http:\/\/hastingspark1942.ca<\/a> in 1942, the start of internment\/incarceration. Later with the Japanese Canadian Citizens League (JCCL) she and another teacher Teruko Hidaka organized the training of educated Japanese Canadians so they could teach the children in the internment\/incarceration camps. The BC government had abrogated their responsibility to provide education for Japanese Canadian children.<\/p>\nHide had been active with the Japanese Canadian Citizens League (JCCL) and years earlier in 1936 they selected her to be a part of a four-member delegation to appear before the Special Committee on Elections and Franchise Acts of the House of Commons in Ottawa. Japanese Canadians wanted the franchise, the right to vote, despite Prime Minister Mackenzie King\u2019s statement that he \u201cwas not aware that either the Orientals themselves or the public generally were advocating votes for Orientals.\u201d The Special Committee did not support the request.<\/p>\n
Japanese Canadians would not get the franchise and the right to vote until 1949. That year, four years after the Second World War ended, the approximately 22,000 Japanese Canadians (including Hide Hyodo Shimizu) who had been forcibly uprooted, dispossessed and interned\/incarcerated would be allowed to leave the camps and forced labour at farms. They had to rebuild their lives. The dispossession meant there would be no homes to return to and the ongoing racism made it difficult to move.<\/p>\n
The right to vote was also denied to First Nations and Inuit peoples and other racialized people. Indo Canadians and Chinese Canadians would get the vote in 1947 and First Nations in 1960. Inuit received the right to vote in 1950, but they had no access to voting until 1962.<\/p>\n
Women who were Indigenous or of Asian ethnicity faced multiple layers of discrimination including gender inequality. While there have been many steps forward, there is more to be done. Women continue to face inequities and attacks on their rights. Women of Asian ethnicity and Indigenous women still deal with issues of discrimination, greater incidents of violence, and are not represented proportionately in the higher levels of leadership in business, unions, government, and elected positions. Gender diverse people also face discrimination.<\/p>\n
The NAJC encourages you to take one action to educate yourself and those in your networks on Persons Day and Woman\u2019s History Month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Welcome to the new NAJC National Executive Board.\u00a0 The acclamation took place at the NAJC Annual General Meeting on September 23, 2022. Les Kojima President Naomi Katsumi Secretary Maryka Omatsu Director Judy Hanazawa Director Yukari Peerless Director Alex Okuda-Rayfuse Director Susanne Tabata Director Lorene Oikawa\u00a0Past President Staff Kevin Okabe Executive Director The National Executive Board […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10695,"featured_media":14142,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/najc.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14141"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/najc.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/najc.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/najc.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10695"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/najc.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14141"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/najc.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14146,"href":"https:\/\/najc.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14141\/revisions\/14146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/najc.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/najc.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/najc.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/najc.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}