And Then They Came for Us – Does History Matter? — CATS Explores Why It Does!
On Wednesday, August 7, at 7pm, at the Nevada Theatre, Community Asian Theatre of the Sierra (CATS), in partnership with The Onyx Downtown, is presenting And Then They Came for Us, an award-winning documentary by Abby Ginzberg and Ken Schneider and starring George Takei, an actor and activist, better known as “Mr. Sulu” from Star Trek. And Then They Came for Us was filmed in 2017, in response to President Trump’s “Muslim Travel Ban”. Its message still resonates today, comparing the WWII incarceration of Japanese Americans at Internment Camps, better known as War Relocation Centers, to what is happening in American streets today, especially towards immigrants and people of color.
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Manzanar, Diverted: Where Water Becomes Dust
CATS is pleased to partner with Onyx Downtown again on Sunday, May 26, in bringing this documentary, an inspired and poetic portrait of a place and its people. Manzanar, Diverted: When Water Becomes Dust follows intergenerational women from three communities who defend their land, their history and their culture from the insatiable thirst of Los Angeles. READ MORE...
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