[tokyoprogressive] CPN#167: Mombukagakusho, Ishihara again and again, Sars, NY Times Lies, Environment, Spencer Kagan, Video Activism, more....

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        Issue #167  June 11 2003

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Discrimination and racism 

Take action now! (Deadline June 30) 6・18院内集会 
「合同記者会見」＆「教
育の権利に関する外国籍住民公聴会」
http://tokyoprogressive.org/news/tpnews_comments.php?id=P511_0_2_0_C
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A Joint Appeal to End Ethnic Discrimination in Japanese Education
http://tokyoprogressive.org/news/tpnews_comments.php?id=P512_0_2_0_C
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Ishihara's Racism, もうだれもとめないの？石原都知事の差別発言。。。
http://tokyoprogressive.org/news/tpnews_comments.php?id=P510_0_2_0_C
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Web watch 

Introducing various websites in Japan and around the world of
interest to TokyoProgressive readers: 

Japan IndyMedia
http://tokyoprogressive.org/news/tpnews_comments.php?id=P510_0_2_0_C

Japan Press Service
http://tokyoprogressive.org/news/tpnews_comments.php?id=P488_0_2_0_C

Brian Small (Japan)
http://tokyoprogressive.org/news/tpnews_comments.php?id=P486_0_2_0_C

Ken Masuoka (Japan)
http://tokyoprogressive.org/news/tpnews_comments.php?id=P485_0_2_0_C

Makiko Nakano (Japan)
http://tokyoprogressive.org/news/tpnews_comments.php?id=P484_0_2_0_C

Debito Arudou (Japan)
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Recent News from Akubi's diary/アクビさんのふらふら日記 (Japan)

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Wakana Yokota (Boston)
http://tokyoprogressive.org/news/wakana.html

Richard Wilcox (Japan)
http://tokyoprogressive.org/news/rick.html

ZNet Youth Watch (US)
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Left Business Observer (US)
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Red Pepper (UK)
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CounterPunch Magazine (US)
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Jay's Progressive and Leftist Web Resources (?US)
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Health, Profit and Medical Orthodoxy 

Greg Nigh comments on the SARS issue from a critical perspective,
looking at how the drug industry oversimplifies the equation in a
profit-oriented system while overall immune competence declines.
http://tokyoprogressive.org/news/tpnews_comments.php?id=501_0_2_0_C
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A second collection of comments by Greg looks at recent issues
surounding HIV/AIDS and SARS.
http://tokyoprogressive.org/news/tpnews_comments.php?id=P494_0_2_0
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Meanwhile, Paul McCartin, based in Japan, looks at the effect of
biotechnology and patent "rights" on the lives of indigenous people.
http://tokyoprogressive.org/news/tpnews_comments.php?id=500_0_2_0_C
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Media/Government Partnership in Lies

Journalistic Fraud at the NY Times
http://tokyoprogressive.org/news/tpnews_comments.php?id=P487_0_2_0_C
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Tony Blair in trouble for using forged documents
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TokyoProgressive and Japan Indymedia are two of a growing number of
sites, we hope, dedicated to shining a light where the corportate and
government-friendly public media fail to look. The following article,
about Movie/Video Activism for the last 60 Years PLUS Video Activist
Links, will be an important resource for those who have yet to discover
the many sources of information out there.
http://tokyoprogressive.org/news/tpnews_comments.php?id=P508_0_2_0_C
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The Environment

The International Green Network (Japan) has put out their latest
newsletter on all issues related to the environment, sustainable
development, fair trade, social justice, and related issues.

Some of the topics covered in this issue include saving Korean wetlands
 and tidal flats, volunteering to protect the Okinawan Dugong from the
U.S. military, the Peace as a Global Language conference in Tokyo this
fall, Amnesty International-Tokyo, Mercury in Japanese whalemeat, and
information about the Green Network itself. There is also an environmental
 database for East Asia.

http://tokyoprogressive.org/news/tpnews_comments.php?id=499_0_2_0_C[/url
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Education

Teachers interested in humanistic education and the subject of
cooperative learning will want to know about the series of workshops
given by Spencer Kagan.

http://tokyoprogressive.org/news/tpnews_comments.php?id=P498_0_2_0_C
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The Engaged Pedagogy Association (hosted by TokyoProgressive, something
 we do for progressively minded students, teachers and others) has
links to the Peace as a Global Language conference this fall as well as
 the upcoming Engaged Pedagogy Conference (June 15). Other useful links
 at this site include: alfie kohn website (testing), asakawa's global
english teaching,bell hooks: challenging capitalism and patriarchy
(interview), cooperative learning center, critical media resources(wilcox),
 critical pedagogy websites, critical psychology teaching links,
environmental ngos (wilcox), gay,lesbian and straight education network,
 japan aids prevention awareness network, kagon on line, paolo freire
institute, radical teacher, rethinking schools,shin-eiken, teaching for
 media literacy--tml (paper) and teaching resistance.
http://engagedpedagogy.org/
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Texas Pledge of Allegiance law undermines critical thinking.

