5112개의 게시물을 찾았습니다.
단속추방 중단, 자만 동지 석방, 모든 미등록
이주노동자 합법화를 위한 결의대회
Rally for stop crackdown,
release Jaman and legalize
all undocumented migrant workers
일시 : 2006년 12월 24일(日) 오후 3시
2006. Dec. 24.(Sun.), 3 p.m.
장소 : 보신각 앞(종각역 4번 출구)
(subway: Jonggak Stn, ex. 4)
주최 : 서울경기인천 이주노동자 노동조합(MTU)
WHAT A SURPRISE (^^):
North Korea nuclear talks fail (al-Jazeera)
Talks on North Korea's nuclear programme have ended, without an agreement reached on disarmament or further negotiations.
The negotiations broke up "without concrete result", the Interfax news agency reported on Friday, quoting a source close to the Russian delegation.
Wu Dawei, Chinese envoy, said delegates reaffirmed a September 2005 agreement in which Pyongyang agreed to disarm in exchange for security guarantees and aid.
Wu said there had been "useful discussions" about how to implement the agreement in "candid and in-depth exchanges of views".
China, Japan, Russia, the US and the two Koreas agreed to "reconvene at the earliest opportunity," Wu said.
The talks in Beijing are the first since North Korea tested a nuclear device in October.
Refusal
During five days of meetings in Beijing, negotiators said Pyongyang refused to discuss its nuclear weapons programme and demanded that the US remove financial restrictions it has imposed on the government.
In more than three years of meetings, the North has committed in principle to disarm, but has not taken any decisive steps to curb its nuclear weapons programme. It conducted its first nuclear test on October 9.
"There will be opinions questioning the credibility of the six-party talks," Kenichiro Sasae, Japanese envoy, said. He did not say what alternatives existed to multinational dialogue.
Speaking before the fifth day of talks commenced, Christopher Hill, the US assistant secretary of state and envoy to the talks, said North Korea had not addressed the issue of its atomic programme.
"When the [North] raises problems, one day it's financial issues, another day it's something they want but they know they can't have, another day it's something we said about them that hurt their feelings," Hill said.
"What they need to do is to get serious about the issue that made them such a problem ... their nuclear activities...Our goal is denuclearisation. Period," he said.
Isolation
Pyongyang says the US is trying to isolate North Korea from the international financial system and has insisted that such a campaign ends.
The US accuses North Korea of involvement in the counterfeiting and laundering of money. It has blacklisted Banco Delta Asia, a Macau bank that it alleges the North used to launder money to fund its weapons programme.
Negotiators say North Koreans have refused to talk about their nuclear weapons programme until financial restrictions are dropped.
Condoleezza Rice, US Secretary of State, echoed the US administration's view that financial issues and nuclear talks should be dicussed separately. She said the North Koreans had themselves asked for a separate working group on the matter...
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/5E9A987F-22DC-4058-878A-48A65699355E.htm
Nuclear talks end with no deal (Guardian)
The S.K. ("left"-liberal) daily Hankyoreh is writing following:
6-party talks end quickly; frugal progress made
A related article, published today in Asia Times (China/HK) you can read here:
The ever-threatening nuclear shadow
NK propaganda praises its own (nuclear) "power".
BTW: "The most important event of this year: The socialist Korea's break of the nuclear monopol. This is one very important contribution for the peace, not only in Asia, but in the entire world." (so the German fascist organization "Struggle Federation of German Socialists")
But actually I still don't understand why the DPRK's leadership is feeling forced to join such ("empty and worthless") meetings, when everything is going sooo well, like you can read here:
Dear Leader Keeps The People Warm
It's getting colder in Korea, but that's only for those who go outside. Inside, the apartments are nice and warm, thanks to a large increase in fuel imports, facilitated by dear leader Kim Jong-Il.
Although the imperialists have attempted to block off all access to fuels in order to freeze the country inside and out, the dear leader has made many close friends with leaders of oil rich countries such as Venezuela and Turkmenistan. As such, the blackouts that have plagued many Korean nights will now cease to exist for good thanks to these new worldwide friendships.
In contrast, it is predicted that over 30% of the American people will have to spend a few cold nights a week without heat or power. In South Korea, thousands have already frozen to death, as the imperialists have stolen all of the oil out of that country and left the common citizens with nothing. (!!!)
http://www.pyang.su/11122006-01.htm
Or it's just a stupid lie(^^) and following report presents more the "truth"??
