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Parts of the following story were published today in a German daily. The English version I found here: http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/003458.html Hurricane Katrina-Our Experiences Larry Bradshaw, Lorrie Beth Slonsky Two days after Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, the Walgreen's store at the corner of Royal and Iberville streets remained locked. The dairy display case was clearly visible through the widows. It was now 48 hours without electricity, running water, plumbing. The milk, yogurt, and cheeses were beginning to spoil in the 90-degree heat. The owners and managers had locked up the food, water, pampers, and prescriptions and fled the City. Outside Walgreen's windows, residents and tourists grew increasingly thirsty and hungry. The much-promised federal, state and local aid never materialized and the windows at Walgreen's gave way to the looters. There was an alternative. The cops could have broken one small window and distributed the nuts, fruit juices, and bottle water in an organized and systematic manner. But they did not. Instead they spent hours playing cat and mouse, temporarily chasing away the looters. We were finally airlifted out of New Orleans two days ago and arrived home yesterday (Saturday). We have yet to see any of the TV coverage or look at a newspaper. We are willing to guess that there were no video images or front-page pictures of European or affluent white tourists looting the Walgreen's in the French Quarter. We also suspect the media will have been inundated with "hero" images of the National Guard, the troops and the police struggling to help the "victims" of the Hurricane. What you will not see, but what we witnessed,were the real heroes and sheroes of the hurricane relief effort: the working class of New Orleans. The maintenance workers who used a fork lift to carry the sick and disabled. The engineers, who rigged, nurtured and kept the generators running. The electricians who improvised thick extension cords stretching over blocks to share the little electricity wehad in order to free cars stuck on rooftop parking lots. Nurses who took over for mechanical ventilators and spent many hours on end manually forcing air into the lungs of unconscious patients to keep them alive. Doormen who rescued folks stuck in elevators. Refinery workers who broke into boat yards, "stealing" boats to rescue their neighbors clinging to their roofs in flood waters. Mechanics who helped hot-wire any car that could be found to ferry people out of the City. And the food service workers who scoured the commercial kitchens improvising communal meals for hundreds of those stranded. Most of these workers had lost their homes, and had not heard from members of their families, yet they stayed and provided the only infrastructure for the 20% of New Orleans that was not under water. On Day 2, there were approximately 500 of us left in the hotels in the French Quarter. We were a mix of foreign tourists, conference attendees like ourselves, and locals who had checked into hotels for safety and shelter from Katrina. Some of us had cell phone contact with family and friends outside of New Orleans. We were repeatedly told that all sorts of resources including the National Guard and scores of buses were pouring in to the City. The buses and the other resources must have been invisible because none of us had seen them. We decided we had to save ourselves. So we pooled our money and came up with $25,000 to have ten buses come and take us out of the City. Those who did not have the requisite $45.00 for a ticket were subsidized by those who did have extra money. We waited for 48 hours for the buses, spending the last 12 hours standing outside, sharing the limited water, food, and clothes we had. We created a priority boarding area for the sick, elderly and new born babies. We waited late into the night for the "imminent" arrival of the buses. The buses never arrived. We later learned that the minute the arrived to the City limits, they were commandeered by the military. By day 4 our hotels had run out of fuel and water. Sanitation was dangerously abysmal. As the desperation and despair increased, street crime as well as water levels began to rise. The hotels turned us out and locked their doors, telling us that the "officials" told us to report to the convention center to wait for more buses. As we entered the center of the City, we finally encountered the National Guard. The Guards told us we would not be allowed into the Superdome as the City's primary shelter had descended into a humanitarian and health hellhole. The guards