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Wed, 31 January 2007

Democracy Now Japan debuts: Catch a Fire

Welcome to the inaugural program of Democracy Now Japan.

Background of Democracy Now can be found immediately following the video introduction. The English website is located here.

Catch a Fire Pt 1 (15 mins)

CATCH A FIRE

http://dnjapan.info/modules/dnj/index.php?id=5
Catch a Fire Pt 2 (16 mins)

In this introductory segment, Amy Goodman talks with the producer of this film about a South Africa freedom fighter, Robin Slovo, as well as the actor-activist Tim Robbins.

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Tue, 23 January 2007

David Rovics and Democracy Now coming to Japan....

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COMING TO JAPAN: SUMMER 2007
日本�?�2007年 �?��?

David Rovics: the musical version of Democracy Now

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A Normal Country?

　Reprinted from Nikkan Berita:
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　�?2007年1月18日】　中国�?�ロシア�?��?ミャンマー�?題�?�関�?�る今回�?�拒�?�権発動�?�「安�?�?��?��?��?一�?��?�国�?�内部�?��?��?�起�??�?��?�る人権�?題�?��?��?� �?��?二度�?�決議を�?��?��?�。�??�?��?題�?��?事力行使�?�決定権を�?�?��?��?�人権�?�事会�?�やる�?��??�?��?�?��?��?�決�?を表明�?��?�。従�?��?�ら�?中露�?�決�?�?��?欧米日�?�「国際社会�?�?��?�?�?�よ�?��?�潰�?�れ�?��?��?�?�。�?��?��?�今�?米英�?�覇権�?�失墜�?��?��?��?�り�?�?��??ら�??今後�?�ら�?�米英中心�?�世界体制�?�崩れる。中露�?�拒�?�権発動�?��?�?� �?��?��?��?�攻守逆転�?�中�?�発�?�られ�?��?�り�?世界�?�多極化を推進�?�る動�??�?�一�?��?��?��?��?��?�る。

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Becoming an Ugly and Dangerous Nation!

LDP and Komeito force patriotism on school kids

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Meat and climate change

In March 2006, the Department of Geophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago released a study that compared the differences in greenhouse-gas emissions caused by various plant- and meat-based diets. Researchers found that the difference between a red-meat diet and a vegan diet – in terms of greenhouse-gas emissions – equaled the difference between driving a sedan and driving a sport-utility vehicle.

Bewitched by the Veil

by Dorothy Rowe
who welcomes our reprinting this and following article

[The niqab is] a mark of separation and that is why it makes other people from outside the community feel uncomfortable.’ Tony Blair’s answer to a journalist’s question October 17, 2006....I don’t recall Tony Blair ever expressing publicly any disquiet about the way the singer Bono is never seen without his dark glasses, despite the fact that the eyes reveal more about the person than any other part of the body.

Bigger Breasts and Suicide

by Dorothy Rowe

People seem puzzled by suicide in women with breast implants, but I wouldn’t be surprised if BDD [Body Dysmorphic Disorder] was behind it,’ says Katherine Phillips, a psychiatrist at Brown Medical School, Providence, Rhode Island. New Scientist, October 21, 2006 ...New Scientist didn’t contact me. Had this happened, I would have said that it was really very simple. Just ask each woman what she hoped the breast implant would do for her, and take what she says seriously, not merely as evidence for or against an abstraction like BDD which resides nowhere but in the mind of a psychiatrist or psychologist who believes that such a disorder exists.

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Tue, 19 December 2006

Dec 20 2006 TokyoProgressive Updates

日本語日本�?アジア世界
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日本語

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Almost all stories (all topics and langauges) are here. Some may be more recent than what is on this page.

ADDED 5 December

イベント情報 : 第59回公開研究会「活断層�?�変動地形�?�ら�?�?�る�?�?地震�

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KEMPO 9-JO: Protecting Article 9

憲法9�?�。知�?��?�るヒトも�?知ら�?��?�ヒトも。
「マガジン9�?��?毎週水曜日更新�?

