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  1. 2005/12/14
    香港: 反WTO 투쟁 #3
    no chr.!
  2. 2005/12/14
    12.13: 라디카 同志.. (final vers.)
    no chr.!
  3. 2005/12/12
    농성투쟁 #2
    no chr.!
  4. 2005/12/12
    香港: 反WTO 투쟁 #2
    no chr.!
  5. 2005/12/12
    香港: 反WTO 투쟁 #1
    no chr.!
  6. 2005/12/09
    출입국 박살내자! 라디카가 연행됐어요(1)
    no chr.!
  7. 2005/12/09
    민주노총 "총"파업 #4
    no chr.!
  8. 2005/12/08
    최신 뉴스, 농성투쟁 #1
    no chr.!
  9. 2005/12/08
    미친 이야기...
    no chr.!
  10. 2005/12/07
    In Exile... ^^
    no chr.!

香港: 反WTO 투쟁 #3

    Infoshop News  
 Welcome to Infoshop News
 Tuesday, December 13 2005 @ 01:29 PM PST

Hong Kong: Pics from anti-WTO protests

   

South Korean farmers jump into the sea and much more!


South Korean farmers jump into a sea in an attempt to reach the main venue for the WTO meeting in Hong Kong, December 13, 2005. (Lee Jae-Won/Reuters)


Anti-WTO protesters struggle with Hong Kong police officers as they try to march toward the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center in Hong Kong Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2005. Several dozen protesters, mainly South Korean farmers, struck security forces with bamboo sticks and tried to push through a police roadblock Tuesday as the World Trade Organization began meeting in this Asian financial center. (AP Photo/ Vincent Yu)




World trade ministers opened talks seeking a deal to cut global trade barriers and combat poverty as thousands of protesters marched in the streets of Hong Kong, denouncing the World Trade Organisation (WTO) as an enemy of the poor.(AFP/Jung Yeon-Je)


World trade ministers launched a fresh bid to salvage free trade negotiations amid little hope for major headway, as thousands of protesters marched in the streets of Hong Kong to denounce the WTO as an enemy of the poor.(AFP/Jung Yeon-Je)


South Korean protesters clash with Hong Kong riot police as they try to march toward the main venue of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) meeting in Hong Kong December 13, 2005. (Claro Cortes IV/Reuters)


South Korean workers and farmers fight with Hong Kong riot police as they try to march toward main venue for the World Trade Organisation (WTO) meeting in Hong Kong December 13, 2005. (Lee Jae-Won/Reuters)


Police apply foam while confronting South Korean protesters during an anti-World Trade Organisation (WTO) protest in Hong Kong December 13, 2005. (Bobby Yip/Reuters)


South Korean protesters chant slogans as they jump into the Victoria Harbour near the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre during an anti-World Trade Organisation protest December 13, 2005. Riot police used pepper spray to hold back anti-globalisation protesters in Hong Kong on Tuesday as a meeting of ministers from WTO nations got underway at a convention centre about one km (0.62 miles) away. REUTERS/Bobby Yip


Hong Kong police officers on a boat set up floats and nets under a bridge to prevent trespasses into a venue for the World Trade Organisation (WTO) Ministerial Conference in Hong Kong December 12, 2005. Hong Kong is bracing for potential violence as about 10,000 anti-globalisation activists converge on the southern Chinese city for the conference to be held on December 13-18, 2005. About 9,000 police have been mobilised in the city's biggest ever security operation. (Lee Jae-Won/Reuters)


Anti-World Trade Organisation (WTO) protesters march in Hong Kong December 13, 2005. Riot police used pepper spray to hold back anti-globalisation protesters in Hong Kong on Tuesday as a meeting of ministers from WTO nations got underway at a convention centre about one km (0.62 miles) away. REUTERS/Claro Cortes IV


South Korean workers and farmers fight against Hong Kong riot police as they try to march towards the main venue of the World Trade Organisation meeting in Hong Kong December 13, 2005. Thousands of anti-globalisation protesters rallied in Hong Kong as the WTO meeting opened on Tuesday in the territory. REUTERS/Lee Jae-Won


A protester participates in an anti-World Trade Organisation rally in Hong Kong December 13, 2005. Thousands of anti-globalisation protesters rallied in Hong Kong as the WTO meeting opened on Tuesday in the territory. REUTERS/Lee Jae-Won


Riot police use foam on South Korean protesters during an anti-World Trade Organisation (WTO) protest in Hong Kong December 13, 2005. Dozens of anti-globalisation protesters leapt into Hong Kong harbour on Tuesday as a meeting of ministers from WTO nations got underway at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. REUTERS/Bobby Yip


