25개의 게시물을 찾았습니다.
Here just some impressions from yesterday's final rally in front of Seoul's City Hall...
Source of the pics: KCTU
Two days ago(6.25) the Korean Federation of Construction Industry Trade Unions(KFCITU) called for a "general strike"...
...and today "20,000 construction workers marched in demonstration through downtown Seoul, seeking improvements in pay and treatment. Workers came to Seoul for the rally from across the country, demanding insurance coverage for industrial accidents, payment of unpaid salaries and more transparent business practices..."(Yonhap, 6.27)
Related, updated articles/reports in Korean you'll get on LabourStart!
ILLUSION(resp. just stupid propaganda)...
"Nonsmoking campaign is gaining momentum in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea..."(KCNA, 5.30)
...and the REALITY:
Related stuff:
☞ Kim Jong Un Smokes During Hospital Inspection, While Ordering Hospital To Be Kept Clean (IBT, 2.01)
Today's Hankyoreh published the following piece:
Farming, knitting, live music: new trends in protesting
Young people move away from confrontational tactics of the past when holding public demonstrations
Shin Hae-jin, 33, made her first visit to Dumulmeori organic farming village in Gyeonggi Province in spring 2011. Her longstanding desire to have her own farm was her top priority, coming ahead of her job and everything else. But since the Four Major Rivers Project began in December 2011 in the local area, her life has dramatically changed. Many activists from other provinces who wanted to save the farming village gathered there. Shin said, “They were my neighbors and we worked next to each other at the farming village. To see them lose their land due to the Four Major Rivers Project pushed me to become involved in the protest campaign.”
She said since then she became more interested and more involved in protesting. “It wasn’t like violent resistance, but more like enjoying every day. I didn’t feel forced to become involved or anything like that.”
Shin majored in art at university and has never spoken out about political issues before. She was more used to painting than raising her voice, planting young rice seedlings instead of holding picket signs. Continuing with her farming during the protests in summer 2011 was another way for her to resist, while expressing herself artistically. Nowadays it is less common to see protest camps with shouting and picketing. A variety of ways to communicate with citizens and show ideas is now being used: farming, knitting, gardening, and holding small concerts.
These are all new trends for occupy demonstrations. The experimentation with new protest methods - so called Direct Action - started from Cort and Coltech(i.e. Cort/Cor-tek struggle) instruments protest sites as well as dismissed Ssangyong Motor workers’ sit-in site. They succeeded in drawing young people’s attention and are now trying to change the concept and extend the boundary of ‘campaigning’.
Jeong Ah-ram, a 26-year-old office worker, visited a noodle restaurant, Dooriban, to see her favorite band in 2010 for the first time. Located in Donggyo neighborhood of Seoul’s Mapo District, the restaurant is a symbol of opposition to the redevelopment of the local area. Many independent musicians held concerts at the restaurant to draw young people’s attention and participation.
After people first participated in protests, they then became more and more interested. In March, Jeong also visited dismissed Ssangyong Motor workers’ sit-in site at the entrance to Deoksu Palace near Seoul City Hall. She did not bring picket signs, but instead brought a ball of thread for knitting. She heard the news that the burned-down camp site would be newly replaced with a Garden of Protest. She also heard people would sit on streets and knit as a ‘knitting protest’... (a related contribution you'll get here!)
Although the day was getting hotter, she was more than willing to spend her weekend knitting as part of the campaign. There were also many other people who came along and joined the knitting protest after it spread on Twitter...
Shin Yoon-ah, an activist from Cultural Solidarity, who organized the knitting protests, said, “Vigorous protests do not appeal much to the public nowadays. In the past, the main actors at protests have always been the victims or those closely related to them, which often caused some adverse reaction from the public. People glanced coldly at those protesters on the street. That’s why I always try to come up with something new and creative that can closely involve other citizens”.
