[tokyoprogressive] CPN #120 Japanese Biotech, Palestian Israeli Activists in Japan, Death and the Mainstream Media




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                     TokyoProgressive's ChocoPaulNews
                               Issue 120
                  Japan, the Middle East, Afghanistan

                      http://tokyoprogressive.org

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Welcome to issue 120 of the newsletter, and hello to several new
subscribers who are joining us. With this issue we
announce a number of new articles, as well as features to
help make this newsletter and website more useful to you:

I.  Articles on a Japanese Biotech website, the Intl Green Network Japan
forum, several Israeli Palestinian speakers who will be touring Japan
next month to speak and show films, state terrorism (falsely called
"the WAR on terrorism"), the World Economic forum, and more. 

II.  A more interactive website.

Let's start with the second item.  If you go to the website, you will
notice that it has been redesigned so that almost everything links from
the same page. The main addresses are http://tokyoprogressive.org and
http://arenson.org --and there are several "mirror sites" that are
linked from the top page.  The main features:


TOP LEFT/TOP CENTER
--This mailing list. You can subscribe and unsubscibe right from here.
The list is interactive now, which means if you want to send us a link,
 an article, a comment, or whatever, you can use the return address. 
But it does NOT mean people will be getting a lot of messages. 
Anything you send will be kept until the next issue (normally 1,
sometimes 2 issues a week). If it is a link it will be added within 24
hours (soon, almost immediately). If it is a calendar item, it will go
into the Calendar section.  Likewise with an article, which will be
posted to the website.  The mailing list itself will generally NOT be
updated until the next scheduled issue, as noted, usually one a week. 
Of course we don't print anything and everything.  It should be in tune
 with the nature of this site. That said, I hope you will make use of
the new interactive feature.

The address:   tokyoprogressive@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
(Just use reply)


I hope this helps make ChocoPaulNews more a two-way medium.  We really
need YOUR input in order to get information on events in Japan and
around the world out to the community. In addition, the TOP LEFT
section will also have:

-- TokyoProgressive Internet Radio (Yes, there is a ChocoPaulNews radio
show. And you can be on it.  See below.


--A resource list (actually linked to the box below the top left one)
containing articles and links on a zillion topics.


--Publish, which is basically a set of links to places on the web 
where you can publish: Znet Interactive, Nologo.org (Naomi Klein), Indy Media
and--yes--TokyoProgressive.  Again, the intention is to encourage the
sharing of information and the building of activist communities.

--Discussions--both here and on other sites, Japan-related and other
things like peace and justice in the Middle East.

And so much more.

TOP RIGHT (also MIDDLE CENTER)

--What's New?  The latest stories linked from Tokyoprogressive.  This
will soon be updated almost instantaneously.  Any stories YOU
contribute will also be linked here if they are the kind of thing we
normally link to.


You can also send simple html links and read them via a menu at the top of the 
page
that says SEND LINKS/YOUR LINKS.

                     
                              ARTICLES
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Discuss any of these here: 
 
http://www.arenson.org/forums/board.php?boardid=10&sid=57c99deea7141eaf08ec7fd7774d90cb
                
  And now for the articles. These are linked off the main page at either
http://tokyoprogressive.org or http://arenson.org, but this will change
in time, so I will give you the actual location on our web log.


(1) Israeli resisters in the military refuse to serve in the occuppied
territories--A soldier explains why he has decided to lay down his guns
and also talks about his disgust with both the Israeli right and 
mainstream left. Plus related links. (If the link is broken, you will
need to copy and paste the whole thing into your browser)
http://www.arenson.org/2002_02_17_tokyoprog_archive.html#9919300

Contribute your ideas (please note if we may quote you), articles, 
links: tokyoprogressive@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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JAPAN-related

(2a) The Citizens' Biotechnology Information Center (Japan) home page is now up
and running.The English site will be updated soon.
JAPANESE: 市民バイオテクノロジー情報室

(2b)ISRAEL and PALESTINE-Related Film Showings and Talks in Tokyo, Sendai, Osaka
SUBJECTS: Palestinain laborers, Palestinian and Jewish Israeli women's voices

                             March 16-19

 There is also a calendar entry for this under MARCH in the Calendar forum:
 
http://www.arenson.org/forums/board.php?boardid=1&sid=3545633f850c9f8bd802fb4966784a4d

                         

(2c) Green Forum
JAPANESE
第２回グリーフォーラム
 ─文化を「緑」に変えるには
"Towards a Green Transformation of Culture"
 日時：３月30日，午前10時から４時30分
  場所：青山学院大学，６号館621教室

 I am one of the speakers...

