*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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