Electricity Resumption in Border Area, Temporarily
Inside source from North Korea said each house in Musan, Onsung, Hoeryong in North Hamkyong Province, would receive electricity from the December 19th to 24th, commemorating Kim Jong Il’s mother, Kim Jong Suk’s birthday (Dec. 24).
In a telephone interview with the Daily NK, thirty-eight years old resident of Musan, North Hamkyong K said electricity supply was resumed on Tuesday. “Public service workers visited each house and asked them to use only one light bulb per household.”
K said with delightful voice “I’m so happy that I could eat in a bright house, and I could watch TV and VCR, too.”
In this year, North Korea’s electricity production has been worsened than ever that only army barracks, strategic facilities and rice mills were provided electricity.
Lack of electricity has been common since the mid-1990s economic collapse. And it becomes worse in winter, because hydro-electric power plants, which comprise most of North Korea’s electricity-production, cannot produce energy in arid season.
Therefore, North Korea in winter is once described as a “wilderness” by a Korean-Chinese visitor.
Some wealthy North Koreans are equipped with own electric generators, including Chinese solar-light collectors
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In North Korea, electricity is supplied on holidays such as Kim Il Sung’s birthday April 15, Kim Jong Il’s birthday February 16, or Party Foundation Day. Since 1997, Kim Jong Il’s mother, Kim Jong Suk’s birthday has become an official holiday.
http://www.dailynk.com/english/read.php?cataId=nk00100&num=1468
The Korean peninsula at night (satellite photo)
^^
"ONE BIG PRISON"
A Glimpse at Daily Misery in the Gaza Strip
The 1.5 million inhabitants of the Gaza strip are trapped in poverty and hopelessness. The violence between the Palestinians stems not only from political disagreements, but from deep, daily despair.
Barefoot; dressed in a long gray nightshirt; sleep in his eyes: if his uncle hadn't banged away at the door, Ahmed Kahlout would most likely still be asleep. Instead he dragged himself out of bed at 11:30 a.m., opened the door and invited his visitor in.
Like an old man, he then sank back down onto the two mattresses serving as a sofa in his parents' house -- the only piece of furniture in the living room apart from a fake Persian carpet. He sat there and wearily told his story, one of many such stories in the Gaza Strip: A good education at a school set up by an aid organization, followed by a degree. Since then, the reality of living in Gaza City has ruined all his dreams.
"I did a degree in pedagogy, and wanted to be a teacher," the 23-year-old explained. Instead he is unemployed and spends his days sleeping. "I can't marry, because I have no money to feed a family. So I have a lot of time to kill."
And he does that sitting in semi-darkness. The streets of the Shati refugee camp in the north of Gaza City are so narrow that hardly any light shines into his family's two-room apartment. An old man is perched outside, selling moldy bread as feed for chickens and goats. Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh only lives a few streets away. The Hamas leader didn't move out of the slum following his election to the post of prime minister -- a fact that earns him great respect amongst his followers.
But Ahmed Kahlout is too apathetic to become a radical, despite things going so badly for him. In this respect he is like most of the Gaza Strip's 1.5 million inhabitants: they get on with lives that are marked by poverty and despair. They live an existence in which the bloody conflict between radical Hamas and the seemingly corrupt Fatah is just one more misfortune.
The Gaza strip is just 40 kilometers long and 10 kilometers wide (25 by 6 miles) -- and for years it has been a byword for misery. This year has been even harder for its inhabitants to bear. To understand the sheer scale of the misery, one has to visit John Ging. He is the director of the United Nations Refugee and Works Agency (UNRWA), the body that has been dealing with the Palestinians since they were expelled following the foundation of the state of Israel in 1948.
Gaza, Bureij refugee camp
"Living in one big prison"
The statistics that the Irishman reels off speak for themselves: 89 percent of the population is poverty-stricken, living on less than $2 a day. Over 60 percent are unemployed, and since the election of the Hamas government in January, international aid has dried up. It had been used to pay the salaries of public officials. Now, even those who have jobs have been thrown into poverty, meaning that over 860,000 people in the Gaza Strip are now living on food parcels distributed by the UNRWA. Over half of the population.
Gaza, Rafah refugee camp
But the real drama, says Ging, is that the Palestinians are "effectively living in one big prison." After the withdrawal of Israeli troops last year, there was a feeling of optimism -- that just as quickly turned into hopelessness. "Everyone was counting on an economic upswing once the border with Egypt was open," Ging says.
