Last month, tens of thousands of citizens across Japan came together in a series of pandemic rallies. The protests centred on the widespread opposition to the World Health Organisation’s (“WHO’s”) Pandemic Treaty, with escalating concerns over “infectious disease” and “public health” becoming potent tools for an unprecedented push towards what is perceived by many as a totalitarian surveillance society.
Eminent speakers, including Professor Masayasu Inoue and modern history researcher Chikatsu Hayashi, provided compelling pre-demonstration speeches that laid bare the concerning dynamics between global health authorities and pharmaceutical agendas.
A month later, on Monday, a press conference was broadcast on Twitter. Below is a video clip from the press conference where Hayashi launched ‘The National Movement to Save Lives from the WHO’, explained the motivations behind the Movement and announced a protest that will take place on the first day of WHO’s 77th World Health Assembly.
Hellbound and Down 