May we
Stop the Spreading/Burning of Fukushima Daiichi's Radioactive Rubble
~ We MUST Protect Children and Future Generations Worldwide!~
LONDON ENGLAND ロンドン
NEW YORK U.S.A. ニューヨーク
＊Japanese Embassy in LONDON, UK with Bianca Jagger.
在ロンドン日本大使館 ビアンカジャガー！
＊OSAKA Prefecture Governor [大阪府知事]
＊Office of Recycling-Based Society Promotion (the department that deal with rubbles)
＊Department of Environment, Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries
[大阪府環境農林水産部 循環型社会推進室至言循環課]
The placard says “Let us accept Evacuees not Radioactive rubble!”
Well, we did it! The prefectural gov't recycling section chief held his pencil...but took no notes. He reiterated that Wakayama had already refused rubble, however didn't quite understand that Osaka & Kyoto (an hour away) had not yet formally refused...a bit nervous. BUT, we had 3 section chiefs from Waste Management take us to a separate conference room at the City Hall and one chief echoed his personal agreement that it would be morally impossible to have other civil servants (below him) handling such radioactive rubble at any local incineration facility. Also, he informed us how the regional organization works for Kansai (southwest Japan) disposal of radioactive waste to landfill. Small, local victory here.
＊WAKAYAMA Prefecture Office [和歌山県庁]
＊WAKAYAMA City Hall [和歌山市役所]
＊Toshihiro Nikaido （a member of the House of Representatives）
Former minister Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism
[ニ階としひろ衆議院議員,元国土交通省大臣]
SHIGA JAPAN 滋賀
OSAKA JAPAN 大阪
WAKAYAMA JAPAN 和歌山
SanFrancisco U.S.A. サンフランシスコ
＊Japanese Consulate
FUKUSHIMA Fallout Awareness Network is also delivering letters to Senator Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein today in SanFrancisco and Washington, DC which urgently request safety oversight and congressional hearings
into the lack of milk, water, food and topsoil monitoring of cesium-137 (with a hazardous life
of 300 years) and other dangerous radioisotopes now confirmed in California from the Japanese
nuclear disaster.
To support this effort, sign the petition!
Washington DC U.S.A. ワシントンDC
I submitted the letter today with two of my collegues to the deputy consul general Mrs. Yoshie Funaki-Kobayashi at the Munich consulate general. She obviously was very impressed to see how many people from how many countries signed it. We did nothing spectacular, no photos or whatsoever. But I'm really glad they didn't refuse to receive it - in the beginning it looked like they would... But after about 40 minutes waiting, the deputy consul general came to see me. She promised she will give it to Tokyo. So, in the end, I really had A LOT OF FUN! Because I was really happy that it's not only the big organizations or the number of people that can make happen things like this but as well average people who get a voice if they want.
Munich GERMANY ミュンヘン
＊Japanese Consulate
同僚二人と手紙を提出しにいきました。領事ヨシエ フナキーコバヤシさんはとても多くの国から多くの人の署名が集まっている事に感心してらっしゃいました。私たちは特に特別なことは何もしませんでした。写真も撮りませんでした。。でも、拒否されずに手紙を受け取ってもらえてとてもうれしかったです。始めは拒否されそうな雲行きだったので。。。４０分ほど待たされて領事が会いに来てくれました。彼女は東京に手紙と署名を送ることを約束してくれました。結果的にはとても楽しい一日でした。なぜなら、大きい団体やたくさんの人たちだけがこういうことをできるのではなく、一般人の私たちでも声をあげたいと思えば、こういうことができることがわかって、とても嬉しいです。
