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My mother, Kiyoko Kakinami Cloyd, also known as Kakinami Kiyoko, Kakinami Emiko, and Anna, passed away on Saturday September 17, 2011. My life project: Dream of the Water Children, is dedicated and devoted to her, and will continue to be an important honoring of her life and passing.

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My Book – Release Date delayed till November
Wendy Cheng previews my upcoming book: Dream of the Water Children
Bathing in Japan
BOOK Release Date Changed!!
Human Rights — dreams, contradictions, violence, and hope
Music— Jun Miyake
Visit my Book Site: Dream of the Water Children
My Book will be out in Fall 2015! Progressing nicely!

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Brown Babies Film (Afro-German)
Buddhist Studies Virtual Library
Cabinet – quarterly Transcultural Arts zine
CAPD – Center for Assessment & Policy Development
Center for Basque Studies
Center for Justice and Accountability
Cherokee History
Civil Rights Struggle, African-American GIs & Germany
ColinResponse
Collegium for African-American Research (CAAR)
Coloniality of Power: Center for Global Justice
Corporate Accountability International
Cultural Studies & Critical Theory
Eduardo Galeano.net
Fermenting Japan My colleague Umi’s website
Foucault Archives
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Gypsy Traveller .org
Human Rights Watch
Illuminations: Critical Theory
International GRAMSCI Society
International Peoples' Tribunal – Kashmir
Ismail Beşikçi – Academic Dissident in Turkey
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Michel-Foucault.com
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NewBlackMan
Online Encyclopedia of Mass Violence
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Post Black – blog
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Requiem for Certainty – colin koopman blog
Robert Jensen
Studies on Asia
Suppressed histories
Sustainable Masculinity – Pip Cornwall
The Loop 21.com – US Black news & culture
Through Postcolonial Lenses
Walter Benjamin .org
ZERO ANTHROPOLOGY

Links of Interest

'Snowflakes in a Valley of Fire' – my essay
76Crimes (Sexuality & Global Law)
African-American Studies Directory
Afro-Europe Blog
Ainu Museum
Amnesty International
Anthropologists for Peace & Justice
Archaeology: Human Rights Archaeology
Ashes and Snow – Gregory Colbert
Avalon Project: Law, History, & Diplomacy Archives
Boiling Frogs : Sibel Edmonds website
Brown Babies Film (Afro-German)
Buddhist Studies Virtual Library
Cabinet – quarterly Transcultural Arts zine
CAPD – Center for Assessment & Policy Development
Catalyst Project
Center for Basque Studies
Center for Justice and Accountability
Cherokee History
Civil Rights Struggle, African-American GIs & Germany
Class Matters .org
ColinResponse
Coloniality of Power: Center for Global Justice
Colorlines
Corporate Accountability International
Creation Spirituality
Critical Resistance
Crowd Voice: Tracking Voices of Protest
CUAV – LGBTQIQ Communities United Against Violence
Cyril Takayama – magician
Duffy's Cut Project
East Bay Meditation Center
Fermenting Japan My colleague Umi’s website
Foucault Archives
Foucault Info.com
Frozen Justice – blogspot
Grits & Sushi – my friend Mitzi's blog
Gypsy Traveller .org
Hafu – the Film
Hafu Japanese blogspot
Hafu.org
Halvsie – for, by and about half-Japanese
Hiroshima & Nagasaki Remembered
History By Zinn: Photos Beyond Textbooks
Hobos to Street People
Human Rights First
Human Rights Watch
Hyphen magazine
Illuminations: Critical Theory
Inanimate Alice: the Future of Reading
INCITE: Women of COlor Against Violence
Inteligensa Indigena – international fourth world newswire
International GRAMSCI Society
International Peoples' Tribunal – Kashmir
Interpress Service News Agency
Invisible People TV
Iraq Veterans Against the War
Ismail Beşikçi – Academic Dissident in Turkey
Jef Mallett – blog
Korean War Baby
Kurdish Cinema
Kurdish Herald
Kurdish Human Rights Project
Living Along the Fenceline
Marty Gross Productions: Trad. Japanese Arts DVDs
Mavin Foundation
Meeting Resistance
Meister Eckhart
Men Stopping Violence
Men's Anti-Violence Council – blog
MERIP – Middle East Info & Research Project
Mixed in Different Shades
Mushim Ikeda-Nash
NewBlackMan
One World Multimedia
Online Encyclopedia of Mass Violence
Paul Coelho
Paul Kivel – Anti-Oppression work
PISAB – Peoples' Institute for Survival & Beyond
Post Black – blog
Project Race – multiracial advocates
PRRAC – Poverty & Race Research Action Council
Rasti
Re-Appropriate: Writings of an Asian-American Feminist
Real News Network
Reporters Without Borders
Requiem for Certainty – colin koopman blog
Resist Racism – blog
Robert Jensen
Rus Funk – Anti-Oppression
Slowpoke Comics
Soleïman Adel Guémar – Arc Publications
Sport in Society
Sunni Patterson
Suppressed histories
Sustainable Masculinity – Pip Cornwall
The Bully Project
The Dersim Project
The Loop 21.com – US Black news & culture
The Sparrow Songs – documessages
Tim Wise – anti-racist worker
Tiziano Project – Post-conflict/Under-represented empowerment
Tools for Change
Trinh Minh-ha
United for a Fair Economy
United Human Rights Council
Visual Peacemakers .org
Watermelon Sushi
Watermelon Sushi World – blog
Western Regional Advocacy Project
Women for Genuine Security
Zen Buddhism Virtual Library
ZERO ANTHROPOLOGY