Anti-WTO protesters clash with Hong Kong police near the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2005. Several dozen protesters, mainly South Korean farmers, struck security forces with bamboo sticks and tried to push through a police roadblock Tuesday as the World Trade Organization began meeting in this Asian financial center. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)


An anti-World Trade Organisation (WTO) protester chants slogans in Hong Kong December 13, 2005. Riot police used pepper spray to hold back anti-globalisation protesters in Hong Kong on Tuesday as a meeting of ministers from WTO nations got underway at a convention centre about one km (0.62 miles) away. REUTERS/Claro Cortes IV REUTERS/Claro Cortes IV


Japanese activists chant slogans during an anti-World Trade Organisation protest in Hong Kong December 13, 2005. Thousands of anti-globalisation protesters rallied in Hong Kong as the WTO meeting opened on Tuesday in the territory. REUTERS/Lee Jae-Won


Mexican actor Gael Garcia Bernal, center, walks with fellow anti-WTO protesters in Hong Kong Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2005. Thousands of protesters carrying huge banners, chanting and banging drums marched through Hong Kong on Tuesday, venting their anger against the World Trade Organization, which began a six-day meeting in this Chinese city. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)


An anti-World Trade Organisation (WTO) protester pumps his fist while floating at Victoria Harbour near the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, the main venue of the WTO conference, December 13, 2005. Riot police used pepper spray to hold back anti-globalisation protesters in Hong Kong on Tuesday as a meeting of ministers from WTO nations got underway at a convention centre about 1 km away. About 70, mostly South Korean, protesters leapt into the harbour, where they bobbed in the murky water wearing orange life-jackets and punching the air with their fists. REUTERS/Claro Cortes IV

진보블로그 공감 버튼트위터로 리트윗하기페이스북에 공유하기딜리셔스에 북마크

12.13: 라디카 同志.. (final vers.)

Comrade Radhika, Mok-dong

Detention Center, Dec. 12.

 

BUT YESTERDAY THEY ALREADY

DEPORTED HER..

 

 

 



 

사진: 숲속홍길동 同志

www.nodong.com/hong

 

 

 

 

2005년 12월 13일 라디카 동지가 네팔로 떠났습니다.
스스로 간 것이 아니기에 많은 동지들이 마음 아파하고 있습니다.
지난 8일 단속, 연행되어 현재 한국땅의 차가운 현실과 혹한을 뒤로 하고
10여년 간의 한국 생활을 가슴에 담은 채 떠나갔습니다.

 

More about it 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=7091


 

More about comrade Radhika you can read/see/watch here:

http://memolog.blog.naver.com/nosugaradded/151

http://blog.jinbo.net/CINA/?cid=11&pid=377

 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


 

 

 

 

 


 
 
 
Questa mattina mi son svegliato
oh bella ciao, bella ciao, bella ciao, ciao, ciao,
questa mattina mi son svegliato
e ho trovato l'invasor.
Oh partigiano, portami via
oh bella ciao, bella ciao, bella ciao, ciao, ciao,
oh partigiano, portami via,
che mi sento di morir.
E se io muoio lassù in montagna
oh bella ciao, bella ciao, bella ciao, ciao, ciao,
e se io muoio lassù in montagna
tu mi devi seppellir.
Seppellire sulla montagna,
oh bella ciao, bella ciao, bella ciao, ciao, ciao,
seppellire sulla montagna
sotto l'ombra di un bel fior.
E le genti che passeranno,
oh bella ciao, bella ciao, bella ciao, ciao, ciao,
e le genti che passeranno
mi diranno: " Che bel fior ".
È questo il fiore del partigiano,
oh bella ciao, bella ciao, bella ciao, ciao, ciao,
è questo il fiore del partigiano
morto per la libertà.

진보블로그 공감 버튼트위터로 리트윗하기페이스북에 공유하기딜리셔스에 북마크

농성투쟁 #2

 

ONE WEEK OCCUPATION OF NHRC

 

 

 

Saturday was day 6 of the occupation of the National Human Right Commission (NHRC) and the 57th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This morning (12.10) at about 10 am, the Korean government held ceremonies to commemorate the annivesary. In the ceremonies, the Minister of Justice, Chan Cheon-bae, gave awards to organizations and individuals who promote human rights for all. As part of their cultural program, they also had migrant workers sing traditional songs from their home countries and participate in the ceremonies.

