Pots, Pans and Other Solutions (2012) - So much to learn from Icelanders' Revolution

The origin of what's been going on in the world now is here in Miguel Marques's film.

Thanks to "Bougainvillea Teatime" blogger's voluntary work, we can finally see the film with the Japanese subtitles too :).  Three year behind the release though.

Here's the copy from the original website Pots, Pans and Other Solutions.

Iceland, People Building a RevolutionJuly 14, 2012 by potspansdocumentary 

Synopsis 

In Iceland, the first European country to wake up to an economic crash, people became aware that they could and should intervene in society and started demanding more democratic participation. 

The payment of bank debts by citizens went to referendum. The government was forced to create a Council to write a new constitution: a citizens’ group - without politicians, lawyers or university professors - who opened the discussion process to everybody and managed to approve by consensus a draft proposal. 

In Iceland, many citizens are now organized in associations and have substantial proposals for a society where everyone can participate. 

Let’s meet the Icelanders that the media refuse to talk about.


This documentary was idealized, conceived and produced by Miguel Marques, Yolanda Rienderhoff,  Pedro Bruno Carreira and LIGHTS ON(E). We had no sponsors whatsoever. 

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There's so much we can learn to change our part of the world to get back the Earth in our hands.  Iceland's politics, business world, media, education, etc. were so rotten just as ours, but they overcame the situation.



In the year of 2012, I was a little busy as we were told that my perfectly-healthy looking father's days were numbered.  The sudden cruel sentence was given from a brain doctor in June 20.

The Japanese are now vocal - Huge protest in Tokyo rails against PM Abe's security bills

国会前に風船を使った巨大横断幕「安倍はやめろ！」が上がりました！！ #国会前 #パノラマ - Spherical Image - RICOH THETA

August 30, 2015 will be remembered long. The demonstrations are still smaller than the 1960 anti-security treaty protests, but this time, the people gathered more freely without being organized by groups such as trade unions or political parties.  The information about the schedule was mainly shared in the Internet.  There were some 370 demonstrations held all over Japan.

Quote from Reuters:

Huge protest in Tokyo rails against PM Abe's security bills 

Sun, Aug 30 10:51 AM BST


By Kiyoshi Takenaka

TOKYO (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of protesters gathered near Japan's parliament building on Sunday to oppose legislation allowing the military to fight overseas, the latest sign of public mistrust in Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's security policy.

In one of Japan's biggest protests in years - organizers put the crowd at 120,000 - people of all ages braved occasional rain to join the rally, chanting and holding up placards with slogans such as "No War" and "Abe, quit".

Demonstrators swarmed into the street before parliament's main gate after the crowd size made it impossible for police, out in heavy numbers, to keep them to the sidewalks. A second nearby park area also filled with protesters.

The rally was one of more than 300 this weekend in Japan protesting Abe's move to loosen the post-war, pacifist constitution's constraints on the military.  

"Sitting in front of TV and just complaining wouldn't do,"

said Naoko Hiramatsu, a 44-year-old associate professor in French and one of the Tokyo protesters.

"If I don't take action and try to put a stop on this, I will not be able to explain myself to my child in the future," said Hiramatsu, holding a four-year-old son in her arms in the thick of the protest.

Abe in July pushed through parliament's lower house a group of bills that let Japan's armed forces defend an ally under attack, a drastic shift in Japan's post-war security policy.

The bills are now before the upper chamber, which is also controlled by Abe's ruling bloc and aims to pass the legislation before parliament's session ends on Sept. 27.    

Abe's ratings have taken a hit from opposition to the security bills. Media surveys showing those who oppose his government outnumber backers, and more than half are against the security bills.

"We need to make the Abe government realize the public is having a sense of crisis and angry. Let's work together to have the bills scrapped," Katsuya Okada, head of Japan's largest opposition party, the Democratic Party of Japan, told the Tokyo rally.

The demonstration was the biggest in Tokyo since the mass protests against nuclear power in the summer of 2012, after the March 2011 Fukushima atomic disaster.

(Reporting by Kiyoshi Takenaka and Linda Sieg; Editing by Richard Borsuk)
UNQUOTE

I was thinking of quoting another article form BBC, but it concentrates too much on military discussions simply positively introducing Abe's "religion" as if China might be attacking Japan sooner or later, and the US will be there to protect us as the allies (check out the economic data).  BBC does not reveal that we are also aware of the vested interests of military-industrial complex or deceptions in the Iraq War where the US troops mascaraed numerous amount of innocent civilians like computer games.

All the connected issues have been raised in the Diet, by our Taro Yamamoto: