27개의 게시물을 찾았습니다.
Last Saturday more than 1000 female activists, mainly members of different labour unions(organized in the KCTU), progressive civic groups and resistance organisations gathered in the center of the S.Korean capital Seoul to celabrate the Int'l Women's Day and protested against the - still - terrible conditions for a majority of female workers...
(source of the pics: KCTU)
Related reports:
☞ 3.8여성대회 열려...노동, 생활, 인권 등 9대 요구 선언 (NewsCham, 3.05)
☞ "총장님, 당신이 진짜 사장입니다... 숨지 마세요" (OMN, 3.05)
☞ 3.8 여성의 날 기념 여성대회 개최 (KCTU, 3.05)
☞ [3.07] 전국비정규직 여성노동자 대회 (참세상, 3.07)
Today is the 21st day of the popular uprising (or rather People's Liberation War!!) against the dictatorship of Muammar"The Butcher"Gaddafi and revolutionary forces across the country are battling forces loyal to "The Butcher" in their bid to overthrow his regime...
Latest news: A leading member of Libya's ruling establishment appealed to rebel leaders for dialogue on Monday, in the clearest sign yet Muammar Gaddafi may be ready to compromise with opponents challenging his rule. Jadallah Azous Al-Talhi, a Libyan prime minister in the 1980s who is originally from eastern Libya, appeared on state television reading an address to elders in Benghazi, the main base of the anti-Gaddafi rebels. He asked them to "give a chance to national dialogue to resolve this crisis, to help stop the bloodshed, and not give a chance to foreigners to come and capture our country again." (source: Reuters)
Meanwhile Al-Sharq al-Awsat reports that the Libyan dictator wants rebels to drop demands to try him in international court, guarantee his security as well as that of his family and funds in exchange for his departure from country
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi will resign and leave the country on condition that he and his family receive guarantees they will not be harmed, the London-based al-Sharq al-Awsat reported today. No official confirmation has been given.
The report cites "reliable" Libyan sources in Benghazi as saying that Gaddafi vowed to announce his resignation and the transfer of authority to rebels in Benghazi before his parliament if his security, his family's security, and his funds are preserved.
Gaddafi also wants rebels to help him leave the country for the destination of his choice, and to relinquish their demand to try him in international courts for crimes against humanity, the report says.
The sources added that preparations for Gaddafi's departure had already begun, among them the spreading of a rumor that he had had a stroke.
"There has so far been no official response to Gaddafi's proposal, negative or positive," the paper was told. However, the sources hinted that rebels would not consider any negotiations with the Libyan leader.
Related updated news you'll get here:
http://www.libyafeb17.com/
Last Friday(3.04) the S. Korean Migrants Trade Union issued the following statement:
We Welcome the Court’s Injunction against Enforcement of Immigration Measures against MTU President Michel Catuira
The courts have put the brakes unjust immigration measures taken against MTU Michel Catuira by the Seoul Immigration Service. This victory would not have been possible without the solidarity and support shown by friends and allies in South Korea and abroad.
On Wednesday, March 2, the Seoul 12th Administrative Court issued a ruling in favor of MTU’s application for an injunction against immigration measures enforced by the Seoul Immigration Service against MTU President Michel Catuira, including, the cancellation of his ‘permission for change of workplace’ and ‘permission for extension of stay‘ (visa) and the order to leave the country by March 7. According to the court, suspension of these measures was “urgently necessary to prevent damages difficult to correct” that would be caused to President Catuira should the measures be carried out.
The court’s ruling will only prevent execution of the said immigration measures until a decision in MTU’s suit appealing them is reached. Nonetheless, we welcome it as an unprecedented occurrence. In the past, many MTU leaders were targeted by the immigration authorities, who used their undocumented states as a pretext to arrest them. In these cases, the immigration authorities hurriedly executed deportation orders even before the decisions on applications for injunctions were announced.
Criticism of the Immigration Service’s actions has been strong within and outside of South Korea from the time the aforementioned measures were first initiated in a clear effort to stifle MTU’s union activities. In South Korea, supporters organized a press conference to expose the Immigration Service’s intentions and carried out 1 person protests in downtown Seoul. 1,200 social leaders and other concerned individuals submitted petitions to the court on President Catuira’s behalf.
In the international arena, Amnesty International and the Asian Human Rights Commission initiated urgent appeal campaigns and countless organizations and individuals sent protest letters to the South Korean authorities. In Hong Kong, the Asia Pacific Mission for Migrants (APMM) and the Indonesian Migrant Workers Union (IMWU) held a solidarity rally in front of the South Korean Consulate. We are quite sure that the court’s ruling reflects the impact of these actions. We wish to express our sincere gratitude to the many organizations and individuals who have given us their support.
