Tag: custodial interference

Strange Fruit: Homologous Products of U.S. Sponsorship – Right Wing Violence and Child Abduction

September 16, 2013

View Post   Get ready for the Radiation Olympics – Japan 2020 Fruit of the Trees On Which They’re Grown, Watered by the United States (The following is a letter sent to the U.S. Congressional Representative from Astoria, New York in September, 2013.  I’d signed a petition and written a note to the Congressperson’s office … More Strange Fruit: Homologous Products of U.S. Sponsorship – Right Wing Violence and Child Abduction

Novelty and Savagery

September 16, 2013

Daily they would vainly storm, Pick and shovel, stroke for stroke; Where the flames would nightly swarm Was a dam when we awoke. Human sacrifices bled, Tortured screams would pierce the night, And where blazes seaward spread A canal would greet the light. – Goethe, Faust, 11123-30, (from Berman, p.64) ¹ Marshall Berman, who published … More Novelty and Savagery

U.N. officials to visit families of abductees – North Korean abductees – in Japan.

August 18, 2013

The story below appeared in the Yomiuri Shimbun on August 19th, 2013, announcing that the leading members of the UN Human Rights Council has created a Commission of Inquiry to travel to Japan to hold a new round of  interviews with  the surviving relatives of 15 to 20 Japanese who were abducted and taken to … More U.N. officials to visit families of abductees – North Korean abductees – in Japan.

Throw Stones in A Glass House – Or, Support Kizuna Child Parent Reunion (Instead)

August 10, 2013

“Negotiations sometimes last so long you don’t know whether they’re still part of the war, or the beginning of peace.” – Gilles Deleuze, 1990 First I want to introduce my friends: Kizuna Chid Parent Reunion (Kizuna -CPR)  is a non-profit organization whose stated goal is to restore human rights to children in Japan, so that … More Throw Stones in A Glass House – Or, Support Kizuna Child Parent Reunion (Instead)