 

 

In order to point out their hypocrisy, MTU members and some 60 supporters joined the ceremony to protest the the NHRC's decision to support the Immigration Department's unlawful detention of Anwar Hossain, MTU's president, the crackdown on undocumented migrant workers, the recent arrest of yet another MTU leader, and the Korean government's unwillingness to grant basic working rights to migrant workers. One demonstrator was ejected peaceably from the ceremony for shouting, "Stop Crackdown!" The other protesters held signs reading, "Stop ignoring migrant workers!" and "Recognize Migrant Workers' Rights!"

 

 

"Last night (Sat., 12.10) we went to a program at Hanyang University that was organized by (or maybe for?) the mothers of martyrs from the dictatorship era. This program was mainly entertainment, but at the end, we got to give a really quick little speech explaining who we are and what the demands are. I say "we" because I was paraded up on stage with the real migrant workers. It was good exposure for MTU because there were a couple of thousand people there, but it wasn't anything "action" oriented. I rarely know what we are going to do ahead of time- I just follow along and do what I'm told. It's still really difficult to get questions answered.", one comrade reported later in the following morning.

 

About yesterday, Sunday, 12.11, following was reported from the spot:

 

"Today folks are out in Incheon, Dongdaemun and elsewhere organizing and just a few of us are holding down the fort at the office. The nights here are packed with people and during the day there are constantly people coming and going. It's nearly impossible to sleep at night because of all of the meetings that can't happen during the day, so folks are looking a little tired and catching naps whenever and wherever they can. Still though, everyone seems to be holding up well. Spirits are high even though they are sometimes tense and the Korean government seems to be getting a little nervous about how much press we are generating. We were on KBS two or three separate times yesterday- first the protest at the human rights celebration and then a really long piece on Radhika getting deported and a third really emotional piece about two men from Bangladesh who lost fingers in industrial accidents here and can't go back home for the shame of no longer being able to provide for their families. It was a good media day, even if 2/3 of the reasons for being on the news really sucked."

 

 

Radhika is still in Mok-dong Detention Center, it was reported yersterday (12.11). It looks like she'll be there until the 14th or 15th, but she really wants to go home. She said that being a femaledetainee is really humiliating. They have cameras in their rooms, thebathrooms, everywhere so they have absolutely no privacy. It sounds like she is having a really awful time.

And as I remember, and I remember very well, Mok-dong Detention Center is just a rat hole. If you must stay there longer than few days you can become easily complete crazy. This is definitely not a place for human beings!!!

 

 

A Korean report about Saturday 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=7083


 

International Solidarity

 

The International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers’ Associations (IUF) has posted an appeal for solidarity with MTU’s struggle. The entire text you can read here:
http://www.iuf.org/cgi-bin/dbman/db.cgi?db=default&uid=default&ID=2504&view_records=1&ww=1&en=1

 

Répression du MTU (by Inprecor, France, but it was already written last Oct.)

Le combat pour le droit d’organisation des migrants est particulièrement dur, car il est plus difficile à populariser que celui des fonctionnaires. Le Syndicat des migrants (MTU), lui aussi adhérent à la KCTU, a été formé le 24 avril 2005. Il lutte pour la légalisation des travailleurs sans papiers et le droit du travail dans l’entreprise. Il en appelle à la solidarité internationale et propose d’échanger expériences et informations sur la façon dont la défense des immigrés est assurée dans divers pays. ...

Please read (if you understand French language...^^) more here:

http://www.inprecor.org/510/Coree_pierrerousset.htm

 



 


진보블로그 공감 버튼트위터로 리트윗하기페이스북에 공유하기딜리셔스에 북마크

香港: 反WTO 투쟁 #2

The daily The Guardian (UK) wrote this today (still there are no independent, non-bourgeois informations..):

 

 

Hong Kong On High Alert..^^

 

 

 

Hong Kong on high alert as thousands of protesters fly in

Hong Kong was braced yesterday for its biggest security operation since the handover from British rule in 1997 as thousands of international protesters began flying in to try to derail the World Trade Organisation summit later this week.

To prevent a repeat of the violence that disrupted the last two summits in Seattle and Cancún, 9,000 police have been drafted in to man the barricades around the harbourside convention centre, where the talks will take place, and patrol shopping and financial districts, which are considered potential targets for anti-globalisation radicals.

In Wan Chai, the entertainment district closest to the venue, manhole covers have been welded into place so they cannot be used as missiles and overhead walkways have been covered in wire mesh so nothing can be thrown on to the streets. Hospitals are on standby and all leave has been cancelled. Prison inmates have been relocated so that police have the space to detain large numbers of people.

