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Last Thursday's Guardian(UK) had a beautiful, impressive example of lived solidarity between Israeli and Palestinian women:
Sun, sea and grit: Israeli and West Bank women
risk jail for day at the beach
The day starts early, at a petrol station alongside a roaring Jerusalem road. The mood among the 15 Israeli women is a little tense, but it's hardly surprising – they're about to break the law and with it one of the country's taboos. They plan to drive into the occupied West Bank, pick up Palestinian women and children and take them on a day trip to Tel Aviv.
Today's is the second such trip – another group of women went public with a similar action last month. It is hoped that these will become regular outings, designed to create awareness of the laws that govern movement for Palestinians, and to challenge the fears that Israelis have about travelling into the West Bank.
Riki is a 63-year-old from Tel Aviv who, like the other women did not want to give her surname. She said it took her time to sign up to the trips. "I was resistant to breaking the law. But then I realised that civil action is the only way to go forward, that breaking an illegal law becomes legal."
The women take off in a convoy of cars, through an Israeli checkpoint used by settlers and into several villages around Hebron. There are dozens of Palestinian women waiting for them and each Israeli driver is allocated passengers.
As two young Palestinian women climb into the car, they remove hijabs, scarves and floor-length coats to reveal skinny jeans and long hair – a look that ensures they pass through the Israeli settler-only checkpoint without scrutiny. "I am afraid of the soldiers," said 21-year-old Sara, nervously. But she and 19-year-old Sahar, visibly relax as the car breezes past the checkpoint.
They pull CDs out of bags and are soon listening to loud Arabic dabke music as the car heads along a road that joins the main highway to Tel Aviv. "It's like we are using the tools of the occupation," said Irit, one of the drivers. "It just wouldn't occur to the soldiers at the checkpoints that Israeli women would want to do this."
As Tel Aviv nears, the Palestinian passengers silently survey the tall buildings and outdoor cafes and seem especially taken with the ubiquitous motorcycles and mopeds that speed around the city. "I would like to ride on one, like that," said Sara, pointing to a woman in shorts perched on the back of a bike. But all the Palestinian women have just one request: to go to the sea. For most, it's their first trip to the seaside, even though it is a short drive from home.
The passengers join another carload and head to the promenade in Jaffa, the mixed Arab-Israeli city stuck to the tail-end of Tel Aviv, where the Palestinian women race to greet the waves crashing against the bright rocks. "It is so much more beautiful than I thought," said Nawal, watching her gleeful seven-year-old daughter skipping backwards to avoid being sprayed by the waves. "It is more beautiful than on TV, the colour is amazing."
Fatima, 24, gazes out at the horizon. "I didn't know that the sound of the sea is so relaxing," she said. Sara asks for a sheet of paper, speedily folds it into a paper boat and writes her name on it, intending to set it out to sea. "So that it will remember me," she said.
The group convenes at a Jaffa restaurant – about 45 of them in total, including seven children. They are a cheerful party stretched across two long tables. From afar they seem just like any other restaurant party, as the women chat about children, weight gain and health.
But the excursion is far from ordinary. All Palestinians need permits to enter Israel and the penalties for not doing so can involve imprisonment. It is also against the law for Israelis to "smuggle" Palestinians without a permit across the Green Line.
A few months ago Ilana Hammerman, an Israeli journalist, wrote an account of her day trip to Tel Aviv with West Bank Palestinians in Haaretz newspaper. That prompted a criminal investigation against her, for violating Israel's law of entry. But it also inspired a group of women to take the same trip and then take an advertisement in the newspaper to publicise the fact. Since then, there have been hundreds of signatories to a petition of support and many women, on both sides, ready to defy the law.
That's one of the purposes of the action, said Esti, who has been on both trips. "We want more Israelis to realise that there is nothing to be scared of. We want more people to refuse to accept the ideology that keeps us apart – and to just refuse to be enemies."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/sep/16/palestinian-women-smuggled-israeli-beaches
Related article:
☞ Palestinian women smuggled into Tel Aviv for day of fun (Haaretz, 8.10)
"Showcase 'Borderline' came from the idea of 'a show of various band, various genre'. There's needless to say, this could be a some kind of chance to see various bands for people, and this could be also a chance for different kinds of bands to communicate each other. Our motto is 'Beyond border, beyond genre. More music for more people'. come out and enjoy!!", so the organizers of the event (source: Duriban-Little Yongsan).
Last week KCTU released its own interim programme, aka 'KCTU Struggle Plan', for the (anti-G20)People’s Week of Action:
1) KCTU Action Weeks protesting G20
Period: October 30th~ November 12th
In conjunction with Commemoration Period of Labour Martyr Chun Tae-il, various forms of activities and events are to be organized by KCTU and its affiliates.
¤ National Workers Rally commemorating 40th anniversary of the death of Labour Martyr Chun, Tae-il (November 7th, 2010)
2) People’s Week of Collective Action
Period: November 6th ~ 12th
<People’s Response Preparation Committee-provisional title>, a national coalition protesting G20 is to conduct joint activities during this period, including people’s summit, mass rally and march, etc.
