[tokyoprogressive] CPN#166: GMO Protests, Japan Racism Law, Patriotism in Japanese Schools, more

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            Issue #166  March 21 2003

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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):
http://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.

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In the new issue (articles still on top page, or go to 
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Expanded Self-Publishing Page/あなたがリポータ 
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Last week we introduced Wakana Yokota and her paintings & essays. To that, we 
have added Richard Wilcox and his environmental/media contributions.

Wakana
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Richard
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Soon other contribuitors from Japan who have appeared on this site, Japan 
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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. 

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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.

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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.

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 This article by historian Howard Zinn, from last week, helps puts the notion 
of "patriotism" in perspective.

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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.

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Also: INDYMEDIA JAPAN ARTICLES:

Japanese Rights Groups urge UN to realise justice for East Timor 
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人権団体、東ティモール人権侵害裁判を要請
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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".
 
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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."

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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

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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.

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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.

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 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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Selected Stories from the Past
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Japanese Education,Japanese Media,Japanese  Health and End Environment
Japanese Police and Immigration,Japanese Militarism,Japanese Other
Balkans,East Timor,Environment,Food,Globalization,Kosovo
Law and Human Rights/Justice,Labor,Language Learning,Latin America
Media,Paul's Essays,Peace and War,Third World

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