[tokyoprogressive] TokyoProgressive's CPN#141 Iraq, Japan, Media

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                          Issue 141, October 7, 2002

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                        Stop the War BEFORE it starts!
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TOWARD A DEMOCRATIC MEDIA: ALTERNATIVE MEDIA RESOURCES

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(1) Finding your way around the website
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(2) Latest Links

(a) Audio programs by Paul Arenson
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(b) Japan Links
Eco Conference
Nuclear Suit
"Bad" Foreigners
War Laws
Dam Construction
U.S. Bases and Iraq

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(c) Reader Links
17 non Japan Links, 8 Japan Links added
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(d) Middle East Links
 Jewish Peace News (Campus Watch: Middle East McCarthyism?
Anti American? by Arundhati Roy
Bush and Hitler? by John Pilger with intro by Paul
Worrying About a Quick and Easy War by Dennis Fox
Iraq Peace Pledge
U.S. Sent Biological Weapons to Iraq
Madre fact Sheet on Iraq.........
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(e) Media Censorship
Projected Censored Stories
Fighting Corporate Media Censorship (FAIR and MEDIA LENS)
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Audio Programs by Paul Arenson
http://radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=4235
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Here is an archive of Internet Radio Shows, many of which have been
broadcast over Radio Lava Lamp, whcih is linked from here:
http://arenson.org/latesttpradio.html

They go in chronological order
from TOP to BOTTOM:
(1) Critical Pedagogy, Democracy Now

(2) My Lai, Mad Cow, Corporate Welfare

(3) Jim Page (America, You're Scaring Me), GM Rice,McCarthyism All Over
Again, Amy Goodman,Henry Kissinger

(4) Original Protest Songs and Love Ballads

(5) Japanese NGO, Pete Seeger sings about Hard Times, Big Muddy and
Hiroshima. Also: Japanese Labor Unions

(6) Chris Hunt, progressive activist/teacher (non-competitive games)
reads a selection written by Robert Fisk when he was almost killed in
Afghanistan. Paul reads one by Fisk after the death of a Wall Street
Journal reporter. Norman Rosten, Jacques Prevert.

(7/8) Interview with Japanese EcologyBike ride participant, Tucker

(9) John McLaughlin of the National Union of General Workers (NUGW) n
Tokyo talks about a numkber of different unions across Japan that
represent

(10) Back from the Almost Dead The newsletter version upon which this is
based,
http://www.freelists.org/archives/tokyoprogressive/04-2002/fullthread
3.html, links my recent hospitalization with health care, working at
McDonalds, Israel-Palestine..more

(11) Izzy Young and Jan Hammerlund in Sweden cira 1972. The war in
Vietnam was in full swing, and the founder of the NY Folklore Center was
in the process of doing the same in Stockholm. Contains 2 of Paul's
songs, but a segment by Mari Salanda is lost.

(12) David Rovics, Arundhati Roy, Joan Baez, India and Pakistan,
Japanese Anti-War Movement

(13) Larry Taub talks about his book

(14) David Brian Thomas speaks with Paul Arenson about the Children's
Rights Council of Japan. Links and info here:
http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2002/10/15 3318.php (15) Water, But Not a
Drop to Drink--The Privatisation of Water--Links and details here:
http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2002/10/153319.php

All the above are here:
http://radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=4235


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Japan Links
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Eco Conference in Kyoto
http://arenson.racknine.net/blog.html#85533004

Please return the registration form by October 18.


Japan Press Service
http://arenson.racknine.net/blog.html#85514575

(1) Criticality accident victim in Tokai Village sues JCO for damages
(2) Use of U.S. bases in Japan for striking Iraq must not be tolerated
(3) Nagano cancels contract for wasteful dam construction
(4) Restructuring at NTT causes massive job losses and spurs lawsuit
(5) Stop War laws (YUJI HOSEI)


"BEWARE OF BAD FOREIGNER" SIGNS (By Arudou Debito)
http://arenson.racknine.net/blog.html#85509849

This is a brief about notices around Tokyo Nakano-ku warning specifically
against foreign criminals, issued by Japanese police for display in
financial institutions and other public areas.

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Reader Links
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Links to Japan-based Sites
http://arenson.racknine.net/cgi-bin/superlinks/SuperLinks.cgi?action=Categor
y&CID=1

ATTAC Japan, Gender Awareness in Language Education (JAPAN) World Links,
Japan for Sustainability Links,  Japanese Progressive Groups on the Net,
Kato sensei at Hitotsubashi University,  Peace as a Global Language (1st
Conference),
The Political Significance of the 2001 Revision of the Immigration Control
Law


Links to Sites Outside Japan

 Anarachist Poetry,   Anti-Capitalist Converence ,
 Black Bear Review,    Critical Pedagogy, Economic Democracy Page,
Food NOt Bombs, How Did That Sun Get Out?,
Howard Zinn Page, Israel IndyMedia, Jay's Leftist Links,
Nonviolence Web, Palestine IndyMedia, Peace Conspiracy,
Responses to World Trade Center Terrorist Suicide Attacks, Iraq talking
Points,
War Resisters League, ZNN, not CNN, CNNNN!!!

