International call for solidarity actions against G8 repressions

By anon , submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 10/07/2008 - 02:37

news! *Finally decided not to prosecute on 14th Aug. reported on 18th after more than one month.*

Free Arrests! Protest against police state & capitalist summit!
Take simultaneous actions on Saturday 12th July. — finally released 9:30am 16th July. But not yet confirmed to be no-bill. Sign petition (in the name of your organizations or groups) asking prosecutors to decide not to indict (drop charges)! And please donate them to recover the compensation for the truck destroyed by the police! -> j5solidarity@riseup.net

しかし釈放指揮書にはただ釈放するとあるだけで処分はまだ確定していません。私たちは3人の釈放を喜ぶとともに、処分保留ではなく、あくまで早期の不起訴決定を検察に要求します。不起訴を求める要請書への団体賛同をお願いいたします。
http://j5solidarity.blog116.fc2.com/

警察に窓ガラスをわられたレンタル車の弁償代のため
まだ50万円以上必要になるとのこと、ぜひカンパも！

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Three comrades who had been jailed since July 5th were released at 9:30 (GMT+9) this morning (16th) !
Their period of detention was shorter than 23 days, the common length in the police state Japan. We believe that it was thanks to your attention and solidarity from the world over.
From now on, we will demand compensation for the destroyed truck and continue to protest against the unlawful crackdowns before and after the G8. Please keep an eye on coming events.
In Solidarity

* they were released not cleary without indictment but suspended(?) actually with empty reason. Unjustful again.

SAPPORO: 3pm at Oodori Park Nishi-3
TOKYO: 5pm at Kouenji Central Park
OSAKA: 3pm at Osaka Station Central Exit
KYOTO: 6pm at 3-Jou Oohashi Bridge
FUKUOKA: 7:30pm at Tenjincore or Kego Park

NEW! action reports:
[SAPPORO] [MANILA, en] [TOKYO: Kouenji(vid), Shibuya] [KYOTO] [OSAKA] [FUKUOKA] [BERLIN, vid] [SAN FRANCISCO] [SEOUL]

watch a video recorded on 5th July:
http://rootless.org/noG8/Declare_Independence.m4v

3 of our friends unjustly arrested at the demonstration against G8 summit on 5th July in Sapporo. One of the arrested is actually an indymedia activist who is organizing sound actions and a member of G8 Media Network which is organized by non-profit and non-govermental various grassroots media. The exerciser of overwhelming violence was the police. For instance, they stopped the track forcely, broke the window with policeman’s club etc, and dragged out the driver while hanging him. This situation was exposed as Japanese police brutality again, reported by independent media.

While most of Japanese media coverage focusing around the summit, one of homeless activists in Osaka had quietly, unfairly arrested on 4th. Alleged that his mobile phone ownership and user was different in name. Even though his group from Osaka had been planned to come and join the poverty & labour unit of couter G8 Action Network but they cannot in order to resucue him just after the liberation of another one who was also arrested by tiny bureaucratic mistake last month. All of them are unreasonably trivial things. Suppression of dissent, obviously.

We denounce suppression to the sound demonstration and homeless activists by the police, and demand immediate releasing of all. On 12th July, simultaneous protest actions will be taken 3pm in Sapporo, Tokyo, Osaka, etc. against police capitalism. Call for international solidarity! Take actions simultaneously! Protest against unjust arrests, police violence and capitalist summit.

July5th Relief Association for Sapporo Sound Demonstration
in solidarity with indymedia japan.

j5solidarity@riseup.net
http://j5solidarity.blog116.fc2.com/

http://tv.g8medianetwork.org/?q=ja/node/301
http://japan.indymedia.org/newswire/display/4602/
http://japan.indymedia.org/newswire/display/4604/

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Appello internazionale per azioni di solidarietà e contro la repressione dei G8 (italian translation)

By indymediano italico , submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 11/07/2008 - 06:38

Appello internazionale per azioni di solidarietà e contro la repressione dei G8

Libertà per gli arrestati! Protestiamo contro lo stato di polizia e il summit dei capitalisti!

Organizziamo azioni simultanee per sabato 12 luglio.

Guarda questo video: http://rootless.org/noG8/Declare_Independence.m4v

Tre nostri amici sono stati ingiustamente arrestati il 5 luglio durante una manifestazione contro il summit dei G8. Uno degli arrestati è fra l'altro un attivista di indymedia ed è membro del G8 Media Network, un gruppo di mediattivisti no-profit e non governativi. Le uniche azioni violente sono state praticate dalla polizia. Per esempio ha bloccato il furgone del sound system con la forza, rompendo un vetro con un manganello ecc., e ne ha trascinato fuori il conducente. Questo avvenimento è solo un nuovo atto caratterizzante la brutalità della polizia giapponese, come riportato dai media indipendenti.

Mentre la gran parte dei media giapponesi si concentravano sul summit, a Osaka un attivista che si occupa dei senzatetto è stato arrestato il 4 luglio. Il motivo era quello di possedere un telefonino non registrato a suo nome. Il gruppo di cui è attivista aveva in programma di unirsi, durante le contestazioni, al workgroup sulla povertà e il lavoro della rete Couter G8 Action Network, ma non ha potuto visto che ha preferito stare vicino al compagno, e visto che un altro attivista del gruppo era già stato arrestato lo scorso mese per simili piccolezze burocratiche. Queste motivazioni sono cose di poco conto, ma hanno come ovvio effetto la soppressione del dissenso.

