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Last weekend: Almost 1,5 billion people across the world - mainly in East/South-East Asia, but also in North American and European cities (with Asian communities) - celebrated the "Chinese" Lunar New Year...
In S. Korea it's called "Seollal" and the three-day holiday is used by many people who are living and working in the major cities to return to their hometowns to visit their parents...
But this year not everyone got the possibility to follow the tradition, because they're involved in several sit-in struggles on bell towers, bridges, transmission towers or just on streets. But, of course, they also celebrated the incoming new "Year of the Snake"...
Here just some impressions(photographed by Yoon Kyeong-min) from the "Sit-in Struggle Tent Village" in front of Daehanmun, the main entrance of Deoksu-gung(palace) in the center of Seoul:
Related articles:
☞ “독사의 독을 품고 반격하는 해가 됐으면” (NewsCham, 2.10)
☞ 아들의 33m 고공농성, 어머니는 한 달 넘게 몰랐다 (OMN, 2.09)
'Seollal' - Lunar New Year - in S. Korea..
The Jaenueng BELL TOWER sit-in struggle - despite 'Siberian' temperatures - lasts now since 5 days in Seoul's Hyehwa-dong!!
Related short documentary video:
☞ The first day of the BELL TOWER sit-in struggle (2013.2.06)
Today's Kyunghyang Shinmun wrote the following:
Yeo Min-hui and Oh Su-yeong, union members of the Jaeneung Educational Institute (JEI) chapter of the Korean Educational Materials Industry Union, launched a demonstration atop a 20-meter bell tower at the Hyehwa-dong Catholic Church in Seoul on February 6.
The bell tower stands across from the headquarters of JEI in Hyehwa-dong. Yeo and her colleagues have been protesting for 1,875 days including the day she made her climb. The workers began a sit-in in a tent after JEI breached a collective agreement with the union in 2008 and laid off Yeo and other union leaders.
Instructors working for educational material publishers such as JEI belong to a special type of employee which is not legally recognized as workers. The company with which the instructors sign a contract determines their wages and working conditions, but they remain in the blind spot from labor's three primary rights because they are not recognized as workers.
Detailed background info about their struggle you'll find here!
PS: The current temperature in Seoul is...
...Siberian Style!!!!
Related articles:
☞ 재능지부 해고자 여민희·오수영 고공농성 돌입 (KCTU, 2.06)
☞ 재능교육지부 노동자 2명, 고공농성 돌입 (NewsCham, 2.06)
☞ 재능교육 해고자 고공농성 돌입 “해고자 전원복직” (VOP, 2.06, incl. video)
☞ 15m 종탑 위로 올라간 노동자…재능교육 해고자 고공농성 돌입 (Hankyoreh, 2.06)
Solidarity Food Tent to Support the "Gangjeong Angels"
Oh Yeong-ae, mother of the young female video maker Kim Gami has recently started a nationwide-traveling street food stall(*), to raise funds for activists’ fines...
Two days ago(2.04) the preliminary last stop in Seoul was in the Hongdae area. Here just some really nice impressions, photographed by comrade Yoon Kyeong-min:
* More detailed info about the traveling schedule, menu etc. you'll get here!
SOLIDARITY WITH THE STRUGGLE OF DISMISSED CORT/COR-TEK WORKERS!
Reports, related to the latest developments:
☞ 콜트콜텍 농성자 전원연행...연행 중 조합원 병원후송 (NewsCham, 2.05)
☞ 경찰, 콜트악기 농성자 강제 해산..13명 전원 연행 (VOP, 2.05)
☞ 경찰, 콜트악기 부평공장 농성자 전원 연행 (OMN, 2.05)
☞ 콜트악기 농성 '2천130일' 승자가 둘인 싸움 (Yonhap, 2.05)
☞ Video: "5일 오전 콜트악기 농성자 전원 연행" (VOP-TV, 2.05)
And finally here you'll get some more detailed background info(in English!) about their struggle.
Members of the Korean Metal Workers’ Union(KMWU) started to protest on Jan. 30 outside of Hanjin Heavy Industries and Construction Busan shipyard. They sit with the coffin of Choi Gang-seo, a worker and union member who committed suicide after being laid off from his job at Hanjin. After Choi’s suicide, the union asked to discuss the matter with Hanjin, but the company declined to discuss it, saying it was a personal matter. The unionists are protesting asking Hanjin to drop their 15.8 billion won (US$14.8 million) lawsuit against the union for "damages" incurred during their strike...
And last Saturday(Feb. 2) thousands of KCTU activists and members of solidarity organisations took the streets of Busan to support KMWU's protest. After the opening rally - during the demonstration, heading for Hanjin's shipyard - they were confronted with a massive force of riot cops...
Here some impressions, photographed by comrade Yoon Kyeong-min:
Related reports:
☞ 한진중공업 앞, ‘물품반입’ 놓고 경찰과 시위대 충돌 (NewsCham, 2.02)
☞ "용역 없다더니" 딱걸린 한진중공업 (OMN, 2.03)
The rally, demo and police attacks... reported by Voice of People(VOP):
☞ http://www.vop.co.kr/A00000594796.html
☞ http://www.vop.co.kr/A00000594813.html
And finally some impressive photo reports you can see here(KCTU) and here(VOP)!!
Last Friday(2.01) in the morning riot cops and so-called "security staffers"(i.e. hired thugs) raided and destroyed the sit-in struggle site of Cort/Cor-tek workers in Incheon/Bupyeong!!
Here some more impressive pics from the police attack and the resistance against it, photographed by Yoon Kyeong-min:
More detailed info(in Korean) about the ongoing struggle of the dismissed Cort/Cor-tek guitar manufacturing workers you can check out here. And finally here you'll get some English background info (incl. pics and videos, but not updated...) about the Cort/Cor-tek struggle.
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