THE ASAHI SHIMBUN2011/05/04Due to political considerations, the plan to relocate thousands of U.S. Marines from Okinawa Prefecture to Guam under a 2006 agreement included doctored figures related to Japan's financial burden and troop levels.Such manipulation, uncovered in an Asahi Shimbun analysis of about 7,000 Japan-related diplomatic cables obtained from WikiLeaks, could … [Read more...] about JAPAN-U.S. TIES (3): Numbers inflated in Marine relocation plan to increase political impact
国際環境NGOグリーンピースのメールマガジン
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ご協力お願い：海洋調査、菅首相は1万人の声を無視？━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━4月29日から始めたオンライン署名 「日本政府にお願い 虹の戦士号に調査許可を！」には、 わずか1週間で8,000近くののご参加をいただきました。http://www.greenpeace.org/japan/Action/rainbow/?20110506gvさらに、日本のためにグリーンピース本部が発信し、世界中のグリーンピースに広まった首相官邸宛へのツイッター（Twitter）メッセージは約3,000通に達しています。http://bit.ly/mE4OBL合計1万人を超える方が参加して下さっていますが、 … [Read more...] about 国際環境NGOグリーンピースのメールマガジン
Support academic freedom: Give Tony Kushner his honorary degree!
For the first time in its history, CUNY's Board of Trustees has overturned an honorary degree given by one of its colleges, overturning an honorary degree that was to be given to Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner. This unprecedented decision came about because Jeffrey Wiesenfeld, a CUNY trustee, disagrees with Tony Kushner over Israeli policy. Wiesenfeld has a long … [Read more...] about Support academic freedom: Give Tony Kushner his honorary degree!
Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting Blog: Disability Activists and more
Disability Rights Activists Are Even Invisible Getting Arrested on Capitol HillPosted by Janine Jackson on 05/06/11 at 4:13 pmElite media?s selective disdain for public activism is well known. Still, you?d think some things would garner a word or two. Like 300 disability rights activists, a couple hundred in wheelchairs, occupying the rotunda of the Cannon House Office Building … [Read more...] about Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting Blog: Disability Activists and more