Greetings from Okinawa!

After traveling through Australia, New Zealand, Korea and Japan (The main island of Honshu), we are finally at our last destination: Okinawa. As you might know, Okinawa has 75% of the US Bases in Japan. It is a small and beautiful place, but the bases and related facilities are everywhere. It reminds me of Oahu Island of Hawaii.

Our purpose here is to show the film, 911 In Plane Site to as many Okinawans and US soldiers as possible. If you live here in Okinawa and want to come to one of our film showings, please call me on 098-886-0604. We will be showing the film on Honto (the main island of Okinawa) almost every day and night until March 17.

If you are American, or a US soldier, you can get a free copy of the DVD: 911 In Plane Site from me. To know more about the film, go to:

www.911inplanesite.com

I am looking for Americans living anywhere in Japan who would like to organize film showings of 911 In Plane Site. If you would like to have a showing or know anyone who would be interested, please give me a call.

Yesterday and today, we went to Nakijin-son where young Japanese are trying to create a sustainable community. Their project is called Shima Project and their website is: www.shimapro.com

They are really enjoying their life, using their talents to the full, being members of the community to help and support each other using their individual skills. I was quite excited to see such Japanese young people with bright eyes and shining smiles. Our next generation is growing up fine. What a good feeling it was to meet such a group of young people.

Better go now. My kids are shouting from the bath room, "Mammy, let's take a bath together (Isshoni ofuro hairo)." See you soon!

Love and Peace,

Yumi

STOP THE AIRBASE and SAVE DUGONGS IN JAPAN!

I am writing this from Okinawa.

I am going to show 911 In Plane Site at Henoko where activists are gathering everyday to stop the drilling. The showing is scheduled on March 13, from 10 to 12am. On the same day there is another showing at the Syuri Komin Kan (Shuri Public Center) from 2 to 4pm in Naha.

Both showings are free of charge, so please come and join us! The ocean is ours and our children‘s, not for a base of killing.

STOP THE AIRBASE and SAVE DUGONGS IN JAPAN!

Thanks.

Yumi
(to contact me call 090-4011-6488)

Photo’s from Iraq - Look at these kids!

It is getting worse in Iraq. The following e-mail came from a friend of mine who has been helping Iraqi children. Take a moment to look at photos here. Why do they have to be suffering? How can we stop this? How can we withdraw all the troops from Iraq?

From: Jamila Takahashi
Date: 2005 Jan30th 2:56:10:JST
Subject: Dar Jamal

Dar Jamal provides us a chance to see what Baghdad is like.

His ever increasing set of photo "albums" and his recently shot photos of kids are here: http://mparent7777.blog-city.com/read/1034431.htm

Some of these are sets about the war, others are of daily life.

Mr Jamal also runs an informative blog which he writes an account a few days a week here: http://dahrjamailiraq.com/weblog

Check these out.

For what it's worth, the likely confirmation of the man who wrote the memos authorizing torture as the Attorney General of the US is putting the US government, not just the Bush administration, in a horrible light here in Ireland (and evidently the rest of Europe).

Call your Senators in the US and urge that Alberto Gonzales not be confirmed. Capitol switchboard: (800) 839-5276 or (800) 648-3516 (toll-free) or (202) 224-3121 (ask for Senator by name) [If an 800 number doesn't work, please tell me.]

Anyone reading this in Australia?

Greeting from Sydney. Yumi, a writer and peace & environmental activist and natural - sustainable life advocator, is now traveling in Australia with her family, Gen, Anna and Manabu. We did one film showing of 911 In Plane Site in a northern part of Sydney at our new friends' house.

Martha and Philip are the brave couple who welcomed us into their home and allowed us to have the film showing and gathering at their place. What nice people they are and how lucky we are to konw them! We never met before, it was just through the internet that we got to know each other. They liked what we have been doing for peace.

I would like to do more film showings in Sydney. We will ge heading north and stopping Coffs Harbour and Byron Bay before going to Brisbane. The only dates which are scheduled for us are Jan 21, 22. We have 6 days before leaving here. I now have mobile, and if you know anyone in Australia who is interested in seeing the film, or havng the DVD or VHS of 911 In Plane Site, please let them know through my blog or homepage address. Or just call me if you are interested.

USA 911 In Plane Site Homepage: http://www.911inplanesite.com
My homepage: http://www.peace2001.org/
My mobile: 04-1674-0870

Yumi

Welcome to my English Blog!

Hi Everyone,

Check back here regularly to view my English blog!

Yumi