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Mar 29, 2017

You might know about Japanese Americans incarcerated during WWII, but did you know the U.S. also rounded up Japanese Latin Americans, mostly from Peru.

They were held and imprisoned in the U.S. to be used as pawns of war. About 2,200 were rounded up. 

On Emil Amok's Takeout, I talk to two survivors, Art Shibayama, 86 ,...


Mar 22, 2017

In an exclusive interview, host Emil Guillermo talks with Profs. Scott Kurashige and Emily Lawsin about their discrimination lawsuit filed against the University of Michigan. 

See more on the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund blog, http://www.aaldef.org/blog

The lawsuit paints a broad picture of...


Mar 16, 2017

With just hours before the Travel Ban 2.0 was set to take effect, federal judge Derrick Kahala Watson in Honolulu halted it nationwide by issuing a temporary restraining order to the listed plaintiffs: the State of Hawaii and Ismail Elshikh.

You heard a lot about Hawaii, but not much about Elshikh in most of the news...


Mar 8, 2017

In Emil Amok's Takeout, host Emil Guillermo, writer on the Asian American Legal Defense and Educaton Fund blog (www.aaldef.org/blog) talks about the new travel ban.

Even sanitized, the ban is an attack on Muslims and Muslim Americans. 

Beyond the travelers it specifically bans, it authorizes a provision to create a data...


Mar 4, 2017

It's not every day an undocumented person gets to sit in the chamber of power and listen to the president.

But that's what happened to Angie Kim.

Emil Guillermo talks with Kim, a community organizing fellow at the Minkwon Center for Community Action in Flushing, Queens, NY.

Brought to the U.S. at age name by her parents...