The Japanese Communist Party has launched its campaign for the upcoming House of Councillors election this month with the customary tactics of speeches in public places and canvassing, but has also created surely the most original videos by any of the parties competing for votes. Released online on 7 July, the “WE ARE Kyōsantō!” (We […]
To protest the Olympic Games is to protest a global system of corporate sponsorship and capital that takes precedence over the needs of the locals who actually pay in the end for the bonanza. As such, anti-Olympics groups are increasingly transnational, whereby protest movements in host cities join up with peers and allies around the […]
Calling all designers and artists! The Anti-Olympic Poster Committee is a new initiative by the Institute of Barbarian Books, an independent print workspace in Fukushima, which has issued an open call for participants. People are encouraged to “join” the committee by creating a poster “based on the idea of being against the Olympic spectacle” and […]