further told us that the City's only other shelter, the Convention Center, was also descending into chaos and squalor and that the police were not allowing anyone else in. Quite naturally, we asked, "If we can't go to the only 2 shelters in the City, what was our alternative?" The guards told us that that was our problem, and no they did not have extra water to give to us. This would be the start of our numerous encounters with callous and hostile "law enforcement". We walked to the police command center at Harrah's on Canal Street and were told the same thing, that we were on our own, and no they did not have water to give us. We now numbered several hundred. We held a mass meeting to decide a course of action. We agreed to camp outside the police command post. We would be plainly visible to the media and would constitute a highly visible embarrassment to the City officials. The police told us that we could not stay. Regardless, we began to settle in and set up camp. In short order, the police commander came across the street to address our group. He told us he had a solution: we should walk to the Pontchartrain Expressway and cross the greater New Orleans Bridge where the police had buses lined up to take us out of the City. The crowed cheered and began to move. We called everyone back and explained to the commander that there had been lots of misinformation and wrong information and was he sure that there were buses waiting for us. The commander turned to the crowd and stated emphatically, "I swear to you that the buses are there." We organized ourselves and the 200 of us set off for the bridge with great excitement and hope. As we marched pasted the convention center, many locals saw our determined and optimistic group and asked where we were headed. We told them about the great news. Families immediately grabbed their few belongings and quickly our numbers doubled and then doubled again. Babies in strollers now joined us, people using crutches, elderly clasping walkers and others people in wheelchairs. We marched the 2-3 miles to the freeway and up the steep incline to the Bridge. It now began to pour down rain, but it did not dampen our enthusiasm. As we approached the bridge, armed Gretna sheriffs formed a line across the foot of the bridge. Before we were close enough to speak, they began firing their weapons over our heads. This sent the crowd fleeing in various directions. As the crowd scattered and dissipated, a few of us inched forward and managed to engage some of the sheriffs in conversation. We told them of our conversation with the police commander and of the commander's assurances. The sheriffs informed us there were no buses waiting. The commander had lied to us to get us to move. We questioned why we couldn't cross the bridge anyway, especially as there was little traffic on the 6-lane highway. They responded that the West Bank was not going to become New Orleans and there would be no Superdomes in their City. These were code words for if you are poor and black, you are not crossing the Mississippi River and you were not getting out of New Orleans. Our small group retreated back down Highway 90 to seek shelter from the rain under an overpass. We debated our options and in the end decided to build an encampment in the middle of the Ponchartrain Expressway on the center divide, between the O'Keefe and Tchoupitoulas exits. We reasoned we would be visible to everyone, we would have some security being on an elevated freeway and we could wait and watch for the arrival of the yet to be seen buses. All day long, we saw other families, individuals and groups make the same trip up the incline in an attempt to cross the bridge, only to be turned away. Some chased away with gunfire, others simply told no, others to be verbally berated and humiliated. Thousands of New Orleaners were prevented and prohibited from self-evacuating the City on foot. Meanwhile, the only two City shelters sank further into squalor and disrepair. The only way across the bridge was by vehicle. We saw workers stealing trucks, buses, moving vans, semi-trucks and any car that could be hotwired. All were packed with people trying to escape the misery New Orleans had become. Our little encampment began to blossom. Someone stole a water delivery truck and brought it up to us. Let's hear it for lootingA mile or so down the freeway, an army truck lost a couple of pallets of C-rations on a tight turn. We ferried the food back to our camp in shopping carts. Now secure with the two necessities, food and water; cooperation, community, and creativity flowered. We organized a clean up and hung garbage bags from the rebar poles. We made beds