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Japan Tsunami Earthquake Appeal: Ganbare Nippon

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on 14 March 2011

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<p><span style="color: #484747; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><strong><span style="color: #cc0000;">Illustration Rally Appeal: Ganbare Nippon</span></strong></span></p> <p><span style="color: #484747; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://illustrationrally.blogspot.com/" target="_self">Illustration Rally</a> is a rolling blog and community of artists who come together in collective briefs we like to call rallies. We are harnessing this wonderful community in our Ganbare Nippon: Open Submission which shares any images of hope and strength, with the rest of the world. We are creating this page here as part of the <a href="http://illustrationrally.blogspot.com/p/ganbare-nippon-japan-tsunami-appeal.html">range of initiatives</a> we are undertaking to help in any way we can.</span></p> <p><span style="color: #484747; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">As everyone knows, on Friday the 11th March, Japan faced the biggest earthquake in its history followed almost instantly by a devastating tsunami and near environmental tragedy as nuclear reactors failed and started to leak radiation.<br /><br />Firstly for all the people affected by this awful tragedy and to those who have lost their lives, their families and their dearest friends we offer our solemn&nbsp;condolences, and hope that they may find peace and dignity.<br /><br />The total cost of this disaster is estimated to be in the region of<strong>&pound;9.3billion</strong>, we still have very little idea of the human cost of the damage especially in the Tohoku area where the earthquake destroyed much of the Sendai and Miyagi prefectures causing vast fires and washing away whole towns. Fukushima and Niigata prefectures were also heavily damaged causing critical damage to the Fukushima nuclear reactor.<br /><br />Even in Tokyo, there is a massive shortage of supplies and daily widespread rolling power cuts are being enforced to preserve the national grid, which could go on for a month at least, the last time something this drastic happened was the end of the war.<br /><br />But in the face of all this tragedy there are stories of hope and selflessness. So far no looting has been reported, millions of people in Tokyo walked home for hours when the transport systems went down, still stopping at lights to let others past. Shops gave out free food, vending machines free drinks, even Disneyland gave away all its sweets to everyone who was evacuated there. There are stories of great hope, the homeless people who gave up their cardboard to stranded commuters sleeping at stations. The brave two year old boy who was marching out to arrest the earthquake and the millions in the earthquake shattered cities without power who were consoling themselves by saying how they could look up and see how beautiful the stars were in the night sky.<br /><br /><strong><span style="color: #cc0000;">So what are we going to do?</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: black; font-weight: normal;">With this in mind, we at the Rally, with a little help from our friends are launching our own appeal.</span></span></strong><br /><br />&nbsp;<strong>がんばれ 日本</strong><br /><strong>Don't Give Up Japan!</strong><br /><br />Never ones to give up ourselves, we are still going to keep you up to date with the latest news and our Rallies will continue as normal!</span></p> <p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">En Espanol!</span></strong></p> <p><span style="color: #484747; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; color: blue;" lang="ES">Illustration Rally</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana;" lang="ES"> es un blog y una comunidad de artistas donde se realizan creaciones colectivas que nos gusta llamar rallies. Estamos aprovechando esta maravillosa comunidad para nuestro Ganbare Nippon: Open Submission para compartir nuestras im&aacute;genes de fuerza y esperanza con el resto del mundo. Hemos creado esta p&aacute;gina como <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: navy;"><a href="http://illustrationrally.blogspot.com/p/ganbare-nippon-llamamiento-de-ayuda-al.html">parte de las diversas iniciativas</a></span></span> que hemos impulsado para ayudar en todas las formas que podamos.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;">&nbsp;</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;" lang="ES">C&oacute;mo todo el mundo sabe, el pasado viernes 11 de marzo, Jap&oacute;n encar&oacute; el terremoto m&aacute;s grande de su historia seguido de forma inmediata por un devastador tsunami y la proximidad de la posibilidad de una gran tragedia ambiental si los reactores nucleares fallaran y se produjera una gran fuga radiactiva.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;">&nbsp;</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;" lang="ES">Primeramente para toda la gente afectada por esta horrible tragedia y por todos aquellos que han perdido sus vidas, a sus familias, amigos y seres queridos nuestro m&aacute;s sentido p&eacute;same, esperamos que hallen la paz y la dignidad.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;">&nbsp;</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;" lang="ES">El coste total de los da&ntilde;os ocasionados por este desastre se estima alrededor de 9.3 billones de &pound;, aun se tiene muy poca idea de cual ha sido el coste humano, especialmente en Tohoku, &aacute;rea donde el terremoto a destruido gran parte de las prefacturas de Senday y Miyagi, provocando extensos fuegos y arrasando ciudades enteras. Las prefacturas de Fukushima y Niigata tambi&eacute;n han sufrido grandes da&ntilde;os dejando en estado cr&iacute;tico al reactor nuclear de Fukushima.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;">&nbsp;</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;" lang="ES">Incluso en Tokio, hay una enorme escasez de suministros y todos los d&iacute;as se aplican cortes de electricidad para preservar la red nacional, que podr&iacute;an prolongarse durante un mes, por lo menos, la &uacute;ltima vez que se tomo una decisi&oacute;n as&iacute; fue al final de la guerra.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;">&nbsp;</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;" lang="ES">Pero en medio de toda esta tragedia hay historias de esperanza y generosidad. Hasta el momento no se han producido saqueos, millones de personas de Tokio caminaron hasta sus casas durante horas cuando los transportes p&uacute;blicos se colapsaron, incluso se paraban frente a los sem&aacute;foros para dejar pasar a los dem&aacute;s. Las tiendas dieron comida gratis y ofrecieron comida gratis y ofrecieron bebidas gratuitas en las maquinas, incluso Disneyland ofreci&oacute; de manera gratuita sus dulces a todos los que fueron evacuados de sus instalaciones. Se produjeron historias de gran esperanza, personas sin hogar ofrecieron sus cartones a los viajeros que se quedaron atrapados en las estaciones. El valiente ni&ntilde;o de dos a&ntilde;os que decidi&oacute; ir a arrestar<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>al terremoto y los millones de personas que vieron c&oacute;mo el terremoto destru&iacute;a sus casas sin poder hacer nada y se consolaban diciendo que ahora pod&iacute;an ver lo hermosas que lucen las estrellas en la noche.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;">&nbsp;</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; color: maroon;" lang="ES">As&iacute; pues, &iquest;Qu&eacute; vamos ha hacer?</span></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;" lang="ES">Con esto en mente, nosotros en el Rally, con la ayuda de nuestros amigos estamos poniendo en marcha nuestro propio llamamiento.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><strong><span style="font-family: PMingLiU; mso-bidi-font-family: PMingLiU;" lang="ES">がんばれ 日本</span></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-fareast-font-family: PMingLiU; mso-bidi-font-family: PMingLiU;" lang="ES">&iexcl;No te rindas Jap&oacute;n!</span></strong></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Verdana; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-fareast-language: ES; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;" lang="ES">&iexcl;No hemos renunciado a nada, seguimos como siempre, nos mantendremos al d&iacute;a con las noticias y con todos nuestros Rallys!</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p>

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