Friday, January 27, 2006
一月の記事
縄のプロ軍事基地候補勝利
Pro Military Base Candidate Wins in Okinawa
Singapore Newspaper: Koizumi’s Obstinacy Could Isolate Japan: Yasukuni and Asia
シンガポール新聞:小泉のYasukuni問題についての頑固さは日本を孤立させることができました。
East Timorese Demand Justice for Repression
Which Japan Was Also responsible For
日本は、東ティモールの抑制を支援しました。東ティモール人人々は公正を求めます。
Japan Aided Dili Massacre
日本はジリ大虐殺を援助しました
Hamas Victory
The media says the victory of the militant Hamas group in Palestinian elections is a bad thing. Some commentators point out that the pro-occupation policies of Israel and the United States are responsible for the rise of Hamas.
メディアは、パレスチナの選挙での攻撃的なハマス・グループの勝利が悪いものであると言います。何人かのコメンテーターは、イスラエルとアメリカの占領政策支持がハマスの上昇の原因であることを指摘します。
Mother and Peace Activist, Clare Grady, Sentenced in Federal Court
イラクとの戦いを止めようとした母親は刑務所に投げ込まれます。
Vietnam War Veteran Also Jailed
ベトナム戦争のベテランも刑務所に入りました
先住人々について/Indigenous Peoples News
US Native People Take Land Dispute to UN
米国の在来人々は国連に土地論争を持っていきます
Bolivia: Indigenous Leaders and Women Head Government
ボリビア:固有のリーダーおよび女性主要部統率
WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: Indigenous People Demand More Central Role
世界の社会フォーラム:先住人々はより中心的な役割を要求します。
‘War on Terror’ Causes Exodus From Pakistan’s Tribal Areas
「恐怖との戦い」は、パキスタンの種族エリアからの退去を引き起こします
遺伝子組み換え作物@: 「自殺種子」は、自作農業の死を綴るかもしれない、と国連の会が伝えました。
GM Agriculture: ‘Suicide Seeds’ Could Spell Death of Peasant Agriculture, UN Meeting Told
3月の月:外国・日本人労働者はアクションを結合します。
Foreign-Japanese Workers Action March 5
http://www.tokyoprogressive.org/index/weblog/comments/upcoming-activities/#comments
日本語
http://www.tokyoprogressive.org/index/weblog/print/jan-feb-jpage/
http://www.tokyoprogressive.org/index/weblog/latest-j/
http://japan.indymedia.org/feature/display/2160/index.php#quickcomment
Japan-related News/日本に関連するニュース
沖縄のプロ軍事基地候補勝利
Pro Military Base Candidate Wins in Okinawa
Read more
East Timorese Demand Justice for Repression
Which Japan Was Also responsible For
日本は、東ティモールの抑制を支援しました。東ティモール人人々は公正を求めます。
Read more
Japan Aided Dili Massacre
日本はジリ大虐殺を援助しました
Read more
Singapore Newspaper: Koizumi’s Obstinacy Could Isolate Japan: Yasukuni and Asia
シンガポール新聞:小泉のYasukuni問題についての頑固さは日本を孤立させることができました。
Read more
Peace and Justice/平和と公正
Hamas Victory
The media says the victory of the militant Hamas group in Palestinian elections is a bad thing. Some commentators point out that the pro-occupation policies of Israel and the United States are responsible for the rise of Hamas.
