BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Oakland Asian Cultural Center - ECPv6.17.5//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Oakland Asian Cultural Center X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://oacc.cc X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Oakland Asian Cultural Center REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20170312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20171105T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20180311T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20181104T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20190310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20191103T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180728T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180728T200000 DTSTAMP:20190404T153435Z CREATED:20180703T224814Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190404T153435Z UID:4537-1532804400-1532808000@oacc.cc SUMMARY:See You at the 7 - Stories From the Bay Area's Last Original Mile House DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 5\, 20266-8 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of One Fighting Irishman\, a film by Sharon Yamato and Evan Kodani\, followed by a panel discussion around immigrant rights\, Japanese American history\, and allyship. Narrated by George Takei\, this 30-minute documentary tells the story of Wayne M. Collins\, the San Francisco civil rights attorney who prevented more than 5\,500 Japanese Americans from being deported after imprisonment at the Tule Lake Segregation Center\, considered the worst of America’s ten WWII concentration camps.    The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Sharon Yamato\, Dale Minami\, Karen Korematsu\, Wayne Collins\, moderated by Justice Tracie Brown. Light refreshments will be served. Register for free tickets at the link below.   This event is sponsored by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee and Campaign for Justice\, the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society\, the Northern District Historical Society and the Federal Bar Association\, Northern District of California Chapter. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reserve Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sharon Yamato is a writer/journalist\, TV producer\, and independent filmmaker whose latest film\, One Fighting Irishman\, tells the story of attorney Wayne Collins and his fight to restore American citizenship for more than 5\,000 renunciants held at the Tule Lake Segregation Center. Her other films include Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn\, A Flicker in Eternity\, and Moving Walls\, for which she wrote an accompanying book\, Moving Walls: The Barracks of America’s Concentration Camps. She has written articles for the Los Angeles Times and is a columnist for the Los Angeles daily newspaper\, The Rafu Shimpo \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Presiding Justice Tracie L. Brown was appointed to California’s First District Court of Appeal in 2018 and elevated to the position of Presiding Justice of Division Four in 2023.  She had previously served for five years on the San Francisco Superior Court.    Justice Brown graduated from Harvard University and received her J.D. from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law.  She clerked for Judge M. Margaret McKeown on the Ninth Circuit and was an associate at Morrison & Foerster and Cooley LLP.  She then joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office\, where she tried civil and criminal cases and argued before the Ninth Circuit.    Justice Brown received the Asian American Bar Association’s Joe Morozumi Award and the California State Bar’s Jack Berman Award for her work on a pro bono case representing San Francisco’s Japanese American community.  She was honored with a U.S. Department of Justice Director’s Award for prosecuting three defendants who distributed millions of doses of controlled substances through an online “pill mill.”      Justice Brown taught trial advocacy at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law for approximately ten years\, and frequently guest-teaches at Stanford Law School\, University of San Francisco Law School\, and U.C. Law San Francisco (formerly known as Hastings).  Justice Brown is actively involved with numerous organizations\, including the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area\, the California Asian Pacific American Judges Association\, the American Law Institute\, California Women Lawyers\, California Women Judges\, and the Bar Association of San Francisco. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/see-you-at-the-7-stories-from-the-bay-areas-last-original-mile-house/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180722T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180722T170000 DTSTAMP:20190404T153531Z CREATED:20180703T214837Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190404T153531Z UID:4521-1532271600-1532278800@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Chinese Exclusion Laws and Being Muslim American in Post 9/11 DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 5\, 20266-8 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of One Fighting Irishman\, a film by Sharon Yamato and Evan Kodani\, followed by a panel discussion around immigrant rights\, Japanese American history\, and allyship. Narrated by George Takei\, this 30-minute documentary tells the story of Wayne M. Collins\, the San Francisco civil rights attorney who prevented more than 5\,500 Japanese Americans from being deported after imprisonment at the Tule Lake Segregation Center\, considered the worst of America’s ten WWII concentration camps.    The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Sharon Yamato\, Dale Minami\, Karen Korematsu\, Wayne Collins\, moderated by Justice Tracie Brown. Light refreshments will be served. Register for free tickets at the link below.   This event is sponsored by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee and Campaign for Justice\, the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society\, the Northern District Historical Society and the Federal Bar Association\, Northern District of California Chapter. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reserve Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sharon Yamato is a writer/journalist\, TV producer\, and independent filmmaker whose latest film\, One Fighting Irishman\, tells the story of attorney Wayne Collins and his fight to restore American citizenship for more than 5\,000 renunciants held at the Tule Lake Segregation Center. Her other films include Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn\, A Flicker in Eternity\, and Moving Walls\, for which she wrote an accompanying book\, Moving Walls: The Barracks of America’s Concentration Camps. She has written articles for the Los Angeles Times and is a columnist for the Los Angeles daily newspaper\, The Rafu Shimpo \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Presiding Justice Tracie L. Brown was appointed to California’s First District Court of Appeal in 2018 and elevated to the position of Presiding Justice of Division Four in 2023.  She had previously served for five years on the San Francisco Superior Court.    Justice Brown graduated from Harvard University and received her J.D. from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law.  She clerked for Judge M. Margaret McKeown on the Ninth Circuit and was an associate at Morrison & Foerster and Cooley LLP.  She then joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office\, where she tried civil and criminal cases and argued before the Ninth Circuit.    Justice Brown received the Asian American Bar Association’s Joe Morozumi Award and the California State Bar’s Jack Berman Award for her work on a pro bono case representing San Francisco’s Japanese American community.  She was honored with a U.S. Department of Justice Director’s Award for prosecuting three defendants who distributed millions of doses of controlled substances through an online “pill mill.”      Justice Brown taught trial advocacy at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law for approximately ten years\, and frequently guest-teaches at Stanford Law School\, University of San Francisco Law School\, and U.C. Law San Francisco (formerly known as Hastings).  Justice Brown is actively involved with numerous organizations\, including the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area\, the California Asian Pacific American Judges Association\, the American Law Institute\, California Women Lawyers\, California Women Judges\, and the Bar Association of San Francisco. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/chinese-exclusion-laws-and-being-muslim-american-in-post-9-11/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180706T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180706T200000 DTSTAMP:20190404T153538Z CREATED:20180604T214914Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190404T153538Z UID:4439-1530900000-1530907200@oacc.cc SUMMARY:'SKY\, MOUNTAIN & WATERSCAPE' - Kam Cheung Mok Exhibition DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 5\, 20266-8 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of One Fighting Irishman\, a film by Sharon Yamato and Evan Kodani\, followed by a panel discussion around immigrant rights\, Japanese American history\, and allyship. Narrated by George Takei\, this 30-minute documentary tells the story of Wayne M. Collins\, the San Francisco civil rights attorney who prevented more than 5\,500 Japanese Americans from being deported after imprisonment at the Tule Lake Segregation Center\, considered the worst of America’s ten WWII concentration camps.    The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Sharon Yamato\, Dale Minami\, Karen Korematsu\, Wayne Collins\, moderated by Justice Tracie Brown. Light refreshments will be served. Register for free tickets at the link below.   This event is sponsored by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee and Campaign for Justice\, the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society\, the Northern District Historical Society and the Federal Bar Association\, Northern District of California Chapter. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reserve Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sharon Yamato is a writer/journalist\, TV producer\, and independent filmmaker whose latest film\, One Fighting Irishman\, tells the story of attorney Wayne Collins and his fight to restore American citizenship for more than 5\,000 renunciants held at the Tule Lake Segregation Center. Her other films include Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn\, A Flicker in Eternity\, and Moving Walls\, for which she wrote an accompanying book\, Moving Walls: The Barracks of America’s Concentration Camps. She has written articles for the Los Angeles Times and is a columnist for the Los Angeles daily newspaper\, The Rafu Shimpo \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Presiding Justice Tracie L. Brown was appointed to California’s First District Court of Appeal in 2018 and elevated to the position of Presiding Justice of Division Four in 2023.  She had previously served for five years on the San Francisco Superior Court.    Justice Brown graduated from Harvard University and received her J.D. from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law.  She clerked for Judge M. Margaret McKeown on the Ninth Circuit and was an associate at Morrison & Foerster and Cooley LLP.  She then joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office\, where she tried civil and criminal cases and argued before the Ninth Circuit.    Justice Brown received the Asian American Bar Association’s Joe Morozumi Award and the California State Bar’s Jack Berman Award for her work on a pro bono case representing San Francisco’s Japanese American community.  She was honored with a U.S. Department of Justice Director’s Award for prosecuting three defendants who distributed millions of doses of controlled substances through an online “pill mill.”      Justice Brown taught trial advocacy at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law for approximately ten years\, and frequently guest-teaches at Stanford Law School\, University of San Francisco Law School\, and U.C. Law San Francisco (formerly known as Hastings).  Justice Brown is actively involved with numerous organizations\, including the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area\, the California Asian Pacific American Judges Association\, the American Law Institute\, California Women Lawyers\, California Women Judges\, and the Bar Association of San Francisco. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/opening-reception-of-chinese-ink-wash-landscape-painting-exhibit/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180628T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180628T210000 DTSTAMP:20190404T153559Z CREATED:20180627T232741Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190404T153559Z UID:4488-1530212400-1530219600@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Finding Japanese-American Roots in Japan and the U.S. DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 5\, 20266-8 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of One Fighting Irishman\, a film by Sharon Yamato and Evan Kodani\, followed by a panel discussion around immigrant rights\, Japanese American history\, and allyship. Narrated by George Takei\, this 30-minute documentary tells the story of Wayne M. Collins\, the San Francisco civil rights attorney who prevented more than 5\,500 Japanese Americans from being deported after imprisonment at the Tule Lake Segregation Center\, considered the worst of America’s ten WWII concentration camps.    The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Sharon Yamato\, Dale Minami\, Karen Korematsu\, Wayne Collins\, moderated by Justice Tracie Brown. Light refreshments will be served. Register for free tickets at the link below.   This event is sponsored by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee and Campaign for Justice\, the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society\, the Northern District Historical Society and the Federal Bar Association\, Northern District of California Chapter. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reserve Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sharon Yamato is a writer/journalist\, TV producer\, and independent filmmaker whose latest film\, One Fighting Irishman\, tells the story of attorney Wayne Collins and his fight to restore American citizenship for more than 5\,000 renunciants held at the Tule Lake Segregation Center. Her other films include Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn\, A Flicker in Eternity\, and Moving Walls\, for which she wrote an accompanying book\, Moving Walls: The Barracks of America’s Concentration Camps. She has written articles for the Los Angeles Times and is a columnist for the Los Angeles daily newspaper\, The Rafu Shimpo \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Presiding Justice Tracie L. Brown was appointed to California’s First District Court of Appeal in 2018 and elevated to the position of Presiding Justice of Division Four in 2023.  She had previously served for five years on the San Francisco Superior Court.    Justice Brown graduated from Harvard University and received her J.D. from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law.  She clerked for Judge M. Margaret McKeown on the Ninth Circuit and was an associate at Morrison & Foerster and Cooley LLP.  She then joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office\, where she tried civil and criminal cases and argued before the Ninth Circuit.    Justice Brown received the Asian American Bar Association’s Joe Morozumi Award and the California State Bar’s Jack Berman Award for her work on a pro bono case representing San Francisco’s Japanese American community.  She was honored with a U.S. Department of Justice Director’s Award for prosecuting three defendants who distributed millions of doses of controlled substances through an online “pill mill.”      Justice Brown taught trial advocacy at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law for approximately ten years\, and frequently guest-teaches at Stanford Law School\, University of San Francisco Law School\, and U.C. Law San Francisco (formerly known as Hastings).  Justice Brown is actively involved with numerous organizations\, including the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area\, the California Asian Pacific American Judges Association\, the American Law Institute\, California Women Lawyers\, California Women Judges\, and the Bar Association of San Francisco. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/finding-japanese-american-roots-in-japan-and-the-u-s/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180623T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180623T170000 DTSTAMP:20190404T153619Z CREATED:20180604T214700Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190404T153619Z UID:4436-1529758800-1529773200@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Hawker Fare: Stories & Recipes from a Refugee Chef's Isan Thai & Lao Roots DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 5\, 20266-8 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of One Fighting Irishman\, a film by Sharon Yamato and Evan Kodani\, followed by a panel discussion around immigrant rights\, Japanese American history\, and allyship. Narrated by George Takei\, this 30-minute documentary tells the story of Wayne M. Collins\, the San Francisco civil rights attorney who prevented more than 5\,500 Japanese Americans from being deported after imprisonment at the Tule Lake Segregation Center\, considered the worst of America’s ten WWII concentration camps.    The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Sharon Yamato\, Dale Minami\, Karen Korematsu\, Wayne Collins\, moderated by Justice Tracie Brown. Light refreshments will be served. Register for free tickets at the link below.   This event is sponsored by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee and Campaign for Justice\, the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society\, the Northern District Historical Society and the Federal Bar Association\, Northern District of California Chapter. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reserve Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sharon Yamato is a writer/journalist\, TV producer\, and independent filmmaker whose latest film\, One Fighting Irishman\, tells the story of attorney Wayne Collins and his fight to restore American citizenship for more than 5\,000 renunciants held at the Tule Lake Segregation Center. Her other films include Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn\, A Flicker in Eternity\, and Moving Walls\, for which she wrote an accompanying book\, Moving Walls: The Barracks of America’s Concentration Camps. She has written articles for the Los Angeles Times and is a columnist for the Los Angeles daily newspaper\, The Rafu Shimpo \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Presiding Justice Tracie L. Brown was appointed to California’s First District Court of Appeal in 2018 and elevated to the position of Presiding Justice of Division Four in 2023.  She had previously served for five years on the San Francisco Superior Court.    Justice Brown graduated from Harvard University and received her J.D. from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law.  She clerked for Judge M. Margaret McKeown on the Ninth Circuit and was an associate at Morrison & Foerster and Cooley LLP.  She then joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office\, where she tried civil and criminal cases and argued before the Ninth Circuit.    Justice Brown received the Asian American Bar Association’s Joe Morozumi Award and the California State Bar’s Jack Berman Award for her work on a pro bono case representing San Francisco’s Japanese American community.  She was honored with a U.S. Department of Justice Director’s Award for prosecuting three defendants who distributed millions of doses of controlled substances through an online “pill mill.”      Justice Brown taught trial advocacy at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law for approximately ten years\, and frequently guest-teaches at Stanford Law School\, University of San Francisco Law School\, and U.C. Law San Francisco (formerly known as Hastings).  Justice Brown is actively involved with numerous organizations\, including the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area\, the California Asian Pacific American Judges Association\, the American Law Institute\, California Women Lawyers\, California Women Judges\, and the Bar Association of San Francisco. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/hawker-fare-stories-recipes-from-a-refugee-chefs-isan-thai-lao-roots/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180601T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180601T200000 DTSTAMP:20190404T153643Z CREATED:20180604T202418Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190404T153643Z UID:4420-1527872400-1527883200@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Lincoln Summer Nights DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 5\, 20266-8 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of One Fighting Irishman\, a film by Sharon Yamato and Evan Kodani\, followed by a panel discussion around immigrant rights\, Japanese American history\, and allyship. Narrated by George Takei\, this 30-minute documentary tells the story of Wayne M. Collins\, the San Francisco civil rights attorney who prevented more than 5\,500 Japanese Americans from being deported after imprisonment at the Tule Lake Segregation Center\, considered the worst of America’s ten WWII concentration camps.    The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Sharon Yamato\, Dale Minami\, Karen Korematsu\, Wayne Collins\, moderated by Justice Tracie Brown. Light refreshments will be served. Register for free tickets at the link below.   This event is sponsored by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee and Campaign for Justice\, the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society\, the Northern District Historical Society and the Federal Bar Association\, Northern District of California Chapter. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reserve Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sharon Yamato is a writer/journalist\, TV producer\, and independent filmmaker whose latest film\, One Fighting Irishman\, tells the story of attorney Wayne Collins and his fight to restore American citizenship for more than 5\,000 renunciants held at the Tule Lake Segregation Center. Her other films include Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn\, A Flicker in Eternity\, and Moving Walls\, for which she wrote an accompanying book\, Moving Walls: The Barracks of America’s Concentration Camps. She has written articles for the Los Angeles Times and is a columnist for the Los Angeles daily newspaper\, The Rafu Shimpo \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Presiding Justice Tracie L. Brown was appointed to California’s First District Court of Appeal in 2018 and elevated to the position of Presiding Justice of Division Four in 2023.  She had previously served for five years on the San Francisco Superior Court.    Justice Brown graduated from Harvard University and received her J.D. from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law.  She clerked for Judge M. Margaret McKeown on the Ninth Circuit and was an associate at Morrison & Foerster and Cooley LLP.  She then joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office\, where she tried civil and criminal cases and argued before the Ninth Circuit.    Justice Brown received the Asian American Bar Association’s Joe Morozumi Award and the California State Bar’s Jack Berman Award for her work on a pro bono case representing San Francisco’s Japanese American community.  She was honored with a U.S. Department of Justice Director’s Award for prosecuting three defendants who distributed millions of doses of controlled substances through an online “pill mill.”      Justice Brown taught trial advocacy at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law for approximately ten years\, and frequently guest-teaches at Stanford Law School\, University of San Francisco Law School\, and U.C. Law San Francisco (formerly known as Hastings).  Justice Brown is actively involved with numerous organizations\, including the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area\, the California Asian Pacific American Judges Association\, the American Law Institute\, California Women Lawyers\, California Women Judges\, and the Bar Association of San Francisco. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/lincoln-summer-nights/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180526T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180526T173000 DTSTAMP:20190404T153704Z CREATED:20180511T224238Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190404T153704Z UID:4374-1527350400-1527355800@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Two Languages/One Community Reception and Reading DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 5\, 20266-8 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of One Fighting Irishman\, a film by Sharon Yamato and Evan Kodani\, followed by a panel discussion around immigrant rights\, Japanese American history\, and allyship. Narrated by George Takei\, this 30-minute documentary tells the story of Wayne M. Collins\, the San Francisco civil rights attorney who prevented more than 5\,500 Japanese Americans from being deported after imprisonment at the Tule Lake Segregation Center\, considered the worst of America’s ten WWII concentration camps.    The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Sharon Yamato\, Dale Minami\, Karen Korematsu\, Wayne Collins\, moderated by Justice Tracie Brown. Light refreshments will be served. Register for free tickets at the link below.   This event is sponsored by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee and Campaign for Justice\, the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society\, the Northern District Historical Society and the Federal Bar Association\, Northern District of California Chapter. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reserve Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sharon Yamato is a writer/journalist\, TV producer\, and independent filmmaker whose latest film\, One Fighting Irishman\, tells the story of attorney Wayne Collins and his fight to restore American citizenship for more than 5\,000 renunciants held at the Tule Lake Segregation Center. Her other films include Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn\, A Flicker in Eternity\, and Moving Walls\, for which she wrote an accompanying book\, Moving Walls: The Barracks of America’s Concentration Camps. She has written articles for the Los Angeles Times and is a columnist for the Los Angeles daily newspaper\, The Rafu Shimpo \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Presiding Justice Tracie L. Brown was appointed to California’s First District Court of Appeal in 2018 and elevated to the position of Presiding Justice of Division Four in 2023.  She had previously served for five years on the San Francisco Superior Court.    Justice Brown graduated from Harvard University and received her J.D. from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law.  She clerked for Judge M. Margaret McKeown on the Ninth Circuit and was an associate at Morrison & Foerster and Cooley LLP.  She then joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office\, where she tried civil and criminal cases and argued before the Ninth Circuit.    Justice Brown received the Asian American Bar Association’s Joe Morozumi Award and the California State Bar’s Jack Berman Award for her work on a pro bono case representing San Francisco’s Japanese American community.  She was honored with a U.S. Department of Justice Director’s Award for prosecuting three defendants who distributed millions of doses of controlled substances through an online “pill mill.”      Justice Brown taught trial advocacy at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law for approximately ten years\, and frequently guest-teaches at Stanford Law School\, University of San Francisco Law School\, and U.C. Law San Francisco (formerly known as Hastings).  Justice Brown is actively involved with numerous organizations\, including the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area\, the California Asian Pacific American Judges Association\, the American Law Institute\, California Women Lawyers\, California Women Judges\, and the Bar Association of San Francisco. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/two-languages-one-community-reception-and-reading/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180526T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180526T160000 DTSTAMP:20190404T153741Z CREATED:20180410T003517Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190404T153741Z UID:4195-1527325200-1527350400@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Chinese Ancestry DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 5\, 20266-8 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of One Fighting Irishman\, a film by Sharon Yamato and Evan Kodani\, followed by a panel discussion around immigrant rights\, Japanese American history\, and allyship. Narrated by George Takei\, this 30-minute documentary tells the story of Wayne M. Collins\, the San Francisco civil rights attorney who prevented more than 5\,500 Japanese Americans from being deported after imprisonment at the Tule Lake Segregation Center\, considered the worst of America’s ten WWII concentration camps.    The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Sharon Yamato\, Dale Minami\, Karen Korematsu\, Wayne Collins\, moderated by Justice Tracie Brown. Light refreshments will be served. Register for free tickets at the link below.   This event is sponsored by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee and Campaign for Justice\, the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society\, the Northern District Historical Society and the Federal Bar Association\, Northern District of California Chapter. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reserve Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sharon Yamato is a writer/journalist\, TV producer\, and independent filmmaker whose latest film\, One Fighting Irishman\, tells the story of attorney Wayne Collins and his fight to restore American citizenship for more than 5\,000 renunciants held at the Tule Lake Segregation Center. Her other films include Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn\, A Flicker in Eternity\, and Moving Walls\, for which she wrote an accompanying book\, Moving Walls: The Barracks of America’s Concentration Camps. She has written articles for the Los Angeles Times and is a columnist for the Los Angeles daily newspaper\, The Rafu Shimpo \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Presiding Justice Tracie L. Brown was appointed to California’s First District Court of Appeal in 2018 and elevated to the position of Presiding Justice of Division Four in 2023.  She had previously served for five years on the San Francisco Superior Court.    Justice Brown graduated from Harvard University and received her J.D. from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law.  She clerked for Judge M. Margaret McKeown on the Ninth Circuit and was an associate at Morrison & Foerster and Cooley LLP.  She then joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office\, where she tried civil and criminal cases and argued before the Ninth Circuit.    Justice Brown received the Asian American Bar Association’s Joe Morozumi Award and the California State Bar’s Jack Berman Award for her work on a pro bono case representing San Francisco’s Japanese American community.  She was honored with a U.S. Department of Justice Director’s Award for prosecuting three defendants who distributed millions of doses of controlled substances through an online “pill mill.”      Justice Brown taught trial advocacy at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law for approximately ten years\, and frequently guest-teaches at Stanford Law School\, University of San Francisco Law School\, and U.C. Law San Francisco (formerly known as Hastings).  Justice Brown is actively involved with numerous organizations\, including the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area\, the California Asian Pacific American Judges Association\, the American Law Institute\, California Women Lawyers\, California Women Judges\, and the Bar Association of San Francisco. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/chinese-ancestry/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180520T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180520T170000 DTSTAMP:20190404T153803Z CREATED:20180511T001301Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190404T153803Z UID:4386-1526828400-1526835600@oacc.cc SUMMARY:FREE Pingshuai Gong Class at OACC DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 5\, 20266-8 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of One Fighting Irishman\, a film by Sharon Yamato and Evan Kodani\, followed by a panel discussion around immigrant rights\, Japanese American history\, and allyship. Narrated by George Takei\, this 30-minute documentary tells the story of Wayne M. Collins\, the San Francisco civil rights attorney who prevented more than 5\,500 Japanese Americans from being deported after imprisonment at the Tule Lake Segregation Center\, considered the worst of America’s ten WWII concentration camps.    The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Sharon Yamato\, Dale Minami\, Karen Korematsu\, Wayne Collins\, moderated by Justice Tracie Brown. Light refreshments will be served. Register for free tickets at the link below.   This event is sponsored by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee and Campaign for Justice\, the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society\, the Northern District Historical Society and the Federal Bar Association\, Northern District of California Chapter. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reserve Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sharon Yamato is a writer/journalist\, TV producer\, and independent filmmaker whose latest film\, One Fighting Irishman\, tells the story of attorney Wayne Collins and his fight to restore American citizenship for more than 5\,000 renunciants held at the Tule Lake Segregation Center. Her other films include Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn\, A Flicker in Eternity\, and Moving Walls\, for which she wrote an accompanying book\, Moving Walls: The Barracks of America’s Concentration Camps. She has written articles for the Los Angeles Times and is a columnist for the Los Angeles daily newspaper\, The Rafu Shimpo \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Presiding Justice Tracie L. Brown was appointed to California’s First District Court of Appeal in 2018 and elevated to the position of Presiding Justice of Division Four in 2023.  She had previously served for five years on the San Francisco Superior Court.    Justice Brown graduated from Harvard University and received her J.D. from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law.  She clerked for Judge M. Margaret McKeown on the Ninth Circuit and was an associate at Morrison & Foerster and Cooley LLP.  She then joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office\, where she tried civil and criminal cases and argued before the Ninth Circuit.    Justice Brown received the Asian American Bar Association’s Joe Morozumi Award and the California State Bar’s Jack Berman Award for her work on a pro bono case representing San Francisco’s Japanese American community.  She was honored with a U.S. Department of Justice Director’s Award for prosecuting three defendants who distributed millions of doses of controlled substances through an online “pill mill.”      Justice Brown taught trial advocacy at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law for approximately ten years\, and frequently guest-teaches at Stanford Law School\, University of San Francisco Law School\, and U.C. Law San Francisco (formerly known as Hastings).  Justice Brown is actively involved with numerous organizations\, including the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area\, the California Asian Pacific American Judges Association\, the American Law Institute\, California Women Lawyers\, California Women Judges\, and the Bar Association of San Francisco. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/pingshuai-gong-comes-to-oacc/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180518T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180518T223000 DTSTAMP:20190404T153827Z CREATED:20180427T225628Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190404T153827Z UID:4325-1526664600-1526682600@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Asian Pacific American Hertiage Month Gala DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 5\, 20266-8 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of One Fighting Irishman\, a film by Sharon Yamato and Evan Kodani\, followed by a panel discussion around immigrant rights\, Japanese American history\, and allyship. Narrated by George Takei\, this 30-minute documentary tells the story of Wayne M. Collins\, the San Francisco civil rights attorney who prevented more than 5\,500 Japanese Americans from being deported after imprisonment at the Tule Lake Segregation Center\, considered the worst of America’s ten WWII concentration camps.    The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Sharon Yamato\, Dale Minami\, Karen Korematsu\, Wayne Collins\, moderated by Justice Tracie Brown. Light refreshments will be served. Register for free tickets at the link below.   This event is sponsored by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee and Campaign for Justice\, the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society\, the Northern District Historical Society and the Federal Bar Association\, Northern District of California Chapter. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reserve Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sharon Yamato is a writer/journalist\, TV producer\, and independent filmmaker whose latest film\, One Fighting Irishman\, tells the story of attorney Wayne Collins and his fight to restore American citizenship for more than 5\,000 renunciants held at the Tule Lake Segregation Center. Her other films include Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn\, A Flicker in Eternity\, and Moving Walls\, for which she wrote an accompanying book\, Moving Walls: The Barracks of America’s Concentration Camps. She has written articles for the Los Angeles Times and is a columnist for the Los Angeles daily newspaper\, The Rafu Shimpo \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Presiding Justice Tracie L. Brown was appointed to California’s First District Court of Appeal in 2018 and elevated to the position of Presiding Justice of Division Four in 2023.  She had previously served for five years on the San Francisco Superior Court.    Justice Brown graduated from Harvard University and received her J.D. from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law.  