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Petition: Growing Peace and Justice
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tokyoprog (paul) arenson
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Dec 28, 2001 12:48 PST
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[Edited by Progressive Portal for relevance]
Hi from Tokyo.
It was only a few weeks ago that I even found out about Progressive
Portal--before the September 11 attacks, when I was working on
another local issue here in Tokyo that has worldwide implications
(MadCow and Japanese Media self-censorship, possibly with government
involvement).
Your site inspired me to make something similar for my own site. [...]
And then with 9/11, I also put up a peace petition addressed to the
Japanese Prime Minister, whose government is taking advantage of the
perception that Japan needs to "contribute to world peace militarally
and not 'just' monetarily" to push remilitarization and possibly
throw out the "peace clause" in the Japanese constitution.
Reponse has not been phenomenal--about 60 so far, and I have had to
hand paste the responses into web mail on the PM's site when his
email program began blocking the messages. (It also goes to the
foreign minister without being blocked).
But it has encouraged a few people to write asking what THEY can
do...not least some of my students for whom peace actions are the
first thing they have ever done that was socially affirmative. Also,
an ex-U.S. airforce guy here in Japan wrote and said he too wanted to
do something to keep Japan from aiding the war effort.
(By the way, the Okinawans, where so many bases are, understand the
anger of the people in Vieques Puerto Rico, another virtual colony.)
[...]
Anyway, I just wanted to say thanks again for inspiring me to expand
my site and invite anyone who feels the interest to stop by.
[... S]pecific petitions you are invited to look at and possibly
sign/modify are as follows:
[...]
To the Japanese Prime Minister:
http://cp.freeshell.org/petit/war/warsignature.html
[...]
And from my friends at one of the major anti-nuclear groups, Gensuikyo, this=
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Anti-Nuclear Petition from the World Conference against A & H Bombs
in Nagasaki on Aug 9:
=7Fhttp://tokyoprog.blogspot.com/2001_09_16_tokyoprog_archive.html#5797165
Thanks,
Paul
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Paul Arenson
TokyoProgressive
http://tokyoprogressive.org
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