Wednesday, October 26, 2005
From the New Standard (Great Alternative Media Site with well-researched stories)
Check out the latest news under these categories:
Middle East
-Israeli High Court Rules Army Use of Human Shields Illegal
-Rights Groups Win Release of Abu Ghraib Photos
-Report: Prisoner Abusers ‘Confused’ by Administration Remarks
-Expectations for DC Anti-war Convergence Loom Large
-Chicago Calls for End to Iraq War
-Investigation: Five Palestinians Killed in Tul Karm Raid Noncombatants
-Nuke Material Handling Plan in Pre-war Iraq Faulty, Auditors Find
-Israeli Army Continues Use of Palestinians as Human Shields
-Israeli Terror Compensation Rules Treat Jew’s Victims Differently
-Israel to Take West Bank Land for Settlement Barrier
-Gaza Disengagement, Resistance Continue Amid Tragic Incidents
Environment
-Pharmacists May Be Refusing to Fill Emergency Contraception Orders
-Proposed Katrina School Vouchers Attacked
-Gov’t Environmental Agencies Close Georgia Dumping Probe
-Senate to Revisit Alaska Oil, Gas Drilling Once More
-Employer-funded Health Insurance Continues to Drop, Study finds
-Supreme Court Tobacco Ruling Disappoints Health Groups
-Pro-choice Religious Groups Weigh in on NH Abortion Law
-National Parks Seeking Corporate Sponsorship
-Killed Bill Resurfacing as Eased Energy Regulation
-Supreme Court Allows Missouri Inmate’s Abortion
-Women’s Health Advocates Push for Rebirth of Plan B
-Briefs Filed in First Roberts Court Abortion
and more in sections:
Work and Money, Civil Liberties,Election 2004
Labor News Asia
The latest news from these sources:
LABORNET JAPAN
パキスタン労組が救援要請アピール
死者5万人に及ぶ大規模な被害をもたらしたパキスタン地震。10月10日、全パキスタン労働組合連合（APTUF）は被災者支援の要請を世界の労働者市民に発した。APWSL(アジア太平洋労働者連帯会議）日本委員会は、これを受けて支援カンパに取り組むことを決め、広く呼びかけをはじめた。
小泉首相の靖国参拝を糾弾する！
10 月17日、小泉首相は靖国神社参拝を強行した。侵略戦争を肯定する靖国神社への首相の参拝については、アジア諸国および国内からも大きな反対の声が上がっていた。それにもかかわらず小泉首相が参拝を強行したのは、単に個人的な信条からではない。この国の政治の向かっている方向と今回の参拝とは無縁ではない。侵略戦争を肯定する小泉首相を許すな！侵略戦争を肯定するいっさいの政治行為を許すな！
WTO/FTAを問う全国連鎖行動・第二波はじまる
韓国から労働者（民主労総）、農民（全農）の代表を招き、グローバリゼーションがもたらすさまざまな問題点をともに考える企画。2005年末の釜山ＡＰＥＣ会議（11月）と香港ＷＴＯ閣僚会議（12月）に向けた国内の対抗運動の機運を盛り上げるために、全国14ヶ所を結んで巡回する行動を展開する。
NUGW (NATIONAL UNION OF GENERAL WORKERS)
Nambu fights the unfair dismissals of three members at Asahi Shimbun.
Berlitz management proposes settlement to end the second month of strike action.
More from NUGW South
InterPress Asia
Another good source of underreported news
ZNet: Iraq, Europe, MidEast, U.S., Participatory Economics, Labor, Race, Repression and more
So many articles and essays from this amazing resource.
Latest from Japan Press Service
As always, information on many issues you will not easily find elsewhere, such as Yasukuni, the postal bills, Japan and the Iraq war, privatisation and so-called “small government,” Okinawa, etc.
Latest from Asia Watch
Much more is here
Koizumi’s Kingdom of Illusion
Nearly four years after he was first elected Prime Minister, promising to “reform” Japan even if it meant destroying his own party, the LDP, Koizumi did the unthinkable: he secured an even bigger majority by promising again to do more-or-less the same, having failed ignominiously in the meantime to advance a reform agenda. Though head of government, he won a resounding triumph by presenting himself as leader of a crusading force of reformers.
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Why China’s Workers are Losing Their World
How did the thinking of most Chinese workers, even the most impoverished and politically active ones, become subject to the hegemony of the market and the state?
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The Kashmiri tragedy
In time much will be written about the most devastating earthquake in Pakistan’s short history, and most of what will be written will dwell on the grief and suffering of the millions of people affected. Indeed in the first few days after the quake, there has been an outpouring of emotion around the world and people from far and wide have embarked on all kinds of relief drives in a genuine display of solidarity.
Meanwhile Pakistani government functionaries have made stirring calls for the nation to unite and promised to lead from the front in the relief effort. It would appear however, that the thousands of families that have been ravaged by the quake in the remotest parts of the many valleys of the Northwest Frontier Province and Kashmir have reason to disagree with the government’s claims. For days after the quake, basic help had not reached entire towns and villages that were flattened, prompting angry and frustrated backlashes from many of those affected. Looting is commonplace and when relief supplies do reach affected areas, the most deserving are usually crowded out.
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A Very Lonely Japan
Christian Caryl provides a timely, lucid and quite sobering summary of Japan’s growing diplomatic isolation. Governed by an elite largely content to rely on the obviously asymmetrical partnership with the United States, Japan has made little serious effort to put behind it conflicts with its major neighbors China and Korea. The roots of these conflicts lie in Japanese aggression and colonization in the Pacific War. But they are repeatedly nourished by a noxious nationalism played out in successive Yasukuni Shrine visits by the Prime Minister and the continuing textbook controversy over the treatment of the war and war crimes.
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People Power: Have Okinawan protests forced Tokyo and Washington to rethink their base plan?
After nine years of stalling and prevarication over the replacement of Futenma Air Station in Okinawa, and nearly eighteen months of protests against its proposed replacement, a solution of sorts is finally stirring in the dusty halls of power in Kasumigaseki.
On September 24, the Yomiuri newspaper reported that the Japanese government is backing the relocation of Futenma’s Marine chopper base to the Marines Camp Schwab in Nago. Tokyo had initially supported the construction of a joint civil-military airport off the coast of Henoko village to replace Futenma.
At an estimated cost of 330 billion yen, the Heneko project would have lined the pockets of local and national construction firms – key backers of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party—and settled one of the rawest issues in the US-Japan security alliance: reducing [by 21 percent, according to Stars and Stripes] the American military footprint in Okinawa Prefecture, which reluctantly hosts three quarters of all US military facilities in Japan. There was just one serious problem: many local people strongly opposed the idea.
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Thursday, October 06, 2005
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ADDED NOVEMBER 14
Buy Nothing Day: 無買 デー」今年も開催！消費をもう一度考える・行動する日
Bush in Japan Protests 「反ブッシュ」ムーブメントの盛り上がり
International Green Network Newsletter #53-1
including:
(1) BAN TERMINATOR SEEDS JOIN THE GLOBAL CAMPAIGN
(2) U.S. BEEF STILL BANNED IN JAPAN
(3) TECHNOLOGY AND TOTALITARIANISM
(4) ENVIRONMENTAL JOB ANNOUNCEMENT
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Asahi Shinbun fires labor union members. See
Asahi Shimbun is anti-labor
Latest from Asia Watch
Koizumi’s Kingdom of Illusion, Why China’s Workers are Losing Their World, The Kashmiri tragedy, A Very Lonely Japan, People Power: Have Okinawan protests forced Tokyo and Washington to rethink their base plan?
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Latest from Japan Press Service
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