She clerked for Judge M. Margaret McKeown on the Ninth Circuit and was an associate at Morrison & Foerster and Cooley LLP.  She then joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office\, where she tried civil and criminal cases and argued before the Ninth Circuit.    Justice Brown received the Asian American Bar Association’s Joe Morozumi Award and the California State Bar’s Jack Berman Award for her work on a pro bono case representing San Francisco’s Japanese American community.  She was honored with a U.S. Department of Justice Director’s Award for prosecuting three defendants who distributed millions of doses of controlled substances through an online “pill mill.”      Justice Brown taught trial advocacy at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law for approximately ten years\, and frequently guest-teaches at Stanford Law School\, University of San Francisco Law School\, and U.C. Law San Francisco (formerly known as Hastings).  Justice Brown is actively involved with numerous organizations\, including the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area\, the California Asian Pacific American Judges Association\, the American Law Institute\, California Women Lawyers\, California Women Judges\, and the Bar Association of San Francisco. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/asian-pacific-american-hertiage-month-gala/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180512T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180512T130000 DTSTAMP:20190404T153909Z CREATED:20180411T230019Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190404T153909Z UID:4220-1526119200-1526130000@oacc.cc SUMMARY:The Chinese Exclusion Act: Film / Dialogue / Workshop DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 5\, 20266-8 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of One Fighting Irishman\, a film by Sharon Yamato and Evan Kodani\, followed by a panel discussion around immigrant rights\, Japanese American history\, and allyship. Narrated by George Takei\, this 30-minute documentary tells the story of Wayne M. Collins\, the San Francisco civil rights attorney who prevented more than 5\,500 Japanese Americans from being deported after imprisonment at the Tule Lake Segregation Center\, considered the worst of America’s ten WWII concentration camps.    The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Sharon Yamato\, Dale Minami\, Karen Korematsu\, Wayne Collins\, moderated by Justice Tracie Brown. Light refreshments will be served. Register for free tickets at the link below.   This event is sponsored by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee and Campaign for Justice\, the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society\, the Northern District Historical Society and the Federal Bar Association\, Northern District of California Chapter. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reserve Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sharon Yamato is a writer/journalist\, TV producer\, and independent filmmaker whose latest film\, One Fighting Irishman\, tells the story of attorney Wayne Collins and his fight to restore American citizenship for more than 5\,000 renunciants held at the Tule Lake Segregation Center. Her other films include Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn\, A Flicker in Eternity\, and Moving Walls\, for which she wrote an accompanying book\, Moving Walls: The Barracks of America’s Concentration Camps. She has written articles for the Los Angeles Times and is a columnist for the Los Angeles daily newspaper\, The Rafu Shimpo \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Presiding Justice Tracie L. Brown was appointed to California’s First District Court of Appeal in 2018 and elevated to the position of Presiding Justice of Division Four in 2023.  She had previously served for five years on the San Francisco Superior Court.    Justice Brown graduated from Harvard University and received her J.D. from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law.  She clerked for Judge M. Margaret McKeown on the Ninth Circuit and was an associate at Morrison & Foerster and Cooley LLP.  She then joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office\, where she tried civil and criminal cases and argued before the Ninth Circuit.    Justice Brown received the Asian American Bar Association’s Joe Morozumi Award and the California State Bar’s Jack Berman Award for her work on a pro bono case representing San Francisco’s Japanese American community.  She was honored with a U.S. Department of Justice Director’s Award for prosecuting three defendants who distributed millions of doses of controlled substances through an online “pill mill.”      Justice Brown taught trial advocacy at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law for approximately ten years\, and frequently guest-teaches at Stanford Law School\, University of San Francisco Law School\, and U.C. Law San Francisco (formerly known as Hastings).  Justice Brown is actively involved with numerous organizations\, including the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area\, the California Asian Pacific American Judges Association\, the American Law Institute\, California Women Lawyers\, California Women Judges\, and the Bar Association of San Francisco. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/the-chinese-exclusion-act-film-dialogue-workshop/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180506T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180506T153000 DTSTAMP:20190404T153942Z CREATED:20180409T232933Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190404T153942Z UID:4160-1525615200-1525620600@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Riding with the Wind - A Book Talk with Monona Yin & Grant Din DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 5\, 20266-8 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of One Fighting Irishman\, a film by Sharon Yamato and Evan Kodani\, followed by a panel discussion around immigrant rights\, Japanese American history\, and allyship. Narrated by George Takei\, this 30-minute documentary tells the story of Wayne M. Collins\, the San Francisco civil rights attorney who prevented more than 5\,500 Japanese Americans from being deported after imprisonment at the Tule Lake Segregation Center\, considered the worst of America’s ten WWII concentration camps.    The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Sharon Yamato\, Dale Minami\, Karen Korematsu\, Wayne Collins\, moderated by Justice Tracie Brown. Light refreshments will be served. Register for free tickets at the link below.   This event is sponsored by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee and Campaign for Justice\, the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society\, the Northern District Historical Society and the Federal Bar Association\, Northern District of California Chapter. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reserve Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sharon Yamato is a writer/journalist\, TV producer\, and independent filmmaker whose latest film\, One Fighting Irishman\, tells the story of attorney Wayne Collins and his fight to restore American citizenship for more than 5\,000 renunciants held at the Tule Lake Segregation Center. Her other films include Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn\, A Flicker in Eternity\, and Moving Walls\, for which she wrote an accompanying book\, Moving Walls: The Barracks of America’s Concentration Camps. She has written articles for the Los Angeles Times and is a columnist for the Los Angeles daily newspaper\, The Rafu Shimpo \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Presiding Justice Tracie L. Brown was appointed to California’s First District Court of Appeal in 2018 and elevated to the position of Presiding Justice of Division Four in 2023.  She had previously served for five years on the San Francisco Superior Court.    Justice Brown graduated from Harvard University and received her J.D. from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law.  She clerked for Judge M. Margaret McKeown on the Ninth Circuit and was an associate at Morrison & Foerster and Cooley LLP.  She then joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office\, where she tried civil and criminal cases and argued before the Ninth Circuit.    Justice Brown received the Asian American Bar Association’s Joe Morozumi Award and the California State Bar’s Jack Berman Award for her work on a pro bono case representing San Francisco’s Japanese American community.  She was honored with a U.S. Department of Justice Director’s Award for prosecuting three defendants who distributed millions of doses of controlled substances through an online “pill mill.”      Justice Brown taught trial advocacy at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law for approximately ten years\, and frequently guest-teaches at Stanford Law School\, University of San Francisco Law School\, and U.C. Law San Francisco (formerly known as Hastings).  Justice Brown is actively involved with numerous organizations\, including the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area\, the California Asian Pacific American Judges Association\, the American Law Institute\, California Women Lawyers\, California Women Judges\, and the Bar Association of San Francisco. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/riding-with-the-wind-a-conversation-with-fay-hoh-yin/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180505T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180505T190000 DTSTAMP:20190404T154000Z CREATED:20180411T214950Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190404T154000Z UID:4203-1525546800-1525546800@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Announcing! GUZHENG EVOLUTION: Tradition In A Modern World DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 5\, 20266-8 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of One Fighting Irishman\, a film by Sharon Yamato and Evan Kodani\, followed by a panel discussion around immigrant rights\, Japanese American history\, and allyship. Narrated by George Takei\, this 30-minute documentary tells the story of Wayne M. Collins\, the San Francisco civil rights attorney who prevented more than 5\,500 Japanese Americans from being deported after imprisonment at the Tule Lake Segregation Center\, considered the worst of America’s ten WWII concentration camps.    The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Sharon Yamato\, Dale Minami\, Karen Korematsu\, Wayne Collins\, moderated by Justice Tracie Brown. Light refreshments will be served. Register for free tickets at the link below.   This event is sponsored by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee and Campaign for Justice\, the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society\, the Northern District Historical Society and the Federal Bar Association\, Northern District of California Chapter. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reserve Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sharon Yamato is a writer/journalist\, TV producer\, and independent filmmaker whose latest film\, One Fighting Irishman\, tells the story of attorney Wayne Collins and his fight to restore American citizenship for more than 5\,000 renunciants held at the Tule Lake Segregation Center. Her other films include Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn\, A Flicker in Eternity\, and Moving Walls\, for which she wrote an accompanying book\, Moving Walls: The Barracks of America’s Concentration Camps. She has written articles for the Los Angeles Times and is a columnist for the Los Angeles daily newspaper\, The Rafu Shimpo \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Presiding Justice Tracie L. Brown was appointed to California’s First District Court of Appeal in 2018 and elevated to the position of Presiding Justice of Division Four in 2023.  She had previously served for five years on the San Francisco Superior Court.    Justice Brown graduated from Harvard University and received her J.D. from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law.  She clerked for Judge M. Margaret McKeown on the Ninth Circuit and was an associate at Morrison & Foerster and Cooley LLP.  She then joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office\, where she tried civil and criminal cases and argued before the Ninth Circuit.    Justice Brown received the Asian American Bar Association’s Joe Morozumi Award and the California State Bar’s Jack Berman Award for her work on a pro bono case representing San Francisco’s Japanese American community.  She was honored with a U.S. Department of Justice Director’s Award for prosecuting three defendants who distributed millions of doses of controlled substances through an online “pill mill.”      Justice Brown taught trial advocacy at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law for approximately ten years\, and frequently guest-teaches at Stanford Law School\, University of San Francisco Law School\, and U.C. Law San Francisco (formerly known as Hastings).  Justice Brown is actively involved with numerous organizations\, including the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area\, the California Asian Pacific American Judges Association\, the American Law Institute\, California Women Lawyers\, California Women Judges\, and the Bar Association of San Francisco. