Hes been a leader in the failed Republican efforts to suspend Californias gas tax.

America needs all of us as responsible citizens actively participating in our democracy.The young child had no clue why the women on the train were crying.

nor why there were armed soldiers at each end of the train car.This coincided with a push for recompense or redress for the damage done by the U.Takei took questions from his young audience.

He remembered being taught the Pledge of Allegiance and beginning each day of school with that pledge.some of whom had never heard of the event before.

Right outside my schoolhouse window.

but its also a peoples democracy.and community stories to convey the continuing constitutional relevance of this tragic episode in our history to contemporary issues of racial identity.

at the Japanese American National Museum.and a panel discussion with key community leaders and scholars.

His legal work with students includes persuading Kansas.The author of When Can We Go Back to America? Voices of Japanese American Incarceration During World War II (Simon Schuster.