286개의 게시물을 찾았습니다.
This weekend the anually highlight of the struggle of the S.K. working class has been celebrated.. very peacefully(*).
Today approx. 30,000 people, S.K. workers, migrant workers, street vendors, students, civil right activists... joined the National Workers Rally in Seoul's Daehang-no:
Some more impressive pictures from the event you can see here!
Yesterday night the warming-up, i.e. the "Struggle Culture Festival" took place in front of Seoul Stn. and at least 10,000 people participated:
(Source of the pics: KCTU, OMN, NewsCham)
More about the struggle weekend:
* Related:
☞ [2003.11.9] State Terror Against the Nat'l Workers Rally
Dubai: Inside the Labour Camps
A hidden "army" of extremely exploited migrant workers (tens of thousands!!)...
..are building Dubai's skyscrapers (*)
Every day in the early morning they are brought by bus into the city from their camps
Six days a week: working like slaves for at least 12 hours up to 18 hours daily
At the end of long days they are taken back to the camps..
..where they've to "live" like.. ANIMALS!! Up to 20 men share a room
A "washing machine"
"Dinner" is prepared in grease-blackened pans..
A typical daily meal: few chillies, an onion and three tomatoes, fried with spices..
Dining on a floor lined with newspapers advertising luxury watches, mobile phones..
Photos by G. Abdul-Ahad
* Many of the projects, like the Burj Dubai, were/are realized under the leadership of S. Korean construction companies (i.e. the S.K. Construction Mafia!!!), such as Samsung, Daewoo, Posco, Hyundai..
A related report - MUST READ!!:
☞ 'We need slaves to build monuments' (Guardian, 10.8)
From Hankyoreh (10.13):
100 Days of Protest
Park Won-seok, second from right, the co-director of current affairs of the People’s Counter Measure Council against Mad Cow Disease, and Lee Seok-hang, second from left, the chairman of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, sing with their families at a rally marking the 100th day of a sit-in at Jogye Temple in downtown Seoul on October 11.
For the past 100 days, eight activists wanted by police for their alleged involvement in organizing this spring and summer’s candlelight demonstrations have sequestered themselves inside Jogye Temple in protest against the investigation into their activities.
Songs sung at the candlelight demonstrations were heard again as 300 supporters, including family members of the eight activists, joined the eight people inside the temple to express their solidarity.
Park said, “There will be no compromise with this government because they have weakened the democracy of our country and ruined our economy.” Park indicated that civic organizations intend to continue the fight as those in the crowd pledged to participate in another round of candlelight demonstrations.
Related reports:
☞ 조계사 농성 100일...그리고 '촛불 시즌2' (VoP)
☞ 조계사농성수행 100일 촛불문화제 열려 (NewsCham)
☞ 다시 꿈틀대기 시작한 촛불, "시즌2 시작" (Tong-il News)
☞ 조계사 농성수행 100일 촛불문화제 (OhmyTV)
About two weeks ago The Boston Globe published following "Recent scenes from North Korea" (for more pics and links to journey reports see below):
Related:
☞ 397 pics from N.K. (by Eric Lafforgue)
☞ My Excellent North Korean Adventure (WaPo, 9.14) MUST READ!!!
☞ A little taste of North Korea (Asia Times, 9.27)
Y'day (8.17) in Seoul:
Migrant Workers Protest Unfair EPS
"Give human and labour rights for migrant workers!"
Some more pics from comrade "Hong Gil-dong in the Forest" you can see here!
Related:
☞ Migrant workers protest unfair EPS (MWTV)
PS: As you can see on the pics, only very few people joined the rally (in Daehangno)/demo (to Jong-no Tower) - although 35 organizations signed the final protest declaration (Only on the paper!!). Beside some student activists, the largerst supporting group came from the activists who are defending their homes against destruction by the construction mafia (Jeoncheolyeon/전철연):
815 - A 'Colourful' Liberation Day in Seoul
While last Friday in the afternoon the Friends of the DPRK declared the "unification-blue" to the fashion colour of the day...
...in the evening/night, during the crackdown of the 100th anti-gov't
"candlelight protest", the Friends of the S.K. Gov't/Ruling Class
(i.e. the riot cops) decided to join the trend colour of the day!
More pictures about the nightly crackdown you can see here!
Related reports about last Friday's protests (incl. many impressive pics):
☞ OMN Report (incl. 2 videos)
☞ Police indiscriminately arrest civilians.. (Hankyoreh)
2008.8.8, Beijing:
2008.8.8, South Ossetia/Georgia (*):
NO COMMENT..
* Related:
☞ Someone timed Russia-Georgia crisis to coincide with Olympics
Yesterday's anti-Bush/LMB protest night:
- 24,000 riot cops
- 10,000 protesters, according to the organizers (*)
- at least 155 were arrested..
* 2,700 according to SMP and 7,000 according to Tong-il News..
Related reports:
From yesterday evening until today in the morning "One million South Korean people and workers protested" (KCTU) against the gov't. Well, here just a few impressions about the event in Seoul:
The main entrance to the Asiana Hotel/Chosun Ilbo HQ..
☞ Container Barricade Draws Spotlight (K. Times)
Related stuff - photos, articles..:
☞ [6.10] A few Photo-Impressions
☞ [6.10] Some more impressing stuff..
☞ Massive candlelight protests draw one million nationwide (Hankyoreh, 6.11)
☞ One million South Korean people and workers protested.. (KCTU, 6.11)
☞ S Koreans rally against US beef (BBC, 6.11)
☞ US beef row steers Seoul into chaos (Asia Times, 6.11)
☞ Protests in Seoul more about nationalism than beef (IHT)
☞ Korean Leader Considers Ways to Rework Government (NYT)
☞ [6.10] Protest, TV Report (al-Jazeera)
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