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/announcing-guzheng-evolution-tradition-in-a-modern-world/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180429T020000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180429T200000 DTSTAMP:20190404T154023Z CREATED:20180426T010842Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190404T154023Z UID:4272-1524967200-1525032000@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Grand Opening: An Exhibition of Chinese Painting and Calligraphy DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 5\, 20266-8 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of One Fighting Irishman\, a film by Sharon Yamato and Evan Kodani\, followed by a panel discussion around immigrant rights\, Japanese American history\, and allyship. Narrated by George Takei\, this 30-minute documentary tells the story of Wayne M. Collins\, the San Francisco civil rights attorney who prevented more than 5\,500 Japanese Americans from being deported after imprisonment at the Tule Lake Segregation Center\, considered the worst of America’s ten WWII concentration camps.    The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Sharon Yamato\, Dale Minami\, Karen Korematsu\, Wayne Collins\, moderated by Justice Tracie Brown. Light refreshments will be served. Register for free tickets at the link below.   This event is sponsored by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee and Campaign for Justice\, the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society\, the Northern District Historical Society and the Federal Bar Association\, Northern District of California Chapter. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reserve Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sharon Yamato is a writer/journalist\, TV producer\, and independent filmmaker whose latest film\, One Fighting Irishman\, tells the story of attorney Wayne Collins and his fight to restore American citizenship for more than 5\,000 renunciants held at the Tule Lake Segregation Center. Her other films include Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn\, A Flicker in Eternity\, and Moving Walls\, for which she wrote an accompanying book\, Moving Walls: The Barracks of America’s Concentration Camps. She has written articles for the Los Angeles Times and is a columnist for the Los Angeles daily newspaper\, The Rafu Shimpo \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Presiding Justice Tracie L. Brown was appointed to California’s First District Court of Appeal in 2018 and elevated to the position of Presiding Justice of Division Four in 2023.  She had previously served for five years on the San Francisco Superior Court.    Justice Brown graduated from Harvard University and received her J.D. from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law.  She clerked for Judge M. Margaret McKeown on the Ninth Circuit and was an associate at Morrison & Foerster and Cooley LLP.  She then joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office\, where she tried civil and criminal cases and argued before the Ninth Circuit.    Justice Brown received the Asian American Bar Association’s Joe Morozumi Award and the California State Bar’s Jack Berman Award for her work on a pro bono case representing San Francisco’s Japanese American community.  She was honored with a U.S. Department of Justice Director’s Award for prosecuting three defendants who distributed millions of doses of controlled substances through an online “pill mill.”      Justice Brown taught trial advocacy at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law for approximately ten years\, and frequently guest-teaches at Stanford Law School\, University of San Francisco Law School\, and U.C. Law San Francisco (formerly known as Hastings).  Justice Brown is actively involved with numerous organizations\, including the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area\, the California Asian Pacific American Judges Association\, the American Law Institute\, California Women Lawyers\, California Women Judges\, and the Bar Association of San Francisco. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/grand-opening-an-exhibition-of-chinese-painting-and-calligraphy/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Exhibitions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180422T023000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180422T163000 DTSTAMP:20190404T154042Z CREATED:20180328T220916Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190404T154042Z UID:4090-1524364200-1524414600@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Patty Chu's Chinese Troupe Annual Showcase DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 5\, 20266-8 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of One Fighting Irishman\, a film by Sharon Yamato and Evan Kodani\, followed by a panel discussion around immigrant rights\, Japanese American history\, and allyship. Narrated by George Takei\, this 30-minute documentary tells the story of Wayne M. Collins\, the San Francisco civil rights attorney who prevented more than 5\,500 Japanese Americans from being deported after imprisonment at the Tule Lake Segregation Center\, considered the worst of America’s ten WWII concentration camps.    The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Sharon Yamato\, Dale Minami\, Karen Korematsu\, Wayne Collins\, moderated by Justice Tracie Brown. Light refreshments will be served. Register for free tickets at the link below.   This event is sponsored by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee and Campaign for Justice\, the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society\, the Northern District Historical Society and the Federal Bar Association\, Northern District of California Chapter. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reserve Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sharon Yamato is a writer/journalist\, TV producer\, and independent filmmaker whose latest film\, One Fighting Irishman\, tells the story of attorney Wayne Collins and his fight to restore American citizenship for more than 5\,000 renunciants held at the Tule Lake Segregation Center. Her other films include Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn\, A Flicker in Eternity\, and Moving Walls\, for which she wrote an accompanying book\, Moving Walls: The Barracks of America’s Concentration Camps. She has written articles for the Los Angeles Times and is a columnist for the Los Angeles daily newspaper\, The Rafu Shimpo \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Presiding Justice Tracie L. Brown was appointed to California’s First District Court of Appeal in 2018 and elevated to the position of Presiding Justice of Division Four in 2023.  She had previously served for five years on the San Francisco Superior Court.    Justice Brown graduated from Harvard University and received her J.D. from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law.  She clerked for Judge M. Margaret McKeown on the Ninth Circuit and was an associate at Morrison & Foerster and Cooley LLP.  She then joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office\, where she tried civil and criminal cases and argued before the Ninth Circuit.    Justice Brown received the Asian American Bar Association’s Joe Morozumi Award and the California State Bar’s Jack Berman Award for her work on a pro bono case representing San Francisco’s Japanese American community.  She was honored with a U.S. Department of Justice Director’s Award for prosecuting three defendants who distributed millions of doses of controlled substances through an online “pill mill.”      Justice Brown taught trial advocacy at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law for approximately ten years\, and frequently guest-teaches at Stanford Law School\, University of San Francisco Law School\, and U.C. Law San Francisco (formerly known as Hastings).  Justice Brown is actively involved with numerous organizations\, including the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area\, the California Asian Pacific American Judges Association\, the American Law Institute\, California Women Lawyers\, California Women Judges\, and the Bar Association of San Francisco. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/patty-chus-chinese-troupe-annual-showcase/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180420T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180420T213000 DTSTAMP:20190404T154116Z CREATED:20180406T205150Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190404T154116Z UID:4113-1524250800-1524259800@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Mara Ahmed Film: A Thin Wall DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 5\, 20266-8 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of One Fighting Irishman\, a film by Sharon Yamato and Evan Kodani\, followed by a panel discussion around immigrant rights\, Japanese American history\, and allyship. Narrated by George Takei\, this 30-minute documentary tells the story of Wayne M. Collins\, the San Francisco civil rights attorney who prevented more than 5\,500 Japanese Americans from being deported after imprisonment at the Tule Lake Segregation Center\, considered the worst of America’s ten WWII concentration camps.    The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Sharon Yamato\, Dale Minami\, Karen Korematsu\, Wayne Collins\, moderated by Justice Tracie Brown. Light refreshments will be served. Register for free tickets at the link below.   This event is sponsored by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee and Campaign for Justice\, the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society\, the Northern District Historical Society and the Federal Bar Association\, Northern District of California Chapter. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reserve Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sharon Yamato is a writer/journalist\, TV producer\, and independent filmmaker whose latest film\, One Fighting Irishman\, tells the story of attorney Wayne Collins and his fight to restore American citizenship for more than 5\,000 renunciants held at the Tule Lake Segregation Center. Her other films include Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn\, A Flicker in Eternity\, and Moving Walls\, for which she wrote an accompanying book\, Moving Walls: The Barracks of America’s Concentration Camps. She has written articles for the Los Angeles Times and is a columnist for the Los Angeles daily newspaper\, The Rafu Shimpo \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Presiding Justice Tracie L. Brown was appointed to California’s First District Court of Appeal in 2018 and elevated to the position of Presiding Justice of Division Four in 2023.  She had previously served for five years on the San Francisco Superior Court.    Justice Brown graduated from Harvard University and received her J.D. from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law.  She clerked for Judge M. Margaret McKeown on the Ninth Circuit and was an associate at Morrison & Foerster and Cooley LLP.  She then joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office\, where she tried civil and criminal cases and argued before the Ninth Circuit.    Justice Brown received the Asian American Bar Association’s Joe Morozumi Award and the California State Bar’s Jack Berman Award for her work on a pro bono case representing San Francisco’s Japanese American community.  She was honored with a U.S. Department of Justice Director’s Award for prosecuting three defendants who distributed millions of doses of controlled substances through an online “pill mill.”      Justice Brown taught trial advocacy at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law for approximately ten years\, and frequently guest-teaches at Stanford Law School\, University of San Francisco Law School\, and U.C. Law San Francisco (formerly known as Hastings).  Justice Brown is actively involved with numerous organizations\, including the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area\, the California Asian Pacific American Judges Association\, the American Law Institute\, California Women Lawyers\, California Women Judges\, and the Bar Association of San Francisco. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/mara-ahmed-film-a-thing-wall/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180419T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180419T213000 DTSTAMP:20190404T154123Z CREATED:20180406T205025Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190404T154123Z UID:4110-1524166200-1524173400@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Mara Ahmed Film: The Muslims I Know DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 5\, 20266-8 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of One Fighting Irishman\, a film by Sharon Yamato and Evan Kodani\, followed by a panel discussion around immigrant rights\, Japanese American history\, and allyship. Narrated by George Takei\, this 30-minute documentary tells the story of Wayne M. Collins\, the San Francisco civil rights attorney who prevented more than 5\,500 Japanese Americans from being deported after imprisonment at the Tule Lake Segregation Center\, considered the worst of America’s ten WWII concentration camps.    