Of course, there are some people who say the interest from young people is only temporary. However, Im Jeong-hee, a professor at Yonsei University’s College of Humanities & Arts does not share that view. Im said, “Young people’s interest in direct action is often improvised, but it’s not arbitrary. Also, their thoughts on social issues like labor and the environment are not set, like activists of the previous generation. But still they are volunteering to become involved, for example going to Jaenueng Education protest site in Seoul or visiting the anti-transmission tower protest site in Miryang. There, they realize the virtues of community ethics while learning how to share and communicate with other people.
After all, this might be a kind of everyday political protest against the hard reality. Jeong described it as metaphoric and circuitous resistance. "Unlike the older generation who participated in the Democratization Movement and had to fight against the regime for their lives, today’s younger generation, including myself, clearly has a different experience. Instead, we have a new culture of demonstration. We therefore try to tackle the invisible but suppressive powers using our new methods."
Related to some of yesterday's stories in the int'l media...
The Ministry of People's Security of the "DPR"K issued y'day the following "special statement":
The DPRK, a country dignified with independence and powerful with Songun, is enjoying the greatest dignity with a bright prospect of socialism of Juche.
The world is looking enviously at the army and people of the DPRK dashing ahead toward the final victory in sight on the horizon at the "Masikryong Speed". Meanwhile, the moves to isolate and stifle the DPRK on the part of the dishonest and hostile forces have faced bankruptcy.
A handful of human scum are moving desperately to deter this progress.
Park Geun Hye and other present puppet authorities of south Korea are openly putting to the fore human scum belonging to the organizations of vicious defectors from the north, painting them as "experts in north Korean issue" and instigating stepped-up criticism.
On June 18, south Korea fed Yonhap News and The Washington Post with articles contributed by defectors saying that copies of book "My Struggle" authored by Hitler were presented to officials in the DPRK as gifts and campaign is now under way to learn from the experiences gained in rebuilding the "Third Empire" that existed in Germany after the First World War.
They even committed the thrice-cursed crime of belittling the matchless great personality of the leader of the DPRK reflected in his loving care for the future generations.
The army and people of the DPRK regard it as shame to make mention of defectors from the north, a group of wild dogs in human form.
The group of human scum marginalized in the bright world has become the main player in the confrontation farce under the patronage of the south Korean puppet group and brigandish U.S. imperialists. They even slandered and insulted the dignity and the social system of the DPRK, an act which can neither be overlooked nor tolerated.
By origin, defectors are human scum who were deserted even by home folks and kinsmen being branded as elements subject to legal punishment in clean society in the DPRK for their crimes of murder, robbery, pilferage, embezzlement of state properties and corruption.
South Koreans also know this.
But the south Korean authorities try to escalate confrontation with the DPRK by using them and the U.S. seeks to overthrow the social system in the DPRK in reliance on them. This proves the poor plight of the Park Geun Hye regime and the U.S. politics.
It is none other than the present puppet authorities of south Korea which seek to fan up confrontation wind despite their loud-mouthed ballad for "confidence" and "dialogue". And it is the U.S. which moves overtly and covertly to topple the social system in the DPRK despite its stereo-typed call for peace and security on the Korean Peninsula.
No matter how desperately the puppet group of south Korea may try being gripped in extreme uneasiness and horror, they can never prolong their dirty remaining days. The U.S., which tries to attain its aggression aim in reliance on the group, is bound to face bankruptcy in its hostile policy toward the DPRK.
The National Defence Commission of the DPRK on June 16 warned that all the future developments depend on the U.S. responsible option.
The army and people of the DPRK are strongly calling for punishing those human scum as early as possible as they are going hysteric as servants escalating confrontation with fellow countrymen, far from trying to redress their crime-woven past with death.
There are daily requests from home folks and kinsmen of those defectors for letting them kill human scum with their own hands.
The Ministry of People's Security of the DPRK, reflecting the grudge of all its service personnel and people, is determined to take substantial measures to physically remove despicable human scum who are committing treasons at the instigation of the south Korean puppet authorities and the gangster-like U.S.,br>
Sordid human scum will never be able to look up to the sky nor be able to find an inch of land to be buried after their death.
The U.S. and the south Korean authorities and wicked conservative media resorting to smear campaign against the DPRK in reliance on them will be made to meet merciless punishment of justice.
(source: KCNA, 6.19)
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