STOP THE COVER-UP IN JAPAN ! Featuring Special Presenter: Tadashi Seto
4/5 Report On Struggle Against Nuclear Power/Repressions and Growing Militarization In Japan
STOP THE COVER-UP!
Featuring Special Presenter:
TADASHI SETO
of the International Solidarity Committee of Doro-Chiba
(national railway workers of Japan)
Tuesday, April 5, 2016
7-8:30 pm
Buchanan YMCA
1530 Buchanan St.
SF Japantown
GET THE UPDATE FROM ACTIVISTS ON-THE-GROUND IN JAPAN:
● Government & Nuclear Industry Cover-Up of Ongoing Dangers:
-- High radiation levels in contaminated areas for clean-up workers and returning residents
-- Spread of radiation contamination to the rest of Japan and the world, including the West Coast of North America
-- Restarting nuclear power plants, the growing nuclear weapons industry, and threats of war in Asia
● Mass popular demonstrations against the re-militarization of Japan,
right wing repression, and the U.S. Pacific Pivot:
-- Japanese & US corporate and government interest in the Pacific Pivot
-- Changing Japan’s Peace Constitution and passage of anti-democratic security and secrecy laws
-- Expansion of military bases, especially in Okinawa
-- Permitting use of nuclear weapons and nuclear weapon development
-- Historical denialism and cover-up of government accountability
-- Attacks on multicultural education, intensification of hate speech, and increasing violence against ethnic minorities
Cosponsors include: Institute for Public Interest Media, No Nukes Action, KPFA Workweek Radio, United Public Workers for Action, Asian Americans for Peace & Justice. Transport Workers Solidarity Committee TWSC
For information (415)282-1908
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