The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Sharon Yamato\, Dale Minami\, Karen Korematsu\, Wayne Collins\, moderated by Justice Tracie Brown. Light refreshments will be served. Register for free tickets at the link below.   This event is sponsored by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee and Campaign for Justice\, the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society\, the Northern District Historical Society and the Federal Bar Association\, Northern District of California Chapter. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reserve Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sharon Yamato is a writer/journalist\, TV producer\, and independent filmmaker whose latest film\, One Fighting Irishman\, tells the story of attorney Wayne Collins and his fight to restore American citizenship for more than 5\,000 renunciants held at the Tule Lake Segregation Center. Her other films include Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn\, A Flicker in Eternity\, and Moving Walls\, for which she wrote an accompanying book\, Moving Walls: The Barracks of America’s Concentration Camps. She has written articles for the Los Angeles Times and is a columnist for the Los Angeles daily newspaper\, The Rafu Shimpo \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Presiding Justice Tracie L. Brown was appointed to California’s First District Court of Appeal in 2018 and elevated to the position of Presiding Justice of Division Four in 2023.  She had previously served for five years on the San Francisco Superior Court.    Justice Brown graduated from Harvard University and received her J.D. from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law.  She clerked for Judge M. Margaret McKeown on the Ninth Circuit and was an associate at Morrison & Foerster and Cooley LLP.  She then joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office\, where she tried civil and criminal cases and argued before the Ninth Circuit.    Justice Brown received the Asian American Bar Association’s Joe Morozumi Award and the California State Bar’s Jack Berman Award for her work on a pro bono case representing San Francisco’s Japanese American community.  She was honored with a U.S. Department of Justice Director’s Award for prosecuting three defendants who distributed millions of doses of controlled substances through an online “pill mill.”      Justice Brown taught trial advocacy at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law for approximately ten years\, and frequently guest-teaches at Stanford Law School\, University of San Francisco Law School\, and U.C. Law San Francisco (formerly known as Hastings).  Justice Brown is actively involved with numerous organizations\, including the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area\, the California Asian Pacific American Judges Association\, the American Law Institute\, California Women Lawyers\, California Women Judges\, and the Bar Association of San Francisco. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/mara-ahmed-film-the-muslim-i-know/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180415T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180415T160000 DTSTAMP:20190404T154204Z CREATED:20180328T215238Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190404T154204Z UID:4085-1523790000-1523808000@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Free Kidney Disease Screening. Sunday\, April 15\, 2018 DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 5\, 20266-8 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of One Fighting Irishman\, a film by Sharon Yamato and Evan Kodani\, followed by a panel discussion around immigrant rights\, Japanese American history\, and allyship. Narrated by George Takei\, this 30-minute documentary tells the story of Wayne M. Collins\, the San Francisco civil rights attorney who prevented more than 5\,500 Japanese Americans from being deported after imprisonment at the Tule Lake Segregation Center\, considered the worst of America’s ten WWII concentration camps.    The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Sharon Yamato\, Dale Minami\, Karen Korematsu\, Wayne Collins\, moderated by Justice Tracie Brown. Light refreshments will be served. Register for free tickets at the link below.   This event is sponsored by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee and Campaign for Justice\, the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society\, the Northern District Historical Society and the Federal Bar Association\, Northern District of California Chapter. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reserve Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sharon Yamato is a writer/journalist\, TV producer\, and independent filmmaker whose latest film\, One Fighting Irishman\, tells the story of attorney Wayne Collins and his fight to restore American citizenship for more than 5\,000 renunciants held at the Tule Lake Segregation Center. Her other films include Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn\, A Flicker in Eternity\, and Moving Walls\, for which she wrote an accompanying book\, Moving Walls: The Barracks of America’s Concentration Camps. She has written articles for the Los Angeles Times and is a columnist for the Los Angeles daily newspaper\, The Rafu Shimpo \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Presiding Justice Tracie L. Brown was appointed to California’s First District Court of Appeal in 2018 and elevated to the position of Presiding Justice of Division Four in 2023.  She had previously served for five years on the San Francisco Superior Court.    Justice Brown graduated from Harvard University and received her J.D. from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law.  She clerked for Judge M. Margaret McKeown on the Ninth Circuit and was an associate at Morrison & Foerster and Cooley LLP.  She then joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office\, where she tried civil and criminal cases and argued before the Ninth Circuit.    Justice Brown received the Asian American Bar Association’s Joe Morozumi Award and the California State Bar’s Jack Berman Award for her work on a pro bono case representing San Francisco’s Japanese American community.  She was honored with a U.S. Department of Justice Director’s Award for prosecuting three defendants who distributed millions of doses of controlled substances through an online “pill mill.”      Justice Brown taught trial advocacy at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law for approximately ten years\, and frequently guest-teaches at Stanford Law School\, University of San Francisco Law School\, and U.C. Law San Francisco (formerly known as Hastings).  Justice Brown is actively involved with numerous organizations\, including the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area\, the California Asian Pacific American Judges Association\, the American Law Institute\, California Women Lawyers\, California Women Judges\, and the Bar Association of San Francisco. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/free-kidney-disease-screening-sunday-april-15-2018/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180331T063000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180331T210000 DTSTAMP:20190404T154211Z CREATED:20180328T221442Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190404T154211Z UID:4092-1522477800-1522530000@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Finding Kukan: A Film by Robin Lung  DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 5\, 20266-8 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of One Fighting Irishman\, a film by Sharon Yamato and Evan Kodani\, followed by a panel discussion around immigrant rights\, Japanese American history\, and allyship. Narrated by George Takei\, this 30-minute documentary tells the story of Wayne M. Collins\, the San Francisco civil rights attorney who prevented more than 5\,500 Japanese Americans from being deported after imprisonment at the Tule Lake Segregation Center\, considered the worst of America’s ten WWII concentration camps.    The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Sharon Yamato\, Dale Minami\, Karen Korematsu\, Wayne Collins\, moderated by Justice Tracie Brown. Light refreshments will be served. Register for free tickets at the link below.   This event is sponsored by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee and Campaign for Justice\, the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society\, the Northern District Historical Society and the Federal Bar Association\, Northern District of California Chapter. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reserve Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sharon Yamato is a writer/journalist\, TV producer\, and independent filmmaker whose latest film\, One Fighting Irishman\, tells the story of attorney Wayne Collins and his fight to restore American citizenship for more than 5\,000 renunciants held at the Tule Lake Segregation Center. Her other films include Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn\, A Flicker in Eternity\, and Moving Walls\, for which she wrote an accompanying book\, Moving Walls: The Barracks of America’s Concentration Camps. She has written articles for the Los Angeles Times and is a columnist for the Los Angeles daily newspaper\, The Rafu Shimpo \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Presiding Justice Tracie L. Brown was appointed to California’s First District Court of Appeal in 2018 and elevated to the position of Presiding Justice of Division Four in 2023.  She had previously served for five years on the San Francisco Superior Court.    Justice Brown graduated from Harvard University and received her J.D. from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law.  She clerked for Judge M. Margaret McKeown on the Ninth Circuit and was an associate at Morrison & Foerster and Cooley LLP.  She then joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office\, where she tried civil and criminal cases and argued before the Ninth Circuit.    Justice Brown received the Asian American Bar Association’s Joe Morozumi Award and the California State Bar’s Jack Berman Award for her work on a pro bono case representing San Francisco’s Japanese American community.  She was honored with a U.S. Department of Justice Director’s Award for prosecuting three defendants who distributed millions of doses of controlled substances through an online “pill mill.”      Justice Brown taught trial advocacy at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law for approximately ten years\, and frequently guest-teaches at Stanford Law School\, University of San Francisco Law School\, and U.C. Law San Francisco (formerly known as Hastings).  Justice Brown is actively involved with numerous organizations\, including the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area\, the California Asian Pacific American Judges Association\, the American Law Institute\, California Women Lawyers\, California Women Judges\, and the Bar Association of San Francisco. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/finding-kukan-a-film-by-robin-lung/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180316T070000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180316T210000 DTSTAMP:20190404T154220Z CREATED:20180310T011037Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190404T154220Z UID:4174-1521183600-1521234000@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Poets of Existence: In Celebration of International Women’s Day DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 5\, 20266-8 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of One Fighting Irishman\, a film by Sharon Yamato and Evan Kodani\, followed by a panel discussion around immigrant rights\, Japanese American history\, and allyship. Narrated by George Takei\, this 30-minute documentary tells the story of Wayne M. Collins\, the San Francisco civil rights attorney who prevented more than 5\,500 Japanese Americans from being deported after imprisonment at the Tule Lake Segregation Center\, considered the worst of America’s ten WWII concentration camps.    The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Sharon Yamato\, Dale Minami\, Karen Korematsu\, Wayne Collins\, moderated by Justice Tracie Brown. Light refreshments will be served. Register for free tickets at the link below.   This event is sponsored by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee and Campaign for Justice\, the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society\, the Northern District Historical Society and the Federal Bar Association\, Northern District of California Chapter. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reserve Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sharon Yamato is a writer/journalist\, TV producer\, and independent filmmaker whose latest film\, One Fighting Irishman\, tells the story of attorney Wayne Collins and his fight to restore American citizenship for more than 5\,000 renunciants held at the Tule Lake Segregation Center. Her other films include Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn\, A Flicker in Eternity\, and Moving Walls\, for which she wrote an accompanying book\, Moving Walls: The Barracks of America’s Concentration Camps. She has written articles for the Los Angeles Times and is a columnist for the Los Angeles daily newspaper\, The Rafu Shimpo \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Presiding Justice Tracie L. Brown was appointed to California’s First District Court of Appeal in 2018 and elevated to the position of Presiding Justice of Division Four in 2023.  She had previously served for five years on the San Francisco Superior Court.    Justice Brown graduated from Harvard University and received her J.D. from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law.  She clerked for Judge M. Margaret McKeown on the Ninth Circuit and was an associate at Morrison & Foerster and Cooley LLP.  She then joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office\, where she tried civil and criminal cases and argued before the Ninth Circuit.    Justice Brown received the Asian American Bar Association’s Joe Morozumi Award and the California State Bar’s Jack Berman Award for her work on a pro bono case representing San Francisco’s Japanese American community.  She was honored with a U.S. Department of Justice Director’s Award for prosecuting three defendants who distributed millions of doses of controlled substances through an online “pill mill.”      Justice Brown taught trial advocacy at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law for approximately ten years\, and frequently guest-teaches at Stanford Law School\, University of San Francisco Law School\, and U.C. Law San Francisco (formerly known as Hastings).  Justice Brown is actively involved with numerous organizations\, including the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area\, the California Asian Pacific American Judges Association\, the American Law Institute\, California Women Lawyers\, California Women Judges\, and the Bar Association of San Francisco. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/poets-of-existence-in-celebration-of-international-womens-day/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180308T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180308T000000 DTSTAMP:20190404T154227Z CREATED:20180302T004703Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190404T154227Z UID:3969-1520467200-1520467200@oacc.cc SUMMARY:A Book Talk Author Edmund DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 5\, 20266-8 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of One Fighting Irishman\, a film by Sharon Yamato and Evan Kodani\, followed by a panel discussion around immigrant rights\, Japanese American history\, and allyship. Narrated by George Takei\, this 30-minute documentary tells the story of Wayne M. Collins\, the San Francisco civil rights attorney who prevented more than 5\,500 Japanese Americans from being deported after imprisonment at the Tule Lake Segregation Center\, considered the worst of America’s ten WWII concentration camps.    The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Sharon Yamato\, Dale Minami\, Karen Korematsu\, Wayne Collins\, moderated by Justice Tracie Brown. Light refreshments will be served. Register for free tickets at the link below.   This event is sponsored by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee and Campaign for Justice\, the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society\, the Northern District Historical Society and the Federal Bar Association\, Northern District of California Chapter. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reserve Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sharon Yamato is a writer/journalist\, TV producer\, and independent filmmaker whose latest film\, One Fighting Irishman\, tells the story of attorney Wayne Collins and his fight to restore American citizenship for more than 5\,000 renunciants held at the Tule Lake Segregation Center. Her other films include Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn\, A Flicker in Eternity\, and Moving Walls\, for which she wrote an accompanying book\, Moving Walls: The Barracks of America’s Concentration Camps. She has written articles for the Los Angeles Times and is a columnist for the Los Angeles daily newspaper\, The Rafu Shimpo \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Presiding Justice Tracie L. Brown was appointed to California’s First District Court of Appeal in 2018 and elevated to the position of Presiding Justice of Division Four in 2023.  She had previously served for five years on the San Francisco Superior Court.    Justice Brown graduated from Harvard University and received her J.D. from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law.  She clerked for Judge M. Margaret McKeown on the Ninth Circuit and was an associate at Morrison & Foerster and Cooley LLP.  She then joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office\, where she tried civil and criminal cases and argued before the Ninth Circuit.    Justice Brown received the Asian American Bar Association’s Joe Morozumi Award and the California State Bar’s Jack Berman Award for her work on a pro bono case representing San Francisco’s Japanese American community.  She was honored with a U.S. Department of Justice Director’s Award for prosecuting three defendants who distributed millions of doses of controlled substances through an online “pill mill.”      Justice Brown taught trial advocacy at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law for approximately ten years\, and frequently guest-teaches at Stanford Law School\, University of San Francisco Law School\, and U.C. Law San Francisco (formerly known as Hastings).  Justice Brown is actively involved with numerous organizations\, including the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area\, the California Asian Pacific American Judges Association\, the American Law Institute\, California Women Lawyers\, California Women Judges\, and the Bar Association of San Francisco. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/a-book-talk-author-edmund/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180218T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180218T170000 DTSTAMP:20190404T154235Z CREATED:20180110T011932Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190404T154235Z UID:4183-1518940800-1518973200@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Anthony Brown & Asian American Orchestra w/ Voices of a Dream DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 5\, 20266-8 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of One Fighting Irishman\, a film by Sharon Yamato and Evan Kodani\, followed by a panel discussion around immigrant rights\, Japanese American history\, and allyship. Narrated by George Takei\, this 30-minute documentary tells the story of Wayne M. Collins\, the San Francisco civil rights attorney who prevented more than 5\,500 Japanese Americans from being deported after imprisonment at the Tule Lake Segregation Center\, considered the worst of America’s ten WWII concentration camps.    The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Sharon Yamato\, Dale Minami\, Karen Korematsu\, Wayne Collins\, moderated by Justice Tracie Brown. Light refreshments will be served. Register for free tickets at the link below.   This event is sponsored by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee and Campaign for Justice\, the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society\, the Northern District Historical Society and the Federal Bar Association\, Northern District of California Chapter. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reserve Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sharon Yamato is a writer/journalist\, TV producer\, and independent filmmaker whose latest film\, One Fighting Irishman\, tells the story of attorney Wayne Collins and his fight to restore American citizenship for more than 5\,000 renunciants held at the Tule Lake Segregation Center. Her other films include Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn\, A Flicker in Eternity\, and Moving Walls\, for which she wrote an accompanying book\, Moving Walls: The Barracks of America’s Concentration Camps. She has written articles for the Los Angeles Times and is a columnist for the Los Angeles daily newspaper\, The Rafu Shimpo \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Presiding Justice Tracie L. Brown was appointed to California’s First District Court of Appeal in 2018 and elevated to the position of Presiding Justice of Division Four in 2023.  She had previously served for five years on the San Francisco Superior Court.    Justice Brown graduated from Harvard University and received her J.D. from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law.  She clerked for Judge M. Margaret McKeown on the Ninth Circuit and was an associate at Morrison & Foerster and Cooley LLP.  She then joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office\, where she tried civil and criminal cases and argued before the Ninth Circuit.    Justice Brown received the Asian American Bar Association’s Joe Morozumi Award and the California State Bar’s Jack Berman Award for her work on a pro bono case representing San Francisco’s Japanese American community.  She was honored with a U.S. Department of Justice Director’s Award for prosecuting three defendants who distributed millions of doses of controlled substances through an online “pill mill.”      Justice Brown taught trial advocacy at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law for approximately ten years\, and frequently guest-teaches at Stanford Law School\, University of San Francisco Law School\, and U.C. Law San Francisco (formerly known as Hastings).  Justice Brown is actively involved with numerous organizations\, including the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area\, the California Asian Pacific American Judges Association\, the American Law Institute\, California Women Lawyers\, California Women Judges\, and the Bar Association of San Francisco. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/anthony-brown-asian-american-orchestra-w-voices-of-a-dream-2/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180207T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180207T170000 DTSTAMP:20190404T154242Z CREATED:20180123T001916Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190404T154242Z UID:3886-1517990400-1518022800@oacc.cc SUMMARY:The Oakland Asian Cultural Center welcomes filmmaker\, writer\, artist and social activist MARA AHMED DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 5\, 20266-8 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of One Fighting Irishman\, a film by Sharon Yamato and Evan Kodani\, followed by a panel discussion around immigrant rights\, Japanese American history\, and allyship. Narrated by George Takei\, this 30-minute documentary tells the story of Wayne M. Collins\, the San Francisco civil rights attorney who prevented more than 5\,500 Japanese Americans from being deported after imprisonment at the Tule Lake Segregation Center\, considered the worst of America’s ten WWII concentration camps.    The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Sharon Yamato\, Dale Minami\, Karen Korematsu\, Wayne Collins\, moderated by Justice Tracie Brown. Light refreshments will be served. Register for free tickets at the link below.   This event is sponsored by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee and Campaign for Justice\, the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society\, the Northern District Historical Society and the Federal Bar Association\, Northern District of California Chapter. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reserve Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sharon Yamato is a writer/journalist\, TV producer\, and independent filmmaker whose latest film\, One Fighting Irishman\, tells the story of attorney Wayne Collins and his fight to restore American citizenship for more than 5\,000 renunciants held at the Tule Lake Segregation Center. Her other films include Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn\, A Flicker in Eternity\, and Moving Walls\, for which she wrote an accompanying book\, Moving Walls: The Barracks of America’s Concentration Camps. She has written articles for the Los Angeles Times and is a columnist for the Los Angeles daily newspaper\, The Rafu Shimpo \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Presiding Justice Tracie L. Brown was appointed to California’s First District Court of Appeal in 2018 and elevated to the position of Presiding Justice of Division Four in 2023.  She had previously served for five years on the San Francisco Superior Court.    Justice Brown graduated from Harvard University and received her J.D. from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law.  She clerked for Judge M. Margaret McKeown on the Ninth Circuit and was an associate at Morrison & Foerster and Cooley LLP.  She then joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office\, where she tried civil and criminal cases and argued before the Ninth Circuit.    