Published: November 12th, 2012 at 11:58 pm ET
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Title: Thousands protest against nuclear power in central Tokyo
Source: Mainichi
Date: Nov 12, 2012
Is now this:
Thousands of people staged a demonstration near the Diet Building on the rainy evening of Nov. 11 to call for an end to nuclear power.
According to figures released by demonstration organizer Metropolitan Coalition Against Nukes, roughly 100,000 people took part in the protest. Police put the figure at about 7,000.
[...] At one point, there were so many protesters packed into one place they disrupted use of the local crosswalks. [...]
A demonstration scheduled for the capital’s Hibiya Park the same day was cancelled after the Tokyo Metropolitan Government refused to issue a permit.
Published: November 12th, 2012 at 11:58 pm ET
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A novel form of protest would be for these 100000 to gather in front of the Diet(Parliament) each riding a stationary bicycle fitted with a dynamo and direct the lamplight-synchronously at the building floodlighting it with Greenpeace banner crying NUCLEAR FREE CARBON FREE JAPAN.
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This people can do simultaneously all over the world creating together some 10000 MW of 100 million people. This will show that decentralised human cooperative endeavour will achieve a nuclear free carbon free world.
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The police estimated 7,000 protestors…other observers counted 100,000.
Next spring it would be great to see them amass a million or more in a show of strength. I don't see the country's health situation improving so bad news will continue to attract large crowds of protestors. Which is pretty unusual for Tokyo.
In years gone by they would just blast a few hundred protestors away with water cannons. Now those police methods seem pretty risky with water cannons being used at Daiichi to try and stop the eternal fires. And with a crowd so large water cannons could lead to really bad public relations.
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@Sickputer November 13, 2012 at 12:54 am
In Gibrischenland: We wash our clothes by hand. We use the solar cooker. We use our hands to shave. We use rolling stones to make atta and to make chutney.. We use the Brahmah Press to iron clothes.We walk to work and live in small self-sufficient communities and work cooperatively. We use the charkas to spin thread and make cloth by handloom. We use bicycles to light our homes thru the cycle dynamo by cooperatively riding our cycles in stationary mode with the dynamo connected to the shaft. We run our radios by our own power. We use animals to till. We hand pound rice. We live in log huts! And we can walk to the forest to get fragrant pure air and drink water from mountain streams pure and clear. We go fishing by the river. We have ALL KINDS OF plants and the trees give us luscious fruits. We return all our excreta by means of composting toilets and our grass is mown by cattle. Our grasslands thrive. Wild animals thrive in the forest. We grow enough fire wood for community cooking in highly efficient woodstoves. Ships worked by sails bring us things which we occasonally need. We do use iron and steel and make them by means of furnaces worked on wood. We also use biogas plants for our cooking during the monsoon. We use wells to draw groundwater. We produce electricity within our bodies by isothermal method at 1.2 volts in each of our cells and do work at the rate of 200 watts peak.We are a nation of 160 million people in 500000…
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(Concld) beautiful communities called villages We have also vast rivers on which boats bring cargo. I am told that 4.32 billion years ago a thriving country existed here with nuclear reactors but still the people were always short of power. They had enormous number of dams. Several great earthquakes were caused by dams which made the nuclear reactors to explode and kill the people and their civilization vanished. Their champion fighter against a wicked government fought corruption and proved that nuclear energy programmes were the biggest scam which only fed them poisons which lasted billions of years but consumed all the power the country produced reducing the people to penury….
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you paint a great picture of sustainability R…
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@AGreenRoad
November 13, 2012 at 7:49 pm
Thanks for your observation. Right now India is in the process of oblivion like other nuclear countries. So short sighted. We must continue to protest.7000 or 100000.
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Good point SP. Very good point.
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I wish we could get our newspaper's to report on this. Where are all the Getty images now?! USA Today and the Huffington Post and Time Magazine and Rolling Stones and Mother Jones should all be giving us decent news coverage of what it happening.
What is the number of GE or nuke-owned media outlets/papers, tv, radio? I think someone posted something likt that on here before but I don't remember the number…
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Knowing how concentrated the media empire is I gave up trying to alert the media. Instead use various social network sites & add comments to existing news articles or post on various websites & Occupy pages.
Because we are the media & I believe it is more important to give the real news directly to the people. Then it does not get diluted & or twisted or used as a way to spread *their propaganda.
This link gives you a summary of how concentrated the media is & remember most nuclear companies etc have shares most of these companies. As do many other conglomerates worldwide. Media also work directly with the government in all countries.
http://mikephilbin.blogspot.ca/2009/07/six-major-corporations-own-mainstream.html
This gives a basic summary of the Global control companies have.
