From the mural, activist Yuri Kochiyama raises her fist in solidarity with other Third World people's struggles. The barbed wire and inscriptions "E.O.9066 1942-84" represent the struggles against the WWII 1942-45 mass detention and imprisonment of some 120,000 US residents of Japanese ancestry in US concentration camps and community demands for "redress and reparations," an apology from the US government and monetary compensation.