Published: November 2nd, 2012 at 1:19 am ET
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Title: Blog: Enson Inoue and Ric Help Fukushima Victims
Source: Save Japan Dolphins
Author: Mark Palmer, Tim Burns
Date: November 1, 2012
Enson Inoue [...] is a very famous mixed-martial arts star in Japan, but he also has a heart of gold. [...]
As he approached he welcomed us to Fukushima [...]
Enson has developed a system of knocking on the sliders as he walked down the aisle, and we followed. A head would pop out, and Enson and Mashiko would greet them and place water, rice and the toiletry items inside their door.
This went on for hours. [...]
I have never experienced such gratitude from anyone I ever tried to help before. [...]
Sweaty and tired, we rested for a moment as Enson got us some water from a vending machine. As he put the money in, the machine sang a tune. I asked Enson what the song was saying? He smiled and said the vending machine said “don’t give up on Fukushima.”
I thought about that for a long time. Here is a community of elderly and impaired people, who are now being charged rent for their box, with the government trying to “encourage” them to get back on their feet, and the soda machine sings to them to not give up. Seemed off to me. A house is important, but what no one seems to be thinking about is that these people have no one anymore. Most are elderly and are not looking for a new career to get back on their feet. Most lost their farms, homes, and businesses that they spent their lives developing. It felt even more important that we continue now providing them with just a few basics.
[...] This was Ensons eighteenth trip to the area – never thinking of his own health, only of the people and animals in Fukushima and their needs.
Enson Inoue told me: “I’m amazed everyone one is not helping. They need our help, and it’s the right thing to do.”
We will return to help Enson and Mashiko, because it’s needed. Because it’s the right thing to do.
Enson, Mashiko and Ric… true heroes! I can only be thankful I have bean able to witness and learn from such great and caring men.
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Published: November 2nd, 2012 at 1:19 am ET
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These evacuees are in need of food and water and basics.
"Most lost their farms, homes, and businesses that they spent their lives developing."
Yet, "a quarter of Japan’s tsunami relief fund has been spent on unrelated projects"
Such as
"…$30 million dollars to protect Japan’s yearly whale hunt from environmental activists, $380,000 to promote Tokyo Sky Tree, the world’s tallest free-standing broadcast tower, free training for fighter pilots and a subsidy for a contact-lens factory located nowhere near the site of the disaster-hit coast."
Source
http://rt.com/news/japan-tsunami-relief-fund-697/
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Mack, i'm so glad you started posting. Keep bringing it back to the point – the circus of the absurd and how long are we going to tolerate it. You keep asking us to feel the injustice, so somewhere deep down, you must believe in us and our ability to get this and make things happen. In the I Ching, there is a hexagram called the Power of The Great, and it counsels that greatest and rightness, that is, power and justice, can never be separated without unfortunate consequences. I'm glad that you know this and are committed to teaching this truth. Thank you.
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Thank you for the kind words!
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This breaks my heart. These are the little quiet realities of who and what becomes ground under the heavy wheels of societal denial. It was the same with the Hiroshima and Nagasaki survivors. While many may have felt deep anger privately at the bombings, the event was also perceived as shameful for the Japanese and great effort was made to forget it quickly. That also meant forgetting those who could not disguise the effects or impacts they suffered because of the bombings. Under US occupation, nuclear power generation was vigorously promoted as part of that forgetfulness campaign and the Westernization of the region began in ernest. Much later, as US occupation began to wear thin and some popular political parties began to define themselves as separate from American policies, films and stories emerged, along with the Thousand Crane Movement to reclaim those tragic events and try to insure that they would not be repeated. This turning of sentiment and the media expression that followed went hand in hand with the American antinuclear and nuclear disarmament movements. So, here we are, still struggling together to bring reason and hope.
This is an incredible anime film created in the early days of this movement. It is a movie all persons everywhere should watch.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grave_of_the_Fireflies
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VicFromOregon -
Thank you for all your contributions here, and for the link drawing our attention to Grave of the Fireflies.
I want to wish you well by adapting the first serious thing I put here, apropos your link.
Set aside those who shout for War,
who drool with powerlust,
to dream their nightmare fantasies of omnipotence
where safely their wishes become less than dust.
Let us not be led to greed and madness
by those who would keep us ignorant
behind lies, hiding intent,
patiently advising us to despise
while they steal the inheritance of Innocence.
Fill instead the chambers of Justice with Mothers.
Let the needs of children
guide every nations' moral conscience.
Peace.
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I'm clapping appreciation! I'm glad you posted so that i could say a few things to you, too, or-well. We did't do ay exchanges, but, i read all your poems and loved the all, eve the ones so painful to read. The writer Charles Dickens used to go out into public, even street corners, and try to talk to people about e horrible conditions of the work farms, asking for their help in reforming them ad caring for the less fortunate. He went largely ignored. Eventually he began to write stories like the Christmas Carol and Oliver and within a few years, the poor houses were closed, people were no longer jailed for their debts, and political structures began to take the underclass into some account. It was art made from facts that opened their hearts, not facts alone. When you take all the details and spin them into a poem, what you are saying is hard to ignore.
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Brilliant.
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How much aid does japan give to third world countries, more aid than there own people.
It disturbs me when I look at counties like Canada, USA,Japan,china, Europe etc giving billions to third world countries and in their own countries people go hungry, no shelter, education etc, just look at how we treat the north American Indian, take his land and pretend they do not exist, disgraceful .
Not that we should not help third world countries just look in your own back yard first and don't be so condescending.
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The billions are given under the guise of economic development, with strings. The strings are nuclear power plant construction. The justification is income to American corporations.. GE.. Japan is doing the same for Hitachi, economic development for underprivileged communities, financed by citizen's tax dollars.
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