Instead, trade has come to a virtual standstill as the border has remained mostly closed. Israeli pressure has ensured that the border crossing for people at Rafah is only open 14 percent of the time. And only 14 trucks get through the crossing at Kareni every day -- instead of 400 originally planned. It is the only crossing for those goods not produced in Gaza and thus have to be imported from Israel.
"According to the Dec. 5 treaty on the freedom of movement, the Rafah border can be open if European observers are present," says Ging. However, these observers live in Israel and Israel can use their discretion to prevent them from crossing into the Gaza Strip. "That's how you close a border."
Travellers are not the only ones affected. Farmers who used to export their fruit and vegetables to Israel are now stuck with them. That is the daily lunacy of the Gaza Strip: there are plenty of tomatoes in the markets, but no fish. The chunk of land is on the coast, but the fishermen are only rarely allowed to go out to sea by the Israelis. And frozen fish seldom makes it over the border from Israel.
"No one has any money"
Mahmoud Abu Djayab operates a repair shop for electrical goods in the central market, and he has more work than ever. People can't buy any new appliances, so they need to get even the most worn out cooker fixed. "But that's no use to me," complains the 51-year-old. "All that I have earned is a book full of IOUs. Everyone is living on credit. No one has any money to pay me."
Ging doesn't blame the Israelis for everything. When he speaks about Hamas, his voice is filled with anger: "Hamas knew that the money would stop flowing if they didn't maintain relations with the international community," he said. "But they didn't do it anyway. That was irresponsible. The party took into account the fact that the people would suffer." He says that international donors have the right to stop their aid payments. "But then they can't act surprised when the psychological strain leads to a greater tendency towards violence." The fact that the Palestinian government was 70 percent dependent on foreign aid wasn't considered either. "The absence of aid deliveries caused chaos."
As bad as the economic situation is for the inhabitants of the Gaza Strip, the psychological strain is even worse. "In the past people hoped that the Israelis would leave. Today there is no more light at the end of the tunnel," Ging says. Morale is terribly low. People feel oppressed. Hopelessness leads to despair, which in turn leads to violence. What worries Ging is that a lost generation is growing up. "Just try inspiring a young person to learn, when he knows that after school absolutely nothing awaits him."
Ahmed Kahlout had finally woken up, and he even put on a shirt and trousers for his visitor. But he remained uncommunicative. No, he had no idea what he would be doing in five years time. No, he wasn't political and he hadn't bothered voting. "The civil war will eat everything up anyway," he said. To John Ging "the Palestinians' spirit isn't broken yet, they have the will and the ability to organize their own affairs." But the UN man may be a bit too optimistic.
(Der Spiegel, 12.18)
Following just a selection of some of the latest news and related articles about the current (5th) round of the 6-Party Talks on DPRK's nukes in Beijing:
Six-party nuclear talks resume amid cautious expectations (Xinhua)
First-day talks "candid", "pragmatic"
U.S., N. Korea open crucial talks on sanctions row (Yonhap)
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N.Korea Demands Mutual Disarmament Talks (Chosun Ilbo)
North has a long list of demands in Beijing (JoongAng Ilbo) |
Nuclear envoys struggle to move talks forward (Korea Herald)
Sanctions row in N Korea talks (al-Jazeera)
Six-Nation Talks Resume On N. Korea Disarmament: Return to '05 Nuclear Pact Called Unlikely (Washington Post)
North Korea Might Drag the Talks (DailyNK)
How to turn the tables on Pyongyang (A-Times)
N Korea talks: Not a meeting of minds
“한국정부는 단속추방 중단하고 이주민 협약 비준하라”
세계이주민의 날 기념 이주노동자대회
(by Voice of People/민중의소리)
(pic: VoP)
단속이라는 미명아래 진행되는 혹독한 인간사냥에 한 겨울이 더욱 춥고 시리다는 이주노동자들, 그들이 한 자리에 모였다.
17일 오후 방글라데시, 네팔, 필리핀, 버마, 태국 등 세계 각지에서 온 이주노동자들이 세계 이주민의 날을 기념하고 한국정부에 이주노동자에 대한 인권과 노동권 보장을 촉구하기 위해 대학로에 모인 것...
Please read the complete article: here!