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Japanese Labor News in Japanese from LABORNET: Stop Revision of Education Law, more

STOP! 教育基本法「改正�?～若者�?�渋谷�?�サウンドデモ
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High Court Judgment due

on NHK censorship suit by VAWW

NHK�?判高�?審�?�判決
2007年1月29日（月）
�?�後2時00分より控訴審判決

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Discrimination in Japan: Indonesian workers prohibited from praying, using cellphones
�?�日本�?�縫製工場�?イスラム教徒研修生�?�「礼�? �?止

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Japan and Asia in English

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ADDED 20 DECEMBER

The Case for Japanese Constitutional Revision Assessed
The LDP draft not only opens the way to remilitarization but sports a blatantly nationalistic character. To seek identity in minzoku (the Japanese people, emperor), patriotism (the flag, kimigayo), and religion (Yasukuni) has long been advocated by the ruling party. The final goal is minzoku purity, equating the rights of citizenship with a conception of a pure Japanese race.

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Becoming an Ugly and Dangerous Nation!
The Deterioration of Japan’s Fundamental Law of Education
One of the most contentious changes [in national education policy] is the addition of a phrase saying that schools should take an active part in “… cultivating an attitude which respects tradition and culture and love of the nation and homeland …�? The problem is that the Japanese word for nation can also be interpreted as “governing system,�? and hearkens back to phrasings of pre-war nationalist slogans. Some say that passage of this bill will radically affect the nature of education in Japan. The Asahi Shimbun warns of a shift in emphasis from the individual to the public sphere and “community spirit�? in ways that hark back to the prewar order. Likewise, there are questions about how the new law will affect teachers in the classroom, and there have been protests from Nikkyoso, the left-leaning teachers’ union

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ADDED 5 December

HIV Information from the JAPAN AIDS PREVENTION AWARENESS NETWORK

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AIDS AWARENESS LOWER / NEW INFECTIONS UP

INFO FOR TEACHERS AND STUDENTS
NEW! Photocopiable HIV/AIDS Seminar Worksheets
developed by Louise Haynes, director of JAPANetwork and AIDS educator in Japan since 1995.

AIDS WORKSHEETS by Kathy Riley

JAPANetwork’s Advanced Lesson plan
***Approach the issue from different standpoints***

AIDS NEWSLETTER

日本語�?�リンク

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Education ministry seeks to indoctrinate children in patriotism with Kimigayo

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Toward Japanese Nuclear Armament

Introduction by C. Douglas Lummis, former professor of Political Science at Tsuda College and author of “Radical Democracy�?

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Debating Japan's possession of nuclear arms will isolate Japan in international community

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CNIC's Anti-Nuclear News Service

-Turbine damage due to “high-cycle fatigue�?
--Shifting international alliances in nuclear industry
--Mitsui feasibility study into development of Russian uranium
--Aomori governor unimpressed by application for receipt of radioactive waste from abroad
--Tsuno Town won’t apply for HLW dump
--Application for pluthermal at Shimane-2
--Local approval for pluthermal at Ikata-3
--Call for Saga Prefecture citizens’ referendum re pluthermal
--Request submitted for approval of new fuel plan for Monju
and more.....

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Foreign Workers in Japan: Work to improve working conditions in solidarity with others NAMBU/NUGW

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Gov’t looks to open up pension plan to part-time workers, Chinese workers flee bad conditions

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World

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ADDED 19 December

Jimmy Carter's book "Palestine: Peace, Not Apartheid" is sparking unusually open debate on U.S. policy in the Middle East. Many in the U.S. Congress are rejecting Carter's honesty, and we need to push back. Sign this petition asking the new Congress to respect Carter's leadership and pursue a just peace.　�?��?��?�国�?�?�人�?�も [ Sign the petition ]

THE MIDDLE EAST AND ISRAEL

Jimmy Carter writes something critical of Israeli government policy and while there is silence on the content of his accusations, there is much noise accuding him of being an anti-Semite.

