The following is an unedited facebook post by a Korean activist fighting planned THAAD deployment on Jeju. Okinawan activists will note how similar the behavior of the riot police is to that of Japanese riot police sent to Takae and Henoko to suppress anti helipad and anti base protests. Original post is here: Fwd: [April […]
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Activism Asia: Stop THAAD
This is the first article in Activism Asia: Stop THAAD No to Missile Defense On July 7, 2016, the U.S. and South Korean governments announced a joint decision to deploy the U.S. Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile system in South Korea. The two governments assert, without serious evidence and contrary to expert […]
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Several rights groups responded Friday, calling on Trump to repeal the ban, which applies to migrants from Syria and 5 other countries in Africa and the Middle East. “Trump was using very strong words last night to describe the cruelty and the horrors that children and civilians in general are enduring (in Syria),” Maria McFarland Sánchez-Moreno, co-director […]
「工事まだ止められる」 辺野古で250人座り込み 作業確認されず
沖縄県名護市辺野古の新基地建設に反対する市民らが２２日午前、米軍キャンプ・シュワブのゲート前で座り込み、抗議行動している。市民らは交代でマイクを握り、「沖縄防衛局の工事は法に反している」「工事はまだ止められる」など建設阻止に向け気勢を上げた。一方、海上は波が高く、午前中は作業の様子は確認できなかった。 新基地建設反対を訴えキャンプ・シュワブゲート前で座り込む市民ら＝２２日午前、名護市辺野古 この日は本島北部や南部、那覇市を中心に午前８時前から集まり始め、１１時には２５０人を超える市民が座り込んだ。 兵庫県の民族歌舞団「花こま」が、同盟関係を強める日米両政府と基地に反対する沖縄を描いた寸劇を披露。トランプ米大統領と安倍晋三首相らをお面を使って演じ、拍手が起きた。 from Okinawa Times Please support our work. Donations/寄付 Mailing List Subscribe/メーリングリスト
Japan and Asia/日本とアジア
Base Dependency and Okinawa’s Prospects: Behind the Myths
They’ll return bases they’ve used for 70 years and are now decrepit, and replace then with cutting-edge new facilities. They’re tying all this to the return of the Futenma base, with the Japanese government bearing all of the cost. That’s very adept negotiation by the US at the expense of Japan and Okinawa. The new base at Henoko will function as a military port, it will have maintenance facilities and provide logistics (storage and supply) functions, in addition to the airfield. Nearby is the Henoko ammunition depot [now part of Camp Schwab], where the US stored nuclear missiles in the past.
In Hiroshima, Obama and Abe Should Acknowledge Their Country’s Wrongdoing
Victims of the bombing were citizens who were in Hiroshima and Nagasaki then, not the Japanese nation. Those people were victims of the Japanese war, started by the state of Japan, just as much as other victims of the Japanese Empire throughout the Asia-Pacific region…Obviously, it was Japan’s colonial rule of Korea that caused as many as 70,000 Koreans to be exposed to the two atomic bombs….If Abe still accompanies Obama to Hiroshima, wearing the mask of a victim, he should at least bow his head at the Korean A-bomb Victims Memorial, together with Obama.
Japanese/日本語
海保、船長の胸ぐらつかむ 市議視察船を一時拘束/Repression Japanese style
辺野古問題取材班】米軍普天間飛行場の移設に伴う名護市辺野古への新基地建設で、１２日に海上保安庁などに過剰な警備について抗議する名護市議会の議員ら６人が１１日午前、船上から作業現場を事前視察した。 議員たちが「暴力的で過剰な警備は許さない」と呼び掛けながら、臨時制限区域を示す油防止膜（オイルフェンス）内を航行していたところ、海上保安官が船を一時拘束した。 議員たちは取材陣と同じ船に乗っていた。船が拘束される際、海上保安官が男性船長（２９）のライフジャケットの胸ぐらをつかみ、緊迫した。船には定員の１ ３人が乗っていたが３、４人の海上保安官が乗り込み、一時定員オーバーとなった。海保のゴムボートで船をオイルフェンス外にえい航した。同議会軍事基地等対策特別委員会の大城敬人（よしたみ）委員長は「暴力的な警備をしていることが分かった。明日の要請の場で抗議したい」と話した。 午後にはオイルフェンス内でカヌーに乗って抗議していた市民３人が一時拘束された。 抗議船の船長（右）の胸ぐらをつかむ海上保安官＝１１日午前１０時５６分、名護市の大浦湾（金良孝矢撮影） CLICK PHOTO TO SEE VIDEO This is the Japanese Coast Guard attempt to destroy the anti-base movement, but they will not succeed. For more on this, please read the article […]
Release Hiroji Yamashiro now!
