“Occupy” Movement Hits Japan — Women camping in front of gov’t building in Tokyo calling for end to nuclear #occupyjapan #METI

Published: November 4th, 2011 at 11:28 pm ET
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“Occupy Kasumigasaki” Movement Camps Continues in front of METI, PanOrient News, November 5, 2011:

“Women representatives from all over Japan are camping in Kasumigaseki district in Tokyo to express their objection to the nuclear power plants in Japan in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear disaster.”

“Tents belonging to various civil anti-nuclear movements are pitched on the sidewalk corner facing the building of Japanese Ministry of Economy Trade and Industry. The women’s movement started on October 30, and continues through November 5.”

SOURCE: PanOrient News

“The activists held banners saying ‘We Are Anti-Nuclear,’ and ‘Don’t Restart Nuclear Plants.’”

“One of the banners said “Occupy Kasumigasaki,” the district in Tokyo where government buildings are concentrated.”

“The anti nuclear energy movement is gaining more support among Japanese civilian groups” [...]

Published: November 4th, 2011 at 11:28 pm ET
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83 comments to “Occupy” Movement Hits Japan — Women camping in front of gov’t building in Tokyo calling for end to nuclear #occupyjapan #METI

  • James Tekton James Tekton

    Hey everyone!

    Lets send support and prayers always for truly what we send comes back and we all need all the good healing energy we can all have.

    The new show Corbet report is on now at:

    http://republicbroadcasting.org/


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  • ocifferdave ocifferdave

    Occupy Kasumigasaki with 100,000 people and you will save 100,000,000 fellow citizens. It will make a difference.


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    • ocifferdave ocifferdave

      I would like to do Occupy Japanese Consulate – Portland, OR.

      Wells Fargo Center, Suite 2700
      1300 S.W. 5th Ave.
      Portland, OR 97201

      http://www.portland.us.emb-japan.go.jp/en/about/index.html

      Anybody with me? I hope to help start a daily presence at the Japanese Consulate. Anybody know the laws that the police could throw at us for being peacefully demonstrating out front of their consulate building?


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      • Jebus Jebus

        If I did not have a full time job, I would be there in a heartbeat. That is why I am using my 20+ years of computer experience to occupy the internet when I can. I am following in my mother’s footsteps, so to speak, as a dedicated activist. I sense her cheering me on and I draw from that daily.
        If you truly feel that what you are doing is right and you are not harming others, then you are not breaking any of the ten real laws.


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        • ocifferdave ocifferdave

          Speaking of Occupy Internet, I think we made FoxNews.com’s comments be turned off today. I posted facts I learned about the ongoing burning of debris in Japan under an article at foxnews today in the comment section and listed enenews as the source. I posted two comments, others came by and posted a few more, one of which also listed enenews as their source. Later, I checked, no more comment section. I can’t find one article at foxnews, be it new or old, that has a comment section (I’ve tried two diff computers from two diff IP addresses…no go).


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      • midwestern midwestern

        This information might be useful for you, Dave:
        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Portland


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    • Human0815

      I went there last Sunday, maybe 10-12 People
      have been there, we cant speak from a “Movement”!

      The Japanese Society is like in a Vacuum,
      the old Protest Culture is dead and a new one
      is still underdeveloped!

      Many Japanese People have no time to think about F’Shima, they work double-shifts, commuting 2-3 hours daily and in their Free Time they need to do some educational things like going to school, etc.!

      The Japanese Society is nearly perfect for the ruling System,
      Luis Vuitton instead of a healthy Environment!


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      • BreadAndButter BreadAndButter

        Hi Human,

        “Luis Vuitton instead of a healthy Environment!”

        Sad but true. Same over here. But I don’t mind being the “environut”, somebody’s got to do the job :-)


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  • Jebus Jebus

    Occupy Japanese Consulate! / the letter from the world

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rKVz1OwgJc


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    • Jebus Jebus

      Nov 2nd, 2011,
      The letter and petition of “STOP spreadind/ burning radioactive rubble all over Japan” was delivered to Japanese Consulate in NY.
      Tokyo is accepting 50,000 metric tons of radioactive rubble over 2 years. The rubble will be burned and dumped into Tokyo Bay.
      The first 1,000 metric tons arrives at Tokyo on Nov 4th 2011.
      The petition gathered 6200 signatures and delivered not only in NY, but Washinton DC, SF, Hawaii, France, Germany, India, Hong Kong, and several cities in Japan. Bianca Jagger delivered it in London as well. Please visit http://www.oneworldnonukes.org for more details about the petition and the letter. To sign the petition, go to http://www.stopdammit.org.


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    • ocifferdave ocifferdave

      Jebus, I’m inspired. See my post above.


