"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
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