Published: July 29th, 2012 at 2:30 pm ET
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Follow-up to: Reuters: Tokyo protest breaks through barriers and spills onto streets as tens of thousands gather -- Police forced to deploy armoured buses to buttress Parliament's gates (VIDEOS)
Title: Large anti-nuclear rally held in Tokyo
Source: NHK World
Date: Jul. 29, 2012
A large rally has been held in Tokyo to protest the restart of a nuclear plant in Fukui Prefecture.
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They included elderly people and women with children.
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In the evening, they gathered around the Diet building while holding candles. Some scuffles broke out between the protesters and police officers.
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The organizer said 200,000 people took part. Police said the figure was 14,000.
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h/t SimplyInfo
Published: July 29th, 2012 at 2:30 pm ET
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So how's it going to be?
Does the Japanese government think the people are going to tire of trying to save themselves.
How can that possibly happen?
It will NEVER happen.
Long Live the Hydrangea Revolution.
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heres ryan reporting from friday nights demo!!
saikato hantai!!
Occupy Tokyo Night Protest Action July 27th 2012
Published on Jul 28, 2012 by freedomwv
Occupy Tokyo can get lively after dark. After the weekly protest in front of the Japanese PM office, a crowd gathered at the O.T. camp for some protest action directed toward M.E.T.I.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6HHJpYjGrE
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Arc sez…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6HHJpYjGrE
SP: Loved the comment from the Japanese gentleman 36 seconds in:
"Being silent after Fukushima is barbaric!"
SP: Well said! +311
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Let me get his statement/slogan correct:
"Keeping silent after Fukushima is barbaric!"
SP: Yes, so true. And we know who are the real barbarians in Japan…
The Genocidal Nucleocrats.
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Go Japanese people Go! Genpatsu hantai!! Saikado hantai!!!
Keep protesting by the hundreds of thousands peacefully. It will not be in vain.
Here in United States of Cancer Empire, we are not being told of what you are doing, except by brave sites like enenews, fukushima diary and enformable ex-skf.
Somebody somewhere is waking up to the awful truth you now know every moment, and soon the power of the truth will become irresistible.
We are at a global consciousness tipping point.
Can you feel it yet? The forces of dark greed, power hungry and filled with jealous rage are trying to hold back the truth …
Give them some nicotine and alcohol, some Olympic Game shiny fancy glamorous look, with tight bodies playing in the sand, and they will not notice those old, tired, short Grannies in the Tokyo twilight … not for long, or so THEY think … They who ply us with their nuclear madness, irradiating us at will, causing cancer and monstrosities, at will!!!
No, … NO. The grannies with their babies will win, in the end!
They have the truth on their side. And it is the strongest argument!
peace!
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Nobody wins. Game over in my opinion. These protests are pointless and ineffectual unless they cut away at the roots of infinite growth.
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If nuclear is allowed to flourish, the tree of life will rot away at the roots and die…
We have nothing to lose, in taking up this fight. Our future is lost with nuclear.
Solve this all encompasing destructive problem for mankind and you enable the power to solve any of earths issues.
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I suppose you're right about ending nuclear, but what are the protesters asking for? It is a utopian dream, I think, to assume all will be well post-nuclear. What are the true implications of this epochal disaster? Can we REALLY upscale renewable in time? Would that even be beneficial? Time to look at our Fuastian bargain with modern comforts more closely.
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At present the protest takes on a political stance.
The people have yet to recognize the extent of the deception by TEPCO and the government.
They also.. are yet to recognize that they are truly in harm's way.
This is a breathtaking and heartbreaking innocence.
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I believe it is naiveté and the people better wise up fast.
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People understand the cost, because they are the ones who bear it. No perk in the economy is worth thousands of children suffering needlessly. Japan has already proven that nuclear is not necessary for sufficient power supply, and that the cost of a single accident too great to bear in any economic equation.
