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  Wendy Yoshimura at AllExperts
Wendy Masako Yoshimura is a watercolor artist living in Oakland, California.
After the war the Yoshimura family moved to Etajima, a small island off the coast of Hiroshima, where her father worked for the Allied Occupation forces.
Yoshimura was associated with the "Revolutionary Army," a radical group founded by her boyfriend Willie Brandt.
en.allexperts.com /e/w/we/wendy_yoshimura.htm   (631 words)

  
 SLA's Yoshimura keeps mum while ex-comrades serve time / Enigmatic artist lives alone with her dog and will talk only ...
Wendy Yoshimura could not speak English and was placed in second grade instead of with her teenage peers.
Yoshimura immediately went underground with the help of a friend, who in 1974 took her to a Pennsylvania farm where SLA members Bill and Emily Harris were hiding with Hearst, who had converted to the SLA's revolutionary cause after being kidnapped from her Berkeley apartment and subjected to abuse.
Yoshimura was nevertheless convicted on explosives and weapons charges in the Berkeley garage case and sent to state prison for six months.
sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/12/27/BAG8S3V2NG1.DTL&type=printable   (1334 words)

  
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These people came up with $150,000 in cash for Wendy's bail, which was later reduced to $25,000 when the judge recognized the extraordinary depth of Wendy's support.
One man took the $2,500 he had been saving for his son's law-school education and pledged it to the Yoshimura bail fund because, as he wrote to the judge,.  I know that Wendy would never turn around and hurt anyone who helped her.
As a result of her chance involvement with Patty Hearst, Wendy became a kind of Joan of Arc and Emma Goldman to these almost-forgotten people; in turn, they became her jealous, vigilant, mistrustful guardians.
ocrscans.homestead.com /yoshimura.html   (390 words)

  
 SLA's Yoshimura keeps mum while ex-comrades serve time   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Wendy Yoshimura could not speak English and was placed in second grade instead of with her teenage peers.
Yoshimura immediately went underground with the help of a friend, who in 1972 took her to a Pennsylvania farm where SLA members Bill and Emily Harris were hiding with Hearst, who had converted to the SLA's revolutionary cause after being kidnapped from her Berkeley apartment and subjected to abuse.
Yoshimura was nevertheless convicted on explosives and weapons charges in the Berkeley garage case and sent to state prison for six months.
www.rickross.com /reference/symbionese/symbionese40.html   (1315 words)

  
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Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) member Wendy Yoshimura was born in January 1973 at the Manzanar Internment Camp for Japanese Americans, where her parents were incarcerated during World War II.
Yoshimura thereafter became involved with a radical group called the Revolutionary Army, which was founded by her boyfriend Willie Brandt.
Yoshimura's fingerprints were found on the aforementioned items, as well as on a book about forming an urban guerrilla unit, and on an Army training manual about rifles and rocket launchers.
www.discoverthenetworks.org /individualProfile.asp?indid=1285   (387 words)

  
 SECTION ON KATHLEEN SOLIAH
Wendy, in her own persuasive way, was weaning Patty from the aggressiveness of the SLA unit under Bill Harris.
Wendy and Patricia wrote a critique of the Harrises’ chauvinism and trigger-finger approach to revolution and took It to them soon after settling on Morse Street.
Wendy Yoshimura was released December on $25,000 bail.
presslord.com /ldsla142.htm   (9087 words)

  
 AsianWeek.com
Wendy was a part of a movement in which thousands of Bay Area Asian Pacific Americans were involved - protesting the folly of the Vietnam War.
A Wendy Yoshimura Fair Trial Committee was organized, and I was elected to chair it.
Not only was that photo of Wendy Yoshimura the original creation of Nancy Wong, it was also published in Newsweek that year in a story leading up to the trial of Ms.
news.asianweek.com /news/view_article.html?article_id=e878fddfa4d0b0c3ca8897298306336f   (892 words)

  
 Update on the SJ Olsen Trial : LA IMC
Yoshimura went on trial in Alameda County in 1976 and was convicted of non-SLA-related charges of possessing explosives and a machine gun.
Now 58, Yoshimura lives in Berkeley, where she shows and sells her artwork and is part owner of the Juice Collective on Berkeley's Vine Street.
It described the "flip-flop pattern of sexual triangles and rectangles," and how Yoshimura was yearning for Kilgore and wondering whether he and Olson would resume their relationship while they were away in Northern California.
la.indymedia.org /news/2001/10/12280.php   (1163 words)

  
 What You Say about Goldsea Articles | Asian American Issues | GoldSea
For instance, Wendy Yoshimura is not the Japan-born daughter of an embittered, alienated Manzanar internee from whom she became estranged.
Yoshimura was born at Manzanar during the war.
I would hope that a slight change in wording in the introduction would correct this slight against the Yoshimuras and insult to Choi, who, after all, did not merely transcribe the character Jenny Shimada but invented her.
goldsea.com /Air/Issues/Articles/articles_31111.html   (1785 words)

