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Call
for Global Peace March on Sept 13
Get Together in Shiba Park, Tokyo from all over the country
No War! No WTO!
Something
is now shaking at our foot.
The number of persons killing himself has exceeded 30,000 for
five consecutive years, which shows that 100 persons committed
suicide every day. Here are many persons who want to work but
don't have a job, youngsters who are becoming a "reserve-army"
for the unemployed, or more and more homeless people.
We cannot expect pension or health insurance provided by the government
any longer. Farming, forestry and fishery are declining. Small
villages are disappearing one after another. The shopping streets
which were busy enough to attract a lot of local habitants are
now turning into a "Shutter-Street" where many traditional
shops or stores put up the shutters or went bankrupt. Local industry
or business or old shops are disappearing.
On the other hand, big projects, such as dams, highways and airports,
are still in progress without any regard for local habitants or
possible users. Obviously, this is the violence employed over
our community or life.
Recently in Kooriyama, Fukushima-pref., some 200km north of Tokyo,
DOCOMO, a mobile phone company established after privatization
of public telecommunication services, forced down request of local
people to build an iron tower for mobile phones.
The condition is getting more and more aggravated in our community
or workplace, causing people anxiety.
The
uncertainty attacking us at our foot is now spreading across the
world, giving rise to poverty, hunger, violation of human rights,
destruction of environment, and the like. If we try to identify
the sources of the uncertainty, we'll find out a common root there
-- that is, a Violence of Globalization with a market-oriented
policy forcing deregulation or efficiency on people. The price
tag is placed on everything including life, nature and culture,
and it runs throughout the world. Now we live in such days. Those
with money, capital or power are swallowing up the environment
or natural resources owned or controlled by local people, and
even culture or human resources. The world is faced with the reality
that the rich are getting richer, and the poor are poorer.
The
uncertainty brought about by globalization drives us to despair
and triggers battles and terrorism. However, the powerful force,
particularly the US never recognizes it, and instead, the administration
is killing innocent persons and children with weapons of mass
destruction in Iraq and Afghanistan, using the plausible pretext
of the "war against terrorism."
On the other hand, the uncertainty also induces us to depend on
the powerful force. Here in Japan, the government is aiming at
transforming Japan into a country accepting entry into war, capitalizing
on such feeling of uncertainty. The current Koizumi administration
which enacted laws for watching all the people closely and national
emergency defense by reason of unstable conditions in the Korean
Peninsula, has decided "overseas-sending of Japanese Army"
without enough deliberation, although we Japanese have succeeded
in discouraging the decision through sixty years of our efforts
or struggle against it since the War ended. In the end, Japan
has changed into a country with armies whose guns are aimed at
domestic and foreign people.
Now, both of corporate and military globalizations are integrated
into a powerful connection, which is swaying the base of our life
and creating a life crisis.
As
you know, the international organization strongly promoting corporate
globalization is WTO. The WTO Ministerial Meeting will be held
in Cancun, Mexico from Sept 10 to 14. Now international social
movements and NGOs are calling for joint action against Corporate
Globalization and War on Sept 13 when the WTO Meeting will be
called. The joint action called "Global March" is connected
to our strong will for Peace against War and challenges against
globalization to create a worldwide action aiming at Another World.
We
are accepting the call to stage a "Global March" in
Tokyo, challenging Violence caused by globalization which is occurring
everywhere in the community or workplace in Japan in order to
suggest an alternative for creating another world, opposing US
and UK armies' occupation of Iraq and dispatch of Self-Defense
Forces to the region by the Japanese government and seeking peace
in the Korean Peninsula.
Get
Together in Shiba Park, Tokyo on Sept 13!
To Stop Market Violence and Ravages of War
To Create a Just and Peaceful World
To Join Hands with People of the World having similar feelings
of worries, uncertainty or hope
Coalition composed of:
National Campaign for No to WTO - Voices from the Grassroots in
Japan
ACA (ANTI-CAPITALIST ACTION)
Asian Farmers Exchange Center
Asian Peace Alliance - Japan
Asian Solidarity School
ATTAC Japan
ATTAC Kansai
ATTAC Kyoto
Campaign for Objection to Free Trade Treaty between Japan and
South Korea!
Citizens' Liaison Group for Never Accepting Worse Revision of
Constitution
Citizens' Urgent Action against War and Emergency Legislation
Consumers' Union of Japan
Cooperative Center - Labor Information (RODO JOHO)
Experimental Village for Global Issues (Zikkenmura)
Food Village in Mitaka (Mitaka Tabemono-mura)
Forum of Peace, Human Rights and Environment (Peace Forum)
General Union - Fukuju Industry Trade Union
Global Village
Hyotanjima Study Group
Institute of Policy for Civic Sectors
Japan Catholic Justice and Peace Council
Japan International Volunteer Center (JVC)
Kansai Yotsuba Liaison Group
National Association of Farmers' Unions (ZENNICHINO)
National Liaison Council of Trade Unions (ZENROKYO)
National Network for People Solidarity between Japan and South
Korea (Nikkan-net)
Policy Network for Small and Medium-Sized Companies
Peace Boat
Solidarity Network with Migrants Japan
For
more information:
Contact: ATTAC Japan
c/o Peace Net, Kobayashi-blg. 3F, 1-31-9 Hakusan Bunkyo-ku Tokyo
113-0001
Tel: 03-3813-6492 Fax: 03-5684-5870 e-mail:[email protected]
URL= http://www.angel.ne.jp/~globalmarch/
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