Call for solidarity actions against G8 repression
Lonely? Fuck G8! - 10.07.2008 08:30
3 of our friends unjustly arrested at the demonstration against G8 summit on 5th July. One of the arrested is actually an indymedia activist who is organizing sound actions and a member of G8 Media Network which is organized by non-profit and non-govermental various grassroots media. The exerciser of overwhelming violence was the police. For instance, they stopped the track forcely, broke the window with policeman’s club etc, and dragged out the driver while hanging him. This situation was exposed as Japanese police brutality again, reported by independent media.
 http://japan.indymedia.org/newswire/display/4617/index.php
watch a video record:
rootless.org/noG8/Declare_Independence.m4v
While most of Japanese media coverage focusing around the summit, one of homeless activists in Osaka had quietly, unfairly arrested on 4th. Alleged that his mobile phone ownership and user was different in name. Even though his group from Osaka had been planned to come and join the poverty & labour unit of couter G8 Action Network but they cannot in order to resucue him just after the liberation of another one who was also arrested by tiny bureaucratic mistake last month. All of them are unreasonably trivial things. Suppression of dissent, obviously.
We denounce suppression to the sound demonstration and homeless activists by the police, and demand immediate releasing of all. On 12th July, simultaneous protest actions will be taken 3pm in Sapporo, Tokyo, Osaka, etc. against police capitalism. Call for international solidarity! Take actions simultaneously! Protest against unjust arrests, police violence and capitalist summit.
July5th Relief Association for Sapporo Sound Demonstration
in solidarity with indymedia japan.
j5solidarity (at) riseup.net
j5solidarity.blog116.fc2.com/
tv.g8medianetwork.org/
japan.indymedia.org/newswire/display/4602/
japan.indymedia.org/newswire/display/4604/
Related
* http://j5solidarity.blog116.fc2.com/
* http://tv.g8medianetwork.org/?q=ja/node/301
News :: G8 Summit, FTA
Final statement by international activists
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[Media G8way]
Press Release July 9th 2008
* Hundreds join Ainu march
* International Activists Call for Support for Japanese Prisoners
* Final statement by international activists
Today, in the concluding event of ten days of G8 protests, hundreds of activists from three protest camps marched in a demonstration organized by the Ainu, a disenfranchised indigenous population of Hokkaido, the island where the G8 summit is being held. The march was surrounded by several rows of police the entire time. Protesters were holding signs in English and Japanese saying "No G8", and "Japan is a police state".
"The Japanese government's policies towards the Ainu are symbolic of the G8's policies of dominance and oppression throughout the world", said Japanese organizers.
"At some point, my friend and I, frustrated with the police, went across the street where there was a sign welcoming participants to the G8 summit. We started breaking and tearing it," says Jone, a US activist. "Police held us and tried to arrest us, but other demonstrators came to help and manged to take us away from the police."
At 16:00, the following statement, made by international activists from Toyoura camp, was made public in a press conference:
„Three of our friends were arrested on July 5th and have been in state custody
for four days. The Japanese criminal justice system allows for inhumane
treatment of prisoners. Those detained can be held for 23 days without
prosecution, and their families harassed. Furthermore, the Japanese legal system imposes collective punishment; organizers can be punished for activities that others did. Within jail, prisoners` physical movements are greatly restricted: they must ask permission to lie down, sit up, etc. In many other countries, this treatment would be considered torture.
The only way for the eight heads of state to maintain their undemocratic and unaccountable control over the world`s six billion people is through force. The oppressive policies of the Japanese state clearly illustrate this.
We call on people around the world to show solidarity with the three anti-G8 Japanese prisoners. Demonstrate in front of your Japanese embassies. Help fund legal suppport for the prisoners. Come next year to protest the G8 in Italy, to make sure oppression does not silence our voices“.
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Media G8way is an international press service for individuals, groups, networks and (dis)organizations who understand themselves to be part of an independent radical left/@ movement against the G8. Media G8way does not claim responsibility for the content of the statements it distributes on behalf of the groups or individuals who use its service.
See
* www.gipfelsoli.org/Home/MediaG8way_Hokkaido
* www.gipfelsoli.org/Home/MediaG8way_Heiligendamm
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