Here is one article from the mainstream press that notes the relative lack of criticism of israeli policy in the US media even compared to that of Israel:

Anti-Semitism Label Confines Open Debate (Atlanta Journal)

Nobody and nothing in the world has an army of advocates, defenders, PR people, marketers, spin-meisters and image-polishers like Israel has. This army isn’t made up just of the government but of Jews and Judeophiles all over the world, especially in the U.S. It includes the entire alphabet soup of American Jewish organizations, right-wing ‘media watchdogs’ like CAMERA and Honest Reporting, hundreds of Jewish newspapers and Web sites, Alan Dershowitz, Binyamin Netanyahu, the Republican Party, the Christian Right, FOX News and an assortment of other forces.�? In Israel, apparently, nobody thought twice about such a statement. But those same words written here in the United States would be prima facie evidence of anti-Semitism.

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Zunes:Falling In Line On Israel

The Democrats have attacked the International Court of Justice for its landmark 2004 ruling calling for the enforcement of the Fourth Geneva Convention in Israeli-occupied territories. In a resolution that summer, the Democratic leadership and the overwhelming majority of Democrats in both houses also condemned the World Court’s near-unanimous advisory opinion that Israel’s separation barrier could not be built beyond Israel’s internationally-recognized border into the occupied West Bank in order to incorporate illegal settlements into Israel.

More recently, Pelosi and other Democratic leaders have condemned former President Jimmy Carter’s newly-released book criticizing Israeli violations of international humanitarian law in the West Bank. Carter’s use of the word “apartheid�? in reference to Israeli policies of building Jewish-only settlements and highways on confiscated Palestinian land and allowing Palestinians to enter only as laborers with special passbooks proved particularly inflammatory to Pelosi and her colleagues. Meanwhile, they have refused to criticize this policy by any name and insist that the Israeli colonial outposts in the occupied territories—constructed in violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention and a series of U.N. Security Council resolutions—are legitimate.

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ISRAEL: Woman CO Hadas Amit sentenced to 14 days imprisonment

“If I were to be recruited into the army, this would absolutely and in all respects contradict my convictions and my way in life, since violence, killing, nationalism and vandalism are not part of them. I am not willing to wear the uniform of an organisation responsible for killing and destruction, acting in a way detrimental to its environment. Every State, the State of Israel included, should act by peaceful means..."

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Don't forget the many good articles in the Electronic Intifada, Electronic Lebanon and Electronic Iraq

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John Berger and 93 other authors, film-makers, musicians and performers call for a cultural boycott of Israel
Press Release, PACBI, 15 December 2006
Boycott is not a principle. When it becomes one, it itself risks to become exclusive and racist. No boycott, in our sense of the term, should be directed against an individual, a people, or a nation as such. A boycott is directed against a policy and the institutions which support that policy either actively or tacitly. Its aim is not to reject, but to bring about change....There exist, however, a few small, marginal Israeli publishers who expressly work to encourage exchanges and bridges between Arabs and Israelis, and if one of them should ask to publish something of mine, I would unhesitatingly agree and furthermore waive aside any question of author's royalties. I don't ask other writers supporting the boycott to come necessarily to exactly the same conclusion. I simply offer an example.

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New York Times joins slander campaign against Carter book

Hugh Sansom
8 December 2006

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The New York Times Marginalizes Palestinian Women and Palestinian Rights

Patrick O'Connor and Rachel Roberts
17 November 2006

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Israel's Large-Scale Killing of Palestinians Passes Unreported

Patrick O'Connor
4 November 2006

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Palestine on the brink of civil war?

Nigel Parry
15 December 2006

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The Sober Racism of Mel Gibson's Apocalypto
"I fear the repercussions Apocalypto will have on contemporary Maya people who continue to struggle for survival and political governments under discriminatory governments that consider them stupid, backward, and uncivilized for wanting to maintain their customs and language. Gibson’s slanderous film reinforces the same stereotypes that have facilitated the genocide of Maya peoples and the plunder of their lands starting with the Spanish invasion of 1492 and continuing through the Guatemalan civil war to the present."

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Snapshots from School

What did you learn in school today? "...Do what you’re told. Don’t ask why. Accept arbitrary punishment and reward. Reduce your expectations. Nobody said life was fair or fun. You can hold on until the weekend, the next holiday, graduation, a week’s vacation from your job, and finally retirement". Contrary to the misimpressions　of many in Japan, the state of education in the U.S. is just as dismal.

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ADDED 12 December

Ellen Jane Willis: Radical Feminist

“Her writing was always forthright and serious, unencumbered by pretentious cuteness or fawning. Her forte was in exploring dark corners and adding her own light so all could see more clearly. In those crucial years, we struggled to make the left more feminist and to keep the women’s liberation movement genuinely radical.�?

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Post-9/11 Fiction: Exiles in America by Christopher Bram

"The trauma of 9/11 is ever present in Exiles in America....[Bram] is interested in what the evolving myth of 9/11 is doing to U.S. culture—our sense of self, ideas of normalcy, sexuality, sense of personal and national isolation....What Bram has done is show how defensive, isolationist, nationalist thinking seeps into all parts of our lives and begins to shape people from the inside. Not only does non(hetero)normative sexuality become suspicious in this climate, the very idea of “open relationships�?—so natural to gay male culture and enjoyed by both couples here—becomes a suspect category, unAmerican and untrustworthy. Bram exposes how the post-9/11 demand for a strong nation at all costs affects our humanity and how the rhetoric of safety and security shapes our lives and thoughts even as we resist them...."
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Misogyny Marketing:

(1) Got Milk? Got Desperation?

(2) Another Wonder Drug?

"So AstraZeneca did what drug companies that put marketing before medicine always do: came up with a new use for Seroquel (bipolar disorder) and new formulation (sustained release) and yelled breakthrough. Now all it has to do is convince millions of healthy women and men they should take a major tranquilizer, an anti-psychotic for schizophrenia, because they had a bad day..."

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Charging Rumsefeld with War Crimes

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Bush-Cheney company selling Nukes to Iran, World Bank funds Israel-Palestine wall, GM food dangers..

From Project Censored: 25 stories you may not have read elsewhere, including:

Project Censored documents the most under-reported stories every year. The stories so far, printed here, include:
#2 Halliburton Charged with Selling Nuclear Technologies to Iran (A Bush-Cheney company)
#4 Hunger and Homelessness Increasing in the US # 7 US Operatives Torture Detainees to Death in Afghanistan
and Iraq
#8 Pentagon Exempt from Freedom of Information Act
#9 The World Bank Funds Israel-Palestine Wall
#11 Dangers of Genetically Modified Food Confirmed
#12 Pentagon Plans to Build New Landmines
#13 New Evidence Establishes Dangers of Roundup
#15 Chemical Industry is EPA’s Primary Research Partner
#19 Destruction of Rainforests Worst Ever
#24 Cheney’s Halliburton Stock Rose Over 3000 Percent Last Years

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Innocent Victim of U.S. terrorism sues in court

Rendition Survivor Appeals Case Against CIA Officials

German Citizen Wants Apology
for US Role in His Abduction, Torture --by Catherine Komp

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Tue, 5 December 2006

TokyoProgressive Updates for Dec 6 2006

TokyoProgressive-dot-org
DEC 6 2006

Announcing the latest update of its news, commentary and other features.
Articles are in English and/or Japanese.

