Interview with Tozen Union Activist in Tokyo Japan | Labor Issues in Japan
The Ghost Writers Report
Published on Sep 28, 2012 by freedomwv
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“Short time contract workers issues a major concern”
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6 million of these workers find themselves on the edge due to firing practises
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“Lack of compliance of workers rights causes disruption of health benefits and pensions benefits, government doesnt oversea working of pension guidlines causing workers to pay full rates”
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“disability pension system faulty as companies fail to ensure a company enrolment, thereby, only lower payment scheme available”
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“Tozen had a sucess recently with helping to organise for workers rights”
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“Apathy amongst temporary foriegn workers needs to be overcome. they are asked for commitment if only temporary”
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“A small union sued was for millions of Dollars for radical strike methods but courts found in thier favour. Corporations forced to accept Labour Rights. American style legal intimidation did not work in Japan”
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Recently I had the chance to sit down with key members of the Tozen General Union. They are a activist union which stand for all workers. In this interview you will hear the harsh reality of being a worker in Japan. This interview is jam packed with hard hitting information about labor issues in Japan.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZL8rILbgGkY
and here is the web site for the union
http://www.tokyogeneralunion.org/
and this is the message i got trying to access it
Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/tozenit/public_html/wp-config.php:1) in /home/tozenit/public_html/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 866
(arclight2011) I believe this and other Japanese websites are under some sort of mild to heavy cyber attack. . i hope you have better luck with the link than i did..
heres a mirrored video if the above video jams at it did to me, i had to download it to play it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=212rGlRvadw
Zapatistas under attack in Mexico- Transnational Corporations culpable?
Zapatista communities in the Chiapas region of Mexico have been under sustained attack from paramilitary groups since September 6th, one year after the previous invasion of their lands last September. The attackers, from the groups Pas Y Justicia (‘Peace and Justice…’) and Union Hidalgo, have been shooting at farmers on land of the autonomous municipality of La Dignitad as they attempted to peacefully resist without arms, forcing residents to flee their land. Around 70 people are said to be displaced while 14 remain missing.
Campasino leader Hugo Blanco says: ‘Lately the attacks on Zapatista communities are intensifying, the principal and strongest attack is the one that the autonomous Zapatista community of San Marcos Avilés is suffering… These attacks and the continued detention of Francisco Sántiz López and Alberto Patishtán Gómez, are the spearhead of the attack to crush the zone liberated from neoliberalism, where the people govern themselves through the Good Government Juntas. [The Juntas] are seen as the great enemy by the transnational corporations as they are a living example of the fact that “Another World is Possible.. A World where Many Worlds Fit”’.
The paramilitaries are said to be financed by the ex-PRI candidate Carlos Cleber González Cabello. Paz Y Justicia emerged in 1995 after a failed military assault on the EZLN (the Zapatista National Liberation Army).
The violence has led to an outcry from solidarity groups around the world, along with active movements in the country known as the ‘Other Campaign’. Meanwhile, Zapatista spokespeople have called on the newly formed Yo Soy 132 movement to unite behind the resistance. Yo Sol 132 is a mass protest movement for ‘real democracy’ which sprung up in opposition to the biased election coverage earlier this year.
For more on the Zaptistas and U.K based solidarity work www.kiptik.org
Article from here
http://www.schnews.org.uk/stories/Zapatistas-under-attack-in-Mexico/
Soviet military man prevented Third World War in 1983
http://english.pravda.ru/society/stories/28-09-2012/122299-third_world_war-0/
28.09.2012
Andrey Mikhailov
Pravda.Ru
“Just in 90 seconds it would have been over international waters. But the command to kill was made, and a military pilot Gennady Osipovich pulled the trigger. “The target is destroyed”, the report of the Russia pilot recorded by the American interceptors was broadcasted around the world. The government of the USSR kept silent. “The case of KAL-007″ was classified by the Soviet secret service and their U.S. counterparts in the CIA for 50 years.”
On the night of September 26, 1983, a duty officer at the command post of early warning air defense “Serpukhov-15,” Lt. Col. Stanislav Petrov decided to ignore the warning of the automatic launch from the U.S. territory of five intercontinental ballistic missiles “Minuteman” with ten nuclear warheads each directed at the USSR. Relying on common sense (five missiles is not enough for the first strike in the war), he declared a false alarm and was right: there was a failure in the notification system. The third world war did not break out. It is hard to imagine what would have happened if the USSR reciprocated.
USSR’s first-ever nuclear sub was destroyed by “beer bottle cap”!
Publisher Pravda- Andrey Mikhailov
Date published 11.09.2012
http://english.pravda.ru/society/stories/11-09-2012/122128-ussr_nuclear_submarine-0/
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“A non-standard gasket from…a beer bottle was installed in the ballast tank. Naturally it was displaced, the hydraulic fluid leaked under the pressure of 100 atmospheres and got sprayed onto the lamp, which had a broken protective cap. Inflammation occurred immediately,” former assistant commander of the K-3 said.
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“By falsifying documents, investigation allegedly found that a submariner climbed into one of the compartments and lit a cigarette, but it was not true!” Leskov told a news conference
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The first and one of the major accidents at the Navy of the USSR took place 45 years ago. On September 8, 1967, an accident on board the first Soviet nuclear submarine K-3 Leninsky Komsomol killed 39 people. The causes of the accident had been classified for 20 years. It is only now, in September 2012, when a special commission is going to finish the investigation.
Before we go directly to the accident, let us remember the heroic and long-suffering history of the submarine. Leninsky Komsomol, originally K-3, was the very first Soviet (and the third in the world) nuclear submarine, the head one of the series.
It was the only sub of Project 627. All subsequent subs in the series were based on the finalized project 627A. The sub inherited the honorary title Leninsky Komsomol from the diesel submarine M-106 of the Northern Fleet, which was destroyed in one of the combat missions in 1943. During the last years of service, the K-3 was reclassified from cruise to large submarine.
Fukushima Radioactive Waste heads to National Forest
Other news on NHK and other stories from around the web.
Published on Sep 27, 2012 by MsMilkytheclown
Qoute;
“..Yep, you read that correctly. Radioactive debris (ash and mud) headed for the hills in a National Forest in Japan… Don’t worry, that forest can withstand earthquakes and rain, no radioactive ash or mud will slide down into the water table or blow away…”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsHE8BW7ug0
TV: Did army spray radioactive particles over St. Louis? — “Strong indication” it happened says researcher — Senator wants answers (VIDEOS)
Published: September 28th, 2012 at 12:05 am ET
By ENENews
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The I-Team independently verified that the spraying of zinc cadmium sulfide did take place in St. Louis on thousands of unsuspecting citizens. What is unclear is whether the Army added a radioactive material to the compoundas [sociologist Lisa]Martino-Taylor’s research implies.
“The study was secretive for reason. They didn’t have volunteers stepping up and saying yeah, I’ll breathe zinc cadmium sulfide with radioactive particles,” said Martino-Taylor.
Army archive pictures show how the tests were done in Corpus Christi, Texas in the 1960s. In Texas, planes were used to drop the chemical. But in St. Louis, the Army placed chemical sprayers on buildings and station wagons.
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“There is a lot of evidence that shows people in St. Louis and the city, in particular minority communities, were subjected to military testing that was connected to a larger radiological weapons testing project,” she said.
For the first time, she links the St. Louis testing to a company called US Radium, a company notorious for lawsuits involving radioactive contamination of its workers.
“US radium had this reputation where they had been found legally liable for producing a radioactive powdered paint that killed many young women who painted fluorescent watch tiles,” said Martino-Taylor.
While the Army admits it added a florescent substance to the zinc cadmium compound, details of whether it was radioactive remains secret.
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Radiation Fukushima Report, Sept. 27, 2012 – Enenews and Monticelllo NPP shutdown USA
A clear concise review of the latest Enenews headlines by;
Published on Sep 27, 2012 by pinksapphiret
Duration 3.45 minutes
Radiation Fukushima Report and Sinkhole updates… Sept. 27, 2012
and an earlier broadcast here
Duration 7.45 minutes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea7FKomy-dE&feature=plcp
WEBSITE: ENENEWS
http://enenews.com/category/location/japan
http://enenews.com/officials-report-new-bubble-site-about-3-miles-sinkhole-3-…
http://enenews.com/revealing-new-flyover-footage-giant-sinkhole-shows-signs-f…
and this video
Monticello NPP reactor Shutdown
Professor Yukio Hayakawa’s Radiation Contour Map of the Fukushima I Nuke Plant Accident, Ver 7:
Translated by EXSKF Blog
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2012
“The dates and times of contamination that I have just explained above do not coincide with the dates and times of explosions that took place at Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant. Unit 1 exploded at 3:36PM on March 12, and Unit 3 exploded at 11:01AM on March 14. However, it wasn’t at these moments when a large amount of radioactive materials leaked from the plant.Instead, the release of radioactive materials into the atmosphere seems to coincide well with the drop in the reactor pressure.”
