Prodded by the local fishing cooperative, the town assembly voted 15 to 2 to make a public appeal for construction of the $4 billion reactor.
MINAMISANRIKU, Japan — Jin Sato, mayor of this quiet fishing port, had just given a speech to the town assembly on the need to strengthen tsunami preparation when the earthquake struck.
The ambiguous status of the terrain of Zuccotti private land that was statutorily, for much of the day, a public commons obliged toward the rights of free speech and free assembly, as any town square set the stage for its political use, and for such use of any similar space in the city.
They consequently recommended to the Virginia assembly that the town be abandoned and rendered useless to their enemy.
A town assembly in Umtali sent the administrator a resolution asking him to confiscate all property in the colony owned by subjects of Germany and Austria within 48 hours "in view of German barbarity".
Although it's not much in the pantheon of insults, it was enough to get the eight members of the Nakatonbetsu town assembly plan to demand an explanation from the publishers of Bungeishunju.
Kazuhiro Yoshida, chairman of the Namie town assembly, was among those who traveled to Tokyo to hand-deliver a petition to then Environment Minister Goshi Hosono calling for extensive forest cleanup.
The grievous toll alone brought many to tears again, from the large and carefully choreographed events involving thousands at ground zero to small and sometimes spontaneous observances on street corners, school assemblies, firehouses and town squares.
The presidency, Parliament, county prefects and assemblies, city and town mayors, and city and municipal councils are all elective offices.
Germany's highest court on Saturday overturned a weekend ban on assemblies in an eastern town that was the scene of violent protests against refugees.
There are no town halls or assembly rooms.
