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Here just some more pictures from the documentary (it will be shown on MWTV's next broadcasting) I have to make. There are several beautiful pictures in the stuff I took on Sunday, but in the process of editing the docu I have to see them many, many times. Actually I don't know if it is healthy for me or not...

Party, Socialism and Freedom… In the last experiments

with so-called socialism, usually 

freedom was a kind of incompatibly with the party and the “socialism”.

PS(8.05)

^^finally it was not healthy for me, not at all... because just two hours after I finished my work in the office I was arrested.. HARRHARR!!

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Today was 전철연 rally and demonstration. The reason why: in Seongbuk-gu the construction mafia (CM) want to destroy at least one 38 years old “apartment” building (very close to Hanseong University Stn./the building is beginning with “Napoleon Bakery”). Here 127 families are living and in the first floor 130 shops and small businesses are located. All flats and shops are just rented by the people, who are living and working there. In the back side of the building the Samseon Market is located.

The plan of the CM: kick out all the people who rented their flats and/or work places and build a new apartment building just for rich people.

When the plans of the CM are successful also the people who have market booths behind the building will lose their basis of existence.

So since some month the people, who are living and working there started to resist against the plans of the CM and today they held the first organized large rally in front of Seongbuk-gu Office (성북구청). In the beginning about 160 activists gathered in front of the district office. Yeon Yeong-seok played some of his protest songs and the activists demanded the stop of the plans to tear down the building.

Later a demonstration was held through the area, where many houses are on the possible list of tearing down in the near future. On the demo route we passed a construction site, where already rented houses were torn down for the new construction… of a church.

The demonstration ended in front of the “apartment” building where the most of the activists are living and/or working. The final rally, or better said a kind of culture festival (Park Joon, Song Factory and others performed their songs and dances), finished by a traditional ceremony to strengthen the struggle against the CM and a getting-together with food and drinks for about 200 activists.

After all, the future of their struggle will be very excitingly and – so the activists promised – extraordinarily strong. WE JUST SHOULD TO SUPPORT THIS STRUGGLE!!! (Tomorrow more about that issue, because now we, Mahbub and me, we have to leave for a party on Yeouido/민주노동당)

Here the call for today's rally:

1. 언제나 민중이 주인 되는 세상 을 위해 선도적인 투쟁을 전개하고 계시는 동지들에게 연대의 인사를 드립니다.

2. 하월곡 2지구 개발지역에선 철거깡패들의 횡포로 인해 지역주민들이 강제이주를 당하고 있습니다. 아무런 대책도 없이 길거리로 내몰리게 된 철거민들은 지역에 상주하고 있는 철거깡패들과 폭력경찰들로 인해 살고있던 생가마저 싹쓸이 강제철거를 당하고 주민들은 성북구청에서 주거생존권을 요구하며 매일집회와 노숙투쟁을 하고 있습니다.

3. 또한 같은 성북구에 위치한 삼선동 삼선시장 역시 개발로 인해 자신이 수십년간 장사를 하며 살아온 삶의 터전을 졸지에 잃어버리고 길거리로 내몰릴 위기에 처해있어 주민들이 자주적으로 철거민 대책위원회를 구성하였고 이제 본격적인 투쟁에 돌입하고자 여러 동지들을 모시고 현판식을 진행. 조직적인 투쟁을 전개하려 합니다.

4. 위의 월곡동의 성북구청 앞 집회를 마치고 곧바로 삼선시장으로 이동하여 다음과 같이 현판식을 진행하려합니다.

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明洞, 이주노동조합 집회

反戰 집회

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JOIN THE ANTI-WAR RALLY AND DEMONSTRATION!

6.26 (日), 3 pm, 대학로

(1 pm: MTU rally in Myeong-dong)

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Before y’day I was asking – during the 1인 시위 - one of MTU’s leading activists about the weekly rally on Thursday (y’day) and I got the answer: “Of course, tomorrow evening, 7 pm” So y’day I finished my work earlier, for to join the rally. About 6:30 pm I arrived in Myeong-dong and when it was getting more close to 7 pm I wondered why no one of the solidarity groups showed up. A while later two All Together activists arrived full packed with big bags, they usually use to carry many pickets. In this moment I got it: the rally was canceled. Wow, how well-organized!!

Today was the protest rally in front of Mokdong’s Immigration “Authority”. Around 50 people, mainly KCTU activists, some students and members of other solidarity groups joined. Actually nothing really special was happen, except that Yeon Yeong-seok had to sing and play his guitar without to get amplifier access. The riot cops, unit 1022, were in readiness, but except a small incident – one of the KCTU comrades wanted to stop the cop’s cameraman to film the rally – they got nothing to do.

Some minutes ago I went out of RTV broadcasting station, our work place, to smoke. When I watched in the direction to the old Seoul Railway Station, just few meters away, I couldn’t believe, what I saw, because I saw nearly nothing. The air is so dirty now, its like Seoul is laying in a massive fog cloud, that I had really problems to recognize Seoul Station and all the skyscrapers in Myeong-dong disappeared.

Finally here one picture from before y'day's 1인 시위 (shot by숲속 홍길동 동지):

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So, here is now the definitely final version of the slide show. What I did? Just I made smaller the size of the pictures and then I saved the entire stuff for web and that was all. Now the quality of the pics is better, but still everything is to small. How to manage this problem I have to find out… but not today, ‘cause I’ve now enough from this f.. sh..!