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hi vis repost
ryan sows us how people are communicating and communicaring,, this is important for ideas to flourish and agendas to develop.. this style of reprting gives us an insight into this process..
well done ryan!!
saikato hantai!!
Occupy Tokyo Night Protest Action July 27th 2012
Published on Jul 28, 2012 by freedomwv
Occupy Tokyo can get lively after dark. After the weekly protest in front of the Japanese PM office, a crowd gathered at the O.T. camp for some protest action directed toward M.E.T.I.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6HHJpYjGrE
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There is no stopping now. The Japanese people are well on their way towards saving themselves. They are well on their way towards determining their own future. As always, many will suffer. Is it worth it for the greater good of the people?
YES! It is for survival of a culture, a distinct people, all life, a planet. An only planet. May mother earth empower them.
Now we have to make this revolution come to the place where this cancer over earth started. We have to make this spread like the radiation from Fukushima has spread over the earth. If we have to suffer to make this happen, then so be it. It is that important.
Speak up, Speak out, Show your peers the lies. Show your family the truth. Do anything you can to awaken as many as possible.
If we make the effort, the sacrifice, and do the legwork to bring this out of the shadows and into the light, inject it into the media, then we are part of the solution. 100 days left till US elections. 100 days to bring this into mainstrem. It is time to make the systen look up and take notice. In a ho-hum presidential race, this can be the difference between the same old rhetoric and a new beginning. If the difference between candidates is nothing, a desperate candidate seeing the peoples will being exercised, just might support some amount of change from the status quo.
The question is:
Are you willing to make a sacrifice for a nuclear free future?
Or
Are you just willing to sacrifice your future for nuclear?
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Truth
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The lesson of Fukushima ..the summation of all data and analysis..concludes that nuclear power is too dangerous to continue.
There is no other conclusion.
The people instintively know this.
The Japanese government is being called upon to yield to the will of the people.
Presently..they play the role of "Infinite Cowards".
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PS..Out of what grimy lint filled pocket…do they dig out the stuff?
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Boy, that looks like only 14000 people to me! /snark
Note to cops: if you want to downsize a crowd, don't use a ludicrously low number.
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What gets me about these recent protests is the vim and vigor of the crowd. The energy of the crowd is palpable, even over a lowly online stream. I've been to lots of protest marches here in the US and few had such a feel.
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http://enenews.com/saikado-hantai-cameraperson-sobs-while-filming-huge-demonstration-at-prime-ministers-residence-please-watch-it-you-will-feel-the-power-video
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please go on, don't give up, japanese people! I heard on french radio you were 10 000- that is obviously not true. As we protested in France in march, one year after FK, we were 60 000 in a human chain. A very large demonstration and only some half minutes on tv. I am so gratefull there is enenews to not shut up.
GO ON
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200,000 Sunday in July. Impressive. But Tokyo has much more potential…a crowd of 2 million or more is feasible. Now that would be beyond impressive.
Meanwhile…150 miles from Tokyo the folks in Minamisoma gathered for the annual samurai festival:
http://www.thenews.com.pk/article-61123-Samurai-festival-returnshttp://www.thenews.com.pk/article-61123-Samurai-festival-returns-to-Japan-to-Japan
Brave hardy people, some might say foolhardy to risk even a day 12 miles from the epicenter of Japan's current nightmare.
But no place is safe in Japan…
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saikado hantei!!!!
got to go shuck some corn …
peace!
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saikato hantai!!saikato hantai!!saikato hantai!!
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Saikado hantei!
Arab Spring gives way to Japanese Summer.
Nedli, I love it: "Grannies and their babies will win!"
Perhaps democracy can win this one, and force tyranny to give way.
The human race needs to learn to be content with what is good.
Peace! Hope!
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Protesting is a start. I wish the Japanese much success. To accomplish any true change in Japan however, I am afraid that the only true success will come when the present corrupt regime is overthrown and wiser minds prevail…
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