from wood pallets and cardboard. We designated a storm drain as the bathroom and the kids built an elaborate enclosure for privacy out of plastic, broken umbrellas, and other scraps. We even organized a food recycling system where individuals could swap out parts of C-rations (applesauce for babies and candies for kids!). This was a process we saw repeatedly in the aftermath of Katrina. When individuals had to fight to find food or water, it meant looking out for yourself only. You had to do whatever it took to find water for your kids or food for your parents. When these basic needs were met, people began to look out for each other, working together and constructing a community. If the relief organizations had saturated the City with food and water in the first 2 or 3 days, the desperation, the frustration and the ugliness would not have set in. Flush with the necessities, we offered food and water to passing families and individuals. Many decided to stay and join us. Our encampment grew to 80 or 90 people. From a woman with a battery powered radio we learned that the media was talking about us. Up in full view on the freeway, every relief and news organizations saw us on their way into the City. Officials were being asked what they were going to do about all those families living up on the freeway? The officials responded they were going to take care of us. Some of us got a sinking feeling. "Taking care of us" had an ominous tone to it. Unfortunately, our sinking feeling (along with the sinking City) was correct. Just as dusk set in, a Gretna Sheriff showed up, jumped out of his patrol vehicle, aimed his gun at our faces, screaming, "Get off the fucking freeway". A helicopter arrived and used the wind from its blades to blow away our flimsy structures. As we retreated, the sheriff loaded up his truck with our food and water. Once again, at gunpoint, we were forced off the freeway. All the law enforcement agencies appeared threatened when we congregated or congealed into groups of 20 or more. In every congregation of "victims" they saw "mob" or "riot". We felt safety in numbers. Our "we must stay together" was impossible because the agencies would force us into small atomized groups. In the pandemonium of having our camp raided and destroyed, we scattered once again. Reduced to a small group of 8 people, in the dark, we sought refuge in an abandoned school bus, under the freeway on Cilo Street. We were hiding from possible criminal elements but equally and definitely, we were hiding from the police and sheriffs with their martial law, curfew and shoot-to-kill policies. The next days, our group of 8 walked most of the day, made contact with New Orleans Fire Department and were eventually airlifted out by an urban search and rescue team. We were dropped off near the airport and managed to catch a ride with the National Guard. The two young guardsmen apologized for the limited response of the Louisiana guards. They explained that a large section of their unit was in Iraq and that meant they were shorthanded and were unable to complete all the tasks they were assigned. We arrived at the airport on the day a massive airlift had begun. The airport had become another Superdome. We 8 were caught in a press of humanity as flights were delayed for several hours while George Bush landed briefly at the airport for a photo op. After being evacuated on a coast guard cargo plane, we arrived in San Antonio, Texas. There the humiliation and dehumanization of the official relief effort continued. We were placed on buses and driven to a large field where we were forced to sit for hours and hours. Some of the buses did not have air-conditioners. In the dark, hundreds if us were forced to share two filthy overflowing porta-potties. Those who managed to make it out with any possessions (often a few belongings in tattered plastic bags) we were subjected to two different dog-sniffing searches. Most of us had not eaten all day because our C-rations had been confiscated at the airport because the rations set off the metal detectors. Yet, no food had been provided to the men, women, children, elderly, disabled as they sat for hours waiting to be "medically screened" to make sure we were not carrying any communicable diseases. This official treatment was in sharp contrast to the warm, heart-felt reception given to us by the ordinary Texans. We saw one airline worker give her shoes to someone who was barefoot. Strangers on the street offered us money and toiletries with words of welcome. Throughout, the official relief effort was callous, inept, and racist. There was more suffering than need be. Lives were lost that did not need to be lost.

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First of all US president Bush, beside he is a war criminal, he is just a POLITICAL IDIOT! A good politician, ha, of course there are no good politicians, would use it at least for to show his interest, sympathy and solidarity with the most effected victims. But the Bush administration is even for that to stupid... and of course they are corrupt, reactionary... and so on...

But the result of the disaster is not just the fault of the Bush administration. Since decades everyone who want to know knew about the social situation in the Southeast of the USA, the home for a majority of the poor.

But because the capitalism dont need them anymore, not their manpower, work power and so also not their purchasing power, because they dont have it, the capitalist system gives a shit on them. The system would be happy if the masses of the poor there just disappear. At the best forever!

But this is the result of every capitalist society. Just remember the Maemi disaster in Gangweon Do, Gangneung, or the subway catastrophe in Daegu. There mainly, I am sure, ordinary, poor people were effected. Not the people who are driving Mercedes Benz or life in a rich area. That is just the result of the system of maximum profit, just capitalism.

And this system is producing every day thousands of potential victims of nature or human made disasters!

For example the people in Samgak Suha Dong, Eulchiro 2ga, or Sanseong Shijang Market area: this people, when they will be driven out by the Construction Mafia, beside they will lose their basis of existence, will find cheap places to life only in the poor areas on the edge of Seoul. And the possibility to get hit deadly by the next Maemi, Nabi, or whatever, is very high! Because there the quality of house constructions is very poor, there are is no real infrastructure for an effective help in the case of any next disaster...

On the rally last Sat. many people were asking how to help the most effected, poor people in New Orleans.

So on last Sunday evening I had a discussion about it with the Afro-american who made the speech the day before, I already published it here:

http://blog.jinbo.net/CINA/?cid=4&pid=243

We agreed that it is very helpful to organize meetings to inform the public about the real background, why the disaster was getting so catastrophic. Inform about the social, political and economic background. Try to get in contact with progressive organizations there.

It seems that the New Orleans Peoples Committee and Community Labor United are a self-organized, more autonomous organizations. Just check it out by your self, please.

But we also agreed during the discussion that the most effective help would be to get in contact with people in resistance on the spot, in the areas, countries, where we are living and struggling. Only if we support them, without the ideas just to organize them in so-called left bla, bla.. groups, we can make steps forward to undermine the power of capitalism, to undermine the system of exploitation, oppression and in general the system on inhumanity!

So, the lecture for today is finished! Ha, ha...

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9.11 in Berlin

 

Yesterday I was on the Action Day Against Racism, Neo-nazism and War, a.k.a. Day of Remembrance, Reminder and Meeting. The background: On Sept. 9, 60 years ago survivors of the German Concentration Camps and jails met the first time to remember the victims of the fascist barbarous terror system. Later in now called Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Fascism was degenerated to a kind of official organized ritual in the GDR, East Germany. In the West it was not held. After the re-unification of Germany it became a yearly event every second Sunday in September for anti-fascists, progressive people, but also for all kinds of so-called socialists and communists. Aeh... I mean they call themselves like that... Since at least 10 years the last-named groups and organizations, even they are very small and have totally influence are dominating this event. Finally yesterday you could find insane stuff like that: praises for Kim Il-sung and K. Jong-il, Castro, Chavez, Stalin about Trotskyism, Trotsky about Stalin, Lenin and Stalin about... bla, bla... Just insane!!! According to the organizers yesterday about 200 different groups participated, but I counted just around 60. But I think I made some good, crazy video recordings...

 

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Chile, 1973.9.11

 

I think it is important to remember this date! On that day the Chilene bourgeoisie and middle class, backed and active supported by the CIA, toppled the socialist, or better the left social-democratic Allende government.

 

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Complete strange this people here... When I was visiting (harr, harr...) Germany the last time, in the beginning of 2002, nearly no one had a “haendepon” (h.p.). But now nearly everyone has one – but they don’t use it. For example in the subway many people, especially the young, are pulling out their h.p., but no one get a call, nobody is calling. They’re just showing that they have one h.p. Or like today in front of my house one youngster he was using it just as music player...

 

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New Orleans: Third World.... The text on one favorite T-shirt in the then New Orleans: “Third world and proud of it” Third world – YES! But perhaps not proud of it anymore!!!

 

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Germany: Bad Chances for Young Migrants According to a daily here (Junge Welt, 9.7) about 40 per cent of the young migrants after the finished this year the school don’t get a apprenticeship (professional training/education – you need here to get a “well” paid job in the industry or service). “Especially in Berlin the situation is very dramatic”, so the German daily. Already several years ago in the district where I was living – ha, now I’m forced to live here again - (more then 50 per cent of the population are migrants, in some areas many more) about 70 per cent don’t got a professional training. One of the reasons: even the most of them were born here, but they don’t know the German language, not really. Usually when they were/are little children their grandparents took/take care of them. So, when they come in the school they don’t know German. In some schools are about 90 per cent migrant children... so the teachers have no chances... The main reason of this situation: the migrants were forced to find flats just in some few areas, because there the rent was/is very cheap. And so they were forced to create kinds of ghettos...

