Showing posts with label Shimin Rengo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Shimin Rengo. Show all posts

Saturday, October 21, 2017

“We’ll never give up, never be beaten! Go on fighting!” ~NAKANO Koichi encourages viewers on Labornet TV



“I feel a little happier now.” “I am somewhat relieved.”  The audience uttered  words of relief on October 11 just after the broadcast by the Labornet TV. [how do you know??]  The theme of the day’s program was “How to see the coming election. What is our choice?” The guest speaker was NAKANO Koichi, one of the facilitators of Shimin Rengo (Civil Alliance for Peace and Constitutionalism). “The Democratic Party collapsed overnight, and I felt hopeless,” he confessed. “But I was relieved that The Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan was established. The party has no money, no organization and no office, because the representative of the Democratic Party, MAEHARA took over the Democratic Party. What was most severe for us was the lack of  time. But we have held on, and support from the citizens has enabled us to persevere.”  Still, the situation is severe.  Even if all the candidates of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan win their seats, the opposition forces against the constitutional amendment will decline, failing to reach one-third of the congressional seats. NAKANO continued, “The Abe administration has not been able to amend the constitution yet, even with over two-thirds of the seats, because it is not confident of victory in the national referendum.  We can still hold on. We will resist stubbornly. We will never be beaten even if we don’t win. Let us never give up fighting.” (Labornet TV Project)


「負けない あきらめない闘いをつくっていこう」〜レイバーネットTVで中野晃一さん

「気持ちが明るくなった」「スッキリした」、1011日のレイバーネットTVが終わったあとにギャラリーから寄せられた感想だった。この日のテーマは「総選挙をどうみるか、私たちの選択は?」で、ゲストは「市民連合」世話人の中野晃一さん(写真)。中野さんは「民進党が一夜にして壊され目の前が真っ暗になった」と述懐。でも「立憲民主党ができたのでホッとした。前原氏が党を乗っ取ってしまったので、立憲民主党はお金も組織も事務所もない。一番厳しいのは時間がなかったことだ。でもよくここまで頑張った。それは市民の支えがあったから」と語った。しかし状況は厳しい。仮に立憲民主党が全員当選しても「改憲反対勢力」は今より小さくなり三分の一まで届かない。中野さんは続けた。「安倍政権はいまも三分の二の勢力をもちながら改憲できないのは、国民投票で勝つ自信がないから。まだまだ頑張れる。私たちはしぶとく抵抗し、勝たなくても“負けない あきらめない闘いをつくっていこう」と呼びかけた。(レイバーネットTVプロジェト)
 

Labornet TV program No. 124 How do we view the general election 2017?--Our Choice at the election



 
The upcoming election will be featured on the Labornet TV program on Oct.11.
“Abe will win if he calls a snap election now!” “Abe wants to fend off criticism over the favoritism scandals involving Kake Educational Institution and Morimoto Gakuen.”  For these very reasons, the Abe administration forcefully dissolved the Lower House at the extraordinary Diet session without Diet deliberations., provoking political turmoil.  The establishment of a new political party, Kibo-no-to (Party of Hope) on Sep.27 and the alignment of the Democratic Party of Japan with Kibo-no-to made the main opposition party disappear in just one night.  Before joining Kibo-no-to, DPJ members were forced to sign an allegiance pledge, in which they were asked to stand by the party’s policies, such as agreeing on the security legislation and the constitutional revision. Although Kibo-no-to is losing momentum, the possibility has been raised that an ‘Imperial Rule Assistant Association (Taisei Yokusankai)’ type of coalition aiming for the constitutional revision will be born among four political parties---Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), Komeito, Nihon-Ishin-no-kai and Kibo-no-to.  Will Japan change quickly into a country that can wage a war?  It was a new political party, the Constitutional Democratic Party (CDC) that stood up resolutely in midst of such a political crisis.   The lower house election battle has now come to take the shape of a battle between the three opposition parties--CDC, Japan Communist Party (JCP), and the Socialist Democratic Party (SDP) together with ‘Shimin Rengo’ (Civil Alliance for Peace and Constitutionalism) vs advocates of  Constitutional revision.  How should we see and respond to such a political situation?  We would like to think about it together with Koichi NAKANO (facilitator for the Civil Alliance for Peace and Constitutionalism) as our guest. (Labornet TV Project)



レイバーネットTV番組案内 : 総選挙をどうみるか、私たちの選択は?

11日のレイバーネットTVは「総選挙」を取り上げる。「今なら勝てる」「モリカケから逃げたい」。それだけで理由で、国会審議を吹っ飛ばして臨時国会冒頭に解散を強行した安倍政権。ところがそのあと政局は大激震となった。927日の「希望の党」結成と民進党の合流で、野党第一党が一夜にしてなくなってしまった。希望の党入党にあたって民進党議員に突きつけられたのは「安保法制賛成・改憲」の踏み絵だった。希望の党が失速ぎみとはいえ、今回の選挙で「自公希維」の「改憲・大政翼賛会」が生まれる可能性が出てきた。日本は戦争する国に一挙にすすむのか? その危機的状況のなかで毅然と立ち上がったのが立憲民主党だった。いまたたかいの構図は「野党3党(立憲民主党・共産党・社民党)+市民連合」vs「改憲勢力」となった。私たちはこの事態をどうみたらいいのか、どう関わっていったらいいのか。市民連合世話人の中野晃一さんをゲストに一緒に考えてみたい。(レイバーネットTVプロジェクト)