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(No promises)

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Iraq  and Middle East Links
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Campus Watch: Middle East McCarthyism?
http://arenson.racknine.net/2002_09_28_tokyoprog_archive.html#85501429

From: Jewish Peace News
http://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/

A pro-Israeli Government  think tank plans to start an Internet site,"
according to a September 18 article in The Wall Street Journal, "to
monitor the attitudes of American professors and universities toward
Islamic fundamentalism and the Arab-Israeli conflict." ("Pro-Israel Web
Site To Monitor Views Of US Academia")


Anti American? by Arundhati Roy
http://arenson.racknine.net/2002_09_28_tokyoprog_archive.html#85501931

Recently, those who have criticised the actions of the US government
(myself included) have been called "anti-American". Anti-Americanism is
 in the process of being consecrated into an ideology. The term is
usually used by the American establishment to discredit and, not
falsely - but shall we say inaccurately - define its critics. Once
someone is branded anti-American, the chances are that he or she will
be judged before they're heard and the argument will be lost in the
welter of bruised national pride.


Bush and Hitler?  John Pilger (Introduction by Paul Arenson)
GANGSTER DIPLOMACY, BUSH STYLE
http://arenson.racknine.net/2002_09_28_tokyoprog_archive.html#85501463

A week ago a German politician made a comment about George Bush being
very much like Hitler in his method of taking attention away from one
thing by focusing on another. While all the world's corporate
controlled media went into a frenzy about this supposed no-no, I
wondered what the big deal was about. We are so used to personifying
evil by identifying it with people like Hitler. In fact, it was  Time
magazine which altered a picture of Saddam Hussein for one of its covers
to make him look more like Hitler. But this poetic, er political,
license did not draw much criticism. When it suits us, we can pretend
that evil is what other country's leaders do, but no-- never our own....

The reality is that it doesn't matter much what evil lurks in the minds
 of people like Bush, because crimes worthy of being labelled
Hitleresque were committed by the U.S. government long before the
Republicans stole the election. It is systemic.


We should also worry about a quick and easy war (Dennis Fox)
http://arenson.racknine.net/blog.html#85532507

Even non-pacifists who think Saddam Hussein is every bit as evil as the
president says have good reason to try to block this war..........
.......The only tyrants left will be the ones who do our bidding, just
like the politicians now echoing Bush's war cries.......That's not the
sound of Freedom ringing. It's the sound of Empire, growing.


Iraq Peace Pledge (Sign Now)
http://arenson.racknine.net/blog.html#85516033


Records Show US Sent Biological Weapons Germs to Iraq
http://arenson.racknine.net/blog.html#85514560
AP and Congressional Record reports


AlterNet News on Iraq
http://arenson.racknine.net/blog.html#85514510

Lies and More Damned Lies
The International Atomic Energy Agency -- which is one of the agencies
charged with carrying out inspections in Iraq -- says that a report
cited by President Bush as evidence that Iraq in 1998 was "six months
away" from developing a nuclear weapon does not exist. Mark Gwozdecky,
the IAEA's chief spokesman told the Washington Times, "There's never
been a report like that issued from this agency." Oops!.....

Many more.....

More Facts About U.S. Lies on Iraq
http://arenson.racknine.net/blog.html#85514508

As should be obvious, the anti-war movement is not supporting the
goivernment of Iraq. We have nothing good to say about it. On the other
 hand, the U.S., which supported Saddam Hussein when it was conveninet
to do so, is telling lies now in order to get the world ready for war.
So here is some more truth in case you were wondering what is what.
Including U.S. Rep. James Abourezk, others.

Taking It To London's Streets--- The New Anti-War Movement
by TARIQ ALI
http://arenson.racknine.net/blog.html#85514343

350,000 march in London, say NO to lies and NO to war.
(Note that 1,500,000 later marched in Italy)

Spain and Cyprus Say No too
http://arenson.racknine.net/blog.html#85514326


Everything you always wanted to know about Iraq that the Media hopes you
won't ask
 http://arenson.racknine.net/blog.html#85510016


MADRE Factsheet analysis of Bush's Speech To UN, by Yiffat Susskind
Iraq--Truth and Lies
http://arenson.racknine.net/blog.html#85509993
Iraq Since 1991
In Depth Materials
On Preparations for War



Peace Movement Lives
http://arenson.racknine.net/blog.html#85509864

List of U.S. groups fighting against war
How about a list of Japanese peace groups, along with any comments???


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Media Censorship
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Stories Not Covered on CNN (Project Censored)
http://arenson.racknine.net/blog.html#85533080

FBI Violates Civil Liberties, Israel Supported Hamas from Its Inception
Until the Early 90's, Farm Workers Suffer for Taco Bell Profits,
Domestic Sweatshops, The Four Steps of World Bank Assistance


Corporate Media Bias-Two Weapons
http://arenson.racknine.net/2002_10_07_tokyoprog_archive.html#85533060
Fair and Media lens are two sites which expose the degree to which the
mainstream media, being close to power, distorts the news.  At the same
time, they help to give a clearer picture  of what is really happening


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