A haiku d'etat and Mitsubishi Boyco

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Subject: A haiku d'etat and Mitsubishi Boycott

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A HAIKU D'=90TAT=20

THE 3rd ANNUAL HAIKU PROJECT
FOR FREEDOM AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Mitsubishi, please,
You are killing plants and trees.
Let them live in peace.
        -Jason Heilig, Age 10

Trees are treasured friends
Why do you cut the trees down?
You have no friends left!
       -Kota Mio, Age 7

Constructive engagement!
 Dozers roar
War elephants
Victorious.
   -Don Seekins, Nago, Okinawa

A haiku attack and boycott of MITSUBISHI,
     the world's largest destroyer of  forests and trees.

(Haiku is a Japanese form of poetry consisting of three lines:
 5 syllables, 7 syllables, and 5 syllables)=20
Sponsored by:=20
Burmese Relief Center -- Japan and Rainforest Action
Network

Let's use poetry and artwork to save the rainforests and restore
democracy and human rights in Burma.

URGE Mitsubishi
 1. to stop the wholesale destruction of the earth's rainforests,=20
 2  to adopt ecologically sound practices worldwide. =20
and
 3. to end investment in Burma until the country regains
democracy and freedom from the despotic military regime,
SLORC.

BOYCOTT all products made by the Mitsubishi
Conglomerate.
  Mitsubishi Electric      Mitsubishi Motors
  Kirin Beer      Mitsubishi Bank   =20
  Mitsubishi Oil      Nikon Camera

All poetry and artwork will be displayed at a unique "Haiku-in" in Osaka on=
 March 20th before being presented to Minoru
Makihara, President of Mitsubishi Corporation.

Send poems and drawings to BRC--J (via post, fax, or e-mail)=20

Join the festival in Osaka on March 20, Vernal Equinox.
(Gather on Shinsaibashi-Dotonbori Bridge at 11 AM)

Burmese Relief Center -- Japan
266-27 Ozuku-cho,=20
Kashihara-shi,=20
Nara-ken 634, Japan
Tel: (07442) 2-8236=20
 Fax: (07442) 4-6254
e-mail:brelief@xxxxxxx


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