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"노동자, 구럼비, 쫓겨나는 사람이 하늘이다"
"Workers, Geureombi, Forcibly Expelled Residents... are all the SKY!"

[SKY_ACT] 공동행동 시국회의]에 여러분을 초대합니다
SKY_ACT is a collective action meeting, and you are all invited!!

 
언제? 6월 28일 목요일 오후 1시
When: June 28(Thursday), 1pm

 
어디서? 정동 프란치스코 교육회관
Where: Franciscan Education Assembly Hall

 
김진숙, 문정현, 박래군 초호화 캐스팅!!!
With: Kim Jin-sook, Father Moon Jung-hyeon, Park Rye-goon, Cho Ho-hwa...
 

* SKY_ACT란? What is SKY_ACT?

 
S 쌍용 (Ssangyong Motors)
K 강정 구럼비 (Kangjeong, Geureombi)
Y 용산 (Yongsan "redevelopment" area)

 
쌍용 해고자와 비정규직 문제, 강정마을 해군기지 건설 반대, 용산참사 진상 규명 등의 사회 문제를 직접행동으로 해결하는 시민들의 공동연대입니다.
"SKY" wants to  promote collective solidarity among citizens to find direct solutions to the social problems of the Ssangyong Motors layoffs/mass dismissals, the construction of the Naval Base in Kangjeong Village on Jeju Island, and the Yongsan disaster...

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Here you can watch an impressive documentary about last Saturday's memorial service for comrade Lee Sang-hyeon (aka "Hong Gil-dong in the Forest"):

Dear comrade Sang-hyeon, we'll always keep in mind your fierce efforts to support the struggle of the exploited and oppressed class! You've been always on the frontline of the people's resistance, often enough despite your own suffering... Dear dongji, we'll keep you in our mind FOREVER!!
 

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[6.24] The 1st "Weekly Solidarity Street Concert"(*), nearby Daehanmun in downtown Seoul, to support the struggle of the victims of mass dismissals at SsangYong Motors and elsewhere in S. Korea... was performed by comrade Ryu Geum-shin:

* The "Weekly Solidarity Street Concert" will be held every Sunday evening at least until the beginning of August...

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이상현동지(Comrade Lee Sang-hyeon) 1주기 추모제 안내.
6.23일 오전11시 마석 모란공원 추모관(납골당)
많은 동지들 오셔서 외롭게 간 상현이에게 막걸리 한 잔 따라주시면 고맙겠습니다.

  
생전 그의 사진들입니다. 위에 긴 링크주소를 클릭하시면 보실 수 있습니다.
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Comrade Sang-hyeon (aka "Hong Gil-dong in the Forest"/숲속홍길동) supported the struggle of migrant workers in S. Korea for almost 10 years... Here you'll find the links to almost all of his documentaries, related to the migrants' struggle! 
 

Dear comrade Sang-hyeon, we'll always keep in mind your fierce efforts to support the struggle of the exploited and oppressed class! You've been always on the frontline of the people's resistance, often enough despite your own suffering... Dear dongji, we'll keep you in our mind FOREVER!!

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No comment!! (^^)

Well, ultimately it's up to you, how you wanna to interpret it and you're free to imagine whatever you want (hostage-taking, morbid infantility, child molestation etc...)!!!^^

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Yesterday evening in downtown Seoul (nearby the City Hall): Sacked Cort/Cor-tek guitar manufacturing workers (for more info please check out: Cort Guitar Workers ACTION!!) performed a solidarity concert to support the Jaenueng Sit-in Struggle Collective(JSSC). Today JSSC is since 1,644 days in a fierce, but almost ignored street protest (more background info about the struggle you'll get here)!!

Related contribution (incl. videos):

☞ [6.12] CORT/Cor-Tek workers in solidarity with Jaenueng Sit-in Struggle... (JinboNet, 6.13)

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With last Saturday's "Day of Hope and Solidarity" more than 2000 workers, activists of resistance and solidarity organizations and citizens celebrated in Seoul the end of the "Solidarity Week With the Victims of (Capitalist) Exploitation and (Mass) Dismissals".

But while my last contribution(6.17) about the 'event' was mainly focused on 'visual' impressions... here you'll get now a detailed written report (incl. a few pics):

[June 16] "Day of Hope and Solidarity" in Seoul:

“The workers are the Sky. The Gureombi Rock is the Sky. People are the Sky”
 

On last sunny Saturday, about 3,000 citizens gathered in Seoul, to express their solidarity to the Ssangyong automobile workers of which 22 workers have made suicide for the post trauma of the long hard period strike and extreme difficulty after lay-off without any compensation from the company.

