While the Country Celebrated Its 250th, We Went to Heart Mountain | Nonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.

While the Country Celebrated Its 250th, We Went to Heart Mountain | Nonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.

Credit: Ming Lai/@‌humanistfilms As the country marked 250 years last month, on June 30th, we gathered 125 organizers, artists, donors, and community leaders from 21 states at the foot of Heart Mountain in Powell, Wyoming. We made this pilgrimage to the one of 10 incarceration camps for Japanese Americans to remember a chapter in US history that the current administration would prefer to forget. We named the gathering for words that say plainly …