私たちが棄民である。はじめまして。お久しぶり。

この社会が営々とつくりだす奔流。庭師、清掃、警備、テーマパークの芝生管理、型枠大工、畳職人、キャスト、アイヌモシリから、介護、ダスキン、土方、塾講師、ニート、カヤック、かつて南米大陸へ、ウェイター、パチンコ屋の並び、弁当工場、作家、台湾へ、校正、軽作業、重労働、ひきこもり、八百屋、リネン、航空郵便、郵便仕分け、板金塗装、アクティビスト、いま南米大陸から、ガソリンスタンド、デザイン、リサイクルショップ、アニメーター、編集者、絵の先生、朝鮮半島へ、ＮＰＯ職員、交通量調査、スリーパー、水道工事、派遣営業、ショップ店員、デリヘル、失業者、政党職員、大学院生、カメラ助手、琉球へ、サクラ、寺の寺務、朝鮮半島から、レジ打ち、検品、運転手、ゲーマー、事務員、中国から、カメラマン、パン職人、セクシュアルマイノリティ、ボーイ、バーテン、アンケート調査員、セクキャバ、玄界灘を越えて、野宿者、新聞勧誘、キャッチ、生保受給者、プログラマー、菓子販売、テレアポ、ＰＯＰ作成、ポスティング、コンビニ、ライター、駐車監視員。それが私たちです。

ニューディーラーを超えて、パンドラの箱が開く。
生存と尊厳の蓋。

＊＊Miyashita Park Artist in Residence＊＊ PARK IS OURS ! －Our actions make park.－ 2010. March 15th – 17th

Now, Shibuya-ku Ward (Tokyo) and NIKE try to start converting Miyashita Park into “NIKE Park”. For this construction, they decided the half of park will be sealed off with the fences on March 16th and 17th. What are they talking about? We have never accepted NIKE use the park for their business in the park, public area! Miyashita Park is not only for NIKE’s consumers, but OURS! Thereupon, various artists are going to stay at Miyashita Park and execute their works (= Artist in Residence, A・I・R) from this spring. Through the many projects such as exhibition, symposium, music performance, movie show, workshop and cafe, we will think about what Living, Playing, Life, Whereabouts, Exclusion, Discrimination, Violence etc. are, and we do PARK.

VIDEO RECORED at the protests of 2010/03/31
www.youtube.com/watch

!NEW! "Our Park" A Documentary on Tokyo's Nike Miyashita Park
www.youtube.com/watch

airmiyashitapark.info/wordpress/

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GVO is reporting about this issue in English also:
globalvoicesonline.org/2008/09/12/japan-nike-buys-out-name-of-public-park/

「公園」が商品化されようとする不透明かつ非民主的な過程を OurPlanet-TV（アワプラ）が取材、ビデオを制作した。これが公開されたところ、公園の商品化に反対する人びとには議員や役人によるいやがらせが相次いでいる。「公」人であれば卑怯なマネはやめなさい。反ナイキ運動を理解するみなさんは是非このビデオを広く共有し、アワプラが圧力につぶされないよう支援していただきたい。

関西を拠点とするドキュメンタリー集団の作品上映です！

NDU＋NDS作品上映
「彷徨する魂を追う～NDUからNDSへ～」

――人として生きる権利を奪われた者、奪われた事実さえ無かったことにされようとする者達の、可視化されることのなかった姿が浮かび上がる――

――関西発、若手ドキュメンタリー集団登場。
大阪・西成を拠点とするNDSの旗揚げ上映！
大阪市・九条シネ・ヌーヴォにて一挙公開!!

TOKYO, Japan— An informal network of new media activists/artists, in central Tokyo, who are advocating Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) is on the initial plan to hold a series of gatherings and workshops that will center upon the notion of sustainability in technology beyond Capitalism.

The event, which is a celebration for the International Software Freedom Day, will take place sometime on September 2009.

If you want to participate throughout the possibility of this event, please contact: jeanmakisig[AT]gmail.com

You are also encouraged to build your own Software Freedom Day in your locality. Please refer to the provided links.

Tokyo Software Freedom Day 2009 softwarefreedom

NOTE: Mr. Nelson passed away this spring: http://thepeacewalk.com/?p=178

Allen Nelson, Vietnam war veteran and peace activist from the U.S., shares his extraordinary experience in war, his personal transformation, his work for peace in and outside Japan, and his hopes for the future at a time when U.S. militarism shows no sign of slowing down.

EXCERPTS

….Nelson himself had a message for Barack Obama, in a letter he says he wrote and sent to Obama during the campaign: “I reminded him that he said that he would remove the troops from Iraq. But I said ‘not only please remove the troops from Iraq, but remove the troops from everywhere’ — from Okinawa, from mainland Japan, from Germany, from England — from all the places that we have. Please bring these people back home to America. This is where they belong.”

