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NEW DAWN RISING History and Summation of the Japan Town Collective (4 of 7)
One of the first large forums was about the United Farm Workers struggle against large agribusiness and corporate farming, and the role that Japanese American Nisei farmers played. The Japanese American Nisei farmers were small farmers, but often took the side of agribusiness against the UFW.
They were pretty adamant in their opposition to the UFW because they felt organizing farm workers would hurt them the most since they were small farming businesses. This forum brought out both sides of the struggle and was pretty enlightening to a lot of the people who attended.
We had film showings about the struggle in Japan and in other countries, especially from socialist China. We showed "The Red Detachment of Women."
From these activities, people started to come forward and participate in different activities. One in particular was the anti-War march in downtown San Francisco to protest the renewed bombing in northern Vietnam. This march was a particularly successful organizing event that brought out a lot of "advanced elements" closer to the JTC. During that time there was an on-going struggle against a lot of buildings threatened with destruction by redevelopment to pave the way to construct buildings for corporations. This anti-redevelopment struggle was the basis for starting a mass organization called CANE (Committee Against Nihonmachi Evictions).
New Dawn 5 - CANE
