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Despite the ongoing - and ahead of the G20 Summit (Nov. 11~12 in Seoul) partly increasing - repression against trade union/strike activities(*) only a small number, according to KCTU 4000 workers, followed a call for the "National Mass Protest Day" of irregular workers, held y'day afternoon/evening in downtown Seoul:
Related reports:
☞ 서울광장서 전국비정규노동자대회 열려 (NewsCham, 10.30)
☞ 비정규직철폐 전국노동자대회...2부 전태일 40주기 기념문화제 (KCTU, 10.30)
☞ "공정사회 원한다면 전태일을 기억하라" (OMN, 10.30)
☞ 전태일 40주기 추모 문화제...공연 및 부대행사 마련 (VoP, 10.30)
* Today's Yonhap reported about a current disturbing example the following:
A branch leader of the Korean Metal Workers' Union (KMWU) is in critical condition after setting himself on fire to protest against the police's attempt to arrest him amid a sit-in strike at the Korea Electronics (KEC) factory, police said Sunday.
Kim Jun-il, a KEC employee and the KMWU branch chief of Gumi, 261 kilometers southeast of Seoul, poured inflammables onto his body Saturday night when police officials stormed into the factory to arrest him with a warrant soon after the union and KEC management failed to narrow differences over the new union payment system.
□ 일시 : 2010년 10월 30일(토) 오후 5시
□ 장소 : 서울광장
비정규노동자 노동기본권 쟁취! 비정규 노동열사 정신계승, 비정규직 철폐!
전국노동자대회 (약칭 : 비정규직 철폐! 전국노동자대회)
□ 주요 내용
(1) 3대 목표
- 비정규 노동자 노동기본권 쟁취
- 전 노동계급의 단결과 연대 실현
- 비정규 열사정신 계승
(2) 6대 요구
- 간접고용철폐, 파견법 폐기! 불법파견 정규직화
- 직업안정법 개악 저지! 간접고용노동자 원청사용자 책임 인정
- 비정규직법 폐기 및 사용사유 제한 도입
- 특수고용노동자 노동기본권 보장, 산재 전면 적용
- 이주노동자 노동허가제(노동비자) 도입, 강제단속 반대
- 최저임금법 개악저지 및 최저임금 현실화
Last week's 'top story' in the int'l media...
...commented in Israel (via Yedioth Ahronoth, 10.24):
Finally, those hypocritical, self-righteous Americans are screwed. As always, the greatest joy in Israel is the one over someone else’s downfall, and now it’s the turn of the Americans – the ones who have been preaching to us for decades. This time, we’ll show them who’s right.
The tens of thousands of documents exposed by Wikileaks portray an awful picture of a brutal American thug: In the morning, he rapes a few Iraqi women for his pleasure, by noon he kills dozens of civilians, and what happens in the evening? He eats their livers or raw flesh?
As of yesterday, and for some days to come, America is under attack. It’s being blasted from every direction. This is the same America that was aiming to teach us a lesson; the same America that failed to understand (and will continue to fail) that war does not work in line with the 'noble vision of our Biblical prophets'...
Related stuff:
☞ Iraq War Logs 2004-2009 (Spiegel)
☞ The Secret Iraq Files (al-Jazeera)
☞ Iraq: The War Logs (Guardian)
The (South)Korean People’s G20 Response Action, "...a coalition of labour, social movement, and civil society organisations in South Korea, whom have come together to protest the Nov. 11-12 G20 Summit in Seoul and seek people-centered alternatives to neoliberal capitalism"(*), reported y'day the following:
From October 22 to 23, G20 financial ministers and central bank governors met in the ancient capital of Korea, Gyeongju, ahead of the up-coming G20 Summit. In the evening of the 22nd, delegates were taken to the famous Anapji River for a feast and celebration. Residents and everyday visitors were excluded from the popular area while the elite group partied. By the end of the meeting on October 23, the G20 delegates were claiming a victory in having staved off a currency war among themselves and agreed to measures to reform and strengthen the IMF, including doubling the quotas that determine the amount of money each member country has to contribute.
