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The "single issue plus one" protest action organized by the Metropolitan Coalition Against Nukes is on yet again this Friday (8/10/2012) in Tokyo, after a rather disappointing attendance on the August 3 protest in which the police source said 4,000 attended and the organizers said 70,000 attended.
Here's information for those of you who want to go, from the organizer's webpage:
原子力規制委員会人事を撤回せよ!大飯原発をただちに停止し再稼働を中止せよ!
※前回に引き続き、今回も国会同意人事である原子力規制委員会の人事案決定間際という緊急性に鑑み、田中俊一氏をはじめとする原子力ムラの人間を取り込む人事案撤回についても強く訴えることとします。
Withdraw the appointment of commissioners for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission! Stop Ooi Nuke Plant immediately, and stop the restart!
*Following the last week's protest, on the impending appointment of commissioners for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission which requires the approval from the National Diet, we will also protest against this appointment that will invite in the people from the "nuclear village" including Mr. Shunichi Tanaka.
【日時】8/10(金)18:00〜20:00 予定
【場所】首相官邸前および永田町・霞が関一帯
(霞ヶ関駅、虎ノ門駅、桜田門駅をご利用ください)
※千代田線・丸ノ内線の国会議事堂前駅は大混雑が予想されます。
【呼びかけ】首都圏反原発連合有志
Date and Time: Friday August 10, 6:00-8:00PM
Place: At the Prime Minister's Official Residence, and Nagatacho/Kasumigaseki areas [where the ministries are located]
(Please use Kasumigaseki Station, Toranomon Station, and Sakuradamon Station)
*Kokkaigijidomae Station on Chiyoda and Marunouchi Line is expected to be extremely crowded.
Organizer: Metropolitan Coalition Against Nukes
The organizers continue to insist there be no signs, banners, flags that have nothing to do with anti-nuclear or beyond-nuclear messages. Mr. Yasuo Tanaka (leader of the New Party Nippon) will again distribute white balloons (of which I still fail to see any connection to the anti-nuclear protest).
The organizers who have been active on Twitter trashing anyone who doesn't sing their praise seem to have managed to alienate many net citizens, who have taken these members' taunts literally ("If you think you can do it, go ahead and do it separately") and are organizing separate events on issues they think more pressing and/or important (ACTA, TPP, tax hike, etc.). For more about these organizers, see my previous post.
To me personally, any protest which does not address radiation contamination in food and soil, wide-area disaster debris disposal, and non-existent "recovery" in Tohoku is suspect.
In the meantime, the meeting between the organizers and the prime minister has been postponed (probably for good, many hope) due to the "pressing nature of the political scenes" as the media portrays. The vote of no confidence against the Noda administration has been defeated, thanks to LDP and Komei members of the Lower House who didn't attend the session. Ex-Prime Minister Hatoyama, a new darling of many who are against nuclear power, didn't attend either.
Hatoyama seems he needs more time to gain more popularity among voters, and early Lower House election is not in his interest either.
Anyhow... if any of you are going, please let us know how it goes.
Labels: Friday protest
Canceling the 27-JUL Tokyo event to favor the 29-JUL Tokyo event affected the momentum of the Friday demonstration in Tokyo and perhaps those across Japan as well.
I am optimistic that attendance will start to build again this week in Tokyo. It's important to keep the pressure up, not just in Tokyo, but all around Japan.
All of Japan needs to stand together in opposition to nuclear power, for our future and our children's future.
Friday's 6PM, nationwide, make the government listen and take notice.
Make your voices heard!
wont change a thing, the nuke industry has too much invested and its still a big gravy train.... nukes are here to stay until another accident and then another and another , only maybe then will they decomission all of them.... come back in 50 years and then we might see some change..
