Index > ★The Call Out
8 may 2021 Saturday
16:00 Gather at JR Shinjyuku-station east exit ALTA-square ("ALTA mae hiroba")
16:30 Start the Sound-Demonstration march around Shinjyuku
18:00 Speak out by valious activists
Host: WADA Takuma(Activist, Yokohama Ikki).
Guest speaker: AMEMIYA Karin (Author, activist),
NANAMI Nami (Underground translator),
IKEGAMI Atsuko (Reading Artist, art exhibition "Declaration of end of Olympic games"),
KURITA Ryuko (Author, activist),
ODA Asahi (Activist, "Amuyume kikaku"),
HATAKENO Tomato (Transgender activist),
Gregory KATO (Queer leftists in Japan),
DJ Mixnoise
19:30 FreeRave!!!!! djmixnoise
Organiser: Mayday for Freedom and Survival 2021
Contact: Freeter union
e-mail:union@freeter-union.org
We declare:
Money not appreciation!
Compensation not fines!
Care not punishment!
Let’s go to the demo instead of practicing “self-restraint”!
We are alive.
Surrounded by disasters and plagues, frightened by crisis, wandering around the city amidst poverty and discrimination, anxious about what tomorrow might bring. Our lives are dictated by neoliberalism while a never-ending game of punishment continues.
Meanwhile, those who do not feel these anxieties areconfident that they have nothing to do with them. Every day, these oligarchs and politicians perpetuate discrimination and injustice against women, foreigners, low-wage and part-time workers, the unemployed, sex workers, LGBTQ people, and so many other marginalized groups. Right now, they are working hard to prepare the Olympic Games as their “proof of victory over the plague” and “peace festival.” In this, they seek to distract us with the turmoil and frenzy of Olympic pageantry, like the hysteria that comes before war.
What should we do?
We are constantly feeling the pain of injustice, the pain of having our feet trampled. At the same time, we are trampling someone else’s feet. Tomorrow – which we look forward to with a sense of hope – is overshadowed by the disappointment of today. Should we wait quietly for “victory” to come after this repetitious cycle?
Enough of this madness! We don’t need “victory over the plague” to continue living. There is no peace here. We just want to live.
We celebrate our lives and sing freedom.
To May Day of Freedom and Survival!
Mayday for Freedom and Survival 2021