He made this observation in the latest version (7th) of his Radiation Contour Map released in July, before the Fukushima prefectural government sheepishlypublished the data from the monitoring posts in Fukushima taken in March last year, which does show the spikes in radiation in locations in Fukushima Prefecture not after the explosions but after the change in the reactor pressure after the vent.
Professor Hayakawa of Gunma University first put up his hastily charted map on the Internet on April 8, 2011, after the Fukushima prefectural government announced the result of the radiation measurement in schools and kindergartens inside Fukushima. The first version of the map was released on the net on April 21, 2011. I remember seeing it, and also remember he was attacked for “fear-mongering”. It was around that time that Iitate-mura was officially designated as “planned evacuation zone”.
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Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Update – Greenpeace
Extract…” TEPCO officials announced that as of October 3, they will begin accepting claims from victims of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, including evacuees and those suffering psychological damage, for the period beginning June 1 and after. Those eligible may request up to five years’ worth of compensation in one lump sum. Payments will begin at the end of October.”
Here’s the latest of our news bulletins from the ongoing crisis at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
Newly Established Nuclear Regulation Authority
The head of Japan’s newly-created Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA), Shunichi Tanaka, announced this week that the NRA plans to completely rewrite nuclear safety guidelines. He emphasized that controversial so-called “stress tests,” computer simulations conducted by nuclear power operators themselves, will be discarded and the new regulations drawn from scratch. Tanaka hopes to submit a draft outline by the end of the fiscal year in March; by law, the new regulations must be completed by July. “Such tasks as drawing up countermeasures against severe nuclear accidents and determining how to deal with possible active faults beneath nuclear facilities will take a lot of time. I think the timeline is very tight.”
Tanaka has not said when some of the nation’s 48 idled reactors might be restarted, although he clarified it would not be before next summer at the earliest. And, he pointed out that if reactors do not meet new guidelines, technical upgrades and retrofitting might mean that it could be years before they are approved for restart. Two reactors at the Oi power plant in Fukui Prefecture–#3 and #4—were restarted under the direction of Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, and Tanaka said he has no plans to reverse that decision, in spite of the fact that they are sitting on a seismic fault that scientists believe may be active. If so, operating those reactors would be a violation of Japanese law.
The new standards will reportedly include guidance on evacuating areas surrounding nuclear reactors in the event of a major nuclear disaster. Evacuation areas called “urgent protective action planning zones” (UPZ) will be increased from an 8-10 km radius around a reactor to 30 km; those within a 5 km radius will be forced to evacuate immediately. Municipal officials, who will need to create new evacuation and disaster management plans by March for up to three times as many people as before have complained that the central government is not providing nearly enough guidance or technical support. In some areas, there are not enough roads and vehicles to perform such a wide-scale evacuation if a nuclear crisis occurs. Tanaka said that if surrounding areas do not submit appropriate evacuation and emergency plans, reactors will not be restarted.
Critical data is missing for two-thirds of children tested for thyroid problems in Fukushima Prefecture
THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
September 28, 2012
Critical data is missing for two-thirds of children tested for thyroid problems in Fukushima Prefecture, because their families have failed to declare the children’s hour-by-hour whereabouts during the immediate post-disaster period.
Investigators need residence records for the four months following March 11, 2011, when radioactive fallout was high from a nuclear disaster and ingested iodine isotopes could have damaged the thyroid glands of growing children.
The records are arduous to complete, but are needed in order to estimate a possible dose. Absence of a dose estimate could make people ineligible for compensation if they later develop serious problems such as thyroid cancer, because of an inability to establish a cause.
By late September, about 100,000 children had their thyroid glands tested because of their relative proximity to the melted-down reactors at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, following the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami.
The tests targeted those living in districts such as the 13 municipalities near the crippled nuclear plant, and Fukushima city, the prefectural capital. Results for 80,000 tests are now available.
272 violations against journalists, and the government introduces more. – Iraq
April 2012 (Approx)
” journalists were exposed to a series of attacks after the American invasion in 2003, so far leading to the death of 259 Iraqi and foreign journalists, 146 of them it can be clearly demonstrated were killed due their journalistic work, plus 52 technicians and media assistants. In addition to that, 64 journalists and assistants were kidnapped, most of them being killed, and 14 of them still missing,”
JFO has documented a noticeable increase in the rate of violence against journalists/media workers and restrictions imposed on their work. A striking increase in both can be observed in the period between May 3, 2001 and May 3, 2012. Multiple bills are being introduced by the government, which threaten to severely limit freedom of the press, general freedom of expression, and internet use. The work of journalists/media workers, particularly when carrying a camera, has become a very complicated matter. Authorities have limited the permits of the movement of journalists, which must be obtained by the military and other security leadership in all Iraqi cities.
