And people said Japanese people are apathetic! NOT! Protests against U.S. Bases in Okinawa

Reclaiming the phrase "Tea Party!" Okinawans are taxed in many ways by the U.S. military bases- they foot half of the bill for the bases and have to suffer with violence, military personnel getting away with crimes as vicious as rape and hit and run murder, societal and environmental destruction, helicopters dropping out of the sky onto their elementary schools and universities then to be covered up by military take overs of their institutions to clean up the evidence, et cetera. All the while, the are the poorest prefecture in all of Japan, and Tokyo and Washington, D.C. have ignored 65 years of Okinawan democratic efforts to get rid of the bases on their land, claiming that the bases are necessary for the Okinawan economy and to protect Japan.Talk about being taxed without representation!


The link (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xoYlL6WQZY) will take you to Footage of Open-Air Tea Party, Rally, and Demonstration on April 25th in Kyoto. You can also watch below.This action was in solidarity with the prefecture-wide rally against U.S. bases in Okinawa and particularly the relocation of bases to Henoko. 90-100,000 people participated in the rally in Okinawa (side by side with 39 mayors out of 41 total mayors in Okinawa) and 400 participated in Kyoto. The action was organized by Kyoto Action (http://kyoto-action.jugem.jp) and videotaped by me:)