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- Subject: AF/ATS: workers riot in Osaka, Japan
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- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 21:32:28 GMT
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- subject: Workers Riot in Osaka Japan
- posted by: AF/ATS
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- Two Days of Rioting in Kamagasaki, Osaka
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- Kamagasaki is a neighborhood in Osaka, Japan, home to some
- 30,000 workers, mainly day-laborers, including many homeless
- workers. On October 1, the local governemnt in the neighborhood
- decided to stop paying out social security payments to needy
- workers.
- The approximately 80 workers who were turned out of the
- social security office on October 1 and told they were not going
- to receive any payments responded by smashing in the office's
- windows. In the early afternoon, some 1500 police arrived in the
- neighborhood to prevent the discontent from spreading. But by
- early evening, at least 1000 workers had gathered, alongside many
- youths and "normal citizens". Burning barricades were erected in
- the streets. Throughout the evening, the rioting spread as trains
- and busses were set on fire and a large supermarket was looted.
- The next day, the local government stood by its decision and
- decided to once again refuse to make payments to the day-
- laborers. The social security building closed its doors at
- 9:30am. Out came the stones and molotov cocktails once again, as
- workers and police squared off in the streets for a second day.
- By late afternoon, the local government gave in and agreed
- to renew its payments to the day-laborers.
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