I have concluded that the people of any nation are incapable of having their voices heard to make significant changes. We have many examples of the streets in Europe and the Middle East flooded with citizens protesting the loss of programs because of "economic austerity" with the increase of costs and raising of taxes. Nothing changed. In the US, my nation, the raising of Occupy Wall Street began strongly but in a year's time it is barely noticed. Without funding and with less support, OWS is struggling. The military support of the police, the weapons, and the laws signed by our president all have reduced the demonstrators as "home grown terrorists". There is no reason to believe that the Japanese will be successful any more than the rest of the world.
Michele, if you think OWS is a genuine grassroots movement, well what can I say. Not much I guess. Keep on believing.
The powers that be have realised that grass roots movements can easily be infiltrated and perverted, its very easy for them because the fat controllers as i like to call them are very demonic and psychopaths.... these kind of people always rise to the top.... we are seeing this now the world over ..the European union is run by them, the Japanese political elite, Israel of course, the USA which is becoming fascist very fast etc etc.... but their time is up and the world will break loose of these power trippers...
On the one hand I can see how organizers do not want to let their message get diffused, but from personal experience living in Japan over twenty years it is precisely this kind of bureaucratic, anti democratic attitude among Japanese themselves that is the problem. They have internatlized the Discourse of Oppression (oh, what a great book title).
The Occupy Wallstreet movement was much better I think, they were very open minded to anyone with a dissident view point and whatever their faults, brought many like minded and angry people together for a just cause. Even if the whole thing fizzled, it did good on some metaphysical level?
Unfortunately in Japan people have no way of thinking outside the box, and even protesters are so timid. I went to the protest in Koenji just after the disaster and asked a guy with an anti Ishihara poster what he thought about Tepco and Ishihara collusion, and he said to me "No comment" as if I was a spy or something!
I guess this democracy thing will take some time to build in Japan, or better yet go back to benevolent feudalism, much better than what we have now which is Total Political Corruption.
Radioactive Rats, Nuclear Techno Geeks
And Life In The Damage Control Continuum
http://rense.com/general95/radioactive-rats.html
http://www.activistpost.com/2012/08/radioactive-rats-nuclear-techno-geeks.html
Zen-Haven Aug 8 2012
http://zen-haven.dk/radioactive-rats-nuclear-techno-geeks-and-life-in-the-damage-control-continuum/
This may sound like "conspiracy theory" (which, by the way, simply means that a group of people worked together to achieve a common goal), but I think "the powers that be" have been working on sowing distrust amongst the general population everywhere, for a long time now. It's not a single direct action, it's every little element of the culture and society around us. It shapes us and makes us behave specific ways. They've had plenty of time to hone their methods and watch the results. We are literally sitting on the pinnacle of their research and experimentation. People don't realize this because they naturally assume that what's happening now has always been this way. Their perception is primarily shaped by what occurs in their own lifetime. They're not looking at the big picture.
People are unwilling to accept that we are being manipulated and herded, because they don't like to feel that way. They want to believe they are secure and in complete control of their lives. "The powers that be" know this, and take advantage of it. We don't hear about all this research and experimentation because they're obviously not going to tell us they have proof that people are gullible and stupid. Even if they did, everybody would get upset and go into denial, instead of trying to improve themselves.
I often get the impression that most people go to great lengths to deny and twist reality in their mind for the sake of temporary personal happiness. They are even capable of rewriting their own memories to suit themselves. Those people can't be reasoned with. They only believe what they want to believe. It's easier to change themselves than to change the world.
Everyone's so distrustful and detached from each other now, how can they seriously expect to band together to fight a common foe? It's the result of a large community - they don't know or care about one another, and that's why most people have no reservations against using everyone else to further their personal agenda.
If I'm not mistaken, protesting is the only legal way to express dissent. We can't even sit down and reason with the people in charge like intelligent life forms. That's only an option for the people in charge, who are in bed with each other. And no, our votes don't make a difference. Illusion of choice. If we truly had control and choice, we'd be able to throw out the politicians when they start screwing us. But we can't. I just broke the law by even suggesting that we throw out corrupt politicians, as it's considered "encouraging terrorism". Everything's a damn farce.
