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"GANGJEONG GRAND PEACE MARCH"
[8.04] Grand March ended its finale with a great success...
It was around 3pm that the two teams joined by the Peace Cruise team who came from the nationwide(*) could finally meet in the Jeju City.
It was not precedent that such long lines of parade have ever occurred in the Jeju City and Island. The media reported that about 2,000 people marched the city on the day but when people gathered in the Tapdong square for the evening peace concert, more and more people joined. The event operation team estimated that about 3,500 people filled the square...
Any of the photos cannot really describe the energy and heat... The people had walked about 290km (East team: 147km, West team 140 km) for five nights six days, breaking through strong sun light and storm... (report by Choi Sung-hee)
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The PEACE MARCH ended y'day afternoon with a powerful demo through Jeju City...
...and, in the night, with a colourful closing concert
* Here activists from KCTU(Hanjin, SsangYong...), Yongsan Struggle Collective etc. participated (a video with interviews you can watch here!).
Related reports:
☞ 강정 평화대행진 대미...“우리는 이미 이겼다” (NewsCham, 8.04)
☞ 제주땅 290km에 새긴 외침은 “해군기지 NO” (VOJ, 8.04)
☞ 노란색 구럼비의 여름, 강정 희망을 노래하다 (VOJ, 8.04)
☞ “폭우도, 폭염도 평화 향한 열망 뚫지 못했다” (VOP, 8.05)
☞ 5박6일 대행진... 수천명이 외친 '제주의 평화' (OMN, 8.05)
"GANGJEONG GRAND PEACE MARCH"
Starting in the early morning, the "West Team" walked about 30km from Hamo beach to Hallim...
Even under the hot sun, the march was being continued with joyful songs. Marchers who had endured hot sunlight and heating cement roads were cheered by the 119 emergency unit members who spread water to them, making all laughing. A villager elder says, “By this hard working, we can save the peace of our village. We so thank to all the people who came here upon the news." A boy says, “I am not tired. I am OK. I can even run at my best.” A man says, “The way we are hard-walking is not a [recreational] olle but it is a way of Peace.” Because of anticipated typhoon, Damrey, people slept at the floor of a big sports hall. Dinner after long walk is always welcome! A long day passed again... (report by Choi Sung-hee)
Here just some impressions from yesterday's 3rd stage:
A new video report with impressions from y'day you can watch here.
"GANGJEONG GRAND PEACE MARCH"
Since y'day "two groups of activists are walking the circumference of Jeju Island over six days. They will meet on August 4 in Jeju City’s Tapdong Square to hold a demonstration calling for the cancellation of a naval base in Gangjeong Village" (Hankyoreh, 7.31)
Here just some impressions from yesterday's first stage (400 people participated, according to yesterday's NewsCham report):
A first video report you can watch here!
300 so-called "employees" (i.e. hired thugs/organized gangsters) of the "security company" Contactus stormed the SJM plant at the Banwol Industrial Complex in Ansan’s Danwon district early Friday(7.27) morning. The so-called "security workers" reportedly threw sharp iron parts and fire extinguishers from the plant and used clubs against around 150 workers who were holding a sit-in protest there. At least eleven workers suffered fractures and other serious injuries. A total of 34 were hurt, with some hospitalized...
Related articles:
☞ 안산 SJM 노조 농성장에 용역 투입...부상자 속출 (NewsCham, 7.27)
☞ 용역 300여 명 기습 진입... SJM에선 무슨 일이? (OMN, 7.27)
☞ 공권력 확립 부르짖던 경찰, 용역 테러 수수방관 (VOP, 7.30)
☞ Workers reel from violent union busting (Hankyoreh, 7.30)
OCCUPY HYUNDAI!!
Under that motto approx. 2000 workers and (progressive) activists gathered last Saturday(7.21), after a powerful demonstration, in front of Hyundai Motors' in Ulsan (a south-eastern industrial city in S. Korea) for almost 24 hours to demonstrate their unconditional participation/support in this years strike campaign by the Korean Metal Workers' Union(KMWU) to achieve the following goals:
-> abolishing the temporary workers system
-> rooting out unfair transactions between companies and subcontractors
-> scrapping the nighttime work system
-> improving labor conditions
Here just some impressions from the nighttime protest 'event'/culture festival:
Related reports/articles:
☞ 정규직-비정규직 단결 기운 후끈 (CC Media, 7.23)
☞ Metal workers union to stage 2nd strike (7.19, K. Herald/Yonhap)
☞ Hyundai Motor union plans new strike (Reuters, 7.16)
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