25개의 게시물을 찾았습니다.
1.) Urgent appeal from Gangjeong village/Jeju Island (March 19, 2012):
Emergency! Massive blasting Begun on Gureombi!
Now is the time for Rage!
Now is the time for action!
The blasting of Gureombi was scheduled to begin tomorrow, the 20th. But the deceptive cowards have begun today.
At 5:55 p.m. blasts were made twice in the water off the coast of Gureombi. Then at 6:05 p.m. they blasted Gureombi about 100 meters east of the Gangjeong Port.
Everyone please mobilize in anyway that you can. Come to Jeju, tell your friends, family, anyone about Jeju. Invite them to Jeju. Call your contacts, call the press, call organizations, call your enemies. Do Something now! PLEASE!
2.) Latest news/developments from the "frontline" in Gangjeong village via Weekly appeal of 19th March 2012:
Stop blasting the Gureombi Rock! Stop the violation of human rights!
On March 15th 2012, Benjamin Monnet, a dedicated French peace activist who has been active in Gangjeong for 9 months now, was forcibly deported by the Korean Government. An injunction order was issued against him and he was deported within 24 hours despite a legal suite that had been filed immediately. Angie Zelter, a British nuclear disarmament activist and Trident Ploughshares founder was issued with an exit order for her involvement in the same struggle against the naval base despite charges against her that she has not been able to defend in the courts. Currently, there are three political prisoners against the Jeju naval base: Fr. Kim Jeong-Wook and Rev. Lee Jeong-Hoon (arrested on March 9) and Yang Yoon-Mo (arrested on Jan. 30). Yang Yoon-Mo arrested for obstructing a construction truck has been on a hunger strike for nearly 40 days now, and is experiencing heart problems.
On March 14, Elliott Adams, Tarak Kauff and Mike Hastie, all members of the U.S. group, Veterans for Peace, were either taken from the plane to Jeju or not allowed to leave the Jeju airport. One of them was detained in the airport, Seoul, for nearly 6 hours. The members of the Veterans for Peace protested at the South Korean Consulate in New York City, on March 16 once they arrived back home.
Today, 19th March, young protesters who tried to block explosives from leaving the factory had their arm tubes hammered open causing severe shock and injuries. 2 of those 10 arrested have been hospitalised.
The blasting of “Gureombi Rock” has continued 4 to 6 times each day since March 7th. Gangeong village representatives met Korean high-ranking government officials who visited Jeju on March 16th. The government officers stated they would continue to enforce the construction and ignored the villagers’ passionate appeals to save their home from the naval base. The government officials also rejected the demand made by the Island Government, Island Council and Jeju-based ruling and opposition party members for a temporary delay to the construction whilst the plans are re-evaluated.
Samsung, the main navy-contracted company, along with Daelim, plans to go ahead on March 20th with the blasting of the exposed rocks on Gureombi (not merely blasting around the edges which is what they have been doing the last few days). Please take some time to write protest letters to the government, navy base planners and contractors to stop the blasting, construction work and the violation of human rights.
Please find addresses at:
-> https://app.e2ma.net/app/
-> http://www.secc.co.kr/eng/
Please write a letter to Woo Keun-Min, Island governor, to ‘command’ the construction work to stop; to revoke the navy license for reclamation of the coast and sea of the base project area; and to recover the absolute preservation area which was annulled for the naval base project through undemocratic procedures in 2009. This will really help to stop the ongoing destruction being caused by the naval base project.
-> Mr. Woo Keun-Min, Jeju Island Governor, kmj5369@jeju.go.kr or jejumaster@jeju.go.kr
Please also consider to sign the petitions on Avaaz (http://www.avaaz.org/en/
1.) Some good news: After today's "investigation" on Angie Zelter by Immigration officers, she was released this afternoon(KST). But the Immigration Office gave her the order to leave the country "as planned"(finally it means no FORCED DEPORTATION!!)...
And the peace activist Kim Se-ri ("Police also sought a warrant for a South Korean activist, only known by the family name Kim, on charges of obstructing police executing their duties during protests along with Monnet on Monday..." Yonhap, 3.14) will also be released soon! Her lawyer just sent a message that the court dismissed the arrest warrants against her today. She is taken of release procedure and will be embraced by the village tonight...
2.) According to an info on "No Naval Base on Jeju"(facebook), the French activist Benjamin "Benji" Monnet - currently in Hwaseong Deportation Deportation Center(Gyeonggi Province, south of Seoul) - went on hungerstrike. As far as I know, members Democratic Lawyers’ Association are trying their best to get him out of Hwaseong...
3.) Today in the morning(CET) I got the following information by e-mail: "We've just learned that the three Veterans For Peace members who arrived in Jeju Island, South Korea today were denied entry into the country. Tarak Kauff, Elliott Adams, and Mike Hastie were met by South Korean authorities when they landed on Jeju Island via Shanghai, China. The South Korean authorities had a photo of each of them in their hands and told them they would not be allowed to enter Jeju Island. They were instead taken and put on a plane back to Shanghai..."
