New Orleans If you live within 50-miles of a nuclear power plant, then count yourself part of the majority of the US population, since that’s the case for 65% of us. On the other hand, you may not want to hear all about this, but folks with the Union of Concerned Scientists and Princeton University …
Tag: Japan
Alinsky in Japan
New Orleans My friend and colleague in Japan, Ken Yamazaki, is a researcher and scholar in addition to being an advocate for community organizing. Before, during, and after visiting Tokyo and speaking there at his invitation last fall, he often asked me if I had any information or proof that Saul Alinsky visited Japan. My …
Seoul Mayor and the International Welfare Forum
Seoul The Mayor of Seoul, Won Son Park, is a widely recognized progressive, former human rights lawyer, and as he pointedly mentioned to me, “an activist.” As speakers at the afternoon conference, we were meeting with him early in the morning along with the leadership of the Seoul Welfare Foundation which was sponsoring the Seoul …
Notes on Japan for My Father
Seoul The economic news from Japan is grim. Exports, the lifeblood of much of the country’s economy was down 10% in September to the lowest point in 30 years reflecting the continuing aftershock of the worldwide recession, aggravated by a currently unresolved land and trade dispute with China that led the downturn. One person I …
The Japanese Anti-Nuclear Movement
Tokyo When the world watched the daily horror of the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami and the tragedy it brought to eastern Japan, we also then read the daily headlines as several nuclear power plants hovered near meltdown. Gayle Soto, a professor of Asian-American literature, at Meiji University told me to write down the …