Now, more than ever, it is time for the Ministry of Justice and the Immigration Service to end their worn-out pattern of repression against migrant workers’ organizing and recognize their right to unionize.
http://migrant.nodong.net/?document_srl=94998#1
On the same day MTU and several supporting groups held a protest rally in front of Seoul's Immigration Office/(Deportation)Detention Center. Comrade "Hong Gil-dong..." reported about the event and his video you can watch here!
Today's Hankyoreh reported the following:
Court suspends deportation of MTU's chairperson
A court suspended Wednesday an execution of the Immigration Office ordering the departure of Michel Catuira, chairperson of the Seoul-Gyeonggi-Incheon Migrants’ Trade Union (MTU) in South Korea.
The 12th Division of the Seoul Administrative Court has accepted the 39-year-old Filipino national’s request for suspension of administrative measure execution with the Korea Immigration Service that has told Catuira that he must leave the country by Mar. 7 or become undocumented and subject to forcible deportation. The court suspended the execution until the original administrative suit Catuira filed to nullify the cancellation of the visa and deportation order.
South Korea’s immigration authorities cancelled Catuira’s visa on Feb. 14 as the company Catuira worked for had to shut down due to a work shortage and became jobless.
Amnesty International believes Catuira has been targeted for his role in the MTU.
http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_national/466250.html
Well, that's a first victory for the struggle against crackdown, deportation and the policy of oppression against MTU! But it's also a great success of the current int'l solidarity campaign(*)!
Y'day in Hong Kong:
Solidarity rally in front of the S.K. consulate
* Int'l solidarity, latest examples:
☞ IMWU&FMWU(HKCTU) Joint Statement (MTU, 3.03)
☞ Defend Michel Catuira! (LaborNet Asia, 2.25)
While the people's mass struggle for Libya's liberation enters the third week, since the last night the regime strikes back - merciless and bloody, according to latest news reports.
But at the same time Muammar "The Butcher" Gaddafi presented to his remaining supporters and the int'l audience (via some int'l media representatives) his "viewpoint" about the current situation in the country (i.e. just an extended version of his already wellknown hallucinations) during a televised address to mark 34 years of so-called "People Power".
Here a kind of protocol(recorded by The Guardian):
12.36am(local time): Gaddafi has just began speaking in Tripoli, following a lengthy fawning introduction from one of his supporters.
He extends his congratulations to the Libyan people for the creation of the people's authority on this day in 1977. He said it marks the day he rid the country of colonial powers, citing the US and the UK, and handed the power to the people.
12.41am: The people's authority represents a "true democracy" without any parliament or elections (!), says Gaddafi.
"Authority and power is in the hands of the people and only the people."
We give no power to any king or president, he says.
The Libyan system "is not comprehended by the world".
"I carried out a revolution in the 70s, handed over power to the people and then rested."
12.49am: People come to me for advice and "cultural influence", says Gaddafi.
He's talking about the formation of the Libyan bar association (for lawyers) for some reason, saying he did not want to interfere in its formation.
Talking about himself in the third person: "Muammar Gaddafi has no power, he is not president."
He's interrupted by chants of support. "The people improvised these chants [the implication being they haven't been told to shout support for him] and voiced them. Millions of the Libyan people marched chanting my name."
"The whole Libyan people have told me they are willing to die for me."
More chants...
12.57am: The crowds are chanting: "We swear by God, we can never abandon our leader."
Gaddafi says: "These chants are newly authored by the Libyan people." Once more he tries to emphasise the show of support is not staged!
Gaddafi says: "Libya was just like Lebanon and Liberia (chosen for alliteration?) but now it is free."
"How come Muammar Gaddafi bought Italy to its knees...forced Italy to apologise to the Libyan people?"
He says Libya forced the Americans out.
After more chanting Gaddafi asks people: "Please be calm"
If you look at the protests shown by the foreign media you would imagine the whole world wants to label Gaddafi as a criminal, he says, but how come all the people on the ground support him.
01.04pm: Back onto a familiar ground as Gaddafi accuses al Qaida of being behind the violence in Libya.
Operatives have settled in certain areas and formed dormant cells.
"Suddenly this dormant cell in al Bayda launched an attack against the battalion. They attacked the police station."
Gaddafi says this is how the protests started. "When the assault was launched the battalion received orders not to return fire."
The Libyan leader says people then took arms and took control of al Bayda.
"The same infection has spread over to Benghazi, the birthplace of martyrs, of Omar Mukhtar."
