Sat.Feb 15, 2025

article thumbnail

Disturbing event cancellation at Pike Place Market in Seattle | versus public art in PortlandA

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

According to the Seattle Times , " Pike Place Market backs out of event on incarceration of Japanese Americans." The internment of Japanese-Americans during WWII mostly affected people on the West Coast. Plenty of people at the time were favorable to the deportation. From the article: An event commemorating the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II and calling attention to President Donald Trumps immigration policies was canceled by Pike Place Market less than two weeks before