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So, yesterday I was on the rally in Berlin for to show solidarity with the victims of the nature and political catastrophe in the Southeast of the U.S. Only few people joined the rally which was held in the near of the U.S. embassy. But actually it was not the fault of the organizers – they just had 3 days time to inform the people.

Anyway, one speech of a Afro-american citizen from Detroit was very impressive. He life in Germany since long time, before this, in the 60s he was serving the U.S. Army in Germany and after that he was sent to Vietnam. Now he’s active in the anti-war and social movement in Germany.

 

 

I recorded and typed the speech. And here it comes (everything in parenthesis comes from me):

 

Dear Friends

 

I’m personally effected by this tragedy. My 93 year old cousin, Mrs. Odille Kenner Williams, was just recently rescued from a nursing home there. I have a multitude of relatives in New Orleans and neighboring communities.

 

My entire family comes from Louisiana. My father and mother came North during the Second World War to seek work in Detroit and escape the vicious system of racism which was everyday experience of Black people living there (in the Southeast) as direct descendants of slaves. My grandmother was a slave. That may come as a shock to some of you, but I’m that close to the history of institutional slavery in America. Millions of Black during and after WW II migrated to other parts of the U.S. with the one thing in the mind: freedom. Yes, while people were fighting against the Axis Powers (the German, Italian and Japanese fascists, militarists) here in Europe and elsewhere Black people in America were fighting for the right to Human dignity and real freedom (– and they’re still fighting for it).

 

My mother often told my brother and me that she didn’t want us to grow up in that environment of intimidation, racism and lynch justice. There were no more than refugees, strangers in their own country of birth. So she left her family and started a new life in Detroit, 1700 Kilometers away from the place called home. Torn from family and friends.

 

What we see happening in Louisiana, Mississippi and Georgia is symptomatic of what’s wrong with America. When the authorities ordered the population to evacuate New Orleans they made no preparations to evacuate those who could not respond to the call. The poor, the sick, the imprisoned, the less fortunate.

 

Many of there victims living below the poverty level, whatever that means. The overwhelming majority of there people in this situation are Black. They were deserted, left to fend for themselves. Lied to by the people who were supposed to assist them in times of danger and emergency.

 

The U.S. has a history of oppression and disregard for people’s human rights and up until now they’ve been able to maneuver and more less hide their treachery. Abu Ghraeeb (the infamous prison in Iraq) is not unique.

These pictures of people’s suffering don’t lie! They lay bare the hypocrisy of the system built on exploitation of the world and ist own citizens. They have no shame! The U.S. is the UNITED STATES OF SHAME!

 

People here (in Germany) ask, “What we can do?”. Donate... Find out what’s really goes on! DEMAND YOUT GOVERNMENT STOP SUPPERTING THE CRIMINAL UNDERTAKINGS OF THE BUSH REGIME! Stop this insane war on the Iraqi people!

 

[Right now people are preparing to vote (in Germany), thinking that will somehow changes their lives. The real issues are being ignored. The Chancellor likes to pass himself and his party off as the peace party that couldn’t further from the truth. They speak with a forked tongue! They have blood on their hands too, they support the war by giving the USA back door support. The U.S. conducts many of its military adventures from German soil.]

 

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Some may ask what do that have to do with the present situation in America and the people’s suffering. A great deal. Billions of Dollars and valuable resources have been wasted on this terrible war (on Iraq), money and resources that could have helped those people in need right now. The government is already crying about not having any idea about how they’re going to pay for all this.

 

When you wage war you don t worry about the costs because you count yourself as the winner, and “to the victor goes the spoils”.

 

They ve miscalculated at every turn and we, all of us have to suffer.

Freedom, we re only free to follow their orders and plans (or not!). Nothing more nothing less!

