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Beautiful Saturday afternoon in Gardena celebrating Gardena Valley Japanese Cultural Institute (GVJCI)’s Annual Matsuri! GVJCI is a non-profit community center housing various classes, services, and programs for seniors, non-senior adults, and youth in the South Bay for over 40 years. Their mission is to serve the needs of the local Japanese American community through educational, cultural, and social programs that share the Japanese and Japanese American cultural heritage. Thank you Executive Direcror Alison Kochiyama for the invitation!

Closed out Pride Month with South Bay LGBTQ Center at their Annual Paddle Out and Luncheon! Great to see my summer intern Victoria too! Happy Pride!

I met with Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, Los Angeles Police Department Chief Jim McDonnell, Congressional Members, California Senate Pro Tempore Kevin McGuire, California Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas, Los Angeles area State Senators and Assemblymembers to discuss the ICE raids happening in our communities and the presence of the military in our streets.

We held a press conference following our meeting to end the politicization of California by the Administration and demanded due process for those swept up in the ICE raids. We also called to end the stoking of fear by having the California National Guard and marines presence.

On this Memorial Day at Redondo Beach Veterans Memorial to honor all who have given their lives to defend our democracy and our freedom.

On this Memorial Day at Green Hills Memorial Park in Palos Verdes to honor all who have given their lives to defend our democracy and our freedom.

#FightforSchools rally at SpaceX to protest Trump-Musk attacking public education and defunding our schools, impacting our most vulnerable kids like special education, low income, immigrant, LGBTQ students.

Great to join teachers from throughout LA County in solidarity!

Torrance Armed Forces Day Parade. Honoring all the men and women who have served in our United States Armed Forces.

I posthumously honored Dr. Kanji Sahara of Torrance at the California Legislature’s Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month ceremony this past week.

Kanji was the driving force behind the World War II Camp Memorial being built in Torrance to remember the over 120,000 Japanese Americans who were wrongfully incarcerated in internment camps during the war.

Representing Kanji is his daughter Judy and her husband Ben, and Kanji's grandchildren Kaitlyn, Kristin, and Nicole.

I held my third dual enrollment workshop at El Camino College this weekend. Dual enrollment provides students the unique opportunity to take free community college classes while still in high school. It was a great event with many students signing up for dual enrollment classes after the event. Many thanks for El Camino College President Brenda Thames and staff for their partnership.

Asm. Muratsuchi welcomed Riviera Hall Lutheran School to the State Capitol.