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DESCRIPTION:5/26/19 Berkeley Film & Forum\n\nOlympics In Fukushima? Are You 
 Insane?\n\nFilm Screening and Report On Corruption & The Olympics with 
 Professor George Wright \n\nOlympics In Fukushima? Are You Insane?\n\nFilm 
 Screening and Report On Corruption & The Olympics with Professor George 
 Wright\n\nSunday May 26, 2019 1:30 PM\nBerkeley Main Library\n2090 
 Kittredge St, Berkeley CA 94704\n\nThe Japanese Abe government which was 
 involved in massive bribery to get the Olympics in 2020 has now with the 
 support of the Internatonal Olympics committee moved baseball and the 
 Para-Olympics to Fukushima. Abe told the Olympic Committee that there was 
 no longer any danger in Fukushima and Japan because Fukushima had been 
 “decontaminated”. This is despite the fact, that there are over 1 
 million tons of contaminated radioactive water with tritium in tanks 
 surrounding the leaking nuclear plants and there are also tens of thousands 
 of bags or radioactive material spread throughout Fukushima. Additionally 
 TEPCO which is now controlled by the government has to use massive amounts 
 of water to cool the melted radioactive rods which still have not been 
 removed from the reactors. The plan to have the Olympics in Fukushima is 
 part of a massive whitewashing of the continuing dangers of this nuclear 
 catastrophe and is a BIG LIE propagated by the Abe government and now the 
 Olympic Committee.\nThe government is also demanding that families and 
 children return to Fukushima or lose their housing subsidies and is using 
 Yakuza contractors to bring in day laborers and migrant workers without 
 training to work on the clean-up.\nJoin No Nukes Action in the premier 
 screening of the rough cut of  “Olympics In Fukushima? Are You Insane? by 
 the Labor Video Project. This film allows you to hear Japanese teachers, 
 clean-up workers, railroad workers,  anti-nuclear activists and former 
 Ambassador Murata talk about the dangers of the Olympics in 
 Fukushima.\nAlso Professor George Wright who is an expert on the Olympics 
 will take about the systemic corruption in the Olympics and how this 
 corruption has led to the Olympic Committee colluding with the Abe 
 government to allow it to move part of the Olympics to Fukushima. The 
 former head of the Japanese Olympic Committee Tsunekazu Takeda is being 
 prosecuted for corruption and bribery in Abe’s effort to get the 
 Olympics.\n\nPeople Around The World Are Now Trying To Stop Abe’s Scheme 
 to Bring The Olympics To Japan\n\nSunday May 26, 2019 1:30 PM\nBerkeley 
 Main Library\n2090 Kittredge St, Berkeley CA 94704\n\nSponsored by No Nukes 
 Action Committe\nhttps://nonukesaction.wordpress.com\n\nInternational 
 Campaign\n\n“Tokyo 2020 - The Radioactive 
 Olympics”\n\nhttps://globalethics.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/ippnw-2018-07-11-tokyo-2020-the-radioactive-olympics-en.pdf\n\n\nIn 
 2020, Japan is inviting athletes from around the world to take part in the 
 Tokyo Olympic Games. We are hoping for the games to be fair and peaceful. 
 At the same time, we are worried about plans to host baseball and softball 
 competitions in Fukushima City, just 50 km away from the ruins of the 
 Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant. It was here, in 2011, that multiple 
 nuclear meltdowns took place, spreading radioactivity across Japan and the 
 Pacific Ocean - a catastrophe comparable only to the nuclear meltdown of 
 Chernobyl.\n\nThe ecological and social consequences of this catastrophe 
 can be seen everywhere in the country: whole families uprooted from their 
 ancestral homes, deserted evacuation zones, hundreds of thousands of bags 
 of irradiated soil dumped all over the country, contaminated forests, 
 rivers and lakes. Normality has not returned to Japan.\n\nThe reactors 
 continue to be a radiation hazard as further catastrophes could occur at 
 any time. Every day adds more radioactive contamination to the ocean, air 
 and soil. Enormous amounts of radioactive waste are stored on the premises 
 of the power plant in the open air. Should there be another earthquake, 
 these would pose a grave danger to the population and the environment. The 
 nuclear catastrophe continues today.\n\nOn the occasion of the Olympic 
 Games 2020, we are planning an international campaign. Our concern is that 
 athletes and visitors to the games could be harmed by the radioactive 
 contamination in the region, especially those people more vulnerable to 
 radiation, children and pregnant women.\n\nAccording to official Japanese 
 government estimates, the Olympic Games will cost more than the equivalent 
 of 12 billion Euros. At the same time, the Japanese government is 
 threatening to cut support to all evacuees who are unwilling to return to 
 the region.\n\nInternational regulations limit the permitted dose for the 
 general public of additional radiation following a nuclear accident to 1 
 mSv per year. In areas where evacuation orders were recently lifted, the 
 returning population will be exposed to levels up to 20 mSv per year. Even 
 places that have undergone extensive decontamination efforts could be 
 recontaminated at any time by unfavourable weather conditions, as mountains 
 and forests serve as a continuous depot for radioactive particles.\n\nOur 
 campaign will focus on educating the public about the dangers of the 
 nuclear industry. We will explain what health threats the Japanese 
 population was and is exposed to today. Even during normal operations, 
 nuclear power plants pose a threat to public health – especially to 
 infants and unborn children.\n\nThere is still no safe permanent depository 
 site for the toxic inheritance of the nuclear industry anywhere on earth, 
 that is a fact.\n\nWe plan to use the media attention generated by the 
 Olympic Games to support Japanese initiatives calling for a nuclear 
 phase-out and to promote a worldwide energy revolution: away from fossil 
 and nuclear fuels and towards renewable energy generation.\n\nWe need to 
 raise awareness of the involvement of political representatives around the 
 world in the military- industrial complex.\n\nWe denounce the attempt of 
 the Japanese government to pretend that normality has returned to the 
 contaminated regions of Japan.\n\nWe call on all organisations to join our 
 network and help us put together a steering group to coordinate this 
 campaign. The Olympic Games are still two years away – now is still time 
 to get organised.\n\nWe look forward to hearing from you, with best 
 regards,\n\nFor the campaign „Nuclear Free Olympic Games 2020“: Annette 
 Bänsch-Richter-Hansen Jörg Schmid Henrik Paulitz Alex Rosen \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/05/18/18823498.php
SUMMARY:Olympics In Fukushima? Are You Insane? Film & Report On Corruption & Olympics
LOCATION:Berkeley Main Library\n2090 Kittredge St, Berkeley CA 94704
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