[tokyoprogressive] TokyoProgressive's CP News 168: Japan Indymedia in the UK, GM food, Israel and Palestine.....

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        Issue #168 June 19 2003

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JAPAN/ASIA

Debito Arudou on the low level of human rights in Japan
http://tokyoprogressive.org/news/tpnews_comments.php?id=P517_0_2_0

British magazine/web site reports on Japan Indymedia and TokyoProgressive

The magazine PEACE NOW (War Resisters International) has invited us to
introduce IndyMedia Japan and TokyoProgressive.  These will be up soon. 
You can find the link here.  We will le you know when you can read the
article.
http://tokyoprogressive.org/news/tpnews_comments.php?id=P522_0_2_0


New Philippine Indymedia site
http://tokyoprogressive.org/news/tpnews_comments.php?id=P521_0_2_0

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READER QUESTIONS

My students are discussing Israel and Palestine. Many people assume most
conflicts have to do with race, religion or culture.  But the actual
situation is quite different.  Allowing ourself to believe that culture
matters all that much also allows us to seperate ourselves from the
issues and fail to see how our own governments do the same thing to
the weak in our midst, allows us to escape our own responsibility to try
to do something about the social inequalities that lie behind conflicts,
including racism, sexism, class, power, hegemony...

Believing that such conflicts are primarily culture driven also prevents
us from acting in solidarity with people who are victimized by power and
privilege.  Many NGOs operate on the assumption that they can address
the results of conflict (food and money), but often do so in isolation,
failing to see the connections between the conflict in one region and
another, and failing to do anything about the causes, whcih are often
linked to the policies of our own governments--the U.S. certainly, but
Japan also in supporting U.S. forieigbn policy, which favors the Israeli
government and helps to maintain illegal settements,

Questions from my students/readers and attempts at responding are here:



(1) Why are Jews and Muslims fighting in Israel/Fighting in Israel/Palestine?
(2) Why should we not trust the maintsream media?
(3) Contact information for transgender winner of local election?
(4) Where to study media/journalism in Japan?



Good questions. The problem with #1 is that it assumes that all Jews support
the government of Israel and that there are no mutual efforts opposing
the occupation, and promoting social and economic justice. The fact that
this is not familar shows why we cannot trust the official media, which
often distorts or oversimplifies the issues. Here are some sites about #
1 and 2:
http://tokyoprogressive.org/news/tpnews_comments.php?id=P523_0_2_0

Here is the question about transgender politician, #3:
http://tokyoprogressive.org/news/tpnews_comments.php?id=P520_0_2_0

Here is more on #4, details about where to study journalism in Japan. 
If any reader can help, please let us know:
http://tokyoprogressive.org/news/tpnews_comments.php?id=P519_0_2_0

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Media
As imperfect as the British media is, it is much better than the
crap in the U.S. Where do you think Japan stands?
http://tokyoprogressive.org/news/tpnews_comments.php?id=P518_0_2_0

GMOs
Food freedom or Food Slavery, by Dr. Vandana Shiva (India)
http://tokyoprogressive.org/news/tpnews_comments.php?id=P525_0_2_0
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