__/__/__/__/__/__/__/__/_/__/__/__/__/__/ TokyoProgressive's ChocoPaul News Issue #166 March 21 2003 http://tokyoprogressive.org Mailing List Subscribe メーリングリストに参加する //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=tokyoprogressive _/__/__/__/__/__/__/__/_/__/__/__/ Latest stories all here (best graphics): http://tokyoprogressive.org/news/index.php This week's stories (after 1-2 weeks, come here): http://tokyoprogressive.org/news/topblog.php?id=D20030520 Past stories: http://tokyoprogressive.org/news/topblog.php?id=D20030101 このサイトのどの記事にもコメントできます / Feel free to comment on any story または/Or フォラム(BBS)/Discussion Forum http://tokyoprogressive.org/news/forum/forum.php?which=mainforum ---------------------------------------------------------- News this week is a continuation of last week's. You can see a description of last week's articles in the previous issue of the newsletter (165): //www.freelists.org/archives/tokyoprogressive/05-2003/fullthread2.html The stories covered there include the new Self-Publishing features, ZNet introduction, Do We Really have Free Speech, Save Our Schools, Zinn on Patriotism, U.S. Weapons of Mass Destruction, faked Photos of Iraqis Welcomimg U.S. and British Troops, South Korea and North Korean Human Rights, Cigarette Companies Killing People, U.S. Military Occupation of Schools in Iraq, and more. Please set encoding for Japanese automatic or automatic to see best view. In the new issue (articles still on top page, or go to http://tokyoprogressive.org/news/topblog.php?id=D20030520), you will find these stories: ---------------------------------------------------------- Expanded Self-Publishing Page/あなたがリポータ tokyoprogressive.org/news/selfpublishing.html Last week we introduced Wakana Yokota and her paintings & essays. To that, we have added Richard Wilcox and his environmental/media contributions. Wakana Read and comment 読む/コメントする http://tokyoprogressive.org/news/wakana.html Richard Read and comment 読む/コメントする http://tokyoprogressive.org/news/rick.html Soon other contribuitors from Japan who have appeared on this site, Japan Indymedia, etc. ---------------------------------------------------------- GMO Protest and Police Repression A police crackdown on the Biodevastation 7 event in St. Louis, Missouri--home of MONSANTO--continues to raise alarm bells about political repression in the U.S. and around the world. Read and comment 読む/コメントする http://tokyoprogressive.org/news/tpnews_comments.php?id=P460_0_2_0_C There is also a link to an article on how Monsanto's Roundup Ready has contaminated groundwater in Denmark. Another article looks at the continuing struggle by survivors of the Bhopal, India Union Carbide/Dow Chemical disaster to hold the company responsible. Read and comment 読む/コメントする http://tokyoprogressive.org/news/tpnews_comments.php?id=P450_0_2_0_C ---------------------------------------------------------- Racism and Forced Patriotism in Japan Meanwhile, in Japan, the ultra-nationalist Ministry of Education has been trying to force school kids to be patriotic by grading them on their "love of country": Article 1 and Article 2. Read and comment 読む/コメントする http://tokyoprogressive.org/news/tpnews_comments.php?id=P459_0_2_0_C http://tokyoprogressive.org/news/tpnews_comments.php?id=P458_0_2_0_C This article by historian Howard Zinn, from last week, helps puts the notion of "patriotism" in perspective. Read and comment 読む/コメントする http://tokyoprogressive.org/news/tpnews_comments.php?id=P436_0_2_0_C All is not dark as far as civil liberties are concerned, however, as lawyers with the Japan Civil Liberties Union have recently prepared legislation banning racial discrimination, and they want YOUR comments to help make the proposed law as effective as possible. Read and comment 読む/コメントする http://tokyoprogressive.org/news/tpnews_comments.php?id=P457_0_2_0_C Also: INDYMEDIA JAPAN ARTICLES: Japanese Rights Groups urge UN to realise justice for East Timor Read and comment 読む/コメントする http://japan.indymedia.org/feature/display/383/index.php 人権団体、東ティモール人権侵害裁判を要請 Read and comment 読む/コメントする http://japan.indymedia.org/feature/display/385/index.php ---------------------------------------------------------- Dixie Chicks' Nude Pose Distort Anti-war Message, Honoring Rachel Corrie How to confront the war machine continues to be debated, as in this article by Cynthia Peters on the decision by the Dixie Chicks to pose nude in an effort to soften criticism of their anti-war stand. As Peters says, "Female nudity in this society is used by marketers to get people to buy things. Furthermore, and perhaps more damaging, it trains us to think of women as consumable objects, and it works to flatten complex human relationships (such as those expressed through sexuality), and convince us that human needs can be met in the marketplace". Read and comment 読む/コメントする http://tokyoprogressive.org/news/tpnews_comments.php?id=P454_0_2_0_C Rachel Corrie's mother, Carrie, talks about rachel in this Mother's Day piece,The Daughter I Can't Hear From (Rachel Corrie's Mother), who tells us we need to carry on rather than simply mourn her daughters death, quoting one of many people who have written to her in recent days: "I write to you as a parent myself and also as a Muslim who believes passionately in the freedom and dignity of every individual on our earth. It seems to me that we too carelessly forget or disbelieve our shared identity across all times and cultures, when in fact we are one human family desperately in need of peacemakers." And this: "We are a group of Jews who believe that the Occupation of the West Bank and Gaza is unjust, immoral, and completely contradictory to the best interests not only of the Palestinian people but of Israel and the Jewish people. We work to help people, both Jewish and non-Jewish, to find their voice, to speak up and speak out, to understand that criticism of the Israeli government and its inhumane policies is not only important, but absolutely critical to our future." Read and comment 読む/コメントする http://tokyoprogressive.org/news/tpnews_comments.php?id=P451_0_2_0_C ---------------------------------------------------------- Nobel PEACE prize? It's no joke. A rightist member of the Nobel Prize committee has proposed that Bush and Blair be awarded the Peace Prize. We HAVE to stop this one, and here is one way. Sign the petition NOW to protest awarding Bush and Blair the peace prize. TAKE ACTION NOW! http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/302184339 ---------------------------------------------------------- Support Nuke and War resisters. These people, Israel, the U.S., Great Britain have gone to jail to stop the war machine. Write them and give them encouragement. Read and comment 読む/コメントする http://tokyoprogressive.org/news/tpnews_comments.php?id=P449_0_2_0_C ---------------------------------------------------------- Last, two powerful essays. The first, by Edward Herman,NY Times: Big and Small Lies, exposes the hypocrisy of the NY Times in pretending to be upset about the fabrications of one reporter when it has been fabricating and slanting the news for decades in an effort to prop up the lies of the U.S. government. Read and comment 読む/コメントする http://tokyoprogressive.org/news/tpnews_comments.php?id=P455_0_2_0_C Arundhati Roy, has, as usual, a breath-taking article, Democracy is the World's Whore, covering everything from empire to war to globalization, to boycotts and resistance, to alternative media. 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