Hopes are scarcely more optimistic for the action inside the vast convention centre, used for the 1997 handover, where 6,000 delegates will gather tomorrow to thrash out the global trade disputes that have gridlocked the latest WTO round. Few expect anything more than incremental progress; at worst, some fear a repeat of the deadlock that undermined the last summit at Cancún in 2003.

The first demonstration of the week passed off peacefully yesterday, a colourful, if noisy, march by more than 2,000 people. But, to the concern of free-speech campaigners, immigration officials are said to have a blacklist of known activists, who will be denied entry into the territory.

Korean farmers, who have been in the frontline of previous WTO protests, say the authorities put pressure on hotels to refuse them rooms, but more than 1,000 are expected to fly in today. They say the liberalisation of the rice market has driven several farmers to suicide, including Lee Kyung-hae, who killed himself at the height of the demonstration in Cancún.

"We want to protest peacefully," said Seo Pil-Sang of the Korean Agricultural Federation Trade Union. "But we are desperate. Lee died in Cancún. And unless the WTO listens to the voice of Korean farmers, I'm worried that someone else may kill themselves."

Access will be limited. Although 2,000 accredited non-governmental organisations will be allowed inside the hall, most protesters will be restricted to a nearby "demonstration zone".

"I don't think there'll be trouble like in Seattle in Cancún," said Helena Kwong, a marshall. "Hong Kong people are peaceful. We are against unfair trade, but we are not in favour of violence."

In the past three years, hundreds of thousands of local people have taken to the streets to campaign for democracy, but the demonstrations have all passed peacefully. Hong Kong also has more reason than most to be thankful for global trade, which has transformed it into one of the most prosperous cities in the world. Police say the risk will come later and from outside: from European and US anarchist groups and Asian farmers' organisations.

Some local businesses are taking no chances. Two nearby banks and several outlets of international retailers plan to close during the summit. At an Audi showroom close to the venue, sales executive Kenneth Chui said: "We are worried about the safety of our staff. We will board up our windows for at least the opening day. Then, we'll see what the situation is like."

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/wto/article/0,2763,1665112,00.html

 

 

 

And here you can watch (when it works...) the first Korean documentary from the spot (yesterday's opening rally, commented..^^):

http://go.jinbo.net/commune/view.php?board=cool&id=23781&page=1

 

More, perhaps live, reporting will be here:

http://www.gomediaction.net

 

And here you can read a interesting analysis (not communist, not really...^^) to the topic of WTO:

http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,16781,1664984,00.html

 

 


 


진보블로그 공감 버튼트위터로 리트윗하기페이스북에 공유하기딜리셔스에 북마크

香港: 反WTO 투쟁 #1

First of all: the report about the last MTU activities (12.10/11) - and of course about Radhika同志 -  will follow soon. I already got informations, but I just want to wait for some more material...

 

HK, 12.11: THE FIRST DAY OF RESISTANCE

AGAINST THE WTO SUMMIT

 

 

AFP (12.11, Hindustanitimes.com) reported this:

 

Amid Hong Kong's biggest-ever security operation, anti-globalisation and other protesters took to the streets on Sunday in a rally against this week's World Trade Organisation (WTO) meeting in Hong Kong.

Thousands of protesters from all over the world joined together to call for the end of the world trading body and to end third world poverty.

"Sink the WTO" and "Keep WTO out of agriculture" read many of the banners as the demonstrators marched from Victoria Park in the Causeway Bay district to the downtown government headquarters two miles away (about three kilometres).

Organisers, the Hong Kong People's Alliance on WTO put the turnout at 4,000 (Junge Welt, a German "socialist" newspaper is writing 10,000 protestors..), lower than their expectations of 7,000, but no independent estimates were available.

 

 

Police and plain-clothes officers ringed the park and thousands more were ready along the demonstration route in anticipation of possible violent clashes with radical protesters but the march passed off without incident.

The protest began in a carnival-like atmosphere with speeches by political and NGO leaders and dozens of concern groups preparing colourful costumes and props.

 

 

One group carried a papier-mache model of a dragon with a tongue of flames that spelled "WTO". Another hauled a huge model of a raging bull.

Others carried giant balloons bearing slogans such as "Stop Trade Slavery".

Many railed against globalisation while others complained that the WTO's aim of reducing agricultural subsidies threatened the livelihoods of millions.

"Cheap food imports are destroying our own agriculture," complained Masaaki Sakaguchi, secretary general of Japan's National Coalition of Workers, Farmers and Consumers for Safe Food and Health.

"There are lots of chemicals on the food we import," Sakaguchi added. "Keep food local and keep it safe."

About two hours after the march began, the last demonstrators arrived at the government offices, where activists began a rally calling on Hong Kong's rulers to dismantle the city's trade policies.

