Gidra 1.3
Table of Contents:
- Asian American Studient Alliance. An account of a meeting that led to the creation of two new student groups at UCLA, the Asian American Student Alliance and the Asian American Political Alliance.
- The Persecution Rests by Seigo Hayashi. A journalist account of the trial of Thomas Nocuchi
- CS, It's a Gas by Y. Chao. An account of an anti-war protest at Berkeley that took place on May 18, 1969.
- Editorial: focused on the trial of Noguchi
- Grapes Are Coming, by Suzi Wong. An account of labor conditions for agricultural workers in California
- Reactions to Gidra. Snippets from established Asian (primarily Japanese American) magazines, including Kashu Mainichi, Crossroads, and Pacific Citizen.
Poems: - "Phases I, II & III" by Mary
- "Think" by Lloyd Kajikawa
- "I am Afraid" by Laura Ho
- "When you have forgotten me" by Cher Oku
- "Bitter!?" by Marc Kondo
- "Fairfax & Yamamoto" by Eugene Goldman
1941
We waltzed through
battered Fairfax High
-an old school crushed by loser anti-Jew
When Kuni Yamamoto
went to Manzanar-
The searchlights and
the guns reached
out for phantom planes
as corridors of
stoplights mapped
the 'blacked-out' city-
We sat upon bleachers
listening willingly
to the dramatic solemn
words resolute
[...]
Kuni, bright young
patriot of gentle morals
How fast a bigot's
handshake turns to clamps
And barbed wire
replaces school yard fence
Among your peers so unaware and
still
was not one bearded boy
or long tressed girl
to scorn the folly
The entire issue can be accessed at Densho repository here:
http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-297-3/