  
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Kathleen Soliah (Sara Jane Olson), who had been a friend of Atwood's, held a memorial rally for the slain SLA members and characterized their deaths as "murder." Famed radical attorney Leonard Weinglass represented the parents of the SLA “victims.” Hearst befriended Soliah, as did a young married couple named William and Emily Harris.
Soliah, Wendy Yoshimura, James Kilgore and Mike Bortin also joined the "revolution," and the SLA was injected with new life.
Her husband is a doctor." In September of that year, Hearst, William and Emily Harris, and Yoshimura were arrested.
www.discoverthenetwork.com /groupProfile.asp?grpid=6466   (682 words)

  
 The SLA as muse? From a lost, desperate summer came a young writer's inspiration for a story of friendship, rebellion ...
Soon after their return to San Francisco, Patty and Wendy were captured together in an apartment on Morse Street on Sept. 18, 1975, and Yoshimura was convicted of possessing firearms and explosives; she served six months in prison.
Yoshimura was given immunity from prosecution, along with Hearst, in exchange for her testimony before a Sacramento grand jury in 1990 and 1991.
Yoshimura was born in Manzanar, the U.S. internment camp in California where Japanese Americans were forced to live during World War II.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/10/01/CHOI.TMP&nl=top   (1289 words)

  
 Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art | Press Releases   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Choi will read from her new novel, American Woman in which she fictionalizes the Patty Hearst kidnapping, basing her protagonist on the real-life Wendy Yoshimura, a young Japanese-American woman who spent the “lost year” with Hearst and her kidnappers.
Choi’s American Woman, follows 25-year-old Jenny Shimada (loosely based on real-life Wendy Yoshimura) who is on the lam for participating in an anti-war bombing.
Jenny is living under the authorities' radar in New York's Hudson Valley when her efforts to lay low are complicated by a visit from a former lover and comrade-in-arms, who enlists her to help three surviving members of a radical cadre.
www.massmoca.org /press_releases/03_2004/03_02_04.html   (442 words)

  
 The Safehouses
Kathleen Soliah’s fingerprints were found on the rental termination letter for the W Street apartment, and the letter was in Kathleen Soliah’s handwriting.
Fingerprints of Emily Harris and Wendy Yoshimura were found in apartment #1 at 1721 W Street in Sacramento.
Kathy and Steve stayed on at the W Street house, and Wendy Yoshimura joined them there.
myrnaopsahl.com /ev-010.htm   (670 words)

  
 COURTTV.COM - TRIALS
Among the issues to be discussed is a defense motion that the case be dismissed because the prosecution failed to provide a diary from SLA associate Wendy Yoshimura, who was arrested with Hearst in 1975 and later convicted of weapons charges.
According to the defense, Yoshimura provided an alibi in the diary, writing that Olson was in Northern California on the day of the attempted Los Angeles bombings.
Gibbons said Wednesday that the diary was destroyed in the 1980s along with other evidence from Yoshimura's trial in a standard procedure for older case files.
www.courttv.com /trials/soliah/102401_ctv.html   (688 words)

  
 American Experience | Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst | Primary Sources | PBS
In early fall of 1975, Symbionese Liberation Army member Wendy Yoshimura wrote a letter to her former lover, Willie Brandt, who was behind bars at Soledad.
She was troubled by the group dynamics of the S.L.A., including differences in philosophy that had surfaced.
The letter was never sent; the FBI recovered it when they captured Wendy and Patty Hearst in mid-September in their hideout at 625 Morse, in San Francisco's Outer Mission District.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/guerrilla/filmmore/ps_yoshimura.html   (1287 words)

  
 TIME.com: PATTY'S TWISTED JOURNEY -- Sep. 29, 1975 -- Page 1
The first to be handled was Wendy Yoshimura, a Japanese-American artist who disappeared in 1972 after being charged with taking part in a plan to bomb the naval-architecture building on the Berkeley campus of the University of California.
Magistrate Owen Woodruff dismissed federal fugitive charges against Yoshimura, and remanded her to the custody of Alameda County authorities to face arraignment for her part in the Berkeley incident.
As she was taken from the courtroom, she paused at the defense table and touched the outstretched hand of Patty Hearst.
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,913456,00.html   (731 words)

  
 CNN.com - Olson sentenced to 20 years in bomb plot - January 18, 2002
Hearst also said two others participated in the robbery, accusing Steven Soliah of standing watch outside and Wendy Yoshimura of driving a second getaway car.
Soliah is the brother of Olson, who went by the name of Kathleen Soliah at that time.
Hearst, Steven Soliah and Yoshimura were given immunity for testimony in grand jury proceedings years ago.
archives.cnn.com /2002/LAW/01/18/olson.sla.arraignment/index.html   (679 words)