"The WTO puts people out of work and forces overseas workers to seek work here," said Alijah Purwati, of the Indonesian Migrant Workers Council, representing the estimated 150,000 Indonesian domestic helpers employed here.

Along the march route many shop owners, also worried that the procession could turn violent, had shuttered their stores. Shoppers and other pedestrians gave the protesters a wide berth.

"The march went very smoothly. I'm very happy. We always said it would be peaceful and it was," said Elizabeth Tang of protest organisers the Hong Kong People's Alliance on the WTO.

Sunday's march was to be the first of three large demonstrations planned during the summit. Another will be held on Tuesday, when the ministerial conference kicks off, and a final one is scheduled for the last day next Sunday.

Authorities were taking no chances with security, putting 9,000 police on duty and locking down entire city sections in anticipation of violent clashes.

Across town at the summit venue, where 11,000 delegates and journalists will be based during the trade talks, the streets were calm on Sunday.

The normally bustling convention and exhibition centre was all but deserted as hundreds of police scoured the glitzy building's plazas and bomb squads rooted around in drains and manholes in last-minute searches for explosives.

The area around the venue has been blocked off to traffic by three-metre (nine-feet) high water-filled crowd control barriers that stretch along the perimeter of an exclusion zone aimed at keeping out troublemakers.

A steel containment fence was also erected in the street outside the entrance to the convention centre.

Some 10,000 protesters are expected this week. Rally organisers have accused immigration officials of treating arriving demonstrators in a heavy-handed manner after almost a dozen were temporarily detained at the city's airport.

 

AP wrote that:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5472181,00.html

 

Please check out also the South China Morning Post (HK)

www.scmp.com

 

Hong Kong People's Alliance on WTO (HKPA, the main organizers of the protests)

http://daga.dhs.org/hkpa/paw/pawindex.html

 

and indymedia

www.indymedia.org

 

...but both (indy and HKPA), until now, have no news about y'day's protest.

 

 

 

 

PS.:

The WTO summit in HK is just a place to show our disagreement with the ruling system, the capitalism... Actually I don't see it that the movement, the activists there will be able to smash the summit... The main actors will be the representatives of the different (capitalist) states but with their different priorities... We just should keep in our mind: THINK GLOBAL, ACT LOCAL...

 

But anyway, we should support the struggle there by ...yeah... ACTING LOCAL. KICK THE CAPITALISTS IN THEIR AS... IN FRONT OF OUR OWN DOORSTEPS!!!





진보블로그 공감 버튼트위터로 리트윗하기페이스북에 공유하기딜리셔스에 북마크

출입국 박살내자! 라디카가 연행됐어요

12.8: COMRADE RADHIKA WAS ARRESTED

BY IMMIGRATION COPS!

 

Yesterday, 12.8, about 8:30pm, Radhika Subbha from Nepal, a key activist in the Migrant Workers Trade Union (MTU) was arrested in a crackdown at Uijeongbu Station. Radhika is the main organizer of female migrant workers in S. Korea and has been involved in the struggle for migrants rights for several years. Last year, she participated in the sit-in struggle at Myeong Dong Cathedral and went on a 30 day hunger strike to protest against the kidnapping of Samar Thapa, the then chairperson of ETU-MB's (Equality Trade Union - Migrants' Branch) Emergency Struggle Committee and to oppose the implementation of Korea's regressive and racist immigration law, EPS (Employment Permit System).

Radhika is also one of our best co-workers in MWTV (Migrant Workers TV). 

Of course she also participated in the current occupation of the National Human Right Commission (NHRC) in Seoul.

 

Radhika was traveling, when she was arrested, to Uijeongbu to help a friend obtain a job.

 

Now she is arrested in Mok-dong Deportation Center.

Especially after her 30-days hunger strike her health conditions are very bad.

You can visit her tomorrow, Saturday, until am 11:30 in Mok-dong. 

Give her POWER thru the bars!!! 

 


2004, comrade Radhika during the hunger strike

This year, Radhika in the TV studio

 

 

Yesterday (local time) after I got the information about her I was checking the entire night the web about news about her in Korean, but I wasn't able to find something... not on MTU, not on MW Broadcasting.. nowhere.

