{"id":6193,"date":"2017-02-25T18:35:26","date_gmt":"2017-02-25T18:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.brethren.org\/news\/?p=6193"},"modified":"2018-10-05T19:21:08","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T19:21:08","slug":"brethren-at-oregon-senate-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2017\/brethren-at-oregon-senate-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Church of the Brethren members invited to Oregon Senate for key vote"},"content":{"rendered":"
Church of the Brethren Newsline
\nFebruary\u00a025,\u00a02017<\/b><\/p>\n
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Among a group of Japanese-Americans gathered at the Oregon State Senate for the unanimous vote on SCR 14 were Barbara Dat\u00e9 (third from left) and Florence Dat\u00e9 Smith (fourth from left). Photo by Kay Endo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Florence Dat\u00e9 Smith and her daughter Barbara Dat\u00e9 on Feb. 16 were among at least 17 Japanese-Americans invited to sit on the chamber floor of the Oregon State Senate for a vote unanimously approving Senate Concurrent Resolution (SCR) 14. The resolution recognizes the historical significance of Feb. 19, 1942, the date President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed executive order 9066 setting in motion the internment of some 120,000 Japanese-Americans during World War II.<\/p>\n

The resolution recognizes how the executive order restricted \u201cthe freedom of Japanese Americans and other legal resident aliens through required identification cards, travel restrictions, seizure of personal property and incarceration,\u201d and resolves to \u201csupport the goals of the Japanese American community in recognizing the national Day of Remembrance to increase public awareness of these actions.\u201d Among other things, the resolution also calls on the people of Oregon to \u201cpause to reflect upon the lessons learned from the Japanese American incarceration experience, appreciate the contributions that immigrants and refugees bring to our nation and commit to valuing all Americans, irrespective of their ethnicity, religion or country of origin\u201d (see\u00a0https:\/\/olis.leg.state.or.us\/liz\/2017R1\/
\nDownloads\/MeasureDocument\/SCR14<\/a>\u00a0).<\/p>\n

Among those affected by executive order 9066 were Florence Dat\u00e9 Smith and her parents. Smith, now age 95, is a resident of Eugene, Ore. She sat with her state Senator Floyd Prozanski, and Dat\u00e9 sat with Republican Lead Senator Ted Ferrioli. Dat\u00e9 reported to Newsline that Ferrioli had worked hard on SCR 14.<\/p>\n

The Oregon House vote on the measure is scheduled for March 28, which Dat\u00e9 notes is Minoru Yasui Day in Oregon. Yasui, born in Oregon, became a lawyer and after the bombing of Pearl Harbor fought laws targeting Japanese-Americans. Eventually his own conviction for breaking curfew made its way to the Supreme Court, which affirmed his conviction, and he spent most of World War II in internment camps. President Barack Obama awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Nov. 24, 2015.<\/p>\n

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Florence Dat\u00e9 Smith and Barbara Dat\u00e9 at the Oregon State Senate on Feb. 16, 2017. Photo by Kay Endo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cOne thing amazing about this is that at its inception, Oregon was designed for \u2018white people\u2019 only. So Oregon has come a long way,\u201d Dat\u00e9 wrote in her report on the event. \u201cThis statement by the Oregon Senate is amazing and affirming even just as a stand-alone decision to acknowledge the historic, demeaning, and perhaps even unconstitutional Presidential Executive Order 9066.\u201d<\/p>\n

Find personal testimonies submitted to the Oregon legislature in support of SCR 14 at\u00a0https:\/\/olis.leg.state.or.us\/liz\/2017R1\/Measures\/Exhibits\/SCR14<\/a>\u00a0. Read Florence Dat\u00e9 Smith\u2019s personal story of the internment–told originally in \u201cMessenger\u201d magazine in 1988, and now published in Messenger Online–at\u00a0www.brethren.org\/messenger\/articles\/2017\/remembering-internment.html<\/a>\u00a0.<\/p>\n

Go to\u00a0www.brethren.org\/Newsline<\/a>\u00a0to subscribe to the Church of the Brethren Newsline free e-mail news service and receive church news every week.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Florence Dat\u00e9 Smith and her daughter Barbara Dat\u00e9 on Feb. 16 were among at least 17 Japanese-Americans invited to sit on the chamber floor of the Oregon State Senate for a vote unanimously approving Senate Concurrent Resolution (SCR) 14. The resolution recognizes the historical significance of Feb. 19, 1942, the date President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed executive order 9066 setting in motion the internment of some 120,000 Japanese-Americans during World War II.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":6199,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1295,1274,1263],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-6193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-advocacy","tag-intercultural","tag-peace"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6193"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6202,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6193\/revisions\/6202"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6193"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=6193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}