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In Response to SF Chronicle about Protesters demading apology for WWII Sex Slaves
My letter is my thoughts and appreciation for a SF Chronicle article that detailed the work of protesters demanding apology from the Japanese Consulate in SF for WWII sex slaves. It exposed the horrors of WWII precipitated by the Japanese army and is denied by Japan even now. It helps to expose the struggles of Asians in America as well as the world and lets the public know the complexity and difficulty that the vast amount of Asians of all cultures must deal with both among and outside of Asia.
As a Filipino American from the Bay Area (Union City/ Hayward area) and my family experienced the horrors the Japanese Army inflicted on my homeland during World War II. Both my grandfathers fought against the Japanese and even endured and survived the infamous Bataan Death March after the Fall of Corregidor. My grandmothers were placed in internment camps and also survived and endured. None of them talk of the war much, but I know that they still hold many ill feeling for what the Japanese Army did. I have researched and wrote various articles about the struggles of the Filipinos, and the issue of comfort women is one of the worst atrocities. The fact that Japan refuses to apologize, much less acknowledge what they did, is truly angering. Your article really came to my attention and I am glad to hear that such protests are going on and I hope that their will be information regarding future demonstrations. Thanks for helping to bring attention to more issues concerning Asians in America; I feel we have been underrepresented for too long.
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When I was a guest speaker on Ann Simonton's radio talk show, three Asian women were also guests. They told of atrocities inflicted by Japanese men on "comfort" women that are too horrific to mention here. They match the rapes and tortures suffered by European women during the witch burnings.
We live in a world where women are despised, degraded, raped, tortured and killed. Mens war against women is the worlds longest lasting atrocity (5,000 years). Men may kill other men for being Jews, blacks etc but they kill women for being women.
Read "Going Out of Our Minds" by Sonia Johnson to really understand the enormous depth of the male collective's hatred and torture of women. Although all individual men dont hate women, enough men do, which causes the male collective to continue raping, murdering, degrading and despising women in every nation, in every social strata, in every culture, in every ethnic group and every race on Earth.
Instead of declaring Santa Cruz a Nuclear Free Zone, how about declaring it a Male Violence Against Women Free Zone? Then Santa Cruz would be the first city on Earth where women are no longer battered and raped in the home or beat up and raped on the streets.
We live in a world where women are despised, degraded, raped, tortured and killed. Mens war against women is the worlds longest lasting atrocity (5,000 years). Men may kill other men for being Jews, blacks etc but they kill women for being women.
Read "Going Out of Our Minds" by Sonia Johnson to really understand the enormous depth of the male collective's hatred and torture of women. Although all individual men dont hate women, enough men do, which causes the male collective to continue raping, murdering, degrading and despising women in every nation, in every social strata, in every culture, in every ethnic group and every race on Earth.
Instead of declaring Santa Cruz a Nuclear Free Zone, how about declaring it a Male Violence Against Women Free Zone? Then Santa Cruz would be the first city on Earth where women are no longer battered and raped in the home or beat up and raped on the streets.
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