¤ People’s Summit
Period: November 8th~10th
A series of thematic discussions/workshops/conferences around the 13 main agenda;
Jobs and employment, Fundamental Labour Rights, Financial Regulation, Environment & Climate change, FTAs & TNCs, Food Sovereignty, Democracy & Human Rights, Poverty & Development, Forced Migration, Security & Peace, Public Services, Intellectual Property Rights, Nuclear Issues
Within People’s Summit the followings are mainly organized by KCTU;
-> Free Trade Agreement and Peoples’ Alternative
Time: November 8th(To be confirmed)
Organisers: KCTU, Our World is not for Sale Network (Under discussion)
-> Labour Assembly: Southern Trade Unions’ Voice on Global Economic & Social Crisis
Time: November 9th (All day)
Organiser: KCTU, COSATU, CUT-Brazil
Trade Unions in G20/non G20 country will be invited
¤ Cultural Ceremony
Time: November 10th (Evening, on the eve of Mass Rally and March)
¤ Press Conference for Seoul Declaration
¤ Action Day protesting G20
Time: November 11th, (Opening Day of G20 summit)
Organiser: G20 People’s Response Preparation Committee
3) G20 Trade Union Summit
Time: November 10th~11th
Organiser: ITUC, OECD TUAC, GUFs
Finally here you can read KCTU's call for international participation in People’s Week of Collective Action protesting G20 Seoul Summit.
Today in downtown Seoul: Under the slogan...
Put People First, People's G-20 Action
...81 progressive civic right groups, resistance organisations, workers and peasants unions founded an alliance to oppose the goals and principles of the G-20 and announced to hold a series of protests before and during the summit.
The alliance includes the Korean Confederation of Trade Union(KCTU) and People's Solidarity for Participatory Democracy(PSPD), one of South Korea's largest civic organizations, as well as 'minor' left-wing opposition parties(DLP, NPP, SP etc.) and migrant workers organisations.
The alliance also charged that "law enforcement" agencies' crackdown on the homeless, street vendors and migrant workers in advance of the summit, disguised as anti-terrorism and public safety campaigns, are in violation of human rights.
The alliance plans to hold a mass rally next month in protest of a special law on G-20 security that goes into effect on Oct. 1. The "provisional law" limits demonstrations and gatherings by giving police greater authority to arrest and allows the government to mobilize the military to help police in their security duties, according to today's Yonhap.
Related reports:
☞ “사람이 우선이다!” G20대응 공동민중행동 돌입 (KCTU, 9.15)
☞ "사람이 우선이다", 'G20대응민중행동' 발족 (VoP, 9.15)
Already one week ago at least 50 organisations released their "Call for Action":
☞ The G20 Summit is NO EXCUSE for Repression!
Yesterday's (bourgeois) Korea Herald reported the following:
Progressive groups to hold anti-G20 forum, protests
(South)Korea’s progressive activist groups are preparing massive anti-G20 rallies with international organizations, before and during the G20 summit slated for Nov. 11-12.
Forty-seven groups will launch an integrated organization Wednesday to jointly deal with issues related to the G20 and oppose its principles and goals, including the globalization of financial systems, group leaders said Monday.
They include the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, the country’s second largest umbrella labor group, and the People’s Solidarity for Participatory Democracy, one of the country’s major civic groups.
They have set Nov. 6-12 as their “joint action period,” during which they plan to focus on publicizing problems with the major agenda items and issues that the global economic forum has been dealing with.
The progressive groups will hold the “People’s Summit” from Nov. 8-10 to highlight problems with the agenda et by the G20 and put forward alternatives, group officials said.
The KCTU has separate plans to stage a variety of events jointly with international labor organizations. (*)
On Nov. 9, the KCTU and labor unions from Brazil and South Africa will host a “Labor Assembly” to listen to voices of workers from around the world.
From Nov. 10-11, the International Trade Union Confederation will host a meeting of labor union leaders from the G20 nations to encourage leaders to pay more attention to labor and social issues.
The ITUC is the largest international labor organization, with 176 million members from 312 trade unions from 156 countries. It has held its leadership meeting at the host country of a G20 summit each year.
In related news, local labor and social activist groups will hold an international meeting on Nov. 8 to discuss the limits of free trade agreements.
http://www.koreaherald.com/national/Detail.jsp?newsMLId=20100913000857
* More (detailed) info in the course of this week!!
Related article:
☞ Activists plan protest at G-20 event (JoongAng Ilbo/Yonhap, 9.14)
Of course you are not...
Welcome to the 3rd (North)Korean Workers Party Congress!!
"Let's make the KWP Congress a festive event that will berecorded in the history of our party and fatherland!"
Related article (MUST READ!!!):
☞ North Korea blows off the cobwebs (Asia Times, 9.08)
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