5112개의 게시물을 찾았습니다.
While this week is designed as a Week of Memorial for the 22 fatal victims of the mass dismissal at SsangYong Motors, today, during a press conference, riot cops attacked the memorial site! The result: 5 activists were arrested and several other were injured!!
Related reports/statements (in Korean):
☞ 쌍용차 희생자 추모 기자회견에 대한 경찰의 야만적인 침탈을 강력히 규탄한다!
☞ 쌍용차 해고자 기자회견 경찰이 막아...5명 연행, 3명 응급실행
Solidarity with Jaenueng sit-in struggle! Tomorrow's "Street Lecture"...
Here some (un-commented!!) impressions from today's celebrations on Pyeongyang's Kim Il-sung Square, marking the 100th anniversary of the birth of Kim Il-sung...
Related articles/photos:
☞ North Korean leader calls for 'final victory' (Al-Jazeera, 4.15)
☞ Secure Despite Rocket Fiasco, N.Korea's Kim Lauds Military (NYT, 4.15)
☞ Beguiling North Korean spectacle (Korea Times, 4.15)
☞ Photo report: Nordkorea zeigt seine Waffen (Tagesspiegel, 4.15)
2012 General election proportional representation results (source: Central Election Management Commission):
To cut the matter short: Yesterday's election debacle for the "progressive" DUP/UPP alliance is also a massive disaster for the resistance movement against the Jeju Naval/Pirate Base! And here - the wishful thinking - to get any useful parliamentarian help ended!!
A short while ago friend wrote me, "You know NOW grumbi will blast!!! For sure . There is no way..."
That's right! But only if the resistance movement is continuing the current kind of struggle(candlelight vigils, prayers, small peaceful 'guerilla-stile' actions etc)...
To prevent the destruction of Gureombi, we need a MASS MOVEMENT!!! It means, that the oganizing committee must be able to energize ALL the citizens on Jeju, who are against the Naval Base, to take the streets & create every day, every night a massive public disorder until the enemy gives up!! (well, of course that's just my opinion)
Congrats! The (north) Korean Workers' Party(WPK/조선노동당) has now two 'leaders': A young fat guy: "the dear respected Kim Jong Un" - and a cadaver(*): "Kim Jong Il, the genius of ideas and theories..."!!
In the late morning (CET) KCNA "reported" the following:
Kim Jong Un Elected First Secretary of WPK (Urgent)
The Fourth Conference of the Workers' Party of Korea held Wednesday decided to elect the dear respected Kim Jong Un, supreme leader of the WPK and people of the DPRK, as first secretary of the WPK true to the behests of leader Kim Jong Il.
And just few hours later the same "news agency" "reported" that The Fourth Conference of the Workers' Party of Korea decided to hold leader Kim Jong Il in high esteem as Eternal General Secretary of the WPK...
* No Problem! Because since 1994 Kim Il-sung's cadaver is (north) Korea's ruling "Eternal President"...
Next weekend, starting April 14, under the motto 'Ten Thousand People's Tour to Gangjeong Village' a two nights and three days PEACE ACTION will take place around and - possibly inside - the construction site of the planned Jeju Naval Base (more about it in the coming days!!)...
Fr. Moon Jeong-hyeon currently in Jeju University Hospital. Last Friday the Catholic priest has been falling from a tetrapod after a scuffle with police at Gangjeong port, where he sustained serious injuries...
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Every day - since last week - citizens of the S. Korean capital Seoul are attending a memorial service for 22 SsangYong workers. They became fatal victims of the mass dismissal at SsanYong Motors plant in Pyeongtaek(*)...
Here just some impressions from y'day(4.08):
* An almost complete collection of articles/reports about the struggle at SsangYong Motors you'll find here!
Latest news/developments from the "frontline" in and around Gangjeong village on S. Korea's Jeju Island:
1.) Expanding repression against foreign activists.
Three Okinawan activists were denied the entry to Jeju on April 2 and last Friday. Yutaka Umisedo, Okinawan singer in people's movement, was denied the entry to Jeju on April 2. Masahiro Tomiyama and another women was also denied the entry to Jeju and deported Friday, April 6.
2.) Also last Friday Fr. Moon has fallen from a tetrapod after a scuffle with police at Gangjeong port. He sustained serious injuries...
Yesterday's Hankyoreh had the following report about the tragic occurrence:
Catholic priest seriously injured at Gureombi protest
Scuffle led to priest’s fall and damage to multiple vertebrae
Priest Moon Jung-hyun is taken to the hospital by an emergency rescue team after falling from a 7m high tetrapod at the construction site of a naval base in Jeju, April 6.
Catholic priest Moon Jeong-hyeon was severely injured in a fall on April 6 from a seven-meter-tall tetrapod near a Gangjeong Harbor breakwater. He had been protesting the construction of a naval base in Seogwipo’s Gangjeong Village.
According to accounts April 6 from Gangjeong residents and peace activists, Moon suddenly fell while standing on a tetrapod in Gangjeong harbor at around 1:30 pm, arguing with a member of the Coast Guard who was attempting to stop activists from using the breakwater to jump into the ocean.
About thirty minutes after falling, Moon, 72, was taken by ambulance to the Seogwipo Medical Center, where it was confirmed that he suffered a fracture to his lumbar vertebrae.
The medical center announced that Moon had suffered fractures to his third, fourth, and fifth lumbar vertebrae and serious bruising of his arms and legs.
An employee of the medical center said, “The fractures were confirmed by close examination after [Moon] complained of serious pain in his back, arms, and legs.”
“I expect it to be more than three months before a full recovery,” he added.
At the request of activists, Moon is to be taken to Jeju National University Hospital in Jeju City for treatment.
Oh Young-deok, head of the Jeju chapter of the Korea Foundation for Environmental Movements, said that Moon’s head and neck appeared to be unharmed, judging from Moon’s conversations with others.
“It looks like we’ll have to wait and see how it goes,” the committee member said.
At the time of the accident Friday, Moon was holding a mass with around thirty other Catholics and peace activists ahead of the Easter holiday. The group departed from the mountain peak coastal area east of the Navy’s Jeju base project office at around 11am on a march to Gangjeong Harbor, which is located about two kilometers away.
Go Gwon-il, the head of the Gangjeong village committee against the base construction, said an argument broke out after the group arrived at the breakwater and began to pray. An activist attempted to dive into the ocean, announcing plans to pray on Gureombi Rock, which prompted a member of the Coast Guard to rush over.
“Father Moon blocked the Coast Guard at the top of the tetrapod, saying ‘Why are you getting in the way? Don’t come in here,‘” an activist recalled. “They got into a scuffle. Moon grabbed the arm of the Coast Guard member, who then jumped to another tetrapod. That was when Moon fell.”
A Seogwipo Coast Guard official said, “Today is a blasting day at Gureombi Rock, and when activists were about to jump into the sea, a [Coast Guard] member told them, ’You can‘t go in there right now. It’s dangerous.‘”
“Up on the tetrapod, Father Moon shoved the employee’s chest and said, ‘Who are you to prevent them from going in?’ and it looks like he lost his balance in the process,” the official added.
“The Coast Guard member did not shake off Father Moon or push him in any way,” the official said.
http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_national/527213.html
More detailed info you'll get here!
Related articles:
☞ Police face allegations of violent crackdown (Korea Times, 4.08)
Berlin-Kreuzberg, impressions... Today in the morning, when I came from work and was on the way back to my home(^^), I saw the following (funny??) stuff:
Well, I wish you a nice & relaxing weekend (before next week's great/strange/mad developments in South and North Korea)!!
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