Urgent Action Needed For Homeless People In Tokyo

[Arm The Spirit <ats@xxxxxxxxx>]

For How Much Longer Do We Tolerate Mass Murder?

Message from the homeless in Tokyo, JAPAN

     To stop the mass murder, We are sending this news with
anger. You know the name of TOKYO as the most developed city of
the world, but you do not know that the Tokyo metropolitan
government plans to do the treason against human beings at a new
city center, Shinjuku. It is a gross forced eviction and also the
homeless will be interned in a certain place where living
conditions are not adequate for humanbeing. 200 homeless people
in the big underground passage at Shinjuku, which is one of rare
places where they can shelter themselves from rain and coldness.
We are afraid that the practice of forced eviction may cause
death on them in such a cold winter.
     The Resolution on Forced Evictions (1993/77) adopted
unanimously by The UN commission on Human Rights affirms that the
practice of forced evictions constitute a gross violation of
human rights, and urges governments to take any possible measures
immediately aimed at stopping it.
     We made a representation to the Japanese government to act
up to this resolution with approval by 7 groups and 25
individuals at 12th Jan. 1996, but the next day, the metropolitan
government called out over 600 policemen and security guards and
assaulted on the homeless. We would like to appeal to all over
the world for protesting against this rash act by the Tokyo
metropolitan government.
     Japanese economic success has been accomplished under a
sacrifice of many laborers. Japanese labor conditions have been
unadequate. The big depression has brought much harm on laborers.
This is the background of homeless people in Tokyo, in particular
at Shinjuku.
     The Tokyo metropolitan government plans to solve this
problem by the gross forced eviction which may cause a lot of
death on the homeless. We are afraid that many Japanese people
are unconcerned about an existence of the homeless, and also some
of them approve of the metropolitan government's plan, which may
cause death on them.
     People all over the world!
     The world has a lot of bitter experiences in its history.
The representative one is the accession to the power of the Nazis
under the Weimer Constitution which was thought to be the most
democratic one of the world in those days.
     We are very worried what was happened in the past will be
repeated on the homeless who are regarded as the queer minority
right now. Their rights to live are going to be violated in
Tokyo, Japan.
     We, human beings, have wisdom to conquer our faults, too. We
think that the resolution above is the one of them.
     We are going to lodge a protest immediately against the
metropolitan government in conformity with the resolution.

THERE IS LITTLE TIME LEFT.

TO PROTEST AGAINST SUCH VIOLENT AND ILLEGAL ACT, PLEASE SEND
E-MAIL DIRECTLY TO THE METROPOLITAN GOVERNMENT FROM ALL PARTS OF
THE WORLD, AND ALSO PLEASE SEND US E-MAIL OF YOUR SUPPORT FOR OUR
OPINION.

E-mail addresses to the Tokyo Metropolitan Government:

SHB00924@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
TOKYOGOV@xxxxxxxxxxx
17140596@xxxxxxxxxxxx

E-mail addresses to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan:

mofhogai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

E-mail form to the Prime Minister of Japan:

http://www.kantei.go.jp/jp/question.html

17th January, 1996

---end of message---


This document and references are available from
http://www.ifnet.or.jp/~inoken/text/index_e.html

If you approve our opinion, please make copy this document,
distribute to your friends and others as many as possible, and
also ask them to protest against the Tokyo metropolitan
government.

Shibuya Harajuku Society for Life and Rights
inoken@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

******************
Toshimaru Ogura
Toyama University
the Faculty of Economics
3190  Gofuku, Toyama-shi, Japan
e-mail  ogura@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.toyama-u.ac.jp/~ogura/indexEng.html
http://www.toyama-u.ac.jp/~ogura/index.html
*******************


 ++++ stop the execution of Mumia Abu-Jamal ++++
   ++++ if you agree copy these lines to your sig ++++
     ++++ see http://www.xs4all.nl/~tank/spg-l/sigaction.htm ++++

+++===+++===+++===+++===+++===+++===+++===+++===+++===+++===+++==
Arm The Spirit is an autonomist/anti-imperialist collective based
in Toronto, Canada. Our focus includes a wide variety of
material, including political prisoners, national liberation
struggles, armed communist resistance, anti-fascism, the fight
against patriarchy, and more. We regularly publish our writings,
research, and translation materials in our magazine and bulletins
called Arm The Spirit. For more information, contact:

Arm The Spirit
P.O. Box 6326, Stn. A
Toronto, Ontario
M5W 1P7 Canada

E-mail: ats@xxxxxxxxx
WWW: http://burn.ucsd.edu/~ats
FTP: ftp.etext.org --> /pub/Politics/Arm.The.Spirit
+++===+++===+++===+++===+++===+++===+++===+++===+++===+++===+++==



     --- from list marxism@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ---

     ------------------