Again he says he told the battalion to abandon the camp and go home.
01.13pm: I decided that all weapons depots should be destroyed to avoid them falling into the hands of "terrorists", says Gaddafi.
"The whole world knows about al Qaida."
It is an "absolute lie" that peaceful demonstrations are being fired upon.
"Libya does not like foreign correspondents," says Gaddafi, explaining why none were in the country before the uprising began.
"There were no peaceful demonstrations at all in Libya, as I told you it was a terrorist attack."
"The terrorist operatives are wreaking havoc, raping woman on a daily basis."
He says the "terrorists" freed people from jail and handed them weapons (which is exactly what he has been accused of doing, as well as employing foreign mercenaries).
01.19pm: There are no peaceful demonstrations at all, Gaddafi says. It is a conspiracy to control Libya's oil.
We will fight to the last drop of blood to defend Libyan territory inch by inch, he says.
01.22pm: Libya will stop producing and exporting oil, Gaddafi says.
01.23pm: If the demonstrations in Libya were peaceful, Gaddafi asks, why would foreign countries be withdrawing their citizens and companies their workers?
01.25pm: This – the withdrawal of foreigners – is clear proof that what is happening is attacks launched by armed gangs against these companies, Gaddafi claims.
They depicted Libya as fallen, he says. Libya will live on and it is them that will fall.
The crowds start chanting: "If we are abandoned by the whole world, we will not abandon our leader."
01.28pm: In Bayda and Benghazi committees should be formed to find out who killed whom, Gaddafi says. The UN can send fact-finding committees to prove we did not fire a single bullet against peaceful civilians, he says.
He attacks the idea of the UN handing down resolutions based only on media reports.
01.35pm: Back to al-Qaida. They do not have demands. They are limited in number. Their slogan is: "Killing, killing, killing." They do not compromise. Gaddafi wishes they had demands so they could negotiate
01.38pm: Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb are operatic from a mosque or "snake hole" brainwashing the youth, Gaddafi claims. That's different from Egypt and Tunisia, he says.
02.09pm: We are not like Darfur or Iraq, Gaddafi says; we do not need foreign aid. Anyone who talks about that will be considered a traitor who has committed high treason. That would open the door to colonialism. We have enough supplies...
Etc, etc...
Summary: After all, according to "The Butcher", there are no anti-gov't protests at all... all the previous and current demonstrations in the country are SUPPORTING the regime... of course there are NO political prisoners... etc, etc...
Related/updated reports you'll get on Al-Jazeera!!
THE INTERNATIONALISTS (Internationalist Communist Tendency) issued last Friday(2.25) the following "appeal to the international working class launched to assist the 8 accused members of the Socialist Workers League of S. Korea...":
Appeal for South Korean Internationalists
The judge sentenced as follows:
1. Oh Se-cheol, Yang Hyo-sik, Yang Joon-seok and Choi Young-ik: imprisonment of 1 1/2 years, but conditional delay of imprisonment for 3 years for violation of National Security Law, and a fine of 500,000 won ($500)each for violation of Assembly-Demonstration Law.
2. Park Joon-seon, Jeong Won-hyun, Nam-goong Won and Oh Min-gyu: imprisonment of 1 year, but conditional delay of imprisonment for 2 years for violation of National Security Law, and fine of 500,000 won each for violation of Assembly-Demonstration Law.
The meaning of the decision is as follows:
1. The SWLK (Socialist Workers League of South Korea) is judged to be an organization for propaganda and agitation for national disturbances, violating Article 7 of the National Security Law. It shows the political nature of Korean judicial branch, which is a part of state apparatus serving for the capitalist class.
2. The conditional delay of imprisonment can be recognized as the result of Korean and international protest movement. The conditional respite for 3 years means that the imprisonment is suspended for 3 years on the condition of that there will be no other sentence for another crime, and after 3 years the validity of imprisonment sentence expires. But if there is another sentence during the next 3 years, imprisonment from this sentence will follow independently of any imprisonment for further convictions. So, the conditional respite of imprisonment is only a bit better than immediate imprisonment.
3. We, the 8 accused will appeal this sentence to the high court.
We will live and act confidently as revolutionary socialists without regard to the political oppression of the Korean state apparatus.
Thank you to all socialists and workers in the world who supported the judicial struggle of Korean socialists.
Please transmit our gratitude to the comrades of the world...
http://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2011-02-25/appeal-for-korean-internationalists
Related report by Amnesty International(2.24):
☞ Eight South Koreans convicted for breaching National Security Law
PS: Related previous contributions you'll find here and here!
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