More and more, journalists find themselves banned from covering an event if they haven’t obtained security permits, the explanation of which changes regularly and arbitrarily, depending on whichever security forces happen to be present on the scene. When the type of permit is actually made clear, obtaining one is complicated in most cases. Security forces deals with a journalist holding a camera in the same way the way it deals with those they find possessing car bombs or unlicensed weapons.
Anti-Nuclear Protestor in India, Japan, on Mother Earth I Kevin D Blanch (Video)
An activist. artist and strong anti nuclear proponent makes some strong support for the anti nuclear activists currently suffering serious oppression n India. Some swearing but only in the interest of expression.
Published on Sep 27, 2012 by kevin blanch
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Any way I can, I should have done videos on this a long time ago, but I am now I am late to this but I am on it now, buy the way the Times of India woke me up again what great reporting they do.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRJBojBiu20
Message from Noam Chomsky about support to the Fukushima Evacuate Children Lawsuit
On 2012/01/12, at 11:50, Noam Chomsky wrote:
It is a privilege to be able to lend personal support to the Fukushima Evacuate Children Lawsuit.
There is no better measure of the moral health of a society than how it treats the most vulnerable people within it, and none or more vulnerable, or more precious, than children who are the victims of unconscionable actions.
For Japan, and for all of us, this is a test that we must not fail.
http://fukushima-evacuation-e.blogspot.jp/2012/01/message-from-noam-chomsky-about-support.html
The first case of paediatric thyroid cancer was discovered this month in Fukushima Prefecture
Date posted 17 September 2012
Child Rights International Network have posted a mail shot to about 4000 charities relevant to children across the world. Here is a quote from this weeks CRINmail
Meanwhile in Japan, a petition is seeking to relocate children still living in the area affected by the Fukushima nuclear disaster, amid ongoing evidence that the area is still dangerously contaminated. The Fukushima Collective Evacuation Trial (FCET) is urging the government to support the collective evacuation of the 260,000 children still remaining in the area, and transfer them to a non-contaminated area. To substantiate the petition, the FCET points out that the first case of paediatric thyroid cancer was discovered this month – normally, the possibility of a child developing this cancer is around one in a million. Also, a thyroid gland examination found that 43 per cent of the children have worryingly abnormal thyroid growth. To sign or read more about the petition, follow the link.
http://fukushima-syomei-e.blogspot.jp/
And here is the CRIN website link to more resources for children
http://www.crin.org/email/index.asp#
Serbia Lacks Funds, Space to Secure Nuclear Waste Materials
Nations reported 2,164 cases of smuggling or other incidents involving nuclear and radioactive substances between January 1993 and last December,
Aug. 22, 2012
Serbia lacks both the financial resources and the facility space to adequately safeguard all of the its radioactive materials, the Serbian news site Politika reported last week.
Nuclear Facilities of Serbia does not have government funding to meet its mandate of overseeing atomic efforts in the nation. Additionally, two principal sites for holding radioactive waste, Hangers 1 and 2, are completely packed and cannot take in new material, according to NOS Executive Director Jadranka Djuricic.
Presently, industrial and medical sector radioactive waste is stored in “the generator facilities, but we do not know how long this situation can continue,” Djuricic said. Her agency has not yet been given authorization to begin operating the recently constructed Hanger 3.
1 This Month
26 April – Chernobyl: Inside the Meltdown airs on National Geographic on Sunday 26th April from 4pm
29 April – Nuclear Expert Webinar #1 – Radiation Impacts on Families with Mary Olson and Cindy Folkers
- 12:15 PM MT – 1:45 PM MT
- Location: Virtual – REGISTER TODAY
4 May -West Suburban Peace Coalition to discuss Iran war at May Educational Forum
Monday, May 4, 7:00 – 8:00 PM Central Standard Time
Title: : How Trump’s Narrative Tries to Shape the Reality of the War on Iran.
Contact Walt Zlotow, zlotow@hotmail.com 630 442 3045 for further information
14 May – online event From Bombs to Data Centres: the Face of Nuclear Colonialism
Pine Ridge Uranium is the real threat, not Tehran- Tell Burgum: Stop the Extraction.
Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes – A good documentary on Chernobyl on SBS available On Demand for the next 3 weeks– https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/tv-program/chernobyl-the-lost-tapes/2352741955560
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