Today in the morning(CET) I'd the following 'conversation' with a comrade who is an activist on the 'frontline' of the anti-naval base struggle on Jeju Island/Gangjeong Village: -> "shit! benj and angie will banished" ->(my reply) "do you mean deported?" -> yeah ->(my reply) f*ck!! -> they're in Immigration now & i think they'll deported tomorrow...
"Benji" in action, a few days ago...
And only one hour ago we got the following info via "No Naval Base on Jeju!"(facebook):
EMERGENCY!!!!!!!
Deportation and Violation of Human Rights of Foreign Activists in Jeju.
Please spread this information which is a clear violation of the human rights against the foreign activists in Jeju.
15 minutes ago, Benjamin Mannet (Benji) the Jeju Immigration Office and sent to Hwaseong Immigration Detention Center in Hwaseong city in Gyeonggi-do province on the mainland.
He is still wearing his wet suit and has not been allowed to change since his arrest. Additionally, even though it is now 9 p.m. he also was not given any dinner before being sent away.
The order has been given for his deportation from Korea. After he arrives in Hwaseong he will be deported.
His lawyer is currently filing and objection regarding his human rights and against his deportation.
Angie Zelter is currently still in the Jeju Immigration Office and there is no update on her status.
More information will come when it is available. Please spread this information wherever you can.
EMERGENCY!!!!
Angie Zelter protesting against...
Related articles:
☞ Police seek first arrest warrants for foreigners in naval base protests (Yonhap, 3.14)
☞ Arrest warrants sought for 2 foreign protestors on Jeju (K. Times, 3.14)
☞ 이명박 정부, 구럼비 지키던 '노벨평화상 후보' 강제추방한다 (VOP, 3.14)
Media Today ("미디어오늘", 3.13) reports that for the fourth year straight, S. Korea has made Reporters Without Borders’(RSF/Reporters sans frontières) list of "Enemies of the Internet" as a nation under surveillance...
Read the RSF report in its entirety here. Not that it will surprise you. Here’s just the conclusion:
The National Security Law in particular, which is now too outdated to deal with the extent to which South Korean has evolved since then and embraced democratic ideals, should be revised or abolished as soon as possible so that the most connected country in the world can stop engaging in outdated and ineffective censorship and allow its citizens to form their own opinions about the futility of North Korean propaganda and freely criticize their political leaders online.
Related article:
☞ 한국 4년 연속 ‘인터넷 감시국’ 불명예 (미디어오늘, 3.13)
Last Wednesday(3.07) Kim Ji-yun, a young female representative candidate for the Unified Progressive Party, posted on Twitter her statement “Let’s oppose the Jeju pirate base to protect Gangjeong” the village on Jeju Island where the naval base is being built...
And only two days later the S. Korean Navy filed a complaint with the Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office against Kim Ji-yun under the name of Adm. Choi Yun-hee, the Navy’s chief of staff. Separately, 'independent' lawmaker Kang Yong-seok filed another one with the prosecution against Kim for the same reason as Choi.
Additionally Kim Sung-chan, former chief of naval operations, and some other Navy veterans 'visited' the headquarters of the Unified Progressive Party(*) on Friday and Saturday to 'protest'...
And today, as a countermeasure, the following "Urgent Appeal to defend Kim Ji-yun and Gangjeong" was issued (via 'No Naval Base on Jeju!'/facebook):
Dear friends and comrades,
We're calling for urgent actions in defense of and in solidarity with Kim Ji-yun, a member of the new Unified Progressive Party (formerly Democratic Labor Party) against the witch-hunt carried out by the Navy and the right wing conservatives in South Korea.
Currently, Kim Ji-yun (age 27, female) who is running for the candidacy of party-list national assembly seat for youth in the Unified Progressive Party is a target of a fierce witch-hunt. The South Korean Navy and right wing conservatives are attacking her with slanderous remarks and legal steps after she participated in a protest against the construction of a naval base on Jeju Island and said "No to an 'haejeok' (pirate) base." Haejeok is a play on word 'haegun' which means navy in Korean.
The islanders and peace activists who have organized the anti-naval base demonstrations referred the planned naval base as a pirate base because the Navy has evicted Gangjeong villagers by force and is destroying the pristine volcanic island comprised of three UNESCO World Natural Heritage sites through military development. And most of all, the construction of a naval base which will be used by the US is a grave threat to peace and stability in Northeast Asia since it will no doubt raise military tension between the US and China. Kim Ji-yun stood in solidarity with Jeju islanders and peace activists by saying "No to an haejeok base!"