Take action to support Hiroji Yamashiro, who has been imprisoned indefinitely for protesting U.S. bases in Okinawa. Other actions will appear here periodically. 【沖縄の活動家：山城博治さんの釈放を！】 山城さんは 昨年10月17日、高江のヘリパッド建設に対する抗議行動中に逮捕され、その後公務執行妨害などでも逮捕され起訴されました。勾留されて100日以上が経ちます。家族にも会えない今の状態は、国際人権基準に反しています。アムネスティ日本は、山城さんの速やかな釈放を求めて声明（http://bit.ly/2jDX7Ug）を発表、 また、緊急行動を始めました。郵便やSNSで、いますぐ西川検事総長と安倍首相に働きかけてください！詳細はこちら http://bit.ly/2kagE1Y
Social Justice/社会正義
Sentencing of Israeli Soldier for Killing of Palestinian Exposes Contradictions of Occupation
An Israeli Military Court handed down an 18-month sentence to Israeli soldier Elor Azaria for the murder of Palestinian, Fatah Al-Sharif. Al-Sharif was lying on the ground at the time of the fatal shooting. Azaria, the soldier was convicted in early January of manslaughter for shooting Fatah Al- Sharif and for inappropriate conduct. We reported his […]
Dorothea Lange’s Censored Photographs of the Japanese American Internment by Linda Gordon
Shortly after Franklin Roosevelt ordered the internment of Japanese Americans in 1942, the War Location Authority hired photographer Dorothea Lange to document the process. I strongly suspect that whoever made the decision knew little about her previous work, but learned that she had worked for the federal government and that she lived in California, where […]
Globalisation/グローバリゼーション
Takata Fined $1 Billion For Hiding Information on Exploding Car Airbags
Reports of injuries and deaths began to circulate soon after but they did not make major headlines until about seven years ago. On May 27, 2009, Ashley Parham, a teenager in Oklahoma, died when the airbag in her 2001 Honda Accord exploded. The following year Gurjit Rathore was killed in Virginia, when the airbag in her 2001 Honda Accord exploded.
Authoritarian Neoliberalism and the Myth of Free Markets
So, let’s put this bluntly: neoliberalism has nothing to do with markets as commonly conceived, and everything to do with the orchestration of social relations in the name of markets. As a result, neoliberalism in principle and in practice is fundamentally about the coercive, non-democratic and unequal reorganization of societies along particular lines. And what are those lines? The intensification and extensification of the differences, inequalities, hierarchies and divisions which pervade capitalist society, as delivered by authoritarian states and global corporations. Therefore, we must always keep in mind that neoliberalism, as an ideology and as a set of “real-life” practices, is a way of seeing the world that is carved from the empty words “free” and “markets.”
War and Empire/戦争＆支配権力
The New Merchants of Death
During his 2016 Democratic Party presidential campaign, Bernie Sanders condemned the overweening influence of money on politics and the corruption bred by corporate power. However, Sanders focused most of his critique on the big pharmaceutical, fossil fuel and investment banking firms, only rarely discussing the so-called military-industrial complex and never the private military industry. But more than anything else, this $200 billion industry epitomizes the corruption of the two-party system in the era of Citizen’s United. It is also key to the US global strategy of maintaining a worldwide network of overseas military bases and waging endless wars for access to natural resources, which most of the public would not want to risk its life fighting in.
オスプレイ墜落現場: 市民撮影の写真、軍削除させる
女性によると、回収作業の際に、浜に上がってきた米兵を撮影したところ、近くにいた米軍関係者が通訳を介して「個人なので（顔が写って）公にされるのはよくない」と写真の削除を求めた。女性は米軍関係者の求めに応じ、タブレット端末で撮影した複数の画像をその場で削除した。作業の様子を遠くから撮影した画像の削除は求められなかった。
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