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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)
Here a few impressions from today's protest against Samsung's involvement in the current construction of the Jeju Naval Base, resp. the destruction of Gureombi rockbed... The successful human chain around Samsung C&T in Seoul's Gangnam District:
Save Jeju Island! Human Chain Around Samsung C&T
제주 살리기! 삼성건물앞에서 인간사슬을 만들어요!
World Without War and friends invite you for tomorrow(Thursday, 4.05) to help us make a human chain around the Samsung C&T building in Seoul's Gangnam District to protest the construction of the naval base in Gangjeong Village, Jeju Island. Samsung C&T is the main contractor working on the destruction of Gangjeong's beautiful coastline. If we can mobilize enough people, we'll be able to form a chain right around the building - so make sure to bring your friends!
Please dress in yellow - in solidarity with the villagers and activists in Gangjeong. Yellow T-shirts will be available for purchase at production cost and you are encouraged to prepare everything else you can in yellow: yellow hair band, yellow pants, yellow mask, etc. Feel free to decorate yourself!
Meet @ Gangnam Station (Line 2), Exit 7 at 11:00a.m.
Impressions from the "silent performance" of Anti-Samsung Protest y'day in NYC:
"Save Jeju Island" World Campaign
<Print it! Post it!>
Please read this suggestion and share the web-poster with your friends, colleagues and comrades.
We want peace, not military bases!
Destruction of Gureombi rock is destruction of peace!
Destruction of Gureombi rock is destruction of ecology!
Destruction of Gureombi rock is destruction of living and history of Gangjeong residents and women divers!
NOW, we need your action!
STEP 1. Select your language from image files and download images from http://cafe.daum.net/peacekj/I51g/286
STEP 2. Print images.
STEP 3. Post it on any places around Samsung logos or the Korean Embassy in your country.
STEP 4. Take a picture of your action and upload to facebook page ‘Save Jeju Island’. Or e-mail us(glocal.activism@gmail.com)
WORKERS SOLIDARITY WITH THE STRUGGLE AGAINST THE JEJU NAVAL BASE
Tomorrow evening the Jaenueng Struggle Collective, now since more than 1,500 days in sit-in strike will give a "Special Street Lecture" titled "Jeju 4.3 uprising and the current struggle"...
Today's Korea Times reported that "Civic group members will stage a candlelit protest on Jeju Island from this week in protest of the ongoing construction of the naval base on the nation’s largest resort island.
'We will make clear through our act to let people gain awareness of the injustice in this construction plan, and will make sure the protest goes an all over the island,' said a member of the emergency commission consisted of the Jeju city residents, Monday.
The commission announced at a press conference that the candlelit protest will begin from Thursday in front of the city hall, and will continue until the Navy decides to faithfully and fully revise its plan..."
Wow! It seems that an all-out confrontation between the protest movement and the "ruling" forces is looming!!(^^) "Candlelit protest"... That's definitely an appropriate & uncompromising measure(^^) against the daily aggression conducted by the MB administration (incl. its police forces and navy) and the Construction Mafia(Samsung C&T, Daelim E&C) against the people and nature of Jeju Island!!
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