This is an article that should be of interest to people in Japan
concerned about the Education Ministry's forced lessons in "patriotism"
requiring students to sing the national anthem, respect the flag and
even grading them in their "love of country". (Please note that it is
mostly "non-cooperative" teachers who get punished now for refusing to
go along with these requirements.) 

http://tokyoprogressive.org/news/tpnews_comments.php?id=P496_0_2_0_C
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Now that the Iraq war has been "won" by the forces of Imperial....er, I
mean democracy, the English as a Foreign Language Business is poised to
make a killing in a newly opened market.
http://tokyoprogressive.org/news/tpnews_comments.php?id=P506_0_2_0_C
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Wisehat is a great resource for teachers of kids, but not ONLY kids. If
 you are concerned about competition and how it teaches the kind of
values that enable us to do the horrible things we do to each other,
then you will want to check out the site.
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http://wisehat.com/



Here is an excerpt from the website, run by Chris Hunt and Hideko Kato:
Our materials are home-made - literally. One of our goals is to have a
proper studio for music and art but at the moment we are operating out
of a second floor apartment overlooking a rice field. There are
mountains in the distance and a railway line close by. A steam train
puffs by once or twice a week. But we're not quite in the countryside
and we're not in the city. We're somewhere in-between, somewhere on the
 edge and perhaps that is also a good description of the materials we
make.

Our materials are a little different. They encourage children to play
and learn together. They encourage sharing and participation. They
encourage daring and concentration. They encourage caring and
celebration. They are also fun! The games we make are without winners
and losers. There are challenges and the players may not always get the
 optimum result first time but no-one wins at the expense of others.
The idea of sitting around a table and trying to beat your friends is
more than peculiar. That we should consider it fun and entertaining is
obnoxious. What kind of society do we create when we impress upon
children the importance of being number one? What kind of values are we
 teaching? What kind of beliefs? You loser! Pretty strong, isn't it? It's
 a simple put down and cruelly effective. This concept of winning and
losing is so ingrained in our thinking, that it's easy to forget that
we have a choice. We can choose to co-operate or we can choose
competition. We can choose to spend resources on improving peoples'
lives or we can stockpile and use weapons of destruction. We can move
towards honouring life, liberty and justice or we can fight to be top.
We can quit. We can end the cancer of competition. Please help.




Index of recent issues can be found on the top page. (bottom of the
entry for June, for example)
http://tokyoprogressive.org/news/index.php

Example of topics covereed



May 2003: GMO protests, Racism in Japan, Patriotism, Wakana Yokota, Rick
Wilcox, Dixie Chicks, Rachel Corrie, Novel prize for Bush and Blair,
Edward Herman, Arundhati Roy, Free Speech from a 13-year old, Zinn, US
Weapons of Mass Destruction, ZNet Introduction, Cigarettes kilol, South
and North Korea


Late April 2003: Iraq (Pilger, BBC Head Criticizes American Media, Robert 
Jensen,
Okinawa, Henmi You, Japan IndyMedia, Artists Against Empire


Mid April 2003: Iraq


Early April 2003: Iraq

March 2003: Activism in Japan, Train Stopping, 100s of Links,
Civil Disobedience


February 2003: Peace Activism in Japan, Introducing Japan Focus, Znet Japan
, Beautiful Animation Against War, Resisting the Israeli Occupation


February 2003: Protest reports from NY and Japan Demonstrations, Guernica 
Painting,
Censored Pictures of 1991 Gulf War, Tokai Earthquake and Japan's Nukes

January 2003:Richard Wilcox (Environmental Links), Arundhati Roy- Confronting 
Empire
(Port Alegre), Denis J. Halliday/Normon Solomon on Bush War Plans:
Obscene, Student Strike on March 5th, Poets Against Bush call for poems
to counter war, A Call For Conscientious Objection to War and War
Preparations 





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