Today in the morning (CET), like usual, I just was checking my ...'s blog and surprisingly I found this (very detailed and with a lot of background..고맙습니다!!) about Radhika in Korean:


 


 

Comrade Radhika on a rally 2005.8.17

on Yeouido, near the National Assembly

 

Source: 숲속홍길동同志

www.nodong.com/hong

 

 


MTU protest banners at the NHRC, downtown Seoul

진보블로그 공감 버튼트위터로 리트윗하기페이스북에 공유하기딜리셔스에 북마크

민주노총 "총"파업 #4

12.8: New Police Attacks Against

Striking Workers

 

Source of the pics: Minjung-ui Sori

 

 

A report you can read here. There you find also a video and many comments.

http://www.voiceofpeople.org/new/2005120833843.html

 

(perhaps later, if I find time - I have also to write now one article for a German paper, even I don't have a mind for that right now, because I'm just thinking about comrades in struggle, comrades who were already arrested, just few hours ago.., later I will write more about it - more about it in English...)

 

 

 

 

비정규 권리보장 입법쟁취 

전국노동자대회

일시 : 2005년 12월 9일(金) 14:30

장소 : 서울 종묘공원 (대회직후 광화문4거리까지 행진)

 

 

JUST FIGHT BACK!

 

LET'S FIGHT TOGETHER FOR A WORLD

WITHOUT EXPLOITATION AND OPPRESSION!

자본주의 박살내자!

-투쟁-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





진보블로그 공감 버튼트위터로 리트윗하기페이스북에 공유하기딜리셔스에 북마크

최신 뉴스, 농성투쟁 #1

Actually there are not really news (it's really hard to get informations from MTU activists), but here is a short report about the daily life/struggle in the occupied office of the National Human Right Commission, I got from a friend (http://blog.jinbo.net/dopehead/ ):

 

Yesterday the migrants workers who are occupying the NHRC and their Korean comrades were busy getting the word out and preparing for propaganda materials.
Their daily routine is like that: morning campaign from 8 am to 10 am, neigborhood campaign near the city hall from noon to 2 pm, silent protest in front of the Commissioner's office from 8 am to 10 am, and noon to 2 pm, participation in solidarity demonstration from 2pm to 5pm, struggle sharing meeting from 8pm to 9pm...
Lots of Korean groups and activists join the daily struggle and are sharing the meetings.
The next big thing is December 18 the international migrant workers day rally.
It's gonna be huge this year!

 

 

 

The report about the beginning of the occupation, and other things you can read here:

http://www.indymedia.no/newswire/display/19580/index.php

 

Here you can read a interview (in Korean) with Shakil, the present chairperson of MTU, in Minjung-ui Sori:

http://www.voiceofpeople.org/new/2005120733766.html

 

Here a kind of updated daily news/summary (in Korean):

http://www.migrantsinkorea.net/webbs/view.php?board=mignews&id=142

 

Here a text from KCTU:

http://www.nodong.org/bbs/view.php?id=bodo&no=3441

 

Here an article from the other side of the barricade (Hankook Ilbo/한국일보, Korean):

http://migrant.nodong.net/bbs/view.php?id=bbs_free&page=1&sn1=&divpage=1&sn=off&ss=on&sc=on&select_arrange=headnum&desc=asc&no=782

 

Actually even on MTU's web site (http://migrant.nodong.net/) there is no updating... the last contribution is from before yesterday...

 

 

 

 

 


진보블로그 공감 버튼트위터로 리트윗하기페이스북에 공유하기딜리셔스에 북마크

미친 이야기...

Following "report" I found before yesterday on www.dailynk.com

Actually this is just to strange, to crazy to believe. But if it is true they are just potential suicides...

 

It is a matter of whether I die or Kim Jong Il Dies

Lim Chun Yong, the chairperson of Free North Korean Soldiers Association

By Jung Jae Sung, Reporter
[ 12.06.2005(Tue) 17:52 ]
Lim Chun Yong is the chairperson of Free North Korean Soldiers's Association (a tentative name), which launched recently with an open letter to Kim Jong Il printed on various media. He had dreadfully sparkling eyes which indicated that he was desperate to fight against Kim Jong Il. He put on a solemn look with his lips closed tightly.

"North Korean people and Kim Jong Il are standing at a crossroad. Whether it is North Korean people or Kim Jong Il who should live is an obvious question." said Mr. Lim.

"If Kim Jong Il lives, North Korean people will die. On the other hand, if North Korean people live, Kim Jong Il should die. There is a deadly feud between the two parties. This is the consensus among members of Free North Korean Soldiers' Association."


Lim Chung Yong's Theory of Direct Fight Against Kim Jong Il

Mr. Lim bears a personal hatred for Kim Jong Il. Mr. Lim's family were taken to a political slave-labor concentration camp because it had been known to the North Korean authorities that Mr Lim fled to South Korea. Mr. Lim had been a captain working in the second battalion of the 19th brigade of the pacification corps in North Korea before he entered South Korea. Clenching his fists, Mr. Lim said, "My family in North Korea may also wish the Kim Jong Il regime to collapse. It is a matter of whether I die or Kim Jong Il dies." His eyes sparkled with strong determination.