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Ana Castillo – blog
Anchee Min
Asian American Literary Review
Barry Lopez.com
Cabinet – quarterly Transcultural Arts zine
Cha: an Asian Literary Journal
David Mura.net
Eduardo Galeano.net
Errol Lincoln Uys
Foucault Archives
Gloria Anzaldúa – Society for the Study of
Illuminations: Critical Theory
International GRAMSCI Society
James Baldwin
Jef Mallett – blog
Kartika Review
Kenji Chienshu-Liu
Mixed Reader
Mushim Ikeda-Nash
Nikkei
Orhan Pamuk
Post Black – blog
Red Poppy Blog: Pablo Neruda & Insurgent Poetry
Red Poppy: Pablo Neruda & Insurgent Poetry
Requiem for Certainty – colin koopman blog
Sunni Patterson
Tea Party Magazine
The Loop 21.com – US Black news & culture
Through Postcolonial Lenses
Walter Benjamin .org

Music

Ahmet Aslan.org
Ashes and Snow – Gregory Colbert
Astor Piazzolla
Aynur Dogan
Bill Miller Arts
Birol Topaloğlu
Chitose Hajime 元ちとせ
Ciwan Haco
David Sylvian
Dead Can Dance
Far Side Music – Eastern Roots and Beyond
fROOTs.com
Gor Mkhtarian
Jack Peters Harpsichords
Janelle Monáe
Justin Nozuka
Kerem Sevinç
Lhasa de la Sela
Lost Songs of Anatolia – Anadolu'nun Kayıp Şarkıları
Luka Bloom
Madredeus
Manhattan Transfer
Marty Gross Productions: Trad. Japanese Arts DVDs
Metin & Kemal Kahraman
Mikail Aslan
MondoMix: World Music Mp3
Naima Shalhoub
Nancy Wilson (jazz)
Rafet El Roman
Ryuichi Sakamoto 坂本龍一
SamadhiSound.com
Sezen Aksu
Shlomo Bar & Habrera Hativit
Sunni Patterson
Teafruitbat
Thomas Feiner & Anywhen
Yann Tiersen
Zerrin Özer

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California State Railroad Museum
Camden Services UK
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Duffy's Cut Project
Errol Lincoln Uys
Herron Rail
John Raby DVD
National Railroad Museum USA
Phoebe Snow Society
Pullman Historical Site
Railroad Museum of Pennyslvania
Railroaders' Memorial Museum – Pennsylvania USA
Steamtown – Pennsylvania
Sunday River Productions
Telerail UK
World Steam – ainoko's global steam train site

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Inter-generational & multiracial Social Justice, Anti-Oppression, Music & Food & Fun from a Blackanese raised in Japan during the 'post'US Occupation.

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