"No! G8 Action"
The Japanese Left Organizes for the 2008 Anti-G8 Protest
Speakers: Go Hirasawa and Sabu Kohso
Wednesday, October 31st at 7:30 PM
The Group of Eight (G8) Summit, a forum for eight of the world's richest and
most powerful nations, will next meet in July of 2008 in the Lake Toya area of
Hokkaido in northern Japan. “No! G8 Action” is a decentralized collective of
anti-authoritarian activists based in Japan that aims to disrupt and shutdown
the 2008 Summit. Two members of the collective, Go Hirasawa and Sabu Kohso, will
report on current organizing for the 2008 protest and discuss the influence of
political and generational differences within the Japanese Left on coalition
building.
Go Hirasawa is a film critic who teaches at Meiji Gakuin University in Tokyo. He
is the author of a number of books on cinema and radical politics and is active
in Japan’s anti-fascist movement.
Sabu Kohso is a Japanese immigrant residing in New York City. A member of the
IWW, he has published two books, in Japan, on radical culture and politics in
New York and has translated works of theorists such as David Graeber and Kojin
Karatani.
$7 - $10, suggested donation
This talk will be held at TRS Inc. Professional Suite
44 East 32nd Street, 11th floor (between Park and Madison Avenues) New York, NY 10016