Screening "The Ralph Razo Story" based on the fact of wartime internment, Feb 5

Cultural News Email Daily   Cultural News Email Daily is edited by Shige Higashi, Japanese culture coordinator in Los Angeles, to spread information about affordable programs and events in Southern California for appreciating Japanese tradition. Your support to Cultural News would be appreciated. www.culturalnews.com/donation Communities do not exist without the efforts to build our communities. As our contribution to the local community, Cultural News now provides obituaries in the Japanese American community of Southern California. www.culturalnews.com/obituary is updated daily.  Screening: "The Ralph Lazo Story" based on the fact of the wartime internment, Feb 5, 2 - 2:30 PM   Little Tokyo Branch Library, Nikkei for Civil Rights & Redress (NCRR), and Visual Communications present screening of "Stand Up For Justice: The Ralph Lazo Story" on Saturday, February 5, 2-3:30 pm at Little Tokyo Branch Library, 203 S. Los Angeles Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012.   A 30-minute film based on the true story of a 16-year-old, Mexican-Irish American high school student from Los Angeles who stood by his Japanese American friends when they were sent to concentration camps during World War II.   Ralph Lazo voluntarily lived at the Manzanar concentration camp as the only non-Japanese (non-spouse), was drafted from the camp, and in later years continued to support his Japanese American friends in the fight for redress and reparations.   "Stand Up For Justice is a heart-wrenching 30-minute drama that deserves to become a feature-length film"  -Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times   ·Special Jury Award, WorldFest, Houston, TX·Los Angeles Asian American Film Festival·Chicago Asian American Showcase·Hawaii Asian American Film Festival·San Francisco Asian American Film Festival·   "Stand Up For Justice: The Ralph Lazo Story" is a Production of VisualCommunications and Nikkei for Civil Rights & Redress; funded in part by the Civil Liberties Public Education Fund, California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, Japanese American Community Services, individual and organizational donors.

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