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No Nukes Action - In Japan and Worldwide 6.11 - in San Francisco June 10th
After the Fukushima disaster, people began raising their voices against nuclear energy and weapons in Japan and throughout the world. Germany and Switzerland responded with the announcement of the closure of their nuclear power plants. Following two major protests in April 10 and May 7, Japan requested the shutting down of one of the oldest and most dangerous nuclear plants – Hamaoka.
Umi Hagitani started working with Todos Somos Japan Collective, (A response to the global uprising and catastrophic situation in Japan whose intention is to translate, quote and analyze as much information as possible from Japanese into English, and translate encouragements, comments, suggestions, analysis, proposals and anything written in English into Japanese for the vantage point of the people struggling there and everywhere.) and No Nukes Action Committee which organized the June 7th rally at the Japanese Consulate in San Francisco and is organizing a June 10th Anti-Nukes Rally at the Consulate General of Japan, 3:30 pm - 5:30 p-m 50 Fremont Street, San Francisco, in solidarity with the Japanese people's call for actions worldwide. (The principle rally in Japan at 2 pm June 11th, 2011 will be streamed live on Labor Net TV.) No Nukes Action Committee has also begun a petition to End Japan's Nuclear-Military-Industrial Complex throughout the world.
Umi Hagitani was born in Tokyo and raised in Yokohama. She quit school at age 10 and personally experienced the violent attacks toward non-schoolers in early '90s. She began working for children and people's education outside of the school structure. After participating in the Feminist Queer Unit Against G8 in 2008, she began organizing against both institutional and interpersonal violence. She is a student at SF State majoring in Women and Gender Studies with a hint of Ethnic Studies, a comic writer, and a rape crisis counselor at San Francisco Women Against Rape. She also creates political art. No Nukes Art is being shared freely in solidarity with the global effort to halt the nuclear industry.