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Friday, July 6, 2012

[SDCPJ] Reminder! Update from Fukushima, Saturday, July 7, 3-5 p.m.

*Saturday, July 7:  Special visitor from Fukushima, 3-5 p.m.  Peace Resource Center of San Diego, 3850 Westgate Place, SD 92105*  Program will be in the Friends Center Building (white building with green roof  at North end of the Parking lot.  *  *Please join us in for a program with Ms. Chieko Shiina, experienced  activist and dedicated organic farmer in Kawamata village of Fukushima  before March 11th, 2001. One of her major contributions to Japan's national  anti-nukes organizing is that she organized the sit-in in front of the  Ministry of Economy and Industry from September 11th, 2011. Further, she  organized 100 women from Fukushima to set up "Women's 10 months and 10 days  sit-in" from late October, which later became both a symbolic and physical  space where women from all over Japan came to communicate and organize.   Co-sponsored with San Diego Veterans for Peace and Women Occupy--San Diego.    Info:  caroljahnkow at gmail.com  www.prcsd.org

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