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Tag Archives: Japan
Fukushima protest
Demonstrators gathered in front of the Japanese Consulate in Chicago on the third anniversary of the first meltdown at the Daiichi nuclear plant at Fukushima. The purpose of the protest was to shine a spotlight on the continuing crisis: that radiation continues to be released into the water and into the air, despite the efforts of workers who at risk of life and health are quickly acquiring lifetime doses of radiation. Continue reading
Readers’ Views, September-October 2013, Part I
Readers’ Views, September-October 2013, Part I Continue reading
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Tagged Abortion, African Americans, anti-war movement, Arab spring, Bertell Ollman, Black history, criminal injustice system, Danica Patrick, Detroit bankruptcy, disability rights, Egypt, emergency manager, feminism, George Orwell, George Zimmerman, Golden Dawn, Greece, Harlem Hospital, International Antiwar Assembly, Iran, Japan, Kevyn Orr, Konstantinos Moutzouris, Latinos, Michigan, Middle East, militarism, NASCAR, New York City, Okinawa, Osprey, panopticon, patriarchy, Planned Parenthood, Police brutality, prison industrial complex, racism, Rosie the Riveter, Savvas Matsas, Schomburg Library for Black Culture, sexism, Spanish Harlem, sports, stop and frisk, Syria, Texas, The Arsenal of Democracy, The Motor City, Trayvon Martin, Turkey, United States, Willow Run Bomber Plant, women's liberation movement, World War II, Zengakuren
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Capitalism’s violence, masses’ revolt show need for total view
The world today is riven between the creativity of masses in revolt and the violent degeneracy of counter-revolution, whose destructiveness even extends to the revived specter of nuclear war two decades after the collapse of the USSR. Such is the degeneracy of the globalized capitalist system, laden with destructive forces and sunk into structural crisis. The deep crisis is seen in the U.S. and abroad, economically, in unemployment and poverty, homelessness and hunger. It is seen politically, in new laws attacking workers and women, and new outbursts of racism. It is seen environmentally, with the advance of climate disruption and fake capitalistic solutions. It is seen in thought, as the lack of philosophy, of a total view, hampers the development of struggles from the U.S. to the revolutions of the Arab Spring facing counter-revolutions. Continue reading
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Tagged alienated labor, amazon.com, Apple, automation, Bulgaria, Capital accumulation, China, Congressional Robotics Caucus, Cyprus, Eurozone economic crisis, Foxconn, Fukushima, Greece, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, John Kerry, Karl Marx, Kashmir, Korean War, Lawrence Summers, Martin Ford, Mechanical Turk, microtasking, militarism, Non-Proliferation Treaty, North Korea, Nuclear power, nuclear war, nuclear weapons, Pakistan, pivot to Asia, Portugal, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, structural economic crisis of capitalism, The Philippines, Unemployment, world food crisis, World War II
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Readers’ Views, January-February 2013, Part 1
From the January-February 2013 issue of News & Letters: RAVAGES OF CAPITALISM SHOW NEED FOR NEW WORLD The article on “Climate chaos and capitalism” (Sept.-Oct. 2012 N&L) is very relevant, especially the conclusion about how capitalism’s contradiction is that the … Continue reading
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Tagged absolute method, African Americans, American Civilization on Trial, Black liberation, capitalism, China, climate change, environment, feminism, Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, G.W.F. Hegel, global warming, India, Japan, Karl Marx, labor, Latinos, Mali, New York City Marathon, New York Stock Exchange, News and Letters Committees, Ningbo, Nuclear power, Occupy Movement, Occupy Sandy Recovery, Occupy Wall Street, Paris Commune of 1871, people with disabilities, racism, Rape, Raya Dunayevskaya, Shifang, Syria, Three Mile Island, Timothy Tang, Trayvon Martin, Tuareg, United States, women's liberation, workers
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From Hiroshima/Nagasaki to Fukushima
From the September-October 2012 issue of News & Letters: From Hiroshima/Nagasaki to Fukushima Evanston, Ill.—On Aug. 5 a unique and wonderful commemoration related the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to the ongoing nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear … Continue reading
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Tagged Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Chernobyl, Fukushima, Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, Harry Truman, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Hiroshima, Japan, labor, NEIS, Norma Field, North Shore Peace Initiative and Chicago Peace Coalition, Nuclear Energy Information Service, Nuclear power, nuclear weapons, Skilled Veterans Corps for Fukushima, SVCF, TEPCO, Three Mile Island, Tokyo Electric Power Company, University of Chicago, workers, Yamada Yasuteru
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‘Comfort women’ speak
From the September-October 2012 issue of News & Letters: ‘Comfort women’ speak Los Angeles—Bok-dong Kim, an 87-year-old Korean “comfort woman,” came here as part of her U.S. speaking tour on the fifth anniversary of House Resolution 121, which acknowledged Japan’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Bok-dong Kim, California State University Los Angeles, Comfort women, Duk-Kyung Kang, feminism, Glendale Public Library, Government of Japan, Hak-Soon Kim, House Resolution 121, Human rights, imperialism, Japan, Japanese Imperial Army, Korean women, racism, Seoul, sex slavery, sexism, South Korea, War Crimes Tribunal, women's liberation, Won Choi, World War II
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Fukushima nuclear worker’s testimony
From the July-August 2012 issue of News & Letters: Fukushima nuclear worker’s testimony Editor’s note: “S,” an organizer of nuclear workers for the Precariat Union in Tokyo, currently works at Daiichi and Daini as a subcontract worker. He spoke on … Continue reading
Women Worldwide, July-August 2012
From the July-August 2012 issue of News & Letters: Women Worldwide, July-August 2012 by Artemis In May, delegations of Japanese officials came to Palisades Park, N.J., where more than half the community is of Korean descent, to request the removal … Continue reading
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Tagged Abortion, African-American women, Black people, Comfort women, feminism, HIV prevention, Islamic fundamentalism, Istanbul, Japan, Justice and Development Party, Korea, Louisiana Crime Against Nature Statute, New Orleans, Palisades Park New Jersey, patriarchy, Reproductive Justice, Reproductive rights, sexism, transgender, Turkey, Women With a Vision, women's liberation, World War II
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Fukushima activists testify in New York
From the November-December 2011 issue of News & Letters: Fukushima activists testify in New York New York City—A delegation of grassroots environmental activists from Japan came to share with their U.S. counterparts heart-rending eyewitness accounts of the health impact and … Continue reading
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Tagged Aileen Mioko Smith, anti-nuclear movement, Beyond Nuclear, Chernobyl, Evan Giller, Fukushima, Fukushima Network for Saving Children from Radiation, Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear reactor, Government of Japan, Green Action, Hiroshima, Indian Point nuclear plant, Indian Point Safe Energy, IPSEC, Japan, Kaori Izumi, Nagasaki, New York City, Nuclear power, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Prime Minister of Japan, Sachiko Sato, SDIPN, Shut Down Indian Point Now!, Shut Tomari, Three Mile Island, Tom Siracuse, Yukiko Anzai
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