VailYa!

Please help me! To all left-wing artists around the world, and to everyone on the left worldwide: I need your help! This Saturday, October 31, we are organizing a large-scale anti-racist street demonstration at the Southeast Exit of Shinjuku Station in Tokyo, Japan. I want to display your anti-racist and anti-fascist artwork on the streets of Tokyo! Japan is now dangerously moving back toward the kind of fascist state it was before World War II. The situation is extremely alarming. I am a Japanese left-wing artist, and every single day, I take to the streets to fight racism and fascism through art and public expression. I believe one of the biggest reasons fascism is gaining ground in Japan is that this country remains deeply isolated, both physically and in terms of information. Japan needs to hear voices from outside. Japan needs to see artistic expressions from around the world. Japan must be seen and judged for what it really is, through the eyes of people beyond its borders. That is why I want to bring your artwork into the streets of Japan! Feel free to criticize, ridicule, or absolutely tear apart Japanese racism and the Japanese far-right internet trolls known as netouyo. I have only one condition: Please do not use atomic bombs as a joke or a way to mock Japan in your artwork. Apart from that, I welcome virtually any kind of artwork, and I want to display as many submissions as possible on the streets! Please use these hashtags: #NETOUYOAHO #NETOUYOART For those unfamiliar with the term, netouyo refers to Japanese far-right internet trolls, a particularly nasty breed of online reactionaries. Let's take on the racism. Artists of the world, let your voices be heard in Tokyo! Solidarity across borders! #NETOUYOAHO #NETOUYOART