12 JULY/G8: International call for solidarity actions against G8 repressions

International call for solidarity actions against G8 repressions
http://japan.indymedia.org/newswire/display/4617/index.php

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Free Arrests! Protest against police state & capitalist summit!
Take simultaneous actions on Saturday 12th July.

watch a video record:
rootless.org/noG8/Declare_Independence.m4v

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.

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“.
--
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