On The 11th Anniversary of Fukushima: Action In San Francisco By NNA

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On The 11th Anniversary of Fukushima: Action In San Francisco By NNA
https://youtu.be/AJIY0a-5NWE
On the 11th anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear meltdowns, an action was
held in San Francisco at the Japanese consulate to protest the continued efforts
of the Japanese government to restart more nuclear plants and to release 1.4 million
tons of contaminated water into the Pacific ocean. The action was sponsored by No
Nukes Action.
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writtenby NNA member Steve Zeltzer

statements for 11th anniversary of Fukushima ______________________________________________________________________

This is Shoko from NAZEN TOKYO, 
Right now I’m on the bullet train heading for Fukushima city.
I cannot join your ZOOM meeting, but I wanted to show we are all in tight solidarity over the sea.

This is the time for us
to ACTUALLY STOP THE WAR,
to SPECIFICALLY SHUT DOWN THE NPP,
to IMMEDIATELY EXTINGUISH NUCLEAR THREAT,from all over the world!

Now that PUTIN took over Chernobyl and Zaporizhzhia violently, everybody knows,
“NUCLEAR POWER PLANT = NUCLEAR WEAPON”

I read an interview of a mother in Kiev, few days before the bombing started,
She said “I can’t decide to evacuate…Other people that COULD evacuate DID already, long time ago.” It reminded me of a mother in Fukushima, that said exactly the same thing.
Fukushima have been under WARTIME, since 2011.03.11.
Still ongoing pollution, making children suffer for cancer.y
And still, foolish Kishida, Japanese prime minister is forcing to release the Tritium polluted water into the ocean.

We have to say out loud from Japan,
NO WAR! NO NUKES!!
NO MORE FUKUSHIMA!
NO MORE HIROSHIMA!
NO MORE NAGASAKI!!
Our LIFE is in OUR HANDS!!!

We are starting a new signature movement, against the releasing of tritium polluted water.
Please sign, Be the member of caller for this movement!
Let’s do everything we can do.
ACT NOW!
WORKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE!!!

Shoko Tomita
National Conference to Eliminate All Nuclear Plants Immediately!  (NAZEN)

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The Hoshino Defense Committee’s message

Hoshino Akiko, Co-chair

Thank you for your solidarity action at the Consulate of Japan in San Francisco on March 11.

This same day in Japan we, the Hoshino Defense Committee, are participating in 2022 Anti-Nuclear Power Plant Fukushima Action on March 11 in Fukushima City. 

Our venue, Shinobuyama Park, is located only 500 yards from the site of Great East Japan Earthquake Memorial Ceremony, which PM Fumio Kishida attends. 

He came to Fukushima on March 11 to enforce dumping of highly radioactive water into the Pacific. This is an integral part of the government’s re-militarization policy: revision of the Constitution and aggressive war on China. Kishida has repeatedly stated that Japan must possess “enemy base strike capabilities.” 

Eleven years has passed since the earthquake and the Fukushima nuclear accident. The number of the evacuees was 160,000 at its peak. Now, according to the Fukushima Prefecture’s very conservative press release, 34,000 people are still languishing in remote areas in and out of Fukushima. On top of it, the central and local governments are scheming to evict evacuees from their shelter. 

The government are distributing a pamphlet to every elementary kid, which teaches, “tritium water is safe.”

Against this backdrop, a new struggle has begun at Fukushima. Six plaintiffs who have suffered from childhood thyroid cancer due to radiation fallout from Fukushima nuclear accident filed a lawsuit against the Tokyo Electric Company to the Tokyo District Court, overcoming fear of harsh discrimination and harassment. As a crisis of nuclear war is looming over the world, their struggle is all the more important. We will do everything possible to support them.

We are fighting against war on Ukraine. 

Do not kill Ukrainians! Russia, NATO hands off Ukraine!

In Russia, great anti-war struggles are growing, confronting the oppressive machine, which arrested over 7,000 people. Following 100,000 anti-war demonstrators in Berlin, protests are spreading in Europe, the United States and the rest of the world including Tokyo and other cities in Japan. 

Stop war on Ukraine by the power of international solidarity!

US and Japanese imperialism are planning to deploy medium range missiles in Okinawa and all of the Nansei Islands. The road to stop the war is to defeat our own government, Japanese imperialism. Stop War on China by the power of workers’ solidarity!

Three years ago, Fumiaki Hoshino was killed. While reading his letters, I continue dialogs with Fumiaki.

The state compensation lawsuit for Hoshino entered an important phase. We submitted opinions of three doctors. One is a liver surgeon specialist of a medical university whose opinion reads “at 18:50 on the day of Hoshino’s surgery when his blood pressure rapidly decreased, the attending physician should suspect abdominal cavity internal hemorrhage, perform a blood test, ultrasonography, and abdominal surgery; the physician, however, failed to do all of such standard treatment, only a symptomatic treatment was performed.” Dr. Yuko Yanagisawa, an internist at Funabashi Futawa Hospital, condemned that she cannot see anything in the treatments after the surgery but gross indifference to human life and extreme irresponsibility. “The ‘prison healthcare’ is not healthcare.”

Our state compensation lawsuit is not only for Fumiaki’s justice but for change of the prison healthcare without any human rights and Japanese society that has accepted such a prison system way.

In the US, the lives and health of many political prisoners including Mumia Abu-Jamal have been threatened. We also fight for immediate release of Mumia.

We are fighting also for Masaaki Ōsaka’s freedom. On November 14, 1971, he fought against the Okinawa Reversion Agreement together with Fumiaki. He has been behind bars for four years as Fumiaki’s co-defendant. He suffers from nasal polyp that makes him difficult to breathe. The Tokyo Detention Center, however, refuse to permit his surgery. 

Osaka has been kept in solitary confinement and held incommunicado for four years.

Stop blatant violation of Ōsaka’s rights! Free Osaka immediately!

Thank you.

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