Mr. Lim emphasized that if there should be no direct action against North Korea, the regime change would not occur, and he did not think raising North Korean human rights issue to have any effect on the regime change. His argument may be called the Theory of Direct Fight Against Kim Jong Il, when we compare it to the Theory of Direct Fight Against Imperialism borne by student movement activists in the 80s.

The members of Free North Korean Soldiers' Association are North Korean defectors who were commandos when they were in the North. Mr. Lim said they would wage some direct fight, the details of which cannot be revealed. He also mentioned that he was confident that once they moved, anti-Kim Jong Il soldiers would also move in the North Korean army. He suggested that he had some connections in the North Korean army.

Mr. Lim said they would start their operation soon after they had a press conference. (!!!)

"I will risk my life to revenge my family"

- So far there have been several groups and societies for North Korean human rights, and democratization. I think your organization is unique.

North Korean defectors can understand and picture the realities of North Korea from the bottom of their hearts. That's why it is their duty to raise their voices about North Korea. I think it is time to change gears from rallying against Kim Jong Il in the street to directly fighting against him.

- I think it must not be easy to make such resolution.

In 2003, the North Korean authorities came to know that I had entered South Korea. That's why all my family were taken to a political slave-labor concentration camp. I feel a sense of guilt about my family. My family may also want the North Korean people to proceed to freedom and democracy. It is my duty to risk my life to help them.

- Are you sure you can manage to do such dangerous things. They even require strict maintenance of security and regulation.

I became a member of the special forces when I was 17. Ex-commandos are fundamentally different from ordinary people. We share the congenial spirit. We've had some financial difficulties and been exposed to some danger, but we've overcome such difficulties for the past two years because of our congeniality.

North Korean people and Kim Jong Il are at a crossroad of choice. The choice of which party should live must be obvious: North Korean people must live. North Korean regime is a failure. People like us, who have much idea about the inside of the North Korean regime, must come out to help change the regime.

- Regime change is not so easy as is told like that.

North Korea is on the edge of collapse. Despite Kim Jong Il's Military First Policy, military spirit is slack and soldiers are full of complaints. Before I escaped from North Korea, these phenomena had been existent. They are more severe now.

- Are you going to contact North Korean soldiers in order to change Kim Jong Il regime?

We are ex-G.I.'s. I was a captain in the pacification corps. Some members were higher than me when they were in the North Korean army. We are sure we still have some influences on North Korean commandos. I hope you understand that I cannot tell you any detail about what we are going to do.

Ex-G.I. defectors are confident of North Korean regime's collapse. They suffered the great famine of the 90s, human rights abuses, or political prisoner camps. The incident where an infant was abducted and eaten near a missile launcher in Hakmu laborers district of Jagang-do, Jinchun-gun occurred just next our military camp. North Korean regime have been making people beasts.


"There will be the second and third Lim Chung Yong"

- Even if the realities are horrible, it is difficult to draw actions from people.

We think that North Korea is underway of collapse. We are concerned about our families, and friends in the army, let alone the matter of unification and the people. We will be able to show our actions. This confidence is due to my experience.

It is a matter of whether I die or Kim Jong Il dies. If I die, there will be the second and third Lim Chun Yong. I trust my friends. I am confident that I can make some of my friends in North Korea liaisons, and deploy ourselves simultaneously.

- What do you think of the Six Party Talk, and various kinds of international pressure to North Korea by raising human rights, drug, and forgery issues.

I don't think they have any effect on changing North Korean regime. Each country in the international society has her own interest regarding North Korea. North Korean problem cannot be solved internationally. Her insiders must act promptly and accordingly.

- What is the public reaction to your association like?

We are receiving a lot of encouragement. But we still need more support from South Korean people and international societies. It is the duty of Free North Korean Solders' Association to change the North Korean regime. We owe our families and friends who were killed because of us. We have to pay off our debts. We think that once we can make our descendants live in a free democratic society, our debts are cleared.

- Some South Korean youngsters sympathize with Kim Jong Il regime, or long for communism.

You should not see North Korean regime from a sympathetic or emotional perspective. I am sorry to see some youngsters easily hooked by Kim Jong Il's propaganda. I wish to have a chance to meet those youngsters because I think I can open their eyes to the realities of North Korea.

- Do you have something in mind to tell South Korean people?