Another short report incl. several pics you can check out here: 2006 세계 이주민의 날 기념대회 열려.
(pics: http://blog.jinbo.net/chmanho/?pid=83)
이주노동자방송국 has made a long video report about the (nearly) entire event and you can see it here (harrharr../편집: not really..^^)
Korea Times wrote today: "On Sunday, hundreds (^^) of migrant workers gathered at the Marronnier Park in Hyehwa-dong in Seoul to celebrate their day." (*)
http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/200612/kt2006121817205910160.htm
And last but not least MWTV (이주노동자의방송) produced a special video for the Int'l Migrant Workers' Day and you can watch it here.
In Daegu 12.18, the Int'l Day of Migrant Workers was celebrated with a small rally and demo, organized by Seongseo Industrial Complex Trade Union (STU):
PS:
In its today's article Korea Times (**) wrote following:
"The leader of an association that represents the country’s 470,000 migrant workers..
..Lee Chul-seung, head of the Joint Committee for Migrant Workers in Korea.."
Aeh~ did I miss something???
* pic also by http://blog.jinbo.net/chmanho/?pid=83
** http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/200612/kt2006121817205910160.htm
hmm..
Some more pics about the event you can see here:
20061216 - 자이툰 부대 즉각 철군을 위한 반전행동
http://blog.jinbo.net/tkdcjsdk/?pid=101
..hmmhmm...^^
Three related articles (in Korean) about it you can read here:
“끝나지 않은 싸움, 진실을 다해야죠.”
‘자이툰부대 즉각 철군 및 레바논 파병 반대’ 집회 열려
http://www.newscham.net/news/view.php?board=news&id=38205
자이툰, '임무종결해도 철군 안한다?'
이태호, '파병반대 반전행동 집회'서 의혹제기
http://www.tongilnews.com/article.asp?mainflag=Y&menuid=101000&articleid=70366
전쟁은 꼰대들이나 해
http://blog.jinbo.net/dopehead/?pid=501
Here the program of the entire afternoon and evening/night events (according to 피플메신저):
□ 일시 : 12월 17일(일) 오후 3시
□ 장소 : 마로니에 공원
□ 주최 : 이주노동자 인권과 노동권 확보를 위한 시민사회단체 연대회의(이주노조, 민주노총, 민주노동당, 민주노동당서울시당, 외노협, 이주인권연대, 다함께, 민변노동위, 사회진보연대, 수유+너머, 여성노조, 이주후원회, 철폐연대, 한국비정규노동센터), 카사마코, 네팔공동체(NCC), 이주노동자의 방송(MWTV), 스탑크랙다운
□ 프로그램
* 대회사 : 민주노총
* 이주민 발언
- 이주노조
- 각 공동체(단속 피해자와 보호소 실태 발언)
- 이주 여성
- 스탑크랙다운 공연
- 난민
- 이주 아동
- 이주노동자 테러리스트 취급 규탄 발언
* 국제 연대 메시지 낭독
* 이주노동자와 그 가족의 권리에 관한 국제협약 비준 촉구 성명
* 상징의식
세계 이주민의 날 기념 “아름다운 밤(WONDERFUL NIGHT)”
□ 일시 : 12월 17일(일) 오후 5시
□ 장소 : 서울대 의대 학생식당(함춘식당)
□ 프로그램
5:00~6:00 만찬(이주 음식)
6:00~7:20 공연
- 영상상영(이주 노동자의 방송 제작)
- 여는 말
- 카사마코 노래 공연
- 버마액션 율동
- 의정부 이주노동자 밴드 WMA 공연
- 이주 아동 공연
- 민주노동당원들과 이주노동자들의 합동 공연
7:20~8:00 편안한 어우러짐[댄스 파티(^^)]
Well, I'm so sorry that I can't be there (uhuu~^^) but I wish a successful rally and a funny party!!
The HOLY LAND, a.k.a. Palestine, is preparing for the HOLYday season..
(freedom fighters fighting freedom fighters)
Right now, it's afternoon in the Holy Land, heavy gun battles are taking place in (at least) Gaza and Ramallah, following a week of attacks and assassinations inside the PA territories.
Just a short while ago Ynet (IL) reported following about the current situation there:
Ramallah has become a battlefield
Escalating tensions in Palestinian Authority deteriorate into gunbattles in streets – 20 people reported wounded. PA officials say gov't training special security force in West Bank
Civil war?
