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DESCRIPTION:<span style="color: #c21313\;"><strong>FREE and open to the pub
 lic</strong>\n<strong>JANM Plaza: 1:30 p.m.–3:30 p.m.\nScreenings (17 mi
 n each): 12:30 p.m. • 3:40 p.m. • 4:10 p.m.</strong>\n\nConceived and 
 created by Amy Cohen and Claudia Sobral\, “Detained in America: Children
  Speak” is a program of child voices describing the trauma inflicted by 
 US government policies on the young and innocent. Hosted by the Japanese A
 merican National Museum\, the program’s organizers include The Coalition
  for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA)\, Clergy and Laity Un
 ited for Economic Justice (CLUE)\, Immigrant Families Together (IFT)\, and
  Bend the Arc.\n\nDemonstrating how American policies that cruelly target 
 children and families echo from one century to the next\, the program will
  feature Japanese American children reading excerpts from archival letters
  by those imprisoned in concentration camps. Then\, local children will re
 ad quotes from the declarations of their asylum-seeking age-mates\, recent
 ly taken from their families and incarcerated in detention facilities and 
 immigration camps.\n\nAlso to be screened three times (12:30 p.m./3:40 p.m
 ./4:10 p.m.) will be the clay animation film\, <em>Estrella</em>\, writte
 n and produced by 7th grade students from Keewanee\, Illinois. The afterno
 on’s program will close with a presentation by the film’s student narr
 ator and the teacher who guided his students through this project of educa
 tion\, empathy\, and creative child empowerment.\n\nFor more information o
 n “Detained in America: Children Speak\,” please contact Amy Cohen at 
 acohen8919@mac.com or Claudia Sobral at claudiaesobral@gmail.com.\n\nMuseu
 m admission is free as part of the Smithsonian Magazine Museum Day.\n\n<em
 >Image courtesy of American Pediatrics Association</em>\n<strong></strong>
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SUMMARY:Detained in America: Children Speak
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