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Some very young militants are trying
to gather signatures in his support.
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I went back to Narita for the birthday of one of the victims of the struggle.
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The demo was unreal.
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I had the impression of acting in Brigadoon,
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of waking up ten years later in the midst of the same players,
with the same blue lobsters of police,
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the same helmeted adolescents, the same banners
and the same slogan:
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"Down with the airport."
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Only one thing has been added:
the airport precisely.
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But with its single runway and the barbed wire that chokes it,
it looks more besieged than victorious.
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My pal Hayao Yamaneko has found a solution:
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if the images of the present don't change,
then change the images of the past.
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He showed me the clashes of the sixties treated by his synthesizer:
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pictures that are less deceptive he says—with the conviction of a fanatic—
than those you see on television.
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At least they proclaim themselves to be what they are:
images,
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not the portable and compact form of an already inaccessible reality.