Twenty Palestinians were wounded, two critically, in exchanges of fire between warring factions in the Palestinian Authority Friday.
Sixteen people were wounded in Ramallah, four in Gaza. Fatah officials reported that several Hamas gunmen have barricaded themselves in the Nazer mosque in the city of Ramallah and are firing at Fatah and Palestinian security forces inside the mosque compound.
Witnesses added that PA security forces have begun covering their faces with masks as they try to overpower protestors and gunmen from both factions, mostly against Hamas.
The atmosphere in the city is reminiscent of a battlefield say residents, against the soundtrack of massive gunfire.
In Ramallah reports say that the Palestinian government has begun training a special security force in the West Bank which will answer directly to the government, similar to the one formed in Gaza which operates under the direct command of the minister of the interior.
Power struggle
According to a Fatah source it would appear that Hamas is seeking to emphasize that the movement also has power and presence in Ramallah – the largest West Bank city and home to President Mahmoud Abbas.
The Fatah official expressed concern that further deterioration of the situation will cost many lives.
Witnesses told Ynet that some of the wounded are bystanders and protestors who were beaten by Palestinian security forces seeking to clear the streets, primarily from the center of town which was declared a closed military zone.
Meanwhile in Gaza four Palestinians were wounded in exchanges of fire between Fatah gunmen and Palestinian security forces loyal to Hamas.
The Fatah gunmen opened fire at a Hamas security forces outpost in central Gaza, the gunbattle continues.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3340493,00.html (now updated)
31 hurt in Fatah-Hamas clashes in Gaza, Ramallah (Haaretz, IL)
Hamas, Fatah Gunmen Exchange Fire in Gaza (AP)
32 wounded during Hamas-Fatah clashes in Ramallah (Jerusalem Post)
Hamas rally comes under Fatah fire (al Jazeera)
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/C0D7201A-3736-4C50-A6CE-EDDC1F65CFA8.htm
More about the background of the current "crisis" please read here:
Fatah blamed for attack on PM (Guardian, UK)
High noon (Haaretz)
Latest news (12.16):
Hamas: Abbas declaration meaningless (Ynet)
Organization's officials say Palestinian president has no legal authority to dismantle government, although express willingness to return to negotiations
Senior Hamas officials were quick to reject the Saturday declaration by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas announcing his intention to move up presidential and general elections in the Palestinian authority, calling the decision "meaningless".
According to Hamas leaders, Abbas has no legal authority to dismantle the government and, thus, his decision is illegal.
As such, Palestinian Foreign Minister Mahmoud al-Zahar said that Hamas rejected Abbas' decision regarding elections, but said the organization is ready to return to the negotiating table.
Nonetheless, al-Zahar emphasized that a return to negotiations "would not be based on recognizing Israel or the demands of the Quartet."..
Please read the entire article here:
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3340727,00.html
Abbas calls for elections in PA as soon as possible (Haaretz)
Gaza: Hundreds of Fatah members fire into air (12.16, 15:24 CET)
Hundreds of armed Fatah members and Palestinian defense personnel fired shots into the air throughout the streets of Gaza Saturday as a sign of solidarity with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ call for advancing elections.
Hamas, Fatah gunmen clash in Gaza (12.16, 17:22 CET)
Gunmen from the governing Hamas movement and the Fatah faction of President Mahmoud Abbas exchanged fire in southern Gaza on Saturday, hours after the president called for early Palestinian elections.
One person had been wounded during the clash in Khan Younis, witnesses said. They said the combatants were mainly firing rocket-propelled grenades.
Gaza: 8 injured in exchanges of fire; officer kidnapped (12.16, 17:54 CET)
Eight people were injured in exchanges of fire taking place between Fatah and Hamas gunmen in the Gaza Strip. According to the report, five were injured in clashes in Rafah, two were injured in Khan Younis, and another person was injured in Gaza.
In addition, a Palestinian police officer was kidnapped by Hamas members in Gaza City, where thousands of people took to the streets, most of them Hamas activists.
Islamic Jihad, PFLP mediate between Hamas, Fatah (12.16, 18:18 CET)
The Islamic Jihad and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) began mediation Saturday between Hamas and Fatah in an attempt to try and end the exchange of fire between the two.
Witnesses in the Gaza Strip said a withdrawal of gunmen from sides in the Strip was observed in recent minutes. Nevertheless, there were still reports of tension in the streets.
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