  
 Online since March 10
Glide Memorial church was the defacto "Church of the SLA" both in the food giveaway and the site of many activities of the Wendy Yoshimura defense committee.
Wendy Yoshimura made a trip to Cuba to (supposedly) help during the sugar cane harvest.
To borrow from a Wendy Yoshimura supporter button, "A fuller court means a fairer trial".
home.earthlink.net /~bikemiles   (5808 words)

  
 Ergo Sum
Wendy Yoshimura specializes in watercolor paintings that are fluid in detail with brilliant transient plays of light that dance on the paper.
She draws inspiration from life’s fleeting moments of beauty with nature — a simple flower, the perfect picked selection of fruit or a restful day at the beach.
Wendy is a recipient of the California Arts Council Grant and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from The California College of Arts.
www.ergo-sum.com /artists/yoshimura.asp   (146 words)

  
 Wendy Yoshimura Water Limited Edition Fine Art Prints   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Wendy Yoshimura Water Limited Edition Fine Art Prints
On display here are images of 22 watercolor paintings from which I have created limited edition prints.
Even visitors with a sophisticated artist's eye are stunned to learn that they are not the original watercolor.
wendyyoshimura.org /pages1/prints.html   (122 words)

  
 Ducati motorcycles - yoshimura
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 Wendy Yoshimura - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music
Wendy Masako Yoshimura was a member of the American terrorist group the Symbionese Liberation Army.
Wendy Yoshimura was born in Manzanar Internment Camp for Japanese Americans during World War II.
Her parents were born in America and her father had tried to enlist in the US Army after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor.
education.music.us /W/Wendy-Yoshimura.htm   (311 words)

  
 SLA's Yoshimura keeps mum while ex-comrades serve time / Enigmatic artist lives alone with her dog and will talk only ...
SLA's Yoshimura keeps mum while ex-comrades serve time / Enigmatic artist lives alone with her dog and will talk only about her watercolors
When told who Opsahl was, Yoshimura ended the interview.
Yoshimura immediately went underground with the help of a friend, who in 1974 took her to a Pennsylvania farm where SLA members Bill and Emily Harris were hiding with Hearst, who had converted to the SLA's revolutionary cause after being kidnapped from her Berkeley apartment and subjected to abuse.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/12/27/BAG8S3V2NG1.DTL   (1349 words)

  
 KQED | Pacific Time: Pacific Time
The Japanese-American community helped young radical Wendy Yoshimura get a fair trial for her involvement with the SLA.
Thirty years later, she talks about a life framed in headlines, moved by injustice and nourished by art.
Wendy Yoshimura, Oakland artist and inspiration for the protagonist in Susan Choi's "American Woman"
www.kqed.org /epArchive/R402261830/f   (67 words)

  
 Yoshimura Suzuki :: Team Yoshimura Suzuki's Aaron Yates Wins 2005 AMA Repsol Superstock Championship
Yoshimura Suzuki :: Team Yoshimura Suzuki's Aaron Yates Wins 2005 AMA Repsol Superstock Championship
Team Yoshimura Suzuki's Aaron Yates Wins 2005 AMA Repsol Superstock Championship
Newly crowned Superstock Champion Yates and his Yoshimura Suzuki GSX-R1000 clinched the title after finishing ninth in the final event at Road Atlanta.
sev.prnewswire.com /sports/20050904/NYSU03204092005-1.html   (323 words)

  
 Kupferer Law | Press
At the time, Horner, 66, described Kallins' sentence as "richly deserved," for her courtroom antics, such as sticking out her tongue at a prosecutor, belching audibly and violating court orders during a rape case.
As an Alameda County deputy district attorney from the 1960s through the '80s, Horner successfully prosecuted Symbionese Liberation Army member Wendy Yoshimura for possessing explosives as well as David Mason for killing four elderly Oakland residents and a fellow inmate while awaiting trial.
As the supervising attorney in the district attorney's Berkeley office, Horner was known to clash with the city's liberal judges over drug and prostitution cases.
www.kupfererlaw.com /press/riders.html   (1231 words)

  
 yoshimura   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Yoshimura EMS Controller is a stand alone unit that allows the rider to adjust the OEM fuel and timing maps to optimize the engine performance of their motorcycle.
Yoshimura Tri Oval Slip-On Exhaust and EMS System: MD Product Review By Dirck Edge.
Began studying Koto from her mother Yoshimura Soho since childhood, and attained her teaching license with the Matsu - no - mi Kai of Ikuta school koto performance at the age of sixteen.
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