TODAY @ PLACE: Peace-Making in Japan After Nuclear Disaster

[PLACE for Sustainable Living]

Peace-Making in Japan After Nuclear Disaster

TODAY!!

NOVEMBER 4th

5pm-9pm

Potluck, Presentation, and Dialogue! 

REGISTRATION

Join Takafumi Tomita, a long term anti-nuclear, peace, and environmental activist, as he shares his activism experience in post-Fukushima Japan.

He hopes to share his perspectives from his experiences on his political actions, activities to protect children from radiation, and practices of revitalizing traditional food to protect and strengthen mind and body, and to exchange ideas in current forms of actions for “social innovation and craftsmanship” that inherits the spirit of Ghandian Charkha movement. 

His talk includes varieties of his approach in peace-making activism such as
• health recuperation camps,
• food as medicine for radiation protection,
• miso-making and plant dyeing as a way to create local resilience and self-sustainability independent of nuclear power plant and war economy,
• farming as a place for nuturing hope from the ground
• community organizing through creating a place for workshop
• creating Earth Day at House of representatives office in Japan to invite politicians to the place making

SCHEDULE: 
5:00 ~ 6:30 potluck (optional) 
6:30 ~ 7:00 Check in 
7:00 ~ 9:00 Talk and Dialogue

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This event is operated under a gift economy with a suggested donation of $ 5-10 dollars, which will be 100% gifted to the PLACE as our gratitude for hosting the event. Please pay this in advance on the Paypal. 

TO PRE-REGISTER: Make a payment through PAYPAL and include a note: "PEACEMAKING" along with your full name and email if different from your Paypal account. 


As for Taka's time and labor, he wishes to invite people to be part of his on-going activism by supporting him in a way you feel inspired to by free-will participation fee, which will be collected at the event. 
He currently have his philosophy on gift in Japanese on his website but google translate does an OK job communicating his intention, so please refer to the site to read on his philosophy on activism. (we are working on English translation so, hopefully this will come soon).

http://takafumitomita.blogspot.jp/p/gift.html

Please bring a dish to share and your own plate/cups/utensils if you wish to join the potluck :D

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ABOUT TAKA

Takafumi Tomita is a peace and environmental activist, author, and practitioner of Japanese traditional handicrafts, healing and care, fermentation, and calendar. While based in Osaka, Japan, he has travelled all over Japan holding many workshops and events to share his knowledge and passion on topics including natural and plant dyeing, miso making, relationship of our body and mind, and alternative calendars (lunar and 13moon calendar). He practices and shares plant dyeing, miso making and other traditional handicrafts as his core embodiment of peace activism to empower community and build local resilience. 

You can see some of his products at here: http://fukikobo.blogspot.jp/p/shop-photo-gallery.html

His website (only in Japanese)
http://takafumitomita.blogspot.jp/

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