This page is dedicated to our homeless friends and allies in Japan, with whom we stand in solidarity. For the past couple of years (at least!) we've been exchanging emails and information with our Japanese homeless friends in Osaka, Japan who have been the target of repeated harassment from Osaka City authorities. Constantly our friends have been ordered and/or forced to uproot themselves from wherever they are trying to make a stand and given no sane, reasonable alternatives and no acceptable place to go to.
The latest outrage against them took place on December 15th,2003, when the City of Osaka forcibly removed their "karaoke-huts" from Tennouji Park. (Our friends' email follows below).
We urge caring human beings to take action and join in our world-wide boycott of Osaka. (see Global Boycott for Homeless Rights in Links section).
Also:"Here is e-mail address for any one desiring to send a warm Merry Christmas and Happy New Year letter on this subject of discrimination against our displaced world wide international family of poor and homeless in Japan or a support letter please e-mail it to opinion@japantimes.co.jp and BCC list if possible."- William Tinker, Advocate for Disabled, Displaced & Homeless
Letters of concern and protest can go to:
(CCing same letters to rebel_jill@resist.ca )
CHICAGO
City of Osaka, Chicago Office
c/o JETRO Chicago
401 North Michigan Avenue, Suite 660
Chicago, Illinois
60611 USA
Tel: 1-(312)832-6001
Fax: 1-(312)832-6066
Email: info@osakacity.org
http://www.osakacity.org/office/contactus.aspx
http://www.city.osaka.jp/shimin/opinion/01/index.html
thanks. in solidarity! (rebel_JILL)
March 12,2004
Status: Normal
From: "$B!zN9O2?M(B/ JILL"
To:
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 15:39:23 +0900
Subject: *Urgently statement! on 9 March 2004, an Activist of an Anti-poverty movement in osaka arrested by Polizei
Comrades;
i send this updating today. Comarde_M released on 13:00 11 March 2004! he is fine. however, also in osaka, our situation get worse and worse now. city authorities, polizei, and its subjects will plan to evict(or sweep out) more! of course, economic circles in osaka support this plan! so, we must prepare our defense more strictly. you will be able to see this incident's details by public statement of "Association of Kamagasaki-Patrol(KAMAPAT)". KAMAPAT will update those soon. so, please wait for a while! following is our urgently statement. we never surrender! we will continue to fight to survive! vi venkos! ni venkos! la bataloj continuos! thanks.(rebel_JILL) http://au.oocities.com/nagaipark_nakamanokai/rescue4comrade_m.html http://www.geocities.co.jp/WallStreet-Bull/8932/
*Activist of an Anti-poverty movement in Osaka arrested by Pelisse!
---We Strongly demand;
-Free Comrade_M Immediately!
-Stop the War against the Homeless Comrades & Poors' Community Right Now!
-Dignity Not Prejudices!!
-Foods & Works Not Auschwitz!!!
>>>>if you can, please forward this message far and widely.<<<<
Comrades;
we must tell you about our regrettable incident today. Geheimnis Polizei kidnapped & arrested our precious comrade. We must mention about this terrible incident, and we must prepare to fight back against all enemies(osaka-city & osaka prefectural government, economic circles in osaka, and their subjects...etc) and must defend our homeless comrades & our tent villages. We shall survive! We never surrender! Comrades, we urgently need your solidarity messages and protest messages against the polizei!
[please send your e-mails to:
kamapat@infoseek.jp and Ccing to:
rebel_jill98@yahoo.co.jp ]
Injury against one comrade is injury against all comrades. No pasaran! (rebel_JILL)
in osaka, an anti-poverty activist was arrested suddenly by Geheimnis Polizei(Gestapo) on 9th March 2004. this activist's name is Comrade_M, and he has engaged to an $B!H(BAssociation of Kamagasaki-Patrol for Poor comrades'
$B!I(B for many years. Also, he was a soldier of Nagai park struggle on August 2000-March 2001. Always he has strongly $B!H(Binternational solidarity of Poor people's struggles$B!I(B. $B!H(Bhis suspicion is ...$B!I(B. of cource, he is innocent about it. So, we must get him back immediately. If you can try to do something, we would love to send your protest messages or complaints by following form page(sorry, they have no ears for listening to foreigner's voices. How terribly their racistic attitudes are! Complaining(or requesting) form's page supports only japanese language. However, we can show you $B!I(Bhow to write$B!I(B page. Then, please try it out!): https://www.police.pref.osaka.jp/form/index2.html if you send your message by this form, please send the same message to us: kamapat(a)infoseek.jp and also rebel_jill98(a)yahoo.co.jp
If you would like to act for us:
-Please organize a solidarity campaign.
