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Please contribute! http://japan.axxs.org//favicon.ico http://japan.axxs.org/ http://japan.axxs.org/5562 <p><a href="/5557"><img src="/content/guest/5558.jpg" alt="image 5558" style="float:left; margin-right: 20px" width="200" /></a></p> <p><strong>One of the arrested is <span class="caps">ALSO</span> an indymedia activist, <span class="caps">PROTEST</span>!</strong></p> <p>2008/07/08(火) 14:28</p> <p>Though the peacewalk was permitted to include a sound demonstration where some people get on the loading platform of the track for manipulating sound systems, four people were arrested in the situation where riot police and secret officers were mixed together for an attack on the demonstration. The Challenge the G8 Summit, “Peacewalk of 10,000” was done in Sapporo City on July 5. Various people participated in the rally held in Odori Park, and the walk became large-scale, eventually reaching 5,000 people.</p> <p>However, with extraordinary violence, police charged the sound demonstration in the peacewalk where people gathered around music being played from the loading platform of a truck built up with sound systems. Though the peacewalk was pe…</p> en 2008-07-13T14:21:12+00:00 http://japan.axxs.org/5510 <table> <tr> <th>date/time</th> <th>category</th> <th>what happened</th> </tr> <tr> <td>2008-07-09 13:20+09</td> <td>camp demo</td> <td>Demonstration from Sobetsu town to Toya lakeside arrived at its destination point.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>2008-07-09 07:53+09</td> <td>camp</td> <td>Media bus arrived at Sobetsu-camp, then moved to the merged point of demonstration.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>2008-07-09 01:57+09</td> <td>camp</td> <td>At Toyoura-camp, Toyako Movie Festival were in motion.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>2008-07-08 18:10+09</td> <td>camp demo</td> <td>Remaining demonstrators at Toyoura roadside station returned to the Toyoura-camp.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>2008-07-08 16:55+09</td> <td>camp demo</td> <td>Some demonstration participants returned to Toyoura-camp from Toyoura roadside station by the first bus. Others still at the station were having party there.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>2008-07-08 16:00+09</td> <td>camp demo</td> <td>Toyoura-campers arrived at the destination of demonstration,Toyoura roadside station.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>2008-07-08 15:20+09</td> <td>camp demo</td> <td>Toyoura-camp were still on the way to the destination.</td> </tr> </table> <p>| 2008-07-08 13:40+09 | demo repression | The court decided extension of detention-10da…</p> en 2008-07-13T15:49:58+00:00 http://japan.axxs.org/5194 <div><a href="/5194"><img src="/content/guest/5224.jpg" alt="image 5524" style="float:right; margin-left: 20px" width="150" /></a> <h2><a href="http://japan.indymedia.org/feature/display/2220/index.php">CounterG8actions</a></h2> <p><a href="http://japan.indymedia.org/newswire/display/4493/"><b>Welcome to Japan</b>!</a> | <a href="http://maps.google.de/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&amp;hl=ja&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=113674397198428115264.000450358163ac80f1017&amp;t=p&amp;ll=42.841737,141.006775&amp;spn=1.016996,1.74408&amp;z=9">[useful map]</a> [<a href="http://2008camp.blog43.fc2.com/">Convergence Center</a>]<br /> <br /> <b>Background</b>: [<a href="http://japan.indymedia.org/newswire/display/4277/">Movements around the G8 Summit (2008) : the Situation in Japan</a>]<br /> <br /> <b>Schedule</b>: [<a href="http://japan.indymedia.org/newswire/display/4255/">Summary of the Anti-G8 Japan Action and Logistics</a>] [<a href="http://japan.indymedia.org/newswire/display/4391/">NO! G8 Action Even…</a></p> </div> en 2008-07-02T00:39:22+00:00 http://japan.axxs.org/5182 <div><a href="/5182#id5183"><img src="/content/guest/5183.jpg" alt="image 5183" style="float:left; margin-right: 20px" width="200" /></a> <p>On 12th June 2008, just in the afternoon before the G8 Finance Ministers' Meeting had began in Osaka with many guards and excessive security, <a href="http://japan.indymedia.org/newswire/display/4499/">one of the daily labourers in Kamagasaki was tortured</a> by the police. From the next day 13th, many of the daily labourers and neighbourhood youth began to resist against the police repression and violence. Most Japanese mainstream media just copied the official announcements by the police and reported this as a "riot" for the first time after 18 years since the last one in 1990.</p> <p>10pm, 17th June: 5th nights from the beginning, reporters told us that dozens of labourers and youth were arrested. 4am, 18th June: Are they "suppressed"?</p> <p>19th June: Over the past week and a half, an unprecedented political crackdown has been enacted in…</p> </div> en 2008-06-28T13:10:17+00:00