If the President is mistaken, the foundation of our nation is in danger. If people are deluded, we lose our nest. South Korean people must clearly discern Kim Jong Il's propaganda and understand North Korean regime. Kim Jong Il holds North Korean people as a hostage for his wealth and hegemony. We must decide whether Kim Jong Il prospers or 23 million North Korean people survive. South Koreans must clearly understand this. You should never do anything that could be a help for Kim Jong Il.

진보블로그 공감 버튼트위터로 리트윗하기페이스북에 공유하기딜리셔스에 북마크

In Exile... ^^

...TODAY SINCE FOUR MONTHS (today local time..),

ACTUALLY FOUR MONTHS TO LONG...

 

 

Well, last night (local time) I just was sitting here on the computer (old European...) until a.m. 3:00 and was waiting for news about the MTU occupation struggle in the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC). In the early night I read the news about it in jinbo.net (wow, what is going on there??? no-one, or just few people are reading this stuff nowadays... I remember when I wrote aricles there some time ago I had hundreds, or even about thousand readers...). Later, around midnight a got a mail from S.K. that possibly the activists can be arrested soon. So I was really a kind, let's say, nervously.. But from then until last noon (local time) a Korean friend gave me more detailed informations.

 

Even I knew that there are some special actions going on at "home" I was getting up like usual, turned on the computer for the first check, what is going on in the world (the 3rd WW was starting, or so...??). After that I checked this site here to get the first news about MTU's activities (just in the "guestbook") and after that I just was checking, like usual every morning, the blog of my friend (comrade, or whatever...)... But actually I had no really time to think, understand (well, my Korean is still sh..) about her writings, postings (uhuu~, sorry, sorry..., but I realized.., I understood well, or again, I understood nothing..), because I just started to get everything together - in my "mind" - for an article about MTU's activities for our intl. solidarity.

 

Finally after two hours I had everything together, including the HTML version (please.. just hand made...) and I started to upload the stuff at first in LabourStart (www.labourstart.org ). And just a short while later they wrote me this: "OK, it's our top story -- meaning that it's also appearing simultaneously on hundreds of other websites thanks to our syndication." (wow, just a kind of small success...). Later I uploaded my stuff in East Asia, Australia, NZ.. (like her in Taiwan.. http://www.twimc.org/newswire/display/738/index.php )..

 

Meanwhile I got a mail from the directors of the (strange) "documentary" Migrant Workers Are Not Terrorists

http://info.piff.org/eng/html/archive/arc_search_view.asp?idx=10184&c_idx=16&m_entry_year=

and they wrote this:


"We just received happy news: that all our revolutionary documentaries
inc. Migrant Workers Are Not Terrorists have been selected to 9th Dhaka
International Film Festival in Bangladesh.
The festival starts on 17th January 2006 and runs through the 25th.
Rainbow Film Society has been organising the Dhaka International Film
Festival (DIFF) on a regular basis since 1992. The DIFF is the most
prestigious film event in Bangladesh, and to a great extent has helped
shape a healthy and positive film culture in the country. The DIFF is a
bold expression of resistance against the decadence, vulgarity and cheap
commercialism that pervades the mainstream. The festival has also been
able to create space for the young and aspiring filmmakers connect with
the bigger world outside and global trends and to strengthen the
parallel trend in Bangladesh cinema.

 

Anyway, we will visit Berlinale from February 9.-15.
...would be nice to have some drinks if youre there."

 

Yeah, another kind of nice message for me today..., even no-one knows DIFF (I think even they don't have a home page...).

 

And now, after I published our (MTU's) stuff in  E. Asia, S. Africa and nearly the entire Europe (from Cyprus to Norway..) I will continue with the Americas and then... I will just wait for the next news..

 

Finally, here (CET) it is now nearly a.m. 1:00, I finished the Americas..

http://chiapas.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=116391 chiapaz

http://santiago.indymedia.org/news/2005/12/41756.php chile

http://la.indymedia.org/news/2005/12/140735.php L.A.

http://peru.indymedia.org/news/2005/12/22972.php peru

http://dc.indymedia.org/newswire/display/131613/index.php washington, and so on... (actually it is everywhere the same..^^)

And now I did enough for today/y'day...!!!

 

Finally don't forget today's - actually every day's - ANTI-WAR EVENT!

P.M. 7, Gwanghwamun, in front of Kyobo B/D (yeah, it would be so good if one MTU activist go there to tell the people, and I know there are many citizens there at this time, what's going on, why we - MTU - take action now..) 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Look at the stars

I'll kiss you again

Between the bars

Where I'm seeing you there

With your hands in the air

Waiting to finally be caught

 

 

 

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