The event was, “Day of Hope and Solidarity: Let’s walk together, let’s live together, lets’ laugh together,” co-sponsored by the Nationwide Committee for the Victims of the Ssangyong Automobile Workers and several independent newspapers/progressive internet magazines.

Not only Ssangyong workers but also many workers from various unions in strike due to lay-off and irregular jobs gathered to the Yoido Park in front of the National Assembly, Seoul. There were also Hanjin Heavy Industry workers who are still struggling for months despite the negotiation success with the company the other day. The company has not kept the promise and it is told that about 150 people who have ridden in the Hope Bus to express solidarity for the Hanjin workers last year have been accused by the prosecutors.

And there were also people from the Gangjeong village, to express solidarity to the workers and appeal for the struggle against the Jeju naval base.

"Shinzzakkot", a music band composed of the activists in Gangjeong, and who made a performance, was those of them.

A citizen in an yellow Gureombi shirts was told to say: “I want to stop state power from Yongsan, Ssangyong automobile to the Gangjeong village with our solidarity. Despite difficult situation, I want to solve it with our joyful songs.”

Fr. Mun Jeong-Hyeon said, “The state power speaks for corporations like the Samsung C & T. To make oppression powerless, there is only a way that we gather together.”

 
A traditional medical doctor said, “Hope grows not in front of desk but in our most desperate fields. I feel hope by many people’s gathering. The Gangjeong villagers have gotten lots of stress during the process of the blast on the Gureombi Rock.
 

The march of 8km from the Yoido park to the Duksou palace, center of Seoul, from 2 to 5pm was stopped by the police. Four people are reported to be arrested on the day...
 

   (Source: "No Naval Base on Jeju!"/Choi Sung-hee)   

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"A special committee of the Unified 'Progressive' Party announced Monday a set of reform measures the party should undertake, including a clear condemnation of North Korea's human rights situation, its nuclear weapons program and hereditary succession of power", Yonhap reported today.

And today's (bourgeois)Korea Times published the following piece:

Leftist party set to shift stance on NK

The leftist Unified Progressive Party (UPP), accused of having stayed silent on North Korea and the human rights of its citizens, showed signs of scrapping its decade-old stance on Pyongyang, Monday.

The shift comes as the UPP faces mounting criticism for allegedly having a pro-North Korea stance.

A task force within the party released a set of guidelines for policy directives on diverse issues, including North Korea. Among several issues, the minor party described the human rights situation there as “grave” according to universal standards.

Briefing on the key elements of the UPP tasks on behalf of the party, Rep. Park Won-suk said North Korea’s record on human rights cannot be justified at all, even when considering its dire economic situation.

“To improve the human rights condition there, inter-Korean peace and assistance to the residents are needed,” he said.

The lawmaker also said North Korea’s dynastic leadership succession over the three generations deserves criticism. But he remained skeptical about the hardline North Korea policy of the ruling Saenuri Party and the government. “The government needs to seek dialogue with the North to bring peace and unification. But what it does is attack it, which is not wise,” he said.

The task force also recommended the UPP tone down its radical ideology on North Korea. “Our party has maintained the posture that South Korea needs to end its alliance with the United States and the U.S. government should withdraw all its troops from the peninsula if North Korea achieves denuclearization,” Park said.

“Although the stance is not flawed as it addresses security concerns, our stance is often misconceived that we are calling for a termination of the Korea-U.S. alliance and for the U.S. government to pull back its forces. Because of the misinterpretation, we need to revisit our strategy.”

The UPP unveiled the shift in its policy after some of its members, including Rep. Lee Seok-ki, were accused of being North Korea sympathizers.

The party had remained silent over human rights in the North, failing to issue statements when China’s repatriation of refugees invited international criticism in February and March this year.

It didn’t comment on the dynastic leadership succession in the North either, after Kim Jong-un succeeded his late father Kim Jong-il who died of heart failure last December.

Conservative analysts allege that some UPP members are affiliated with the North’s Worker’s Party, which the party denies.

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2012/06/116_113271.html

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With yesterday's "Day of Hope and Solidarity" more than 2000 workers, activists of resistance and solidarity organizations and citizens celebrated in Seoul the end of the "Solidarity Week With the Victims of (Capitalist) Exploitation and (Mass) Dismissals".

   Here just some impressions (Early afternoon on Yeouido, near the Nat'l Assambly: "Hope & Solidarity Yard"... The following demonstration... Early evening until after midnight: "Struggle Culture Festival" in front of Daehanmun in downtown Seoul):
 

 
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