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The events of 11 September 2001 brought back strong memories of Vietnam for Nelson as well. He watched on TV that day the scenes of panic in New York City, where he lives, and instantly recognized the look of fear on people’s faces as they ran through the streets.

“I was watching the scene, they showed these people running through lower Manhattan,” says Nelson. “And I was looking at their faces and two things that hit me: No. 1, Vietnam had come home to America. No. 2, when I looked at the faces of the terrified Americans, it was the same faces of the Vietnamese people when we would go and burn down their villages — their villages that were a thousand years old. There’s no rebuilding a thousand-year-old village, man. Their ancestors’ ancestors’ ancestors’ bones are born here. And I just remembered, I flashed in my mind [on 9/11], how the women and the children would come and beg us on their hands and knees not to burn the village down, crying and screaming for us not to burn it down. And we would burn it down anyway.”

Nelson was among the many military veterans and peace activists in the United States who stood up and spoke out about the U.S. government’s actions after 9/11. On 19 March 2003, the day the U.S. began its invasion of Iraq, Nelson joined an anti-war rally at Bryant Park in New York City’s West Village. Suddenly, during his speech to the crowd, he says, he was hit from behind by a group of attackers and knocked to the ground. He was kicked and beaten, falling unconscious. When the attack was over, he had four broken teeth and a swollen face. Nelson and his fellow peace activists suspected the attackers were working with law enforcement.

“I don’t know how many there were, but they were police. They were in plainclothes,” Nelson said. “And the reason why we suspect that they were police is because the real police in uniforms did nothing to arrest them. And we’ve been having this type of harassment in New York constantly since 9/11. They’ve been trying to silence the critics of the war. But I have to tell you: I was so proud to be beaten. I was happy. I went home, I said, “I got beat!” [laughs] My wife said, ‘Oh my God, look at your face!’ …I felt that this was my confirmation that I was doing the right thing. Because if you’re not doing anything, if you’re ineffective, then they don’t care. But if you’re hitting that nerve, when you’re touching that point, then they’ve gotta react. …I was happy. So the next day, I went to the next rally, all swollen up….”

A couple of months later, when Nelson took up yet another invitation to come and speak in Japan, he was still missing four teeth and walking unsteadily. Collections of monetary support were taken up at Nelson’s speaking events, with one sympathetic Japanese dentist in an audience reportedly even coming up to Nelson and offering dental treatment. Nelson ended up getting his teeth fixed back in the States….

Full article

Over the past week and a half, an unprecedented political crackdown has been enacted in advance of a series of economic summits around the country. Despite this, the brave workers of Kamagasaki stood up against the stiff security environment in riots against the brutal beating of a day laborer over the past five days. The twin situations of repression and revolt deserve to be examined in more detail.

— [editor's note] this article had been originally posted in June 2008 just before the crazy-summit as an comment to an article on Kamagasaki "Riot" (釜ヶ崎〈暴動〉| resistance action against police in Kamagasaki), and recovered today from our archive.

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Music / 音楽: [THE INFERNAL NOISE BRIGADE and FILASTINE - NO G8 ACTION JAPAN Benefit CD｜反G8サウンドトラック] [Sound-Collective No-G8｜叛乱には音楽が必要だ！] [疑問を持つ人たちのためのパーティー | SOUND ACTION MOVEMENT - WHY!? G8 SUMMIT]

Events / イベント: [ Indigenous People's Summit 先住民族サミット ][G8対抗国際フォーラム｜CounterG8InternationalForum] [ Alternative Media Gathering@remo|「もうひとつのメディア」のための集い 08 @remo ] [Anti-G8 Football Cup 2008 Japan!｜反G８フットボール！] [Grrrl 8 - Go! G8 Night in Kichijoji｜Grrrl 8 - Go! G8 Night in 吉祥寺] [ International Media Symposia in Tokyo | 国際シンポ：「環境・グローバリズム・メディア」東京 / in Sapporo | 札幌] [Alternative Media Gathering 08#1] [London NoBorders | ロンドン反G8祭] [G8MN VIDEO UNIT Workshop | ワークショップ＋座談会] [1st Toyako Film Festival Manifesto | 第一回洞爺湖国際映画祭 開催宣言] [KIMONO * YUKATA / きもの＊ゆかた ブロック workshop & let's do it! ]

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日本政府の調査捕鯨副産物である鯨肉について、捕鯨船団乗組員による業務上横領告発のために証拠品として鯨肉入りの箱を確保したグリーンピースの2人の職員に対し、青森裁判所は本日、10日間の拘留を決定しました。