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Yesterday, June 3, at 2 pm, before our weekly meeting of MWTV, the demonstration of struggling printing workers, organized in the National Union of Media Workers, took place near Jungmu-ro Station. Today they are since 39 days a rotating in sit-in struggle.

Their struggle tent you can find here:

 

About the struggle history and the presently fight you can read in Korean here.

 

But the real struggle highlight was in the evening: “illegal” migrant workers (NO HUMAN IS ILLEGAL!), organized in an “illegal” trade union (MTU), made an “illegal” protest in the Dongdaemun area. At 7 pm for one hour and twenty minutes six migrant workers, supported and protected by ten activists of DLP (민노당 – perhaps because of this fact the protest was not really illegal. 감사합니다, 同志!!), shouted slogans and distributed leaflets near the Dongdaemun Station to make the public attentive about the current situation of migrant workers in S. Korea in general and especially about the situation of MTU (perhaps the government will not legalize the union, Anwar Hossain, the president of MTU is still in prison and is facing deportation…). And the action was really successful, because we got a lot of attention from the citizens, not least because of Daham-kke’s “mobile propaganda machine” excessive effectiveness!

(Here, in the foreground, you can see her in action nearly exactly one year ago)

 

Anyway, after the rally in front of a subway entrance we marched, while shouting slogans and distributing more leaflets, through the area. Finally we made another rally and finished our powerful protest successfully. Later we decided that this kind of action must be regularly repeated.

 

Here just some impression from the protest, taken by Jeon Min-seong

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Yesterday, June 1, in Suwon, in front of Gyeonggi-do police headquarter, was the rally from the activists who are defending their homes in Osan. What was the reason to protest? Practices usually used by criminal gangs, hired by the construction (companies) mafia to drive out people who defend their homes by resisting to move out/occupying their residential quarter, nowadays used by the riot cops. Like May 22 they used golf balls shot by big slingshots (see the pictures below) to attack the resisting activists in Osan/Sucheong-dong who are just defending their human rights (of payable room for living). So yesterday approximately 200 people, mainly activists from Osan, but also from other present or former struggle places, such as Cheongjin-dong and Ilsan/Pung-dong, gathered on the other roadside in front of Gyeonggi-do police headquarter. Together with supporters from KCTU (Gyeonggi-do regional council), in the KFCITU organized construction workers, members of Power of the Working Class, the Socialist Party, some student activists and one representative from Osan Migrant Center they condemned the activities of the cops as crimes and demanded the punishment of the responsible persons and their officers. On the end of the powerful rally we crossed the street to protest directly on the area of the police headquarter. Of course we were directly blocked by several lines of riot cops. A short while later more cops, all together at least 120, started to encircle us, ready to arrest everyone if the scuffling, we already had with the blocking line, turned in something more serious. But finally after the final resolution we finished the rally and were able to leave the area.

 

 

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