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2005 Summer Struggle Tour

 

Because last year I was joining 2004 Summer Struggle Tour as the representavive of ETU-MB (on the second day I was nearly arrested...) I want to publish this here. More about the last year's tour you can read here:

http://migrant.nodong.net/zb/view.php?id=newsndates&page=4&sn1=&divpage=1&sn=off&ss=on&sc=on&select_arrange=headnum&desc=asc&no=200

 

Following the first part of 2005 Summer Struggle Tour

(source: www.nodong.com )

 

 

2005노동자 여름 현장활동 투쟁 발대식 과 한나라당사앞 집중투쟁!!
오늘 오정 11시에 여의도에 자리잡고 있는 노사정 위원회 앞에서 투쟁사업장에 계신 동지들과 전해투동지들 그리고 학생동지들과 철거민동지들이 힘차게 2005노동자 여름 현장활동 투쟁(이하:여름투쟁) 발대식을 전개했습니다.

닭장차에 둘러싸인 가운데 서 진행이 되었지만 참석한 동지들은 각자의 현장의 목소리들을 직접 폭로해내고 이후 투쟁을 결의를 힘있게 모아내기도 했습니다.
"사회적 합의주의 분쇄와 비정규직철폐 그리고 노동자 민중 생존권쟁취의 기조를 가지고 진행될 이번 여름 투쟁은 각단위 동지들의 일정상 좀 늦은감이 없지 않지만 그동안의 시기별 투쟁에서 볼수 없었던 현장투쟁 실천단에 여러단위에서 대거 합류해 참가하고 있는 동지들은 공세적인 싸움판까지도 준비하고 있습니다.

여름 투쟁 공동대표 동지의 대회사를 시작으로 본격적인 4박5일 투쟁에 돌입한 여름투쟁단은 노사정위에서의 발대식에서 코오롱 정투위 동지들과 이주동지들의 강한결의가담긴 발언, 사보, 발전 동지들의 발언을 들으며 여름투쟁에 임하는 결의 를 다시금 높이기도 하였습니다. 그리고 무엇보다도 실천단들의 결의와 실천단장의 공세적인 실천투쟁결의는 이후 노사정담합분쇄와 노사관계 로드맵 분쇄, 그리고 비정규직 철폐가 담긴 조형물에대한 화형식을 노사정위 앞에 깔린 폭력경찰들의 협박에도 굴하지 않고 당당하게 전개하기도 하였습니다.

발대식을 마친 투쟁단을 첫일정을 수행하기위해 다시 보수반동세력이 총집결되어있는 한나라당 사 앞에서 기만적인 한나라당의 폭압성과 한나라당 소속 기초단체장들의 악행을 폭로해내는 투쟁을 전개했습니다.
한나라당을 지키려는 깡패경찰들 이 새까맣게 동원되기도 했고 이들과의 마찰이 있기도 했지만 한나라당 집회는 경찰들의 집회방해에도 아랑곳 않고 참가한 동지들 모두가 질서정연하고 조직적인 대오를 유지하며 무사히 집회를 사수했습니다.

마지막으로 여름투쟁단은 근대화를 명분으로 수많은 노동자민중들에게 살인적인 탄압을 자행했던 아버지 박정희의 피를 그대로 이어받아 민중들을 기만하고 탄압으로 일관 하고 있는 유신잔재 박근혜 한나라당 대표에게 항의서한을 전달하려 했으나 마늘을 들고 농민들을 기만하러 (한나라당사 앞엔 박근혜가 마늘을 들고있고 그밑으로 민생과 경제를 책임진다는 문구가 기만적이게 적혀있습니다)간것인지 자리에 없다고 하여 항의서한을 그 자리에서 태우고 언제든지 이 자리는 철거민들과 생존권을 박탈당하는 노동자민중들이 접수할 것을 결의하며 집회투쟁을 마쳤습니다.