The G20 claims its is acting to shoring up global economic recovery. Korean people are not fooled however. They not that G20 has no intensions of truly reining finance capital, which is responsible for the economic crisis, or stopping the neoliberal polices that have created poverty and inequality around the world. They know that G20 countries are implementing severe austerity measures, the goal of which is to make common people pay for the economic crisis created by capital. They are aware that the G20 seeks to protect the existing world economic order, which profits corporations and a few powerful nations. This is why they did not let the meeting go by without expressing their displeasure. On Oct. 22, workers, students, activists and ordinary people rallied in front of Gyeongju station to condemn the G20’s attempts to act as the board of directors of the world economy in the interest of the rich. Some protesters came from as far a way as Seoul to participate in the protest.
Workers from the nearby Balaeo Jeonjang Systems Korea Co. lined the perimeter of the rally holding signs that condemned Balaeo management for illegal layoffs and other acts of labour repression being used in retaliation against union members at the factory. The workers’ troubles began in February of this year, when the company began outsourcing measures in violation of an agreement it had reached with the Korean Metal Workers Union Baleao Chapter that all workers would be directly employed and have regular, secure jobs. When the union protested the outsourcing with a work slowdown, the management retaliated with layoffs and other disciplinary actions against those who had participated in the job action.
In his speech, which opened the day’s protest, KCTU Vice President Jeong Hui-seong explained the connection between the workers at Balaeo Jeongjang Systems and others like them and the G20. “G20 members, like the South Korea, are not embarrassed about repressing labour rights. They see labour flexibilisation and attacks on workers as a means to overcoming the economic crisis,” he commented. “We have to recognise that our struggle against the G20 is the same as the one taking place on shop floor,” he concluded. He also asked those gathered before him to prepare for mass protests on November 11, the day G20 Summit begins in Seoul.
Kim Eo-jin, Co-Chair of the Korean People’s G20 Response Action, exposed the truth about G20 efforts to stave off a currency war between member nations. “They say these measures are about harmonious coexistence,” she stated, “but the coexistence they want is not the one we want. We want a coexistence that includes equality and respect for common people’s and workers rights, not one that means inequality and poverty.” Like other speakers, she reminded rally participants to be prepared for November 11.
The program for the day included many other speeches, including those made by representatives of the Korean Democratic Labour Party and the Korean Clerical and Financial Workers Union. A performance was also given by the progressive singing group “Good Friends”. At the end of the rally a protest statement including the following slogans and demands was read out loud:
· We condemn the G20 for trying to make common people pay for the economic crisis!
· Stop austerity measures, which victimize workers and common people!
· Stop using the G20 as an excuse for repressing human and labour rights!
Participants showed their support for these demands by committing to struggle up until, on and after November 11, their fists raised in the air.
http://en.putpeoplefirst.kr/101822
* More info you can check out here!
The conference's (provisional) program flowchart you can check out here:
http://en.putpeoplefirst.kr/g20_program_en
G20(summit)-related stuff:
☞ Korea tightens security for G20 summit (K. Herald, 10.20)
☞ 100 professors oppose bill banning night rallies (K. Times, 10.22)
☞ S. Korea, U.S. cancel naval exercise due to G-20 summit (Yonhap, 10.24)
☞ One union to protest, another not during G-20 (JoongAng Ilbo, 10.19)
And last Friday's Korea Herald reported the following (BS): Security officials in Seoul are keeping an eye out for North Korean spies, believing the North recently sent its agents to prevent Seoul from successfully hosting the Group of 20 summit. “We are tracking down organizations who are believed to have received orders from the North Korean government to work on getting a progressive administration to take power in South Korea during the 2012 presidential elections,” an unnamed intelligence official said. “What we are focusing on right now is to arrest terrorists and spies who entered the country recently, ahead of the G20 summit.”
While today, according to CNN, once again more than one million people are on the streets across France to protest against the co-called "pension reform", two hours ago Sarkozy ordered his cops to step in towards the mass protests and to break any blockades... AFP: "Sarkozy said he had ordered police to break the blockades at all fuel depots blocked by protests..."
But "Protesters say they will keep going even if Sarkozy gets his pension reforms through the Senate..." today's Guardian reported from the 'frontline'...
Related news reports:
☞ Fresh clashes as French protests continue (CNN)
☞ French police open blockaded depots (al-Jazeera)
☞ Police break fuel blockades in France strike (AFP)
And to be 'up to date' please check out:
☞ French strikes and protests: live updates (Guardian)
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