On coming Sunday after our rally (오후 1시, 明洞) there will be the anti-war rally in Daehak-no. The reason why to gather on that day: one year ago the Christian (no christians!) fanatic Kim Seon-il was captured and beheaded by Islamic fanatics (a.k.a. "Iraqi resistance").

A friend of made a beautiful internet poster for this coming rally. But maybe its too beautiful… definitely the music, she uploaded to the poster, is too beautiful – just painful beautiful (again from the soundtrack 고양이를 부탁해)… So I’ll try to make an alternative to her creation, perhaps less beautiful, but also painful, but really painful (I don’t know if I succeed? Just let’s see…).

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Yeah, first of all – the rainy season not started yet!!

Actually y’day I wanted to catch in the evening a friend after her Marxists “lecture” in one of Seoul’s universities, to give her now finally the additional, but belated birthday present. But it came totally different, because I was called to a meeting with MTU.

The result, beside we all were a little drunken: today I made 9 hours, including two short breaks, 1인 시위 in Myeong-dong (to demand the release of Anwar Hossain, the chairman of MTU (more about it you can read here) It started in the morning at 10 am and I finished at 7 pm. In the beginning five comrades took care that no one will “kidnap” me. Even it was hard to stay mote than eight hours there, but because of the windy weather today it was a kind of o.k. In the beginning it was like a kind of meditation and a good opportunity to dream on the bright day. But later I made the mistake to demand music. And because they had just one tape there I had to listen over hours one of the most boring LPs from J. Lennon. Can you imagine, listen 10 times to “Imagine” or stuff like that, without any break? Before today I couldn’t, but since today I know: it’s torture. Anyway, thanks to the weather it was not so strange, but in opposition to the days I only was joining by visiting, where the rallies resembled more happenings today it was more boring, except the last two or three hours, after two university students begun to join and mobilized in a very funny way the citizens to sign our protest petitions.

The next protest events by MTU:

Tomorrow (木), 7 pm in Myeong-dong

our weekly night rally

After tomorrow (金), 2 pm protest rally in front of

Mokdong’s Central Immigration Office

The “slide show”: Y’day the file was to big to upload. Today my colleague reduced it. Now we were able to upload, but the "quality" now is really shit.

Actually it is my fault. When I got the pictures they had a size from 1.5 MB each and I just forgot to process them to a smaller size. Tomorrow I’ll try it again (finally I’ve to know the process in the sleep).

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The half day I was working on a project about the action day, but it seems that the file is too big for to upload here. So here just some pics more and tomorrow, with the help of my Korean colleague I'll try to uploade it again. Sorry!

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Yesterday Burma Action together with solidarity groups organized the “6.19 International Day of Solidarity a Democratic Burma” (a Korean text about this datum you can read here).

The event started at 5 pm INSIDE – but open air - the new constructed Yongsan Station (a really strange place, but not so bad for to get public attention). More than 100 people, Burmese, Korean and migrant workers from different countries – short after the finishing of the event, activists from MTU arrived – participated. The program – Korean music groups such as Baram (Wind/바람) and Heaven, Earth, Man (天地人) – but also many of the protest singers - who are still in strong solidarity, among other things, with the struggle of migrant workers (Park Joon, Yeon Yeong-seok and Park Hyang-mi) - and Park Seong-hwan were performing a really great show. Interesting it was that no one of all the so-called internationalist groups/organizations, such as DLP or All Together (다함께) shone by absence and just Peoples Solidarity (민중연대, actually, as I know, they’re more “NL”…) and few other smaller Korean groups supported event. Perhaps they (the self-called “internationalists”) don’t like the idea of the Burmese resistance to achieve at first just democracy. But, you can believe or not, for some peoples on this world, they have to suffer daily under bloody dictatorships, even the so-called “parliamentarian democracy” is a better solution (THE ONLY SOLUTION IS THE REVOLUTION… I know…) as the “life” what they have right now.

Just now I got hundreds of pictures (shot by Park Shin-woo/나눔문화. THANX A LOT!!) about y'day's Burma Action Day and here just three of them. Tomorrow you will see a lot more)

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Yeah, y’day was 아름다운 平和 난장. And how to expect it was just lovely!

Many peace/anti-war groups participated and where present with own information booths. Of course several of the invited groups/organizations – y’day I wrote that around 20 were invited – didn’t follow the invitation. Such as All Together - they sent just one activist for to make propaganda for their next anti-war event – many of the invited showed no interest. Possibly they don’t agree that to fight against war, but also in general against exploitation and oppression, it needs a broad mass movement. Maybe they think to fight against our enemy is possible just in their own organization… But this is a huge mistake, if it is not something worse (…counterrevolutionary!! Because the class enemy is happy about the everlasting splitting of the left)…

But anyway, y’days event was well visited by at least 100 people, mainly “ordinary” citizens and many came with their children. A photo report – y’day you were able to see so many beautiful pictures - will follow tomorrow, if I get the requested stuff from one of my comrades.

In one hour a solidarity event to support the Burmese democracy movement against the military dictatorship is beginning and we, MWTV, want to report about it. It means nothing else then WORK… But it's work I like to do!