メディアは、パレスチナの選挙での攻撃的なハマス・グループの勝利が悪いものであると言います。何人かのコメンテーターは、イスラエルとアメリカの占領政策支持がハマスの上昇の原因であることを指摘します。
Read more
Mother and Peace Activist, Clare Grady, Sentenced in Federal Court
イラクとの戦いを止めようとした母親は刑務所に投げ込まれます。
Read more
Vietnam War Veteran Also Jailed
ベトナム戦争のベテランも刑務所に入りました
Read more
先住人々について/Indigenous Peoples News
US Native People Take Land Dispute to UN
米国の在来人々は国連に土地論争を持っていきます
Read more
Bolivia: Indigenous Leaders and Women Head Government
ボリビア:固有のリーダーおよび女性主要部統率
Read more
WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: Indigenous People Demand More Central Role
世界の社会フォーラム:先住人々はより中心的な役割を要求します。
Read more
‘War on Terror’ Causes Exodus From Pakistan’s Tribal Areas
「恐怖との戦い」は、パキスタンの種族エリアからの退去を引き起こします
Read more
遺伝子組み換え作物@: 「自殺種子」は、自作農業の死を綴るかもしれない、と国連の会が伝えました。
GM Agriculture: ‘Suicide Seeds’ Could Spell Death of Peasant Agriculture, UN Meeting Told
Read more
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
1月の終了および2月の始めからのニュース
英語のペイジ/English page
２００６春闘を組合員の総力で闘おう！ 外国人労働者に安定した雇用の確
生活と権利の闘争に勝利しよう！
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３．５ 渋谷の街のデモ行進 （Job Security March）を支援しよう！ 外国人労働者に安定した
雇用の確保を！ ３.５大行進 金破壊...雇用破壊: 全国一般労働組合東京南部 ・ なんぶ外国人分科会! 安心して働きたい！
日本で働く外国人の９割以上が非正規労働者です。長く働いても、いつ「明日から来なくていい」と言われるかわかりません。外国人はさらにひどい状況に直面しています。ビザがないため、いつ警察や入管に捕まるのかビクビクしながら働いているのです。ですが、こうした人たちが日本の経済を底辺で支えています。
外国人労働者の状況は日本人労働者の問題と重なります。彼らもまた、安心して働ける場を求めているのです。同じ働く者として日本人と外国人が協力し、３月５日、東京、大阪、福岡、札幌で同時に、外国人労働者に安定した雇用の確保を求めるデモ行進を取り組みます。 ＜雇用不安、使い捨ては許されない！＞
「最近、解雇された方、手を上げて！」
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リンク
NUGW-NAMBU
http://nambufwc.org/
http://nambufwc.org/about/contact/
http://nambufwc.org/about/join/
http://nambufwc.org/category/news/
http://nambufwc.org/category/announcements/
http://nambufwc.org/current-disputes/
新聞：
http://nambufwc.org/voice/Issue20easyformat.pdf
Use the map on the Berlitz page to find your nearest union:
http://berlitz.generalunion.org/
UPCOMING ACTIVITIES/下記活動は今後数週間に起こるでしょう
March in March:
March 5 is Job Security for Foreigners Day 2006
More than 90% of foreign workers in Japan are hired on fixed-term contracts, leaving them vunerable to dismissal or non-renewal. Last year, over 300 people took to the streets in Tokyo to demand a stable work environment, free from illegal dismissals, unpaid wages, or discrimination. Demonstrations also took place in Fukuoka; this year, the action will expand to include Osaka and Hokkaido. To get involved, contact Louis Carlet at carlet-AT-jca.apc.org, or phone 03-3434-0669.
In Tokyo
Sunday, March 5, 2pm-5pm Miyashita Koen, Shibuya
More....
Friday, January 06, 2006
International Suit Filed Against Cops for Ignoring Mom’s Pleas
Since even the US Supreme Court has declined to hold police accountable for enforcing restraining orders, one extreme case of officers “shirking” the duty is headed to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.
Jan 5 - No one denied that the murder of the three little girls by their father was a tragedy, but a dispute over whether the government shared responsibility for the killings has rippled all the way from a small Colorado town to an international tribunal.
After the Supreme Court’s rejection of the aggrieved mother’s claim that the Constitution entitled her family to certain protections from her estranged husband, the American Civil Liberties Union is bringing the case to an international human-rights court.
Read the full article here.
Editor’s note
This case has bold implications for governments worldwide. The U.S. increasingly refuses to be bound by international law yet hypocritically routinely criticizes other nations, such as China or Cuba, for human rights violations. Looking beyond the immediate issue, the whole question of whether internationally recognized human rights can be limited by any State is brought into focus by the case. The U.S. would likely view any decision by the non-US court as irrelevant or a challenge to its sovereignty. And yet, the U.S. plays by a different set of rules when dealing with other countries, criticizing (often justly, if hypocritically) select human rights transgressions by its rivals and enemies, who invariably protest this as an “intervention in our internal affairs”. What is the saying about ‘people who live in glass houses not throwing stones’?
Other examples of a double standard by countries allegedly subscribing to a higher notion of justice? Take so-called “democratic” U.S. ally, Japanese Prime Minister Koizumi, who thinks nothing of criticizing “bizarre” States like North Korea (which, by the way, most closely resembles pre-war Emperor-worshipping Japan). Koizumi, when criticized by China as well as North AND South Korea for offending their sensibilities by “worshipping” at Yasukuni Shrine, again resorts to the easily wielded protest at “interference in our domestic affairs.” And yet Koizumi snubs his nose at the many in Japan who are just as alarmed at the increasing belligerence of Koizumi and company as they blithely glorify pre-war fascism (the very reason for Yasukuni’s existence), something evident to anyone visiting their museum on the premises) while supporting the illegal war waged by the U.S. and U.K. in Iraq.
The connection between this article about a woman whose kids were killed because the police felt free to ignore a restraining order against her husband and the politics of the U.S. and Japan is that justice is a relative term, that there is increasingly little difference between those states we have come to expect to be repressive and those we had assumed were in the business of upholding human freedoms. So much for the right of any State to claim authority over its citizens when it fails to protect them and hides behind the often false flag of sovereignty.
