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Solidarity Letter
Mr. Abdus Sabur |
| Dear Friends, We are fully in support of your appeal. We are sending a separate letter to the government of Japan. With best regards. |
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Letters of Protest against Opening a Tem-porary Runway
Takashi Kimbara |
| I will strongly protest against opening a temporary runway at the Narita International Airport without agreement all local people, especially who work hard to maintain their mother soil. As a main gate of the peaceful country, the Narita International Airport should become one of good models of living together with airport staff, users, the local people and other people who are concerned. |
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An Appeal to Stop the Use of the Temporary Runway at Narita Airport
Yu Yuet Lily Dai |
| Shame on Japan!!! No to Narita Airport!!! Keep up the spirits, folks!!! |
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No Runway at Narita Airport!
Dr. Jean-Franis Gouin |
| Hello, I just want you to know that what you do is the right thing. People's vision might be blurred, and their brain washed, which is why there is so much apathy in the world. To see people standing up as you do is a great source of joy and hope. So keep going. To destroy precious farmland in order to put a piece of concrete in the context of a temporary sport event is complete nonsense. It is criminal to all of us and to the planet. It is plain bad management that goes against common sense and is only directed by the prospect of short-term profit. Shame on those who had this idea! Hurrah! For those who oppose it! Don't give it up. |
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Greetings from Hong Kong!
Kevin Li |
| Dear Narita Airport Emergency Appeal, I first came across the whole stories of Japanese farmers against Narita airport when I was a student. I was deeply impressed by their continuous effort for over 30 years. Undoubtedly we should pay our highest respect to those who insist on struggling against mainstream discourse on national development in such an advanced country. |
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Solidarity: Narita Airport Runway Opposition
Kate B. Showers |
| Dear Sir/Madam, As a soil scientist and long-time supporter of the organic food movement in the United States, I was shocked to read about the Narita Airport "temporary runway" and its impact on local farming in general, and on organic farming in particular. The worldユs supply of good agricultural soil is disappearing at a terrifying rate. Builders of houses, shopping malls and industrial properties find high quality soils with good water supplies to be most suitable for construction. Transportation proponents find these soils good for roads and airports. This leads one to wonder how these residents, consumers and workers who occupy agricultural land will be fed? That a successful link between organic growers and urban residents has been forged in Narita is wonderful, a symbol of hope for the world as cancer and other health hazards associated with agricultural chemicals and overly processed food spread. There is an alternative, it is economically viable, and it has a growing popularity around the world. Rather than destroy this hard work and wonderful example, the government should praise it and turn the area into a model, a national showcase of what could be done. In the past, organic growers in the United States earned from Japanese growers. Now the organic food sector has become the fastest growing portion of United States agriculture. It is the most profitable. For these reasons, large scale corporate farms are trying to take over organic farms and producer groups. The Japanese governmentユs decision to destroy a viable organic farming area is, therefore, incomprehensible. Instead, the Japanese government should take pride in its farmers' traditions and abilities to grow food in a way that is now considered to be one of the most advanced trends in U.S. agriculture-organic farming. Narita should be designated a demonstration area, even a tourist destination. It should not be paved and irreversibly polluted with jet fuels and other petroleum products. I sincerely wish you well in your struggle, and hope that somehow morality and reason will prevail. The earth does not need another runway; it does need more organic growers. Best wishes to you all. |
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Laura Chinnery
(Kings College Cambridge University) |
| Writing to add my name to a petition against the building of an unnecessary and highly damaging runway construction. My name is Laura Chinney, I'm an undergraduate at Kings College Cambridge University. Wishing you best of luck with your cause. |
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Expression of Solidarity and Support
Ingeborg Dybdal Oie |
| I would like to express my solidarity and support of the work you are doing. I am alarmed to hear about this and also by the fact that I haven't discovered what is happening until now. This ought to be a case for the medias, but they seem to fail at any point concerning interests that are opposed to the globalization and the wishes of the big international companies. |
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Mr. C. Hopper Brighton
(England) |
| You have my total support in your brave campaign against the Narita Airport. I will be sending a letter of protest to your government today. |
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Solidarity!
Hanna Jongepier |
| Dear farmers and others who are fighting for their right to exist in harmony with nature. I am writing to you in solidarity and to let you know I am giving you my full support. The struggle for democracy and freedom is a hard one and especially in Japan it takes a lot of effort to bring out the voices of the people and make sure they are heard. The politicians who are reaching out and trying to fight the corruption and conservative practises of the government are silenced as soon as they get too "dangerous". We need transparency, only then a real democracy and fair society can be established. Never be silenced, keep on fighting for your rights and power to the people of the community of Toho! I am writing to protest the inauguration of a temporary runway at the Narita International Airport, scheduled for April 18. I understand that the new runway has been built without adequately consulting those local residents who will be most directly affected by it. I also understand that by opening the runway, the government and the Narita Airport Corporation are violating their promise to find a fair and democratic solution to the airport problem, without recourse to intimidation. Finally, I understand that if the runway becomes operational, the farm community of Toho will become virtually uninhabitable because of high noise levels, pollution from jet exhaust, and wind shears. In view of the above, the planned inauguration of the runway clearly violates the basic rights of local inhabitants. That fact that the central and local governments and the Airport Corporation are aware of these problems and yet insist on making the runway operational casts serious doubt on Japan's commitment to democratic process and elementary justice. For these reasons, I respectfully ask that you work to suspend plans to open the temporary runway and strive to resolve the airport problem democratically, in a way that respects the rights and prerogatives of local residents. Thank you for your time and energy. |
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Solidarity Expression
Sri Prakash |
| Mother Nature has been caring and nourishing every creature including we, human beings. It has been flourishing us with her rich resources and nurturing us till date. The societies we are living in may be different and categorized from country to country, economy-to-economy, etc. But most of these societies don't feel the importance of nature nor a possible path breaking solution for a sustainable feasibility of nature with all socio-cultural activities. These activities should not be organized at the cost of nature and the human beings surviving on nature. This is exactly the case of Narita farmers who suffer and sacrifice their fertile land and other agrarian livelihoods. Not only in a developed economy like Japan but these types of causing serious threat to the nature and eco-system happens almost every part of the world today. It would not be wrong to say that despite of this categorization in economy and living standards, we all are living in a common but mentally underdeveloped society that is sickening. Nature and every creature including human beings should go side by side being complimentary to each other. This is high time we should take firm stand against these issues globally fighting locally to heal this sickening state of our so-called civilized society, like Narita farmers fight for their basic rights. We are expressing our solidarity and support for all those farmers, local residents, who are breathing every moment with lots of insecurity due to thecurrent infrastructure developments and particularly by rebuilding of the airport and the runaway. We demand the authority to take immediate action to stop these operations. |
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