But the right wing conservatives have jumped to start a witch-hunt and made Kim Ji-yun a Korean Joan of Arc. Having fought against the victimization by her own university, Korea University, and won a few years ago and became a symbol of youth resistance when she went head to head with the prime minister in the national TV debate on free trade agreement, she had been a target of attacks by the right wing media in South Korea. The Navy and conservative politicians have filed lawsuits for libel.
Clearly, it is a vicious attack not only against Kim Ji-yun but also the left and progressive forces in South Korea who are fighting against the Korea-US Free Trade Agreement and the rich 1% and for the 99% and peace. The intention of the right wing conservatives is to crush the symbol of resistance in an aim to discourage and divide the peace and progressive movement.
The plan to construct a naval base on Jeju Island has met with international protests with well-known figures like Gloria Steinem and Noam Chomsky voicing out their oppositions.
Now we are appealing the international peace activists, left, progressives and friends again for urgent action in defense of and solidarity with Kim Ji-yun and the anti-naval base movement in Jeju Island, South Korea.
Please send a letter of protest strongly condemning the witch-hunt against Kim Ji-yun and solidarity message to <contactcjpark@yahoo.com>. The timing is of essence since the right wing conservatives are moving quickly to gain the upper hand before the general election coming up in April. Please send your statements and letters immediately.
Or you could send me a short message saying you would like to sign the statement below. Thank you very much in advance for your solidarity.
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Protest Statement:
We, the undersigned, strongly condemn the witch-hunt against Kim Ji-yun who said "No to an haejeok (pirate) base" in opposition to the construction of a naval base on Jeju Island, the most idyllic place on the planet. It is clearly a piracy to evict the Gangjeong villagers by force and bring the threat of warships on an "Island of World Peace" by building a naval base.
We demand that any charge and/or lawsuit against Kim Ji-yun be dismissed and the Navy of the Republic of Korea to immediately stop the blasting and construction of the naval base. We intend to publicize this outrage to the working people in the world to build up a chorus of voices demanding it comes to an end.
Name
Name of Organization or Affiliation
* Meanwhile, last Friday(3.09), the Unified 'Progressive' Party distanced itself from Kim Ji-yun by issuing a statement saying Kim’s remark did not reflect the party’s stance...
The S. Korean Navy, in collaboration with Daelim and Samsung Construction(Mafia!!), did yesterday its first blasts near the Jeju coastline.
More than 100 villagers and supporters blocked the streets with buses, cars, motor cycles and their chained bodies. At least 20 were arrested...
But despite the fierce, but peaceful resistance the blasting of Gureombi Rock is still going on - now for the 2nd day, as today's (bourgeois) Korea Times reports:
The blasting of a rock bed for the construction of a naval base on the seashore of Gangjeong Village on Jeju Island continued for a second day Thursday amid protests from residents and civic groups.
Construction companies set off explosives at four locations on Gureombi Seashore in the afternoon as groundwork to situate caissons, retaining, watertight structures used to work on the foundations of bridge piers and docking facilities.
They also moved an 8,800-ton caisson to the seashore from a nearby port to place in position offshore.
As it is impossible to remove such a structure once it is positioned, opponents of the construction are attempting to prevent this from happening.
Hundreds of Gangjeong residents, environmental activists and religious figures staged rallies near the construction site protesting the project, with some of them being taken into police custody.
Despite the calls, the Navy expressed its firm determination to proceed with the construction for completion in 2015.
“The base is a project necessary not only for national security but also Jeju’s development,” a Navy official said.
However, resistance is getting fiercer from activists and civic groups not only in Jeju but also all across the country and even around the world.
The Korean Women’s Association United held a performance in central Seoul to call for the suspension of the construction. “The blasting is a deadly move that destroys life and peace. We support Gangjeong villagers’ struggle and we’ll join the action to save Gureombi and keep Jeju an island of peace,” the group said in a statement.
A coalition of some 140 civic groups plans to hold a rally Saturday and a candlelight protest on March 13.
“The naval base project has been promoted after deliberately excluding residents, and the dispute surrounding it has peaked. The government should make an overall review for the base’s design, economic feasibility and environmental impact,” the coalition said in a press briefing in Seoul Wednesday.
Noam Chomsky, professor emeritus at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), supported the protest in an email disclosed by an activist.
“I would like to express my great admiration for those protesting the continued destruction of Jeju Island, which should be an island of peace, in order to construct a naval base that will only increase already serious threats of military confrontation,” the linguist and essayist said...
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2012/03/117_106518.html
Related articles/reports:
☞ Tragedy in Gureombi; Tragedy on Jeju-do (Kyunghyang Shinmun, 3.08)
☞ As Gureombi Rock goes, precious nature dies with it (Hankyoreh, 3.08)
☞ Jeju base building begins with bang (JoongAng Ilbo, 3.08)
☞ Military holds course on Jeju naval base (Korea Herald, 3.08)
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