__/__/__/__/__/__/__/__/_/__/__/__/__/__/ TokyoProgressive's ChocoPaul News Issue #167 June 11 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 _/__/__/__/__/__/__/__/_/__/__/__/ REGULAR FEATURES 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=D20030608 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 TP Articles http://tokyoprogressive.org/news/tpnews.php Reader Articles http://tokyoprogressive.org/news/weblog.php Creative Works http://tokyoprogressive.org/news/poetryblog.php Self Publishing http://tokyoprogressive.org/news/selfpublishing.html Community (hosting, Chibi, Paul.....) http://tokyoprogressive.org/news/communityblog.php Main Links http://tokyoprogressive.org/news/link2.html Featured individuals: Wakana Yokota,Ken Masuoka, Akubi, Richard Wilcox...... (left side of page) http://tokyoprogressive.org/news/index.php Alternative Video Media (right side of page) http://tokyoprogressive.org/news/index.php ---------------------------------------------------------- HIGHLITES 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 Read and comment読む/コメントする A Joint Appeal to End Ethnic Discrimination in Japanese Education http://tokyoprogressive.org/news/tpnews_comments.php?id=P512_0_2_0_C Read and comment読む/コメントする 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 Read and comment読む/コメントする ---------------------------------------------------------- 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) http://tokyoprogressive.org/news/tpnews_comments.php?id=P483_0_2_0_C Recent News from Akubi's diary/アクビさんのふらふら日記 (Japan) http://tokyoprogressive.org/news/tpnews_comments.php?id=P482_0_2_0_C Wakana Yokota (Boston) http://tokyoprogressive.org/news/wakana.html Richard Wilcox (Japan) http://tokyoprogressive.org/news/rick.html ZNet Youth Watch (US) http://tokyoprogressive.org/news/tpnews_comments.php?id=P497_0_2_0_C Left Business Observer (US) http://tokyoprogressive.org/news/tpnews_comments.php?id=P490_0_2_0_C Red Pepper (UK) http://tokyoprogressive.org/news/tpnews_comments.php?id=P489_0_2_0_C CounterPunch Magazine (US) http://tokyoprogressive.org/news/tpnews_comments.php?id=P492_0_2_0_C Jay's Progressive and Leftist Web Resources (?US) http://tokyoprogressive.org/news/tpnews_comments.php?id=P491_0_2_0_C Read and comment読む/コメントする ---------------------------------------------------------- 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 Read and comment読む/コメントする 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 Read and comment読む/コメントする 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 ---------------------------------------------------------- Media/Government Partnership in Lies Journalistic Fraud at the NY Times http://tokyoprogressive.org/news/tpnews_comments.php?id=P487_0_2_0_C Read and comment読む/コメントする Tony Blair in trouble for using forged documents http://tokyoprogressive.org/news/tpnews_comments.php?id=P495_0_2_0_C Read and comment読む/コメントする 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 Read and comment読む/コメントする ---------------------------------------------------------- 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 Read and comment読む/コメントする ---------------------------------------------------------- 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 Read and comment読む/コメントする 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/ Read and comment読む/コメントする 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 Read and comment読む/コメントする 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 Read and comment読む/コメントする 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. Read and comment読む/コメントする 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 ------------------------------------------- ____/____/____/____/____/____/____/____/____/____/____/____/____/ Please note that the opinions expressed in any articles or links are those of the original author(s) and do not necessraily reflect our own views. MAIN URL http://tokyoprogressive.org SUMMARY OF SERVICES In brief, TokyoProgressive offers newswires, links, forums, free hosting to people with a worthy project, a weekly newsletter (what you are reading right now), and more. If you have any questions, please send them to TokyoProgressive: http://www.tokyoprogressive.org/mail2paul.html copyleft 2002 |tokyoprogressive | ____/____/____/____/____/____/____/____/____/____/____/