Homeless in Japan

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Emissary Orion with students in Ebetzu City
Dec 29th, 2003
Kwamba's Wendy and Heather with our comrades at Nagai Park tent village.
"This is a tent city in a park by the hotel I stayed at.
They had made kitchen areas, and use the park bathrooms.
They also had little food carts there, maybe to sell to
business people during the week?
I wasn't in Tokyo long enough to find out."

"This was a common sight, people under awnings.
No sweeps, no cop harassment.
After the shops close for the day,
the awnings are fair game."

Heather pounding the mochi at Nagai Park.
Dec. 29, 2003

A comrade of the Kamagasaki Patrol speaks
Ougimachi Park
Soup kitchen

Orion speaks at Ougimachi Park

Visitors arrive
Welcome meeting
Around the fire

In the HQ tent

Fences to keep out the homeless
Raging against the fence
Missionary line

Nagai structure
In Nagai Park

Dignity posters on Nagai Park bulletin board
Comrades
T is Nagai Park's great yam farmer and cook

A cubicle at the mission
Mission like Auschwitz
Sinks at the mission

Structures in Nishinari Park

"Piss to the Jap imperial flag! Piss to all governments! Viva la uprising! Ich moechte schoene Anarchie! Geh' zum Teufel, alle Kapitalismus und NAZIS! Instead of THEIR VIOLENCE, WE must try to get OUR MUTUAL AID society all over the world." -- Rebel Jill

Emissary Orion at Kyoto anti-war demonstration

Writing organizing bulletins
A comrade of the Kamagasaki Patrol burns a "no trespassing" sign
At Cafe...Peace

Commandante Noma (left), a labor organizer of the Kamagasaki ward, one of Japan's biggest itinerant labor districts
Comrades

"You can hear the people cough from inside the boxes."
Tearing up the anti-homeless fences

Singing the Internationale in Nagai Park

Ill workers

"Kamagasaki Labour Center, a vast, unheated, concrete bunker of misery, a place where companies come to hire workers for jobs across Japan. These days there's not enough work. Many workers lay ill on blankets and in cardboard boxes..."
Labor Union storefront, one of the unions fighting oppression of workers
Writing a letter to Dignity Village

At the tent city in Nishinari Park
At the home of Asahi-san, Kagorhima native and professed Dignity Village otaku (crazed fan)!

Members of the Kamagasaki Patrol look in on an isolated camper

A Kamagasaki shelter, looking unequivocably like a jail. Note the shuttered windows, bars on the stairs, and the cage on the roof.

At the home of Asahi-san
Visitors and Osaka comrades at Shinimamiya Station
Touring the Nishinari shelter

North Amerikan visitors with Kamagasaki comrades
Meeting at Ougimachi Park
Photo exhibition from the Dairin Matsuri Fest

Delegate Comrade N and Dignity comrades

Emissary Orion with students in Ebetzu City	Dec 29th, 2003 Kwamba's Wendy and Heather with our comrades at Nagai Park tent village.	"This is a tent city in a park by the hotel I stayed at. They had made kitchen areas, and use the park bathrooms. They also had little food carts there, maybe to sell to business people during the week? I wasn't in Tokyo long enough to find out."
	"This was a common sight, people under awnings. No sweeps, no cop harassment. After the shops close for the day, the awnings are fair game."
	Heather pounding the mochi at Nagai Park. Dec. 29, 2003
A comrade of the Kamagasaki Patrol speaks	Ougimachi Park	Soup kitchen
	Orion speaks at Ougimachi Park
Visitors arrive	Welcome meeting	Around the fire
In the HQ tent
Fences to keep out the homeless	Raging against the fence	Missionary line
Nagai structure	In Nagai Park
Dignity posters on Nagai Park bulletin board	Comrades	T is Nagai Park's great yam farmer and cook
A cubicle at the mission	Mission like Auschwitz	Sinks at the mission
Structures in Nishinari Park
		"Piss to the Jap imperial flag! Piss to all governments! Viva la uprising! Ich moechte schoene Anarchie! Geh' zum Teufel, alle Kapitalismus und NAZIS! Instead of THEIR VIOLENCE, WE must try to get OUR MUTUAL AID society all over the world." -- Rebel Jill
Emissary Orion at Kyoto anti-war demonstration
Writing organizing bulletins	A comrade of the Kamagasaki Patrol burns a "no trespassing" sign	At Cafe...Peace
Commandante Noma (left), a labor organizer of the Kamagasaki ward, one of Japan's biggest itinerant labor districts	Comrades
"You can hear the people cough from inside the boxes."	Tearing up the anti-homeless fences
Singing the Internationale in Nagai Park		Ill workers
"Kamagasaki Labour Center, a vast, unheated, concrete bunker of misery, a place where companies come to hire workers for jobs across Japan. These days there's not enough work. Many workers lay ill on blankets and in cardboard boxes..."	Labor Union storefront, one of the unions fighting oppression of workers	Writing a letter to Dignity Village
	At the tent city in Nishinari Park	At the home of Asahi-san, Kagorhima native and professed Dignity Village otaku (crazed fan)!
Members of the Kamagasaki Patrol look in on an isolated camper		A Kamagasaki shelter, looking unequivocably like a jail. Note the shuttered windows, bars on the stairs, and the cage on the roof.
At the home of Asahi-san	Visitors and Osaka comrades at Shinimamiya Station	Touring the Nishinari shelter
North Amerikan visitors with Kamagasaki comrades	Meeting at Ougimachi Park	Photo exhibition from the Dairin Matsuri Fest
Delegate Comrade N and Dignity comrades