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In this presentation we will show film clips and make small reports about some political movements in East and South East Asia with a special focus on Japan, to improve in general the knowledge about Japanese resistance movements where the annual G8-meeting meets the resistance against it in the beginning of July 2008.
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Filmclip-Screening "Activism in (South) East Asia"
In this presentation we will show film clips and make small reports
about some political movements in East and South East Asia with a special focus on Japan, to improve in general the knowledge about Japanese resistance movements where the annual G8-meeting meets the resistance against it in the beginning of July 2008.
AMB, Nijmegen
Begijnenstraat 36 (dichtbij Lange Hazelstraat)
20:30 uur
Background:
During an Infotour in 2007 - because of the G8-meeting in 2008 in Japan -
the Infotour activists made interviews with politically active people in
Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, the Philippines and Hong Kong. Out of this material a documentary film is currently being made. We want to present short film clips and reports from the ongoing project:
JAPAN
* Uyoku, Gaisensha and the Yasukuni-Jinja: about the continuity of
nationalism and fascism in Japan (WWII until now)
* Comfort Women: enslavement of women through the Japanese Imperialist Army
* Zengakuren in the `60's and Student Protests today
* Nojukusha and Internet Refugees: about precarity and homeless workers in Japan
* Ainu and Burakumin: about the discrimination of so called minorities in Japan
* Mobilisation to the G8-Protests in Japan (2 Clips)
PHILIPPINES
* Guerrilla Gardening and Food not Bombs
* Networking in Davao - about Grassroots Movements and NGOs
* Sagada 11: political abduction and murders in the Philippines
SOUTH-KOREA
* The Autonomous Peace Village of Daechu-ri and other problems about
military bases
* Free Burma-Demonstration in Seoul
HONG KONG
* The fight about the Queens Pier and the Lee Tung Street: about
gentrification and citizen involvement in Hongkong
The presentation will be held in English. Dutch Translation possible! | 