이후 실천단 들은 120일차 천막농성을 전개 하고 있는 현대기림 오피스텔로 향했고 실천단 을 제외한 동지들은 각자의 현장으로 돌아갔습니다.
현재 짜여진 일정을 별 무리 없이 진행하고 있는 여름투쟁 실천단 들은 현대기림 오피스텔 동지들과 간담회 및 철농을 함께 진행하고 있고 오늘 하루의 평가를 마지막으로 첫일정을 사수했습니다.

* 위의 사진은 오늘 노사정위앞 발대식장면과 한나라당 사앞 투쟁 상황이며 이후 상황 총화는 실천단 에서 올리는 것을 참고해주시기 바랍니다.

*오늘 수고해주신 노래공장 동지께도 연대의 인사를 드리는 바입니다
내일은 오전8시엔 목동 전화국 앞에서 통신비정규직노조의 출근투쟁에 합류하고 9시에는 노동자대회가 열리는 울산으로 이동하여 힘있는 투쟁을 전개할 것입니다. 각단위동지들은 여름 투쟁 실천단의 순회투쟁을 공유하여 주시기바랍니다=투쟁=

사회적 합의주의 분새!!
비정규직 철페!!
노동자민중생존권쟁취!!
를 위한

The MTU representative's speech

 

The other parts of the report of the entire tour you can read here:

http://www.nodong.com/zero/view.php?id=sokbo&page=1&sn1=&divpage=2&sn=off&ss=on&sc=on&select_arrange=headnum&desc=asc&no=6812

 

http://www.nodong.com/zero/view.php?id=sokbo&page=1&sn1=&divpage=2&sn=off&ss=on&sc=on&select_arrange=headnum&desc=asc&no=6817

 

http://www.nodong.com/zero/view.php?id=sokbo&page=1&sn1=&divpage=2&sn=off&ss=on&sc=on&select_arrange=headnum&desc=asc&no=6819

(here in Mokdong in front of Seoul Immigration Office)

 

http://www.nodong.com/zero/view.php?id=sokbo&page=1&sn1=&divpage=2&sn=off&ss=on&sc=on&select_arrange=headnum&desc=asc&no=6821

(pictures)

 

http://www.nodong.com/zero/view.php?id=sokbo&page=1&sn1=&divpage=2&sn=off&ss=on&sc=on&select_arrange=headnum&desc=asc&no=6822

(more pics)

Please see also here:

http://pw87.jinbo.net/main/main.html

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Beside my daily fight with the German bureaucracy ?Agency For 밯ork? but they don뭪 have any work for the 5.000.000 unemployed people here (maybe later more about it...), finding a room for me (now I have one, in the same house I was living before, at least until Dec.), registration... ?today I got a editing place. Ha, and directly opposite of my house. In a youth center/club, actually created for the youngsters of the migrants here. But actually the youth don뭪 use it, so I can use...

It뭩 really incredible that here in this big sunny room with many computers no one is sitting, except the staff of the center... and me. The youth prefers the 밣C-bang? where they have to pay... I really don뭪 understand!

But anyway, next week I can begin to edit my last stuff. And next Saturday there will be a big event, called 밶ction day against fascism, racism and war??and of course I뭠l join and report about it.

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...they just want to create a new system of oppression! According to the German daily “Junge Welt” (9.06) special units of the Police of the Palestinian Authority (the so-called Palestinian Gov’t) attacked a rally of unemployed people, who gathered in front of the city hall of Khan Yunis, demanding more jobs for the poorest. Some of the demonstrators started to throw stones to the cops after they started to attack the protestors. Later on the cops started to shoot with life ammunition in the crowd and injured several of the demonstrators. I think there is no comment necessary!

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United States of Shame

 

by Maureen Dowd, 2005, Sept. 3, NYT

 

 

Stuff happens.

And when you combine limited government with incompetent government, lethal stuff happens.

America is once more plunged into a snake pit of anarchy, death, looting, raping, marauding thugs, suffering innocents, a shattered infrastructure, a gutted police force, insufficient troop levels and criminally negligent government planning. But this time it's happening in America.