Justice Brown received the Asian American Bar Association’s Joe Morozumi Award and the California State Bar’s Jack Berman Award for her work on a pro bono case representing San Francisco’s Japanese American community.  She was honored with a U.S. Department of Justice Director’s Award for prosecuting three defendants who distributed millions of doses of controlled substances through an online “pill mill.”      Justice Brown taught trial advocacy at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law for approximately ten years\, and frequently guest-teaches at Stanford Law School\, University of San Francisco Law School\, and U.C. Law San Francisco (formerly known as Hastings).  Justice Brown is actively involved with numerous organizations\, including the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area\, the California Asian Pacific American Judges Association\, the American Law Institute\, California Women Lawyers\, California Women Judges\, and the Bar Association of San Francisco. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/the-oakland-asian-cultural-center-welcomes-filmmaker-writer-artist-and-social-activist-mara-ahmed/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180203T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180203T160000 DTSTAMP:20190404T154252Z CREATED:20180108T011503Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190404T154252Z UID:4180-1517655600-1517673600@oacc.cc SUMMARY:OACC Lunar New Year Celebration DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 5\, 20266-8 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of One Fighting Irishman\, a film by Sharon Yamato and Evan Kodani\, followed by a panel discussion around immigrant rights\, Japanese American history\, and allyship. Narrated by George Takei\, this 30-minute documentary tells the story of Wayne M. Collins\, the San Francisco civil rights attorney who prevented more than 5\,500 Japanese Americans from being deported after imprisonment at the Tule Lake Segregation Center\, considered the worst of America’s ten WWII concentration camps.    The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Sharon Yamato\, Dale Minami\, Karen Korematsu\, Wayne Collins\, moderated by Justice Tracie Brown. Light refreshments will be served. Register for free tickets at the link below.   This event is sponsored by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee and Campaign for Justice\, the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society\, the Northern District Historical Society and the Federal Bar Association\, Northern District of California Chapter. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reserve Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sharon Yamato is a writer/journalist\, TV producer\, and independent filmmaker whose latest film\, One Fighting Irishman\, tells the story of attorney Wayne Collins and his fight to restore American citizenship for more than 5\,000 renunciants held at the Tule Lake Segregation Center. Her other films include Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn\, A Flicker in Eternity\, and Moving Walls\, for which she wrote an accompanying book\, Moving Walls: The Barracks of America’s Concentration Camps. She has written articles for the Los Angeles Times and is a columnist for the Los Angeles daily newspaper\, The Rafu Shimpo \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Presiding Justice Tracie L. Brown was appointed to California’s First District Court of Appeal in 2018 and elevated to the position of Presiding Justice of Division Four in 2023.  She had previously served for five years on the San Francisco Superior Court.    Justice Brown graduated from Harvard University and received her J.D. from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law.  She clerked for Judge M. Margaret McKeown on the Ninth Circuit and was an associate at Morrison & Foerster and Cooley LLP.  She then joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office\, where she tried civil and criminal cases and argued before the Ninth Circuit.    Justice Brown received the Asian American Bar Association’s Joe Morozumi Award and the California State Bar’s Jack Berman Award for her work on a pro bono case representing San Francisco’s Japanese American community.  She was honored with a U.S. Department of Justice Director’s Award for prosecuting three defendants who distributed millions of doses of controlled substances through an online “pill mill.”      Justice Brown taught trial advocacy at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law for approximately ten years\, and frequently guest-teaches at Stanford Law School\, University of San Francisco Law School\, and U.C. Law San Francisco (formerly known as Hastings).  Justice Brown is actively involved with numerous organizations\, including the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area\, the California Asian Pacific American Judges Association\, the American Law Institute\, California Women Lawyers\, California Women Judges\, and the Bar Association of San Francisco. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/oacc-lunar-new-year-celebration/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180127T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180127T170000 DTSTAMP:20190404T154308Z CREATED:20180110T012227Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190404T154308Z UID:4185-1517040000-1517072400@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Film Screening: 'Defender' Followed by Q&A With San Francisco Public Defender\, Jeff Adachi DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 5\, 20266-8 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of One Fighting Irishman\, a film by Sharon Yamato and Evan Kodani\, followed by a panel discussion around immigrant rights\, Japanese American history\, and allyship. Narrated by George Takei\, this 30-minute documentary tells the story of Wayne M. Collins\, the San Francisco civil rights attorney who prevented more than 5\,500 Japanese Americans from being deported after imprisonment at the Tule Lake Segregation Center\, considered the worst of America’s ten WWII concentration camps.    The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Sharon Yamato\, Dale Minami\, Karen Korematsu\, Wayne Collins\, moderated by Justice Tracie Brown. Light refreshments will be served. Register for free tickets at the link below.   This event is sponsored by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee and Campaign for Justice\, the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society\, the Northern District Historical Society and the Federal Bar Association\, Northern District of California Chapter. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reserve Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sharon Yamato is a writer/journalist\, TV producer\, and independent filmmaker whose latest film\, One Fighting Irishman\, tells the story of attorney Wayne Collins and his fight to restore American citizenship for more than 5\,000 renunciants held at the Tule Lake Segregation Center. Her other films include Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn\, A Flicker in Eternity\, and Moving Walls\, for which she wrote an accompanying book\, Moving Walls: The Barracks of America’s Concentration Camps. She has written articles for the Los Angeles Times and is a columnist for the Los Angeles daily newspaper\, The Rafu Shimpo \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Presiding Justice Tracie L. Brown was appointed to California’s First District Court of Appeal in 2018 and elevated to the position of Presiding Justice of Division Four in 2023.  She had previously served for five years on the San Francisco Superior Court.    Justice Brown graduated from Harvard University and received her J.D. from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law.  She clerked for Judge M. Margaret McKeown on the Ninth Circuit and was an associate at Morrison & Foerster and Cooley LLP.  She then joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office\, where she tried civil and criminal cases and argued before the Ninth Circuit.    Justice Brown received the Asian American Bar Association’s Joe Morozumi Award and the California State Bar’s Jack Berman Award for her work on a pro bono case representing San Francisco’s Japanese American community.  She was honored with a U.S. Department of Justice Director’s Award for prosecuting three defendants who distributed millions of doses of controlled substances through an online “pill mill.”      Justice Brown taught trial advocacy at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law for approximately ten years\, and frequently guest-teaches at Stanford Law School\, University of San Francisco Law School\, and U.C. Law San Francisco (formerly known as Hastings).  Justice Brown is actively involved with numerous organizations\, including the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area\, the California Asian Pacific American Judges Association\, the American Law Institute\, California Women Lawyers\, California Women Judges\, and the Bar Association of San Francisco. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/film-screening-defender-followed-by-qa-with-san-francisco-public-defender-jeff-adachi/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180111T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180111T200000 DTSTAMP:20190404T154316Z CREATED:20180102T012705Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190404T154316Z UID:4187-1515695400-1515700800@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Peace Lantern Ceremony Planning Meeting DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 5\, 20266-8 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a screening of One Fighting Irishman\, a film by Sharon Yamato and Evan Kodani\, followed by a panel discussion around immigrant rights\, Japanese American history\, and allyship. Narrated by George Takei\, this 30-minute documentary tells the story of Wayne M. Collins\, the San Francisco civil rights attorney who prevented more than 5\,500 Japanese Americans from being deported after imprisonment at the Tule Lake Segregation Center\, considered the worst of America’s ten WWII concentration camps.    The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Sharon Yamato\, Dale Minami\, Karen Korematsu\, Wayne Collins\, moderated by Justice Tracie Brown. Light refreshments will be served. Register for free tickets at the link below.   This event is sponsored by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee and Campaign for Justice\, the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society\, the Northern District Historical Society and the Federal Bar Association\, Northern District of California Chapter. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Reserve Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sharon Yamato is a writer/journalist\, TV producer\, and independent filmmaker whose latest film\, One Fighting Irishman\, tells the story of attorney Wayne Collins and his fight to restore American citizenship for more than 5\,000 renunciants held at the Tule Lake Segregation Center. Her other films include Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn\, A Flicker in Eternity\, and Moving Walls\, for which she wrote an accompanying book\, Moving Walls: The Barracks of America’s Concentration Camps. She has written articles for the Los Angeles Times and is a columnist for the Los Angeles daily newspaper\, The Rafu Shimpo \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Presiding Justice Tracie L. Brown was appointed to California’s First District Court of Appeal in 2018 and elevated to the position of Presiding Justice of Division Four in 2023.  She had previously served for five years on the San Francisco Superior Court.    Justice Brown graduated from Harvard University and received her J.D. from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law.  She clerked for Judge M. Margaret McKeown on the Ninth Circuit and was an associate at Morrison & Foerster and Cooley LLP.  She then joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office\, where she tried civil and criminal cases and argued before the Ninth Circuit.    Justice Brown received the Asian American Bar Association’s Joe Morozumi Award and the California State Bar’s Jack Berman Award for her work on a pro bono case representing San Francisco’s Japanese American community.  She was honored with a U.S. Department of Justice Director’s Award for prosecuting three defendants who distributed millions of doses of controlled substances through an online “pill mill.”      Justice Brown taught trial advocacy at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law for approximately ten years\, and frequently guest-teaches at Stanford Law School\, University of San Francisco Law School\, and U.C. Law San Francisco (formerly known as Hastings).  Justice Brown is actively involved with numerous organizations\, including the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area\, the California Asian Pacific American Judges Association\, the American Law Institute\, California Women Lawyers\, California Women Judges\, and the Bar Association of San Francisco. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/peace-lantern-ceremony-planning-meeting/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR