Sunday, December 13, 2009

Five Hundred Demonstrators in Tokyo Protest the US Embassy in Solidarity with Okinawans against Base Construction in Henoko


With the issue of extra-prefectural transfer of Futenma Airbase in Okinawa developing rapidly in the wake of the approach of November 13 visit of President Obama to Japan, 500 citizens in Tokyo got together at 2:00 p.m., November 8, in Mizutanibashi Park, the Ginza, to march through downtown Tokyo in solidarity with the Okinawa People's Rally against Base Construction in Henoko that was concurrently held. The Tokyo rally was organized by the executive committee for preventing base construction in Henoko. With dugong-shaped huge balloons pt up and in various eye-catching costumes, they appealed to citizens out on Sunday streets of central Tokyo with chants, "Don't kill the sea of dugons!"and "Out with US bases in Okinawa!" After once disbanded in Hibiya Park,they gathered again in front of the US embassy for the rally representative to make appeal (TM at the reporting department) See animation on the Ginza demonstration.


11.8沖縄と連帯して東京で500名が「辺野古への基地建設を許さない」デモ・米大使館へ抗議
 13日のオバマ米大統領の訪日を前に沖縄普天間基地の県外移設問題が急展開するなか、11月8日、辺野古基地建設反対の沖縄県民集会に合わせて、東京でも市民500名が銀座・水谷橋公園に午後2時に集まり銀座など都心をデモ行進した。主催は辺野古への基地建設を許さない実行委員会。ジュゴンの形の大風船を掲げたり、さまざまな衣装で日曜の都心をジュゴンの海を死なせるな!沖縄の米軍基地は要ら
ないなどと市民に訴えた。日比谷公園でいったん解散のあと、アメリカ大使館前に再度集まり、代表が大使館に申し入れを行った。(報道部TM)・銀座デモ動画

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