 Click the link for details in English and Japanese.

(2d) Japan the Asian Argentina? 
By looking at his country, Goldman Sachs Japan chief
economist Tetsufumi Yamakawa can offer little more than
recounting a cynical joke that's been making the rounds
 between Japan and Argentina?" Answer: "Five years." But after
international ratings agencies once again downgraded key 
Japanese financial institutions on February 5, that projection 
 has to be rewritten, says Yamakawa. "Now it's only three years, 
or one, or perhaps just six months - depending on how optimistic
 you are."
  
http://www.arenson.org/2002_02_17_tokyoprog_archive.html#9916615


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(3) 9-11 and related things


 A radio network in the U.S. "greylists" supposedly subevrsive songs
like Bridge Over Troubled Waters.  Read this and laugh, or cry, over
the new fascism with a smiling facethat is visiting the United States
recently.


Georv Parrish on the mainstream media, the deaths of Afghan civilians,
whose lives seem to mean little to the likes of the NY Times.


Joseph Gerson on the roots of war and the roots of resistance to war.  
 


"In the United States, we have a saying "Friends don't let friends
drive drunk." We appeal to you to do what is necessary to take the keys
 away "until this power-drunk superpower sobers up." The U.S.
government and the murderous forces it is mobilizing must be constrained.
 
http://www.arenson.org/2002_02_17_tokyoprog_archive.html#9916127

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links: tokyoprogressive@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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(4) World Economic Forum
http://www.arenson.org/2002_02_03_tokyoprog_archive.html#9461902

Plus more.  You can review all recent stories here:
http://www.arenson.org/blog.html

Also, ChocoPaulNews radio is here:

Archive Program (listen or download)
http://www.arenson.org/audiolinkettes.html

Right now, the archived program list, which starts at program 3
of the LavaLamp radio show contains:

(1) Program 4, 17mins 08secs, final version,  with David Rovics (
Democracy Now), Critical Pedagogy, Norman Rosten, Joan Baez--

(2) Program Five, 24min 47secs,   Gore Vidal, Pete Seeger (My Lai
massacre), Mad Cow in Tokyo, Anne Feeney  (Corporate Welfare Song),
Anti-Debt group in Japan, Dar Williams(Play the Greed)

(3) Program Six, 24min 51 secs,  Jim Page (America, You're Scaring Me),
GM Rice in Japan, McCarthyism All Over Again, Amy Goodman,Henry
Kissinger ("Anti-terrorist expert"), Chris Chandler and Anne Feeney
(Carnival), Tom Paxton

(4) Protest songs and love ballards, 69 mins,  These are songs from the
Vietnam era--I was a freshman in high school student in '66 when I wrote
the earliest ones. (Additional program, not broadcast on RadioLavaLamp) 

(5) An interview with a Swiss representativeof an NGO that offers
educational and other advice/language training to non Japanese people in
the Kanto, Kansai and Chugoku regions.  Also Pete Seeger singing about
Hiroshima, times a-gettin' hard and the "big muddy". News about Japanese
Labor Unions (NUGW, General Union) is also given.

The next show will introduce Niigata based Chris Hunt and his Wise Hat site,
his ideas on learning and even a CD selection or two.

Listen on most recent program Radio Lava Lamp (3 times a day)
http://www.rinku.zaq.ne.jp/bkaec205/Untitled-1.html

Listen to archives (older programs) on Radio4All/IndyMedia
(also includes Anti-Vietnam songs from 1968 and more recent
songs I have written)

http://radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=4235

And if YOU are involved in progressive (green/left, etc.), why not 
be on the show.  Or at least reply to this message and let us know
what is happening.

Well, that's about it for now.  I hope the new web design makes things
a little easier to find, and I also hope you will feel more like
contributing an article or link.  Please see below for some of the
addresses you may want to use.

Remember, you can REPLY to this mail to send your links, articles, etc.

Contribute your ideas (please note if we may quote you), articles, 
links: tokyoprogressive@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Paul  






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