공지사항
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- '노란봉투'캠페인/국제연대..
- no chr.!
4903개의 게시물을 찾았습니다.
...S. KOREA vs USA & N.K. vs S.K.^^
AP wrote today:
Report: North Korea Criticizes U.S. Envoy
North Korea has again criticized the top U.S. envoy to Seoul for making provocative remarks about the communist country, calling him a ``tyrant,'' a news report said Sunday.
U.S. Ambassador to South Korea Alexander Vershbow labeled the North a ``criminal regime'' early this month, citing Pyongyang's alleged arms dealing, money laundering and counterfeiting.
Since the remarks, North Korea has repeatedly called on South Korea to expel Vershbow for slandering the North. Pyongyang has also called Vershbow a ``political rogue'' and his remarks a ``declaration of war.''
``It is clear (Vershbow) is a tyrant wearing the mask of a diplomat,'' the North's Rodong Sinmun newspaper said Sunday in a commentary, according to South Korea's Yonhap news agency.
Vershbow's comments have also drawn rebukes from South Korean officials. Kim Won-wung, a lawmaker of the ruling Uri Party, recently warned he would campaign for the expulsion of Vershbow unless he moderates his criticism of North Korea.
U.S. allegations of the North's involvement in counterfeiting have been a major obstacle to resuming talks on Pyongyang's nuclear arms program. North Korea has dismissed the allegations as a lie and threatened to boycott the talks with the U.S., South Korea, China, Japan and Russia unless Washington lifts the sanctions.
In a separate report on Saturday, the North urged South Korea to apologize for Defense Minister Yoon Kwang-ung's recent remarks that the North poses a military threat, calling them an intolerable insult and mockery.
``The military threat on the Korean Peninsula is not coming from the North but from South Korea where the U.S. troops are stationed,'' said a spokesman for the Committee for the North's Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland, according to the North's Korean Central News Agency.
The unidentified spokesman also described the Korean Peninsula as a touch-and-go situation in
which a war may break out any moment due to war moves of the U.S. and South Korea. It did not say what it meant by war moves.
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12.22, MTU's English official statement:
VICTORY!! THE OCCUPATION OF NHRC IS OVER!
Yesterday, December 21st, after an intense round of negotations with the
Chief of the Korean National Human Rights Commission, the Migrants' Trade
Union of Korea officially ended their 17 day occupation of the Korean
National Human Rights Office. They started their occupation demanding the
release of their union president, Anwar Hossain, and agreed to leave only
after securing the following from the KNRHC:
First, the KNHRC has promised officially to back the MTU as a legtimate
and legal trade union in Korea. To this end, they will lobby the Korean
government to register the MTU as an official trade union, thus
guaranteeing to the MTU the three most basic labor rights: the right form
union, the right to collective bargaining and the right to strike. Since
its inception, the Korean government has deemed the MTU an illegal
organization because its member are living in Korea without a working
visa.
Second, the KNHRC as agreed to make a commission on Migrants' Rights- an
official branch of the human rights office devoted soley to migrants'
issues. In this commission, migrant workers will have representation and
direct input into the KNHRC's statements and policies on migrant workers
throught the MTU.
Though they did not secure the release of Anwar, they achieved a great
victory for their union. The MTU thanks everyone for the support they
have given over the last 17 days. Your letters and solidarity statements
helped make this victory possible. Please continue to send letters to the
Minister of Justice and demand the release of our union president, Anwar
Hossain.
Let's fight together!
More you can read here in Korean
Ohmynews:
http://www.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?at_code=300215
Migrant Workers Broadcasting:
http://www.migrantsinkorea.net/webbs/view.php?board=mignews&id=155
And here the text of MTU's official statement:
이주노조의 요구사항
1. 이주노조에서는 아노와르의 석방을 위하여 최선을 다할 것이므로 이에 관심과 지원요청
= 재판기간 동안 재진정 및 G1비자 신청 등 예
2. 아노아르 보호해제진정사건에 대한 국가인권위의 결정 관련하여 해명 및 사과
3. 이주노동자들의 노조활동 관련 표적단속에 따른 인권침해적 사례의 재발방지를 위해 향후 올바른 결정으로 노력해줄 것
- 현재 이주노조 위원장 직무대행인 샤킬의 경우 산재를 당하여 치료 중으로 G1비자 연장신청을 하였으나 출입국관리사무소에서는 이주노조 활동을 이유로 연장신청에 대해 아무런 결정을 내리지 않고 있는 상태임.
4. 이주노동자들에 대한 단속과정에서 인권침해가 지속적으로 발생하고 있는 현실을 감안하여 “이주노동자 특별위원회”를 구성하여 줄 것을 요청함.
5. 인권위에서 이주노동자들에 대한 법제도 개선 및 정책 개발시 이주노조의 의견을 직접 수렴해줄 것을 요청함.
- 예를 들면 인권위에서 이주노동자 관련 세미나 토론회 개최시 이주노조에게도 의견개진기회를 부여하는 등
2005년 12월 20일
서울경기인천이주노동자노동조합
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PS.:
Just few minutes after I published this I had a short discussion with a friend... And we came to the result, that this must not mean a victory. It just might mean that NHRC wanna have their calmness, especially during the coming "holiday season". Perhaps NHRC's aim was just to calm down MTU...
And just some minutes later I got following message from a Korean: "It's stupid. They left the NHRC offices for a bunch of empty promises. Nothing will come of that shit. Wasn't the first and most important objective to get Anwar out of jail? Migrant worker deep in the 3D biz" Perhaps she/he is right...! But it would be much more useful if we could create an open discussion about it!!??
on 12.23 a migrant worker activist wrote this:
I dont thimk that its MTU victory.