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  • Jebus Jebus

    The Greatest Speech Ever Made , Truth doesn’t age! OCCUPY

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sryzWz6Kblo


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  • bmurr bmurr

    be nice to see some discussion about turning off the nuke plants in the us…


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    • A dreary topic, especially with no decommissioning funds.


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    • Jebus Jebus

      bmurr,

      The Result Always Equals The Sum Of The Parts…

      The pressure will come soon, the pieces are falling into place…

      The overwhelming tide of reason is welling up from the deep consciousness of the world.

      Money is moot now, it has no power over one voice.

      There is no turning back…


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      • bmurr bmurr

        i hope your right. everyone i know thinks im crazy, so what i tell them is that if the Egyptians had nuclear power, we’d still be dealing with their waist. kinda puts it in perspective.


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        • ocifferdave ocifferdave

          bmurr, I love that perspective. I will over use that for days until I find the right verbal timing and amount.

          “If the Egyptians had nuclear power, we’d still be dealing with their waist.”

          I’m making a t-shirt about that right now on some webpage that makes shirts:

          If the Ancient Egyptians had nuclear power, we’d still be dealing with their nuclear waste. Fukushima Parable #1


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        • americancommntr

          I wonder about alot of things. Nuclear engineers are very high I.Q. people. What if they made an industry out of outmaneuvering and outfoxing the superrich ‘elite’, and succeeded in making the deployment of free energy technologies, a new business? What if every home had its own free energy device, which had to be built, maintained, and repaired? What if we had free energy? How many problems could be solved? How much disposable income would be freed up by people to do new things? The cost of living would drop. How about freely desalinating seawater and then pumping it to wherever needed, also freely? How would the economy grow? Yeah, buggy whip manufacturers lost their jobs. What did they become afterward?

          If the Egyptians had nuclear power, they probably would not have screwed around with the waste for generations, but have solved the problem. Like we, in all likelihood could do, with Brown’s Gas flame. But in Brown’s Gas flame, is the seed of the total reformation and reorganization of the current energy industry and the superrich elite’s control. If Brown’s Gas flame can take a Cobalt 60 pellet and render it to background levels, it could take corium and render it to background levels.


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          • anne anne

            I would seriously question the high I.Q. of nuclear engineers. If they really had I.Q.s they would have stopped the madness of nuclear power and nuclear weapons decades ago.


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            • LetThemEatYellowCake LetThemEatYellowCake

              I fear you understimate the sneakiness. Ethics is not a factor of intelligence. It just better equips one with the ability to tell the truth. If one lies, they’ll miss out on their joy derived from saying, “I told you so”.


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              • anne anne

                They are killing off themselves and their children. What is intelligent about that? I suspect that you don’t understand the problem. As I said, radiation kills all life. No one has the power to stop the killing power of radiation. Nuclear engineers need to take some biology courses.


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                • LetThemEatYellowCake LetThemEatYellowCake

                  oops, underestimate. Honestly, my keyboard sticks;) Now, that is the truth.

                  Yet, can you definitely determine from that true statement if that’s why I misspelled the word?

                  I’ve met some people with very low intelligence as well as some with very high, but only the evil ones enjoy saying “I told you so”. If you look for that, the only difference you’ll find is more accuracy in the level of honesty coming from the intelligent ones.

                  Yes, they are killing themselves and their children; however, an understanding of biology and the potential of killing oneself off are moot points. Doing this is not a “problem” when ethics has nothing to do with determining intelligence quotients. I know you’re a nice person Anne and I appreciate all of the posts you make. I am not trying to insult your intelligence (and that first line was a movie reference actually..sorry it didn’t float..funny movie), but rather clue you in to how evil works. Wondering about how someone could do such a thing is a waste when the answer is obvious and takes from your good works. Look at the best deceiver. The best deception is not a lie that is closest to the truth, but IS truth. Isn’t that the aim of the great deceiver? To claim Truth? More intelligent people are just better at deceiving than stupid ones and the twisted joy is derived from telling the person all along that they weren’t lying. Look at the chart arclight posted and look at my results from my Pocky tests. Although my last statement was a clue, I could go on further to tell you that I purchased it in April too and STILL not be lying. If I were evil, I would think that was hilarious despite knowing my ultimate fate either way. It’s no mystery to anyone we all die, stopping it is not on the agenda. It’s killing you AND telling you that they are is what followers find most fun. Disgusting yes, but true. Those of less intelligence, yet still evil, would not stop it had they the capability to do so…


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  • jec

    Since Secretary of State Clinton has sided with JAPAN..and the USQ is taking the radiation testing done by Japan for exports to USA..just great…checked with World Health Organization, read their comments and you know the white wash is going on. Japan is shipping produce–using THEIR testing methods–and the USA is accepting this. Wonder if Sec. Clinton is aware there is now a “fingerprint” of radiation which can ID if a thyroid cancer was caused by radiation! Had to just say NO..when the evidence will be clear. Just waiting for the rush of companys to ID radiation caused damage to people..for litigation and medical care. That should be he next great patent requests–id of cancer and tumors to specific radiation fingerprints. Wonder if Clinton has an open checkbook to cover this kind of health damage if it can be traced to Japan and decisions made in 2011 to ignore fallout?


