There are former activists and land protectors among the migrant workers in the program. Debt by brokers, surveillance&control by the program body (which could lead to forced return back home), and tyranny from the imm. dept prevent them from exercising their rights.

CW: brutalization of migrant worker Absolutely disgusting. Govt sanctioned modern day slavery in Japan. Rarely do migrant workers themselves come forward to fight abuse like this.

“We are made to work like a slave. No chance to exercise our rights.” the migrant worker in Japan who deceased due to suicide. We must channel their voices and power to stand with them and fight along side them.

When a migrant from tech intern training goes "missing" and then they are labeled as "illegal" working to pay back the debt they took on to come to Japan. They are simply exercising their RIGHTS to switch jobs.

The program that regards seeking another job as "run-away" or "illegal" in itself is absurd. The system that bounds trainee/interns to a workplace with chronic labour shortage in Japan. #ABOLISH技能実習制度NOW #私たちの同僚を違法にするな

Activists demand stop to 🇯🇵 Japan-funded coal plant in climate-vulnerable Bangladesh 🇧🇩 news.trust.org/item/202201281… Say the coal-fired power plant will undermine global climate goals and harm local communities - and goes against Japan's promise to stop financing coal overseas

Kentaro Yamamoto, an activist with student movement Fridays for Future Japan, said international support for such energy infrastructure was being offered to Asian countries as "development assistance" but was "destroying the environment". news.trust.org/item/202201281…

at a meeting with a tech. intern trainee today… “Stop calling us an intern or a trainee. We are migrant workers.” we work so hard for low wages under such abysmal conditions” They are determined to change the way it is now.

バングラデシュ・マタバリ石炭火力事業について、どれくらいの人が知っているだろうか？住友商事などの日本企業とJICAが進めている事業で、現地では環境破壊と人権侵害が起きている。映像は、発電所の建設のために川の一部が埋め立てられ、漁が出来なくなり困窮する漁民の声。 x.com/i/status/14413…

フランスのリベラシオン紙でPOSSEの田所さん（Marikojiei Tadokoro/田所真理子ジェイ）と一緒に移民労働者の実態と支援についてコメントしています。西村記者（西村 カリン (Karyn NISHIMURA)💙💛）の記事です。 Au Japon, des migrants recrutés en apprentissage puis réduits en esclavage liberation.fr/international/…

If we are fragmented, we can't win. If we don't understand the workings of imperialism and don't take concrete action against it, we can't unite to end capitalism that depletes our bodies and the planet.

gotta get my hands on this new book! incl., practically enslaving migrant workers in jpn by taking their passports away indefinitely, union busting by the state-sanctioned program, youths in jpn supporting kudish asylum seekers etc etc

institutional failure in immigration detention in jpn: arbitrary, non-transparent, torturous decision-making/treatment

こちら、明日の13時より渋谷にて開催です！ 能條桃子(能條桃子 )さん、ヒル・ダリア(Dahlia Hill #FridaysForFuture Japan )さん、山本健太朗(Kentaro Yamamoto（山本健太朗） )さん、斎藤幸平(斎藤幸平 )さんと、Z世代の社会運動について議論します。 私も今から楽しみです。まだチケットありますのでぜひ。 generationleft.peatix.com

カナダでは食品の価格高騰が進み、６万をこえる在加外国人農業労働者は、自らの食事を犠牲にしないと本国に十分な送金ができなくなっています。nationalobserver.com/2022/08/29/new…