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WAR-RESISTERS’ FESTA 09!
Inventing Limitless Resistance

★Indoor Festa
Day 1: Workshops ‘Inventing Resistance’
Saturday 28th November 2009
Time: 1pm to 9pm

Day 2: Main forum
Sunday 29th November 2009
Time: 11am to 9pm (subject to change)

Venue: Yotsuya Hiroba auditorium (former primary school)
How to get there?
5 mins walk from Exit A2 at Yotsuya Sancho-me Station (M11), the Subway Marunouchi Line
Map: http://www.yotsuya-hiroba.jp/chizu.pdf

★Demonstration
Date: Sunday 29th November
Time and venue: TBA

Organised by War-Resisters’ Festa 09 Committee


On the earth
Life carried on by murders
Society kept going by control over others
And economy worked out by endless wars

What a sick the world is!

Whatever we refuse to lead such life
We ALL are caught up in the system of killing/murdered, wasting/disposed and selecting/excluded…
No matter how we pretend as if we didn’t know, it is OUR issues

Oppression, massacres, hunger, plague
Poverty, looting, discrimination, prejudice…

Different words point to the same meaning: wars against our lives
Wars occur in everywhere and everyday

No place to escape from this world
No space for freedom
Suffering from suffocating
It’s time to RESIST

Do not let yourself die
Start resisting whatever we can
Amid the war system, let’s commit to resist like crazy
Beat our brains out for a possible resistance
“INVENT RESISTANCE” with our wisdom
Join us our attempt of resistance and antiwar action!

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Join us, WAR-RESISTERS’ FESTA 09
Call for your endorsement

War-Resisters’ Festa has been annually held around the late autumn since 2004. It was almost a year ago when we had the last festa with a slogan “Who’s the Boss? It’s THEIR War” was held and here’s the festa time again!

We, the festa committee, are preparing for War-Resisters’ Festa 09 on 28th and 29th November at Yotsuya Square (yotsuya hiroba), which program including workshops, forum and a demonstration. Now, we call for your endorsement and taking part in the festa committee.

As for the current politics, the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) got in power by a landslide victory in the general election in August. We are concerned about the new government’s policy on security for the situation where Israeli genocide against Palestine still goes on and the Obama Administration shifted their battlefield from Iraq to Afghanistan.

Meanwhile, xenophobia against foreign residents and Koreans has explicitly emerged among grassroots people in the Japanese society. It seems that the long-time current of historical revisionists and discontent from economic downturn find an outlet in mobilizing a number of racist/fascist demonstrations.

In connection with recent wars and discrimination, poverty has become more serious. Particularly, dispatched workers are hit hard by job cuts as well as kick-out from company accommodations. People staying and surviving at day-labourers town and parks have faced evictions, which tells us how logic of capitalism and ‘public safety and security’ excludes people from the city and devastates our community.

On the other hand, counter movements have extended throughout Japan. In this moment, will you walk ahead into a society of hate as the government and right -wings agitate people into it, or toward a society of diversity in which people living together hand in hand?

We will never be defeated without making our voices heard. Maximize our imagination and invent RESISTANCE for changing the world toward a better future. Why don’t we tackle the problems with war and poverty in creating a place to express and exchange our ideas and hope? We call for your participation!

【Join the festa committee】
You are most welcome to be a part of the festa committee if you are keen to…
・organise demonstration, live performance, public talk, workshop, film screening, etc.
・advertise festa through flyer, Internet, blog and other media.
・making banners and things for a demonstration and the festa venue

【Contact】
Feel free to contact us at;
E-mail:war_resisters_fes09(at)yahoo.co.jp
Web:http://a.sanpal.co.jp/r-festa/#past
Blog:http://d.hatena.ne.jp/hansentoteikounofesta09/
Address: Freeter Union, MK bldg, 2nd Floor, 4-16-13, Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku, Tokyo 160-0023
Tel/Fax: +81-3-3373-0180

【Note】
Please note that the committee rejects any individual or groups which exercise acts of violence against people in social movements as well as the police or police informers for taking part in the festa.

【Endorsement】
You can support the festa by endorsement money; for individuals 1000 yen and for groups 2000 yen.
※Please fill in the application form below and send it to war_resisters_fes09@yahoo.co.jp
※As for groups giving us endorsement, we will have a section of introduction on the festa blog and pamphlet. Send us an introductory message of your group (approx. 200 words in Japanese).
※You can transfer the endorsement money into Yuucho-Bank trancefer account (ゆうちょ銀行振替口座).
Account Name:Hahei Yamero! Sensou-Teikousha no Kai (派兵やめろ!戦争抵抗者の会)
Account No.:00160-0-629395

【Application Form】
I / we endorse War-Resisters’ Festa 09.
※Please check applicable parts in brackets [ ].

○Endorsement money: [Group 2,000 yen / Individual 1,000 yen]
When do you pay? [When You Apply / in Advance through Account / on the Day].

○Booth Open? : [Yes / No]

Name: [Group / Individual]
Is it OK with your name on the endorsement list appeared on the festa flyers and blog? : [Yes / No]
Affiliation or title if preferred:

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