Denunciamo l'oppressione perpetrata dalla polizia avvenuta durante il corteo e tramite la messa a tacere dell'attivista per i senzatetto, e domandiamo l'immediato rilascio per tutti. Il 12 luglio azioni di protesta simultanee verranno organizzate a Sapporo, Tokyo, Osaka, ecc. contro lo stato di polizia capitalista. Questo è un appello alla solidarietà internazionale! Organizzate azioni! Protestate contro gli ingiusti arresti, contro la violenza della polizia e contro il summit dei capitalisti.

July5th Relief Association for Sapporo Sound Demonstration in solidarietà con Indymedia japan.

Mail: j5solidarity (at) riseup.net
http://j5solidarity.blog116.fc2.com/

http://tv.g8medianetwork.org/
http://japan.indymedia.org/newswire/display/4602/
http://japan.indymedia.org/newswire/display/4604/

Fonte: http://japan.indymedia.org/newswire/display/4617/index.php

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NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD TEAMS WITH JAPANESE LEGAL NETWORK TO MONITOR POLICE MISCONDUCT IN COUNTER G8 PROTESTS IN JAPAN

By NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD , submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 12/07/2008 - 02:30

NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD TEAMS WITH JAPANESE LEGAL NETWORK TO MONITOR POLICE MISCONDUCT IN COUNTER G8 PROTESTS IN JAPANWednesday, July 9, 2008, 08:00 AM
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, July 8, 2008

Contact: Marjorie Cohn, NLG President, marjorie@tjsl.edu; 619-374-6923
Heidi Boghosian, NLG Executive Director, director@nlg.org; 212-679-5100, ext. 11

Extraordinary Force Used to Silence Protesters Critical of G8 and United States Policies

The National Lawyers Guild (NLG) is monitoring an escalation of repression by Japanese police against protestors of the Group of 8 Summit (G8 Summit) in the Japanese island of Hokkaido, as well as in Sapporo, Tokyo and other parts of Japan.

The Lawyers Guild, a network of lawyers, legal workers and law students advocating for social change in the US, has teamed up with WATCH, a Japanese legal network created to document police and government misconduct during the anti G8 protests. Both organizations are deeply disturbed at the level of police harassment against G8 protestors.

“What we have witnessed in the streets of Sapporo, Tokyo and in Hokkaido Toyako is part of an ongoing and escalating campaign to suppress the movement for social change and real democracy in Japan,” said Marina Sitrin, professor and member of the National Lawyers Guild.

As G8 leaders meet at their Summit in Hokkaido Toyako, the Japanese police and government manifest their anti-democratic policies with regard to demonstrators and people who oppose the group’s policies "The G8, which claims to oppose poverty and global warming, actually promotes aid to poor countries that forces them into debt and policies that create climate change. The National Lawyers Guild supports the global justice movement against these policies, in Japan and worldwide," said NLG President Marjorie Cohn.

The G8 leaders have publicly cited Iran's nuclear energy program as a military threat, fueling fears of the possibility that the US will attack Iran. After the G8's 2003 declaration on non-proliferation, which specifically targeted Iran, last year's G8 communiqué listed Iran as one of three countries (with Libya and North Korea) posing 'proliferation challenges' to world security, despite the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency's conclusion that there is no evidence Iran has a nuclear weapons program.

“We were surprised by the excessive force used by police in the counter G8 demonstrations," said Ko Watari, of WATCH. “This was a non-violent demonstration where no acts against property or people took place, or even appeared likely to take place.” Three people have been arrested, one Reuter’s cameraman was standing on a public sidewalk when arrested by police; and his video camera was confiscated. The arrest of a sound truck driver followed immediately thereafter. Footage of the driver’s arrest shows him screaming in pain as the police attempted to pull him out of the truck, after smashing the truck window. A later inspection of the confiscated truck by the legal team revealed quantities of dried blood on the steering wheel and dashboard.

“Labor and peace movement leaders are concerned that the police will arrest them for organizing these protests, search their homes and interrogate their family members,” said Dan Spalding, Legal Worker Vice President of the National Lawyers Guild. Japanese law permits police to hold and interrogate suspects for 23 days without formal charges. They are often interrogated for 12 hours in a row, and often forced to sit on their knees all day while in detention, not being allowed to move without permission, even to use the bathroom. It is these sorts of conditions and punitive arrests that the National Lawyers Guild opposes. We call on the Japanese government to respect human rights in Japan.

http://nlg.org/
Founded in 1937 as an alternative to the American Bar Association, which did not admit people of color, the National Lawyers Guild is the oldest and largest public interest/human rights bar organization in the United States. Its headquarters are in New York and it has chapters in every state.

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solidarity action report from KYOTO

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http://d.hatena.ne.jp/posada/20080712

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solidarity action report from OSAKA

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Release of the three arrested activists in Sapporo

By No Vox , submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 17/07/2008 - 16:25

The three arrested peoples during the demo in Sapporo have been released yesterday.The struggle continues. The lorry was also only released yesterday and the organization is supposed to pay for the window broken by the police and 14 days renting the lorry before it xas released by police. We don't now yet if the 3 arrested have been charged or not.

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