[tokyoprogressive] TokyoProgressive 183: New Alternative Media for the New Year

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    TokyoProgressive's ChocoPaul News
        Issue #183  January 20, 2003

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 TokyoProgressive wishes a happy new year. Even though there may not be many 
happy things in the news, one good thing is that there are so many people 
here in Japan and around the world working to bring about a society 
characterized by peace and justice for all. One way is by looking beyond the 
mainstream media, which is what we try to do, too. We are always in need of 
more stories and activism reports from Japan asn Asia, so please use the Self 
Publishing facility or email:

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Today we have an introduction to some of the updated parts of the website.

We also tell you about new good web sites, one brand new. They are News 
Insider and New Standard News.

Plus we have stories about George Bush getting protested at a Martin Luther 
King Memorial, news from Iraq, something on the Avian Flu, and more.

Also, we have news on an upcoming protest against dispatch of SDF soldiers to 
Iraq and a meeting of Asagaya Shimin Koza.  Please see below.

The new top page Includes, in a much easier to find format:

*News: Center Column
*Links:  Right Column ( Main links リンク集,Asia/Japan Links,Japanese 
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issues Older Reader Links ,Newer Links/Add links)
*Hosting/Donate: Right Column
 Other News Sites: Bottom (Asano Ken'ichi, 浅野健一ゼ 
ミ,ZNet,ZNET日本語
版,NewStandardNews,Electronic Iraq,Free Speech Radio News......)
*Featured Writers: Right Column (Akubi, Rick Wilcox, Wakana Yokota, Arudou 
Debito.......)

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This issue:

NEWS STARTS BELOW. BUT FIRST AN ANNOUNCEMENT 
ABOUT TWO  NEW WEB SOURCES OF NEWS....

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Two websites that deserve attention. One is the the NEWS INSIDER, a site much 
like Common Dreams, but with more of an alternative focus, most often 
uncovering stories covered in some of the mainstream media, though not 
necessarily in one most Japanese or Americans read.  

Their address is
http://www.newsinsider.org/

The other is NEW STANDARD--http://newstandardnews.net-- which strives to not 
ONLY bring you alternative news coverage but to scrupulously research and 
check the stories themselves.  These are NOT just repetitions of what you see 
in other media. They are not commentaries.  They are hard news, written by 
activists who believe that we must be accurate and precise in what we write 
and not simply rely on speculation or principle.

Their page for journalists is here, in case you want to offer your services:
http://newstandardnews.net/promo2/?action=show_journalists

A sample of a story that came in as we were sending this out is here:
THAILAND COVERING UP BIRD FLU
http://newstandardnews.net/content/?action=show_item&itemid=114

There is more below!

And coming soon will be other features for supporters, such as Alive Wires:

"AliveWires are certain to be one of the most exciting interactive aspects of 
the PeoplesNetWorks site. Enabling professional media activists and everyday 
people alike to create a dynamic presence on the Web, AliveWires will include 
simple tools for rapid yet elegant publishing. Community activists, news 
hounds, soap-boxers and small media businesses will all find elements of 
AliveWires suited for their purposes. Whether they're being used as casual 
"blogs," or officially-sanctioned local editions of The NewStandard, or third 
party independent publications wishing to take advantage of the PNW 
Partnership Program, AliveWires are a simple, flexible publishing solution. 
All PeoplesNetWorks staff and NewStandard contributors will be encouraged to 
establish and maintain their own AliveWire weblogs."

Details here:
http://newstandardnews.net/promo2/?action=show_membership

 Their donation page is here:
http://newstandardnews.net/promo2/?action=show_support

Please support The New Standard and help raise the standard of alternative 
journalism.
                                
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                                  LATEST STORIES
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LEAD STORY: Bush's Self Invite to MLK Memorial Sparks Protest
 While Japanese Prime Minister Koizumi sends soldiers to help U.S. soldiers 
kill, and risk death death themselves, the man Koizumi pretends is helping 
Iraq rather than conquering it, Geroge W. Bush, was the target of protestors 
who objected to his presence at a memorial to Martin Luther King, a man who 
almost certainly would have been protesting this obscenity. It is time for 
more people in Japan to protest this obscene man's actions and to oppose the 
dispatch of the SDF, not just because soldiers will die needlessly, but 
because they will do so helping to kill Iraqis for the U.S empire.
 Go to story
http://tokyoprogressive.org/news/tpnews_comments.php?id=P741_0_2_0_C

                          
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 Our most recent stories are:

 MEETINGS
 August 12 Tokyo: Asagaya Shimin Koza/2004/2004年度第1回 
阿佐ヶ谷市民講座
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http://tokyoprogressive.org/news/tpnews_comments.php?id=P748_0_2_0_C
 
                           
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 ACTIVISM
 January 22 Tokyo: 
空自衛隊をイラクに行かせるな！　１/２２小牧現地大行動 
 No SDF to Iraq
 Go to story
http://www.radicalendar.org/group/imcjapan/all/display/11384/
index.php?fulldate=2004-01-22

                           
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 NEWS
 Bush fears outcome of federal report on 9-11 
 Go to story
http://tokyoprogressive.org/news/tpnews_comments.php?id=P747_0_2_0_C
 
 Bush Debuting "Patriot II"
 Go to story
http://tokyoprogressive.org/news/tpnews_comments.php?id=P746_0_2_0_C
 
 Iraq Report from The New Standard
 Go to story
http://tokyoprogressive.org/news/tpnews_comments.php?id=P745_0_2_0_C
 
 Blog From the World Social Forum in Mumbai
 Go to story
http://tokyoprogressive.org/news/tpnews_comments.php?id=P744_0_2_0_C
 
 Guantanamo Camp Condemned by British MPS, HR Groups
 Go to story
http://tokyoprogressive.org/news/tpnews_comments.php?id=P743_0_2_0_C
 
 Environment Agency Has Illegal Chemical Contacts
 Go to story
http://tokyoprogressive.org/news/tpnews_comments.php?id=P742_0_2_0_C
 
 Canada Stops Development of GM Wheat
 Go to story 
http://tokyoprogressive.org/news/tpnews_comments.php?id=P740_0_2_0_C

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