Dec. 10 Nationwide Action Day for Gaza

Peace on Palestine!
Demand Japanese government call for a complete ceasefire! 

     
      Since Oct. 7, Israel's indiscriminate attacks on Gaza have already killed more than 15,000 people (as of Dec. 1), 6,150 of whom are children. The truce lasted just seven days, and 174 people died on Dec. 1st after the fighting resumed. Many UN human rights experts stated that grave violations committed by Israel against Palestinians in Gaza point to a genocide in the making.

    However, the Kishida administration abstained from the UN General Assembly resolution (Oct. 27) calling for a humanitarian ceasefire. As in final statement of the G7 Hiroshima Summit, where the Japanese government took the chair vowed to "adhere to and strengthen a free and open international order based on the rule of law," Japan must firmly oppose the Israeli atrocities in Gaza.

     We call on Dec. 10th to be designated as a "Nation-wide Action Day" to call on the Japanese government to demand a complete ceasefire from Israel. Dec. 10th is also World Human Rights Day. Protesting the genocide in Gaza, which endangers the universal value of human rights, is also speaking out against other human rights violations such as militarization, racial discrimination, gender-based violence, inequality, immigration issues, refugee issues, etc. Let's take action together everywhere to protect the human rights of the people of Gaza and create a better world free of human rights violations!
 

Action Proposal

1. Take actions across the country on Sun. Dec. 10. Each group/individual separately organizes demonstrations, protests, posting on social media, etc as a part of nationwide action.

2. Disseminate information of the nationwide action day to the mass media in each region.

3. We aggregate and visualize actions across the country on this day (See below for details). 　

Initiated by Gaza Emergency Action Nagoya

Contcts: BDS NAGOYA(bdsnagoya@gmail.com)
Anti-War network(husen@jca.apc.org)

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Embody Your Voices ～To count your actions～

     On this nationwide action day, we will count each and every action you take and hope that the number of actions can go over the number of casualties (15, 523 as of Dec. 4) among Gaza people.

     Of course, the brutality of the massacre cannot be reduced to the number of casualties. The purpose of counting actions is to remember the lives lost in Gaza, and to spread our determination to stop massacre. We ask organizations/individuals across the country to join this counting effort. Please refer to the guidelines below for details. We are joined by BDS Japan Bulletin to count the actions.

Guidelines

1. In-person actions (by groups or individuals)
(1) Before the action
・Send the planned action info from Google Forms below. We will publish the list of planned actions on BDS Japan Bulletin’s note (https://note.com/bdsjapan/).
    Google Forms for planned actions: 【here】
*Please help us notify this action list to the media outlets.
 
(2) After the action
・Send the action reports from Google Forms below. We will count the number of actions and update the total number of actions.
　Google Forms for report:【here】

2. Posting on SNS
・Post with our shared hashtag #1210 Nationwide Action #Free Gaza.
*The number of hashtags will be added to the number of total actions.
 

3. How to know the number of actions
・The number of actions will be updated every 3 hours after 12pm on BDS Japan Bulletin's SNS (note, Facebook, X, etc.) on the same day.
* We will adopt the number of casualties as of 0am on Dec. 10 from UNOCHA.
・In case you post on SNS in addition to participating in an in-person action, each will be counted as a separate action.
     Ex: After participating in a demonstration, you post a photo to X with shared hashtags. ⇒ Counted as 2 actions

Initiated by Gaza Emergency Action Nagoya
Cooperated by BDS Japan Bulletin

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