-Please forward this far and widely.
-Please support us mentally by your messages.
-Please go and show your protest-sign at the offices of osaka-city or japanese embassies(or consulates).
-According to your free wills...
anyway, we will try to continue to update details as soon as possible. If i will arrest by police, it will be hard to update for us, maybe. However, we will try to update as soon as possible. We urgently need your supporting. Any supports are welcome. Especially, economic support will be so important, because government and law will force us to pay huge risks and costs for liberating comrade. Vi venkos! Ni venkos!! la batalo continuos!!! in solidarity. (rebel_JILL)
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we'll be singing
when we're winning
we'll be singing
i get knocked down
but i get up again
u're never going to keep me down(ChumbaWamba)
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instead of THEIR violence,
WE must try to get OUR MUTUAL AID SOCIETIES
all over the world.(@Libertaire-JILL)
rebel_jill98@yahoo.co.jp
December 15,2003
Status: Normal
From: "$B!zN9O2?M(B/ JILL" rebel_jill98@yahoo.co.jp
To: ni_venkos-request@lists.riseup.net
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 09:34:11 +0900
Subject: Fw: Homelessworld ~* 15 December 2003, THEY forced eviction to karaoke-huts in Tennouji park!
----- Original Message -----
From: "$B!zN9O2?M(B/ JILL" rebel_jill98@yahoo.co.jp
Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 12:48 AM
Subject: Homelessworld ~* 15 December 2003, THEY forced eviction to karaoke-huts in Tennouji park!
Comrades;
these are fotos about "hospitality of osaKKKa city" on morning of 15 December 2003. we will continue to fight against a "so merciful" city of osaKKKa and its subjects. THEY also will plan to push homeless comrades in new Auschwitzs-Kamagasaki on end of this year(2003). dull NPOs and dull marxists join to push homeless comrades in there. (we know they have supported POLITICS of this FASCIST CITY since 1999.)
la batalo continuos! No pasaran!(rebel_JILL)
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$B!zN9O2?M(B/JILL rebel_jill98@yahoo.co.jp
# Achtung!! my address rebel_jill@geocities.co.jp will be abolished on end of November 2003 by Geocities Jap. so, please list rebel_jill98@yahoo.co.jp to your address book as soon as possible.
pics before and after 25 April 2003 in Nagai Park Tent Village in Osaka
http://nakamanokai.freeservers.com/ (in Japanese)
6th August,2002 Visitor from Oregon came & exchanged in Ougimachi Park & Nagai Park
(Visit by member of Dignity Village )
adf- pictures Kamagazaki Patrol, Nagai Park, Osaka
"those fotos took on APR-JUN 2002by Patrick Gaillardin, a french foto-journalist stayed in osaka. when our comrades and KAMAPAT comrades joined an action against fascistic Law in Nagata-cho,tokyo, he went together and took many fotos. in Nagoya city, on every May holiday, our homeless comrades (osaka, nagoya, and tokyo!!) play baseball games in Tsurumai park, nagoya. Tsurumai park is one of the park that our homeless comrades have lived in nagoya city. nagoya city authorities will open "Shirakawa Emergency Asylum" on November, and will sweep our comrades and tents out, and then, will throw our comrades into "Emergency Asylum" like a Nagai park's one. NO MORE AUSCHWITZs!! we are not looking forward to japanese government, city governments, and THEIR LAWS. we shall squat in "public spaces" for our free humanity and human dignity. (rebel_jill)"
Global Boycotts for Homeless Rights
For Japan's New Homeless,There's Disdain and Danger
(New York Times article by Norimitsu Onishi, December 17,2003)
The State of the Urban Poor in Japan
This space will have future updates on the situation of our homeless friends in Osaka.