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  • Jebus Jebus

    In the late ’70′s the people of the United States brought nuclear power plant construction almost to it’s knees. The only thing that kept the madness going was the insane need to have nuclear weapons. As Dr. Helen Caldicott said, “The nuclear industry is just a facade for the nuclear weapons programs”. That is the only reason that our government subsidises it. Look at Iran and their supposed need for nuclear power. The USA is telling the truth when they say that Iran is using that to cover for nuclear weapons. They know that because they are doing the same thing.
    This world has no need for nuclear weapons, nuclear power and the destruction that it delivers. That is where we, the people come in. Occupy has it’s roots deeply embedded in that anti-nuclear movement from the ’70′s. It is inevitable that this becomes the mantra of today. It is a basic need for survival. Life will end if we keep on the nuclear path. There is no other viable option for the people of this planet. Until we conquer this delusion, we can not start to repair the other damage that we have already caused to this planet.
    There is a reason you and I are here right now at this moment in time. I feel it inside me, you feel it inside you and most of those who are in the streets do too. There is a higher power.

    Power
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekdGuutE_UM&feature=related


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  • The barrier we must penetrate is composed of negative energy.


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    • batista

      Hey could we use the cosmic charged particles to produce electricity through some montruous tower like structure whose is economically crippling and are potentially dangerous for the populations in the areas they are build in. Tesla style solar power plants using the particle streams from space and earth and producing energy day and night. How high and respectively deeply rooted such towers shall be?


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    • Alaskan Alaskan

      Insufficient facts always invite danger.


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  • I may be fatalistic but it inspires me to enjoy every day we have left on this planet.

    …Get out every day!

    …Walk your dog an extra half hour daily!

    …Get laid, every day!

    …Laugh hard every day!

    …PARTY LIKE ITS 1999!…

    red red wine

    …Give out hugs every day!


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  • Bleifrei Bleifrei

    @ od

    i want to buy some
    have u a link for my


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  • Whoopie Whoopie

    Mr,Takahashi at Environment of Tokyo department politely answered like below.
    No matter how many times you call,we will never stop accepting debris.
    It’s the destiny of the children to accept the debris.
    You sound like noting but an irrational complaint.
    If it’s not my job,I would never talk to someone like you.

    This is the phone number.
    +81-3-5388-3436


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  • thelili

    @Occiferdave WOO HOO! You are awesome. I am Occupying B of A later today but for those down in the city:

    Japan Consulate General: 50 Fremont St., San Francisco (415) 777-3533

    or

    http://www.sf.us.emb-japan.go.jp/en/e_m01_05.htm

    We need celebrity intervention/assistance.


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  • thelili

    Oh my gosh Whoopie that is the answer.

    Does anyone know how the banking system there is connected to Tepco?

    If the government refuses to the will of the people through their voices-maybe they will listen to the sounds of the money being sucked away from them. If the Japanese people cannot be vocal without worrying about trouble-they can quietly remove their cash and move it-without saying a word to the press until it is necessary.

    People should quietly move their assets out of the largest bank and into whatever bank will support them in their efforts.


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    • BreadAndButter BreadAndButter

      Sorry link didn’t work, try this and google-translate then:
      http://www.greenpeace-magazin.de/index.php?id=55&tx_ttnewstt_news=123971&cHash=b9d04581222c636ff609e6e107770285

      *peace (Prof. Lengfelder is a HERO)


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      • BreadAndButter BreadAndButter

        my goodness. blonde moment here.

