🚨📲 SMASH THE MATCH WEEK 9📲🚨
[INSTRUCTIONS ON SLIDES 4!]
http://actionnetwork.org/letters/when-will-aichi-respect-human-rights-5
(Updated template ∆)
With over 1,800 e-mails sent and hundreds of comments posted on Aichi-related pages, the recent disruption and takeover of the Aichi Triennale, & the RESIGNATION of the corporate liaison connected to the Aichi-Israel Matching Program from the Triennale Committee, the SMASHTHEMATCH campaign just keeps going!!
Now in our 9th week, we need to keep the pressure on. The Nagoya Mothers for Palestinian Children handed in their petition on 17/09, but the only thing that will get it heard sooner is making it a BIG international issue that the governor of Aichi (Omura) will ultimately prioritise as it becomes an unavoidable issue. He is now on the list of people you e-mail when you send the petition, as well as the Obayashi Corporation, the main sponsor of the Aichi Triennale. They are complicit in both the occupation of Okinawa through its construction of the Henoko base, AND a BDS violator for employing Innoviz laser technology in doing so from the Zionist Entity!
So we ask our global community to KEEP SENDING E-MAILS this week, EVEN IF YOU DID IT BEFORE! Log out & back in, or use another e-mail address to LET THEM KNOW what we think about hosting this ‘peaceful’ sporting event in a prefecture complicit in genocide!
DO NOT think your comments and emails are meaningless. We consistently hear back from our comrades in Japan that it 1) boosts local organisers’ confidence, 2) creates a headache and pressure on Aichi officials who care a lot about their int’l ‘image’, and 3) creates the ‘chatter’ that gets reporters and human rights orgs interested in the deep-investigative work we need to PROVE the despicable genocidal links in the global supply chain locally in Aichi.
The four main demands of SMASHTHEMATCH continue to be:
A full report on historical details of the Matching Program
The IMMEDIATE end of the Matching Program + written confirmation
A formal apology to the community for the harms caused by this program
A written commitment to NEVER engage in any future partnerships with ‘Israeli’ companies
Remember… No one action is enough to meet our responsibility to the Palestinian people. So send e-mails, donate to fundraisers (like our bi-weekly highlight for @aseel_harara!), and GET OUT ON THE STREETS when and where you are able to keep escalating for Palestine.
AICHI, PICK A SIDE: JUSTICE OR GENOCIDE?
Slide 1: CANCEL the Aichi-Israel Matching Program!
Weekly Phone & Inbox Blockade
#SMASHTHEMATCH!
A smart phone which has two notifications. The first reads: 愛知はジェノサイドへの加担をやめろ！The second: Tawfiq Canaan (Palestine flag emoji) We are nearly done rebuilding every hospital that was destroyed in the last genocide before the Entity collapsed!
Slide 2: WHAT IS IT?
Since 2022, the Aichi Prefectural Government in Japan has partnered with the Israel Innovation Authority (IIA) & Startup Nation Central (SNC) to promote collaborations between ‘Israeli’ startups and companies in Aichi.
Despite 22+ months of non-stop genocidal war crimes and calls by the local community to cancel this program, this collaboration is belligerently pushing forward to “integrate Israeli cutting-edge technology” into Japan’s manufacturing region.
Claiming to promote “Climate, Agri-Food, and Health Tech”, in reality, this “innovation” alliance is in lock-step with Japan’s rapid re-militarization. This program is a deadly fusion of Israel’s immoral, genocidal tech industry with some of the most advanced manufacturers in the world, many of which have barely washed their hands of the bloody profits of Japan’s own imperialist wars.
Slide 3: WHAT’S NEXT?
We have sent a combined total of 1,827 e-mails and hundreds of Instagram comments to Aichi prefecture, Triennale, and Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games–and we don’t plan on stopping!
Our agitation & local action already helped to achieve the resignation of Mr. Tomita, a key liaison between the Aichi-Israel Matching Program & the Triennale. But there has been no response to our key demands, and the Triennale remains shamefully sponsored by Obayashi Corporation, complicit in the occupation of Okinawa through the construction of the Henoko base, which is opposed by local community, destroys marine life, and uses Innoviz vehicle vision technology from the Zionist Entity.
Aichi also announced the latest local companies to match with the Entity: Japanese companies Moriyasu, Acompany, and ProDrone–showing it feels no irony in preaching ‘peace’ while working with the largest killer of children in the world.
For our 9th global day of action we have updated the target list to cover even more stakeholders. Please see slide 4 for instructions!
Slide 4: This week, we call on our global community to keep flooding e-mails as we have updated our petition with new targets! Follow this QR code to send more e-mails now, even if you already did so before! (Log out & back in if necessary)
Don’t worry, it’s really easy to do & all privacy setting are on, so they will only see your name. We want to flood their Instagram AND their inboxes this week, so please do both if you can!
QR code & red arrow
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/when-will-aichi-respect-human-rights-5
Screenshots of the petition
Slide 5: THEMES
Japanese companies/gov’t care a lot about their international image. It’s important that we show them that the world is watching–and that we won’t accept quiet evasions!
tinyurl.com/CancelAichiTemplates
Points to cover:
–No sports-, art-, or eco-washing genocide, Okinawa occupation & militarization!
-Demand that the Aichi-Israel Matching Program be cancelled immediately
-Disappointment at the violation of human rights & international law
-Cancelling future plans to travel to Aichi/Japan because of this partnership
-Commitment to spread the boycott amongst the Japanese diaspora
-Demand transparency around why past petition of 20,000+ signatures was ignored
Slide 6: For more information about ‘Cancel Aichi-Israel Matching Program’, see the link in our bio or visit
tinyurl.com/CancelAichiMatching
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@bdsjapanbulletin
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We won’t stop until our four key demands are met:
A full report on historical details of the Matching Program
The IMMEDIATE end of the Matching Program + written confirmation
A written commitment to NEVER engage in any future partnerships with ‘Israeli’ companies
An apology to the community
FREE PALESTINE/パレスチナ解放!!!