebyRefuse @FrankAbe and his co-editor Floyd Cheung as they present their new @PenguinBooks anthology, THE LITERATURE OF JAPANESE AMERICAN INCARCERATION.

Thanks to Adam Smith at @SampanNewspaper in Boston for this interview on Mitsuye Endo and @WeHerebyRefuse, on the occasion of her award of the Presidential Citizens Medal. sampan.org/2025/immigrati…

Resistance to injustice. In NYC, join a distinguished panel of jurists & legal scholars from the @FordhamNYC Center on Asian Americans and The Law for a special screening on February 25 of CONSCIENCE AND THE CONSTITUTION. RSVP: go.activecalendar.com/FordhamUnivers…

Start the new year right with a 2025 "Resisters of the Pacific Northwest" calendar from Friends of Minidoka, with material on the Minidoka draft resisters, the Mothers Society that objecting to draft of of their sons, & 1st Day of Remembrance. Order: minidoka.org/shop/p/2025-re…

In the face of Trump’s mass deportation agenda, CA must set a model of inclusion for the nation. Our leaders must IMMEDIATELY use every tool at their disposal to protect and defend our immigrant neighbors - and our deepest values. Please read and share our full statement ⬇️

Fight back. Teach the history of wartime incarceration that the president-elect is invoking as the precedent for his program of mass deportation & 21st century American concentration camps. Read our graphic novel available from: chinmusicpress.com/product-page/w…

Fight back. Teach the history of wartime incarceration that the president-elect is invoking as the precedent for his program of mass deportation & 21st century American concentration camps. @PRHHigherEd has just issued this Teachers Guide for our anthology from @PenguinClassics.

We are pleased to announce that the Teacher's Guide for The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration edited by @FrankAbe and Floyd Cheung is now available! Find the guide written by Laura Reis Mayer here: assetbucketpublic.7169.prh.com/9780/143/133/2…

First interview post-election. It speaks for itself. See the full Q an A with Bianca Vandenbos at her Book Notions blog: booknotions.com/qa-with-frank-…

On Monday 10/21 at 7pm our Seward Park store welcomes Frank Abe and special guest with Vince Schleitwiler as they discuss the book, The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration @FrankAbe @PenguinClassics thirdplacebooks.com/event/frank-abe

Los Angeles, CA: JANM Book Club: Literature of Japanese American Incarceration on Oct. 12 from 2:00pm to 3:30pm PDT @jamuseum discovernikkei.org/en/events/2024…

It’s an honor to serve as featured speakers for @DenshoProject’s fall fundraiser. Densho is the gold standard in preservation of camp history and an indispensable resource for us in building our anthology for @PenguinClassics. Join us Oct. 10.

Thank you very much for sharing your difficult experiences during the WWII, Takashi-san! We have learned a lot and will continue to share your thoughts with our readers from now on. @HeartMountainWY @MasakoMiki @apacurator @jamuseum @FrankAbe @gaihou1 chunichi.co.jp/article/946441

⁦@FrankAbe⁩ - We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration youtu.be/L68b5kIzAtY

In Sacramento, join me and @sharony360 on 10/16 for a screening of "One Fighting Irishman" and discussion of the graphic novel, @WeHerebyRefuse, moderated by Sacramento Sup. Ct. Judge Kara Ueda at Matsui Federal Courthouse. Sponsored 9th Judicial Hist. Soc. & @PacificMcGeorge.

We take it as a sign that we've made the big time when we see the @SeattleChannel’s animation of the Jim Akutsu chapter of our graphic novel being streamed on board @AlaskaAir flights!