        Munich (dpa) – In view of reports of an uncontrolled nuclear fission reactor accident in Japan’s Fukushima Munich Radiation expert warns of Prof. Edmund Lengfelder of the possibility of a nuclear explosion. It would be “a kind of mini-nuclear bomb in the scale,” said Lengfelder the dpa news agency. “The probability, however I can not estimate at all,” said radiation expert. Because nobody knows how much enriched uranium as coalesced into how the derelict nuclear power plant units. It had been found, the radioisotopes 133 and 135 of the xenon gas. . Because these are products of nuclear fission, which have only a half-life of about five days and nine hours, they could not come from the time of the accident in March , “There is there a spontaneous fission – can happen because everything, even if they say, it is not likely. But what is to be kept of statements about probabilities, we have on 11 March »seen Lengfelder said. At that time had seriously damaged a strength in this unexpected earthquake and a tsunami and the nuclear power plant caused the meltdown. In a functioning reactor is maintained in the words of experts, the chain reaction by control rods under control. “But it is this control in a meltdown so no longer.” Lengfelder had after the meltdown at Chernobyl 25 years ago the Society for Radiological Protection and the Munich-based Otto Hug Radiation Institute. He cared for people with thyroid cancer today in the former Soviet disaster area. The radiation expert also criticized the crisis management in Japan. “For me, it is also inhumane, that in such a wealthy country like Japan, people still live in the gyms. That there was not even on the Soviets “The evacuation after Chernobyl have worked much better.”


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        • westcoastgirl westcoastgirl

          Is this a new article? I also wonder when it’s been days since the report about fissioning…does that mean the possibility of an explosion lessens over time, or are they (we) just sitting on a powder keg, ready to go off at any moment?

          All I can say is, if an explosion does happen, I will be looking into a trip south ASAP…


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      • reVivre

        you might like to use these links to the article:

        “Wissenschaftler warnt vor nuklearer Explosion in Fukushima”
        de: http://tinyurl.com/65dqhcg
        “Scientist warns of nuclear explosion in Fukushima”
        en transl: http://tinyurl.com/62rabv8


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  • thelili

    @ American whatever the hell it is

    Fuck the bible.

    Human beings should not need a book to tell themselves to not kill themselves and other people with radioactivity.

    If you need a book to tell you not to kill children then you are already lost.


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  • thelili

    @Darth relax. Humans always think they know every single thing. They don’t. The Earth will survive. If that means the humans on the Earth have to be thrust into a nuclear Winter-related sleep for a few centuries before being allowed to spawn again that’s what will happen.

    Human lives are about 100 years long if we are lucky. Mother Earth can shake us off like fleas if she needs to.

    We made a collective choice as human beings. We chose to say: They are far away. It doesn’t affect us.That’s THEIR problem.

    Now it is the whole worlds problem and we’ll probably die arguing about it but hopefully on some cellular level when humans are allowed to come back we won’t do something equally stupid next time.


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    • anne anne

      As long as we keep working with uranium he radiation is accumulating. No way to get rid of it. It destroys human intelligence. Not only is the earth going to be uninhabitable for millions of years and probably forever, there will also be no humans with intelligence on the earth.

      The reason the myth of space travel is prevalent and the myth of evolution, is to deflect focus on the fact that we are destroying the earth at a rapid rate. Radiation kills all life and there is nothing which can change that.


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  • Jebus Jebus

    I guess it’s true, just when you think that you have positive particles going, along comes negative particles to cancel it all out. Sigh….


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  • stock stock@hawaii.rr.com

    I wrote this is response to a new blogger who questioned why all the bad news, cant we have some good news to show how things are getting
    better.

    It is clear that things won’t be “better” until we can
    extract this vampire squid called the nuclear industry from continuously
    injecting us with radiation. Until we can shutdown all the nuclear plants…..rest of the article is here

    http://oahutrading.blogspot.com/p/japan-nuclear-information.html


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  • Darth

    I guess the dust will settle in about 10 million years. Wonder what the planet will look like after humans.


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  • Whoopie Whoopie

    OD, they removed the comment section? Wowzer, nothing like Censorship in the USA.


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  • Whoopie Whoopie

    Morning EV. Long time no see. Then again, I’m only here mornings. You might be here later in the day. Good morning everyone.


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  • Bobby1

    I’m one of those mutants with increased sensitivities, thanks to the 50′s bomb tests…

    A voice in the wilderness, warning people about the contaminated food. To little avail.


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  • americancommntr

    From the Bible we can know that God created, including created man. There are not 7 billion polluters on the earth. There are 7 billion men, women, and children, created in God’s image, and living in the ecosystem He created for them.

    God expects us to take care of the environment, as charged in the Dominion Mandate, which was never repealed. All species are important, but none are equal to man in God’s order of things. Man has been very successful in populating and using the earth, but unless saved by Jesus Christ, man is evil, and also under the control of Satan. Thus the earth and all the species suffer at every turn. All of creation suffers, groans, and awaits Christ’s return. His return is very soon. The generation which saw Israel return to its land in 1948, will not pass before Christ’s return. No man know the day or hour, but can know when its near by ‘the bud’s greening’. How many years is a generation? Add that to 1948, and you’re in the vicinity of His return.


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  • BreadAndButter BreadAndButter

    A generation in Swaziland is 31 years. So if Jesus was born there, we missed him.


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