W. drove his budget-cutting Chevy to the levee, and it wasn't dry. Bye, bye, American lives. "I don't think anyone anticipated the breach of the levees," he told Diane Sawyer.

Shirt-sleeves rolled up, W. finally landed in Hell yesterday and chuckled about his wild boozing days in "the great city" of N'Awlins. He was clearly moved. "You know, I'm going to fly out of here in a minute," he said on the runway at the New Orleans International Airport, "but I want you to know that I'm not going to forget what I've seen." Out of the cameras' range, and avoided by W., was a convoy of thousands of sick and dying people, some sprawled on the floor or dumped on baggage carousels at a makeshift M*A*S*H unit inside the terminal.

Why does this self-styled "can do" president always lapse into such lame "who could have known?" excuses.

Who on earth could have known that Osama bin Laden wanted to attack us by flying planes into buildings? Any official who bothered to read the trellis of pre-9/11 intelligence briefs.

Who on earth could have known that an American invasion of Iraq would spawn a brutal insurgency, terrorist recruiting boom and possible civil war? Any official who bothered to read the C.I.A.'s prewar reports.

Who on earth could have known that New Orleans's sinking levees were at risk from a strong hurricane? Anybody who bothered to read the endless warnings over the years about the Big Easy's uneasy fishbowl.

In June 2004, Walter Maestri, emergency management chief for Jefferson Parish, fretted to The Times-Picayune in New Orleans: "It appears that the money has been moved in the president's budget to handle homeland security and the war in Iraq, and I suppose that's the price we pay. Nobody locally is happy that the levees can't be finished, and we are doing everything we can to make the case that this is a security issue for us."

Not only was the money depleted by the Bush folly in Iraq; 30 percent of the National Guard and about half its equipment are in Iraq.

Ron Fournier of The Associated Press reported that the Army Corps of Engineers asked for $105 million for hurricane and flood programs in New Orleans last year. The White House carved it to about $40 million. But President Bush and Congress agreed to a $286.4 billion pork-filled highway bill with 6,000 pet projects, including a $231 million bridge for a small, uninhabited Alaskan island.

Just last year, Federal Emergency Management Agency officials practiced how they would respond to a fake hurricane that caused floods and stranded New Orleans residents. Imagine the feeble FEMA's response to Katrina if they had not prepared.

Michael Brown, the blithering idiot in charge of FEMA - a job he trained for by running something called the International Arabian Horse Association - admitted he didn't know until Thursday that there were 15,000 desperate, dehydrated, hungry, angry, dying victims of Katrina in the New Orleans Convention Center.

Was he sacked instantly? No, our tone-deaf president hailed him in Mobile, Ala., yesterday: "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job."

It would be one thing if President Bush and his inner circle - Dick Cheney was vacationing in Wyoming; Condi Rice was shoe shopping at Ferragamo's on Fifth Avenue and attended "Spamalot" before bloggers chased her back to Washington; and Andy Card was off in Maine - lacked empathy but could get the job done. But it is a chilling lack of empathy combined with a stunning lack of efficiency that could make this administration implode.

When the president and vice president rashly shook off our allies and our respect for international law to pursue a war built on lies, when they sanctioned torture, they shook the faith of the world in American ideals.

When they were deaf for so long to the horrific misery and cries for help of the victims in New Orleans - most of them poor and black, like those stuck at the back of the evacuation line yesterday while 700 guests and employees of the Hyatt Hotel were bused out first - they shook the faith of all Americans in American ideals. And made us ashamed.

Who are we if we can't take care of our own?

 

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It’s now exactly one month ago that f... immigration was deporting me. Just on that day I was pre-editing my next project for MWTV, the report about our common demonstrations against the repression against MTU and against the ongoing war in Iraq, just the weekend before.

 

Forever we should remember!

 

Never we’ll give up …our common struggle!

 

The rest of the pictures you can see also here:

http://blog.jinbo.net/CINA/?cid=5&pid=207

and here:

http://blog.jinbo.net/CINA/?cid=5&pid=209

 

JUST ENJOY IT!!!