Even the mere act of protesting is seen as unacceptable behavior. My mother always exclaims that protesters should all be immediately dispersed with tear gas, because that's how they did things when she was on the police force. She doesn't care what they are protesting about, she simply says "you can't do such a thing". Then what the hell else are we supposed to do?
It also seems like other people around me are completely against any kind of action against governing parties, "because it's wrong", "unlawful", "uncivilized", "uncouth" or however they twist their minds to justify. I don't think it's unrealistic to suggest that social brainwashing these people has been successful.
If the organizers censor signs it means they are controlling the opposition. They don't want anyone giving away the political and financial shell game or how they have things rigged to blow thanks to the insane tools at 'six sigma'. You can easily get your anti nuke comments banned at sites like Enenews for going 'too far' by describing the history of nuclear fission and who bankrolled and stage managed it every step of the way, who developed the bombs, etc. And you could get into a discussion of what Oppenheimer was talking about after Trinity. But then you would be giving away the plot of the bankers and who these gangsters really are and whose sign is on the red shield. Well as other posters said above, we live in an age of universal deception. Occupy Wall Street was a documented psyop of the controlled opposition. It is impossible to maintain passion if the organizers cut out the heart and soul of protests by imposing censorship. In my hometown, the Occupy organizers banned all discussion of ending the Fed in their General Assembly, also banning all talk about 9/11. Some 'change' huh? The fact is common folks are waking up to how much better the info is from the truth movement, how much better off Japan would have been to listen when Leuren Moret warned in the Japan Post in 2004 of this exact earthquake disaster at Fukushima. If folks don't know by now what a giant con is being run on the world and who is operating the swindle, good luck. Keep supporting the US phony wars and six sigma reactors which all suck and don't work as advertised. But hey at least NRC is stopping new licenses in the US. Why not shut em all down today, bury the waste,and put this whole insane industry six hundred feet down ASAP?
When you're slamming OWS for being infiltrated and controlled opposition, remember that all protest groups are infiltrated, and can act as controlled oposition. But that should not stop us from protesting, because then the elitist Authorities will surely win if we do nothing. The fraudulent Global Warming/CO2 Climate Change bandwagon is a juggernaught of controlled opposition that has hijacked the environmental movement. Always carry your own protest sign, and speak your own mind, everywhere you go. Although you may sometimes agree with a group's idea or agenda, never commit or submit to any group. Whenever anyone asks you who you represent, proudly say "myself."
Above I wrote that "The fraudulent Global Warming/CO2 Climate Change bandwagon is a juggernaught of controlled opposition that has hijacked the environmental movement."
Many of the leaders of the Global Warming/CO2 Climate Change movement are now advocating nuclear power as a "green alternative" to fossil fuels. I assert that the agenda of the leadership of the Global Warming/CO2 Climate Change movement is not "green", but pro-nuclear, pro-social engineering, and pro-climate engineering (as demonstrated by their schemes to control the earth's weather). They also favor global population reduction, which is not a bad idea if it is done with compassion.
Yes you stated it perfectly, Anon, don't stop protesting because they control the groups. And yes the greenhouse gas theory is a fraud disproven by the glacial core samples showing temperature rise always precedes CO2 rise. NIRS took up this fraudulent bandwagon of a carbon free future for some reason and would not listen to science showing CO2 is a lagging indicator, even though the greenhouse gas scam directly aided nukes. The other reason for the CO2 scam though is to tax people and enable things like Agenda 21.
Whoa, greenhouse gases don't cause global warming? Could you please provide links to the studies that have disproven that? I must have missed something big.
*mscharisma*
Too bloody late to protest. They should have protested when they WERE TOLD that Tepco was building a nuke plant on a fault line, at sea level, without a massive protective wall.
@3:44 PM
Pretty much. And no matter how much they protest, their 'leaders' are going to do what they want anyway... I'd focus on other proactive measures within the community like getting the hell out of there for one. Leave the PM and his cronies there to inhale all that cesium & burning radioactive debris to their hearts content.