'Super-Entity' Of 147 Companies At Center Of World's Economy, Study Claims
Revealed – the capitalist network that runs the world
The real question, says the Zurich team, is whether it can exert concerted political power. Driffill feels 147 is too many to sustain collusion. Braha suspects they will compete in the market but act together on common interests. Resisting changes to the network structure may be one such common interest.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21228354.500-revealed–the-capitalist-network-that-runs-the-world.html
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The work, to be published in PLoS One, revealed a core of 1318 companies with interlocking ownerships (see image). Each of the 1318 had ties to two or more other companies, and on average they were connected to 20.
What's more, although they represented 20 per cent of global operating revenues, the 1318 appeared to collectively own through their shares the majority of the world's large blue chip and manufacturing firms – the "real" economy – representing a further …60 per cent of global revenues…
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The actual study arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/1107/1107.5728v2.pdf
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Thanks much MH and for the summary, too. Tomorrow's reading!
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nice media consolidation research finds! thanks. sharing.
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TEPCO Controls Mass Media, But Loses ALL Nuclear Plant Insurance Coverage; Via A Green Road
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/03/tepco-loses-insurance-coverage-for-all.html
How Corporations Control Governments, Media, Politicians; Confessions Of An Economic Hit Man; via A Green Road http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/04/how-corporations-control-governments.html
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@maidenhaven
Because we are the media & I believe it is more important to give the real news directly to the people. Then it does not get diluted & or twisted or used as a way to spread *their propaganda.
greatt comment great info!
double plus plus
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People are done with nuclear reactors. And won't tolerate being forced to coexist with the insanely dangerous technology.
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I've been involved in enough marches & demonstrations (anti-war and timber issues mainly) to affirm that the organizers usually pad the numbers, but the media will drastically slash the number of protestors. E.g., let's say there are around 8000 protestors. The organizers might round that number up to 10,000, but the evening news will report that only 1000 demonstrators were involved. Although the exact percentages vary, they follow this general pattern every time in my experience.
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This problem of counting heads by police and media has been occurring since the first protests… simple fact check – compare photos and video from overhead flights by helicopter with cameras… thinking, from the pics I saw of this last one and the other big protests, there were more people at this protest than has occurred before.
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Agreed, pcjensen, and one should also pay attention to whose helicopter camera footage is being shown. For an editor with an agenda, the formula is to use closeup shots to make a tiny crowd seem large, and use panoramic shots to emphasize that a large crowd really is large or to fake that a crowd is small (by pointing at something other than the large crowd). Anther trick is to use images before/after the crowd has fully assembled. Yet another is to focus on a small "rent-a-crowd" whose behavior is manipulated. These days "the authorities" generally work to break any large crowd into several smaller crowds, so of course video footage can then be selective.
A related media manipulation gimmick is to show people holding signs written either in English or non-English languages (editor's choice) as a way to influence the effect on home audiences. If the home audience cannot read the signs, then they tend to accept the voice-over explanation of the images.
On and on.
Anyone with a helicopter has a generous budget to cover an event – why are they covering it – what's their angle on the story?
Gotta love phone-cams in citizens' hands, but the bad guys know about phone-cams now also. It's easy to fake an event on one or a few cams, much harder to fake hundreds or thousands. Stay alert!
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Go Japanese!!! Go enenews!!!
Saikato Hantei!!!
Death to Nuclear Fascism brought to life by corrupt General Electric and cronies!!!
Crony Capitalism revealed!!!
peace …
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That is a great protest. I wish the Americans would protest like that. Well maybe in San Onofre!
Ramaswami Kumar, I enjoy your vision and already live some aspects of it, but I don't want a carbon free future. Glacial cores show that temperature rise preceded carbon dioxide increase throughout earth history, therefore greenhouse gas theory is exactly wrong. The major heat sinks on earth are the oceans whose sun warmed currents determine climate and events like El Nino. Earth orbit and solar activity also affect climate. Climate change like glaciation has gone on since way before anthropogenic influence. Carbon taxation is fraud.
As a farmer, I want to run my diesel tractor on biodiesel oilseeds grown in my vicinity. I do use a 9 KW solar system already but would not want to try to operate the tractor off it. Why should any of us feel guilty for breathing carbon dioxide out, and how would a carbon free future be different from being dead and not breathing? All the plants I know crave carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide can be readily used to increase food production. What is likely to happen is that petroleum will gradually deplete and leave civilization stranded. You will not have to legislate using less fossil fuel because there will be less and less of it anyway. There will be an impact on forests as we regress to where things were in the pre industrial centuries. I expect that without diesel transport the die off will be around eighty per cent.
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