We will publish your political and creative works too, particulary if they have a social theme. Priority is given to groups and individuals in Japan who wish to further a progressive world view free of racism, gender-based discrimination, war and violence and economic injustice. Contributions (essays, etc.) are welcome . Please contact us here.

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MEDIA CLIPS, EDUCATIONAL AND CREATIVE

Two videos from the 11th Annual World Aids Day in Sakare, Japan

Left to right: Nagasaki, sung by David Rovics; Tribute to Brad Will (IMC) and
Hibakusha, Our Right to Live ( 被爆者�?我人生 (デビッド・ロス�?ウザー )

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WORLD NEWS:

Bush-Cheney company selling Nukes to Iran, World Bank funds Israel-Palestine wall, GM food dangers..
Charging Rumsefeld with War Crimes
Rendition Survivor Appeals Case Against CIA Officials

ASIAN NEWS IN ENGLISH

CNIC's Anti-Nuclear News ServiceForeign Workers in Japan: Work to improve working conditions in solidarity with others NAMBU/NUGWGov’t looks to open up pension plan to part-time workers, Chinese workers flee bad conditions
ASIAN NEWS:
HIV Information from the JAPAN AIDS PREVENTION AWARENESS NETWORK
Debating Japan's possession of nuclear arms will isolate Japan in international community
Toward Japanese Nuclear Armament
Education ministry seeks to indoctrinate children in patriotism with Kimigayo

JAPANESE NEWS

Japanese Labor News in Japanese from LABORNET: Stop Revision of Education Law, more
STOP! 教育基本法「改正�?～若者�?�渋谷�?�サウンドデモ
High Court Judgment due on NHK censorship suit by VAWW
NHK�?判高�?審�?�判決
2007年1月29日（月）
�?�後2時00分より控訴審判決
Discrimination in Japan: Indonesian workers prohibited from praying, using cellphones
�?�日本�?�縫製工場�?イスラム教徒研修生�?�「礼�? �?止
イベント情報 : 第59回公開研究会「活断層�?�変動地形�?�ら�?�?�る�?�?地震�
KEMPO 9-JO: Protecting Article 9憲法9�?�。知�?��?�るヒトも�?知ら�?��?�ヒトも。
「マガジン9�?��?毎週水曜日更新

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Sun, 3 December 2006

David Rovics

TokyoProgressive turns 10 in 2007. We are adding videos to the site, linked from here and other places. To start, we will have two from David Rovics (From Boston but forever travelling). The one for Brad Will is a tribute to an Indymedia reported who was murdered in Mexico in October of 2006.

The December videos will be archived, like all TokyoProgressive content.

TokyoProgressive welcomes your contributions.

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Mon, 3 April 2006

An interview with film-maker David Rothauser on "Hibakusha: our life to live"

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Watch/listen to earlier shows:
2002: Turn left at Tokyo (15 audio programs)

David Rothauser was in Japan in the summer of 2005 and may be back this summer again in connection with his documentary scheduled for release in Japan and the U.S. later this year, probably around December. In the U.S. look for it on PBS. Our cooperation consisted of making initial contacts with various people and groups active in the anti-nuclear and peace movement as well as facilitating communication between the Japan-based documentary producer Yu NEGORO, the Nagasaki coordinator Naoko GOTO, the main translator, Tomoko KAJIKI, the America-based crew (Julie O'NEIL, Werner GRUNDL, and David), and the US-based coordinators/translatorsWakana YOKOTA and Naomi TORII.

PRESS RELEASE
David Rothauser of Memory Productions is producing a one hour documentary film about the life stories of Japanese, Korean, Chinese and American survivors of the Atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.

There is an URGENCY here as the survivors (Hibakusha) are dying off, victims of radiation poisoning and other a-bomb related diseases. I feel it is equally important to tell the stories on film of people who should never be forgotten. To keep their memory alive is to make an active contribution to a world where peoples of all races may embrace life as a precious gift and no longer live in the fear of nuclear annihilation.

To date Memory Productions has completed 30 hours of filming.
Memory Productions is seeking completion funding of $150,000.00 dollars.

Your assistance as individuals, as organizations and corporations is requested. You may participate in this important educational film by making tax-deductible contributions to our fiscal sponsor, the Community Church of Boston. The names of contributors donating more than $ 1,000.00 dollars will be included in the film credits.

Please remit your contribution payable to:
The Community Church of Boston, c/o Memory Productions, 39 Fuller Street, Brookline, MA 02446, USA.

IN MEMO BOX INDICATE:
"Rothauser Hiroshima Film"

Memory Productions has gained the endorsement of people and organizations including:

WGBH-TV-Boston, Tadatoshi Akiba, Mayor of Hiroshima, Ugo Sekikawa, the Japanese Consulate in Boston, Mariko Bando-sensei, (former Koizumi Cabinet member), Mocinobu (Mike) Shimo, Professor Shinichiro Noriguchi of the University of Kitakyushu, Faith Nobuko (Araki) Barcus of Showa Boston University, Paul Arenson of Tokyo Progressive and Japan Independent Media, Yumi Kikuchi, Founder of Global Peace Campaign, Japan Confederation of A-Bomb Sufferers Organizations and Korean Hiroshima Bomb Survivors Association, the Peace Abbey of Sherburn, MA, the Peace Pagoda of Leveratt, MA, Brookline PeaceWorks and Artists for Peace and Justice affiliated with United for Justice and Peace and numerous individuals worldwide with a burning desire to survive.

David Rothauser is the writer/producer of the docudrama, "The Diary of Sacco and Vanzetti" aired on WGBH-TV in 2004 and 2005.

MEMORY Productions
39 Fuller Street
Brookline, MA 02446
617 232-4150

PROFILES OF PARTICIPANTS

By the way, here is a short video made by Werner and Julie. Their own website is here.

yunegoro

Yu NEGORO'S Japanese site is here. Born in Kurashiki in Okayama Prefecture. In 1998, made three short documentaries about eating disorder. Yurayura, Fake Love Affair, and Empty. Continues to make documentaries dealing with dependency disorders and gender. Has suffered from eating disorders for nearly eight years, since she was 20, but has now mostly recovered. Works such as Then, She Closes Another Eye have been chosen to be screened at the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival and other international venues.

　岡山県倉敷市生�?�れ
幼少期�?�野生�?�?�野山を駆�?�巡�?��?��?��?�中学�?高校�?�一貫�?��?�アニメ漫画オタク少女。男女交際ゼロ�?��?�春。コスプレを�?�る勇気�?�無�?��?��?�事を�?��?��?��?�後悔�?��?��?�る。
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David ROTHAUSER

In The Diary of Sacco and Vanzetti docu- drama, David Rothauser tells of the infamous trial and execution of two Italian immigrant anarchists in Massachusetts in 1927 during one of the many Red Scares in the U.S. David Rothauser began his career as an actor while living in Paris, France. Among his film and television credits are THE LONGEST DAY (20th Century Fox), COME FLY WITH ME (MGM), LANDRU (Claude Chabrol), KENNEDY and SPENSER:FOR HIRE (Warner Bros.) As a writer Mr. Rothauser was awarded a First Place Massachusetts Artists Fellowship for his stage play, THE FIRST ALL-AMERICAN PRESIDENT and won a Blue Ribbon at the American Film Festival in NY for A GOOD EXAMPLE:Bertolt Brecht and HUAC. David is a recipient of the Sacco-Vanzetti Social Justice Award from the Community Church of Boston for his film, "The Diary of Sacco and Vanzetti"; recently broadcast on WGBH-TV, Boston.

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Mon, 20 February 2006

TokyoProgressive News: Espisode#1 (promo)

Welcome to Tokyoprogressive's audio and video news show. Here is the news promo. The website is at http://tokyoprogressive.org

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