It was nothing.
Just sitting there no news coverage, what we get?
Did MTU organize new MW?
What they do?
Just they follow KCTU?
Is it everything?
What we should do?
MW (migrant workers) they need leading their strugglle, but they follow KCTU & KDLP.
I like & Love MTU but i think that they should change their struggle policy.
Its not the time for going street, its the real time for visit & organize our friends.
Actually I'm still wondering why MTU made until now no official statement in other news boards, except in their own home page...
During I had to repair many of my last articles in S. Korean web sites (...) I found this really nice...
KOREAN STUDENT REPORT FROM HK
12.15
Hi~ All of our comrades in South Korea!
How do you do about struggle in Korea?
We're very exciting and happy in HongKong!
Most of HongKong people have no experience like Korea people.
Like hogh demonstration or march. So they look us little wired or
scared. Also HongKong media and newspaper broadcast 'our action is
very danger.'
But because of that, so many HongKong people see our march and
demonstration and take a lot of photo! Some people cheer to us!
And..
HongKong police is very soft and nice. Also they are very scared.
They don't know how to react our march or action.
So we trying to go convention center(place the WTO), they are very
confused and hard stop our march.
But they use pepper spray like 'CHOI-RU-TAN'.
If that spray powder contact our skin, very hot. especially eyes~
can't open eyes few minute. So we prepare water and cooking hoil
to protect our eyes.
But except that spray, situation is fine and easy than Korea.
Ah!
We do so many interview and meet student of HongKong from many
university. and finally we are on TV news five to seven time!
And today, Our interview and photo is on newspaper.
That newspaper is second huge newspaper in HongKong!!!
"Apple Daily"
AND..
HongKong is very bad place to use internet.
To use internet 1 hour, we pay 18 dollars. T_T
and..
HongKong people is very interest about our song, dance, slogan.
So some of students learn simple dance with us.
....
http://yd.jinbo.net/maybbs/view.php?db=yd&code=04freeboard&n=37235&page=948
"HongKong police is very soft and nice.."
THE WAR ABOUT OIL AND POLITICAL INFLUENCE
First of all: don't misunderstand - neither the former Soviet Republics in Central Asia, such as Kazakhstan nor the "People's" Republic of China are states I would like to see as states we should support. But anyway, the following article, published today in the Hong Kong based Asia Times is just very interesting for to understand the direction of the economic and political developments in the present days and the near future in the Asian region... Just read (study...^^) it..
China lays down gauntlet in energy war
By F William Engdahl
On December 15, the state-owned China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) inaugurated an oil pipeline running from Kazakhstan to northwest China. The pipeline will undercut the geopolitical significance of the Washington-backed Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC)oil pipeline which opened this past summer amid big fanfare and support from Washington.
The geopolitical chess game for the control of the energy flows of Central Asia and overall of Eurasia from the Atlantic to the China Sea is sharply evident in the latest developments.
Making the Kazakh-China oil pipeline link even more politically interesting, from the standpoint of an emerging Eurasian move towards some form of greater energy independence from Washington, is the fact that China is reportedly considering asking Russian companies to help it fill the pipeline with oil, until Kazakh supply is sufficient.
Initially, half the oil pumped through the new 200,000 barrel-a-day pipeline will come from Russia because of insufficient output from nearby Kazakh fields, Kazakhstan's Vice Energy Minister Musabek Isayev said on November 30 in Beijing. That means closer China-Kazakhstan-Russia energy cooperation - the nightmare scenario of Washington.
Simply put, the United States stands to lose major leverage over the entire strategic Eurasian region with the latest developments. The Kazakh developments also have more than a little to do with the fact that the Washington war drums are beating loudly against Iran.
The new China pipeline runs 962 kilometers (598 miles) and will take China a third of the way to Kashagan in the Caspian Sea, one of the world's largest accessible oil reserves. Kashagan is the largest new oil discovery in decades and exceeds the size of the North Sea. This is a major reason Washington has such a strong interest in supporting democratic regime change in the Central Asia region of late.
In the next 10 years, Kazakhstan plans to almost triple oil production, prompting the landlocked nation to seek new export routes because the country wants to avoid pipelines through Russia and excessive Russian dependence. China is now among Kazakhstan's major target markets.
Best public estimates are that Kazakhstan has 35 billion barrels of discovered oil reserves, twice the amount in the North Sea, and may hold about three times more, according to a Kazakh government report released on November 18 in London. German oil engineers have privately reported that recent drilling by Italy's AGIP, the current oil consortium leader for Kashagan, a huge field offshore Kazakhstan southwest of Tengiz, has confirmed enormous oil deposits there.
The government of President Nursultan Nazarbayev plans to produce 3.6 million barrels a day of oil from all fields in Kazakhstan, onshore and off, by 2015. For 2005, they expect to average about 1.3 million barrels a day, making Kazakhstan far larger than Azerbaijan, and second in oil production of the former Soviet states only to Russia.
The December 15 opening of the new Kazakh-China pipeline was a major event for Beijing. Zhang Guobao, vice chairman of the National Development and Reform Commission, China's top economic planning agency, attended the opening. CNPC has invested more than $2.6 billion in Kazakhstan since 1997.
Beijing takes the geopolitical prize
In October, Beijing scored a second major geopolitical coup when China completed a $4.18 billion takeover of PetroKazakhstan Inc. It was, in a sense, revenge on Washington for the blocking of the China acquisition of Unocal. US oil majors had made major efforts to lock up Kazakhstan oil after discovery of major oil offshore in the Kashagan field. They failed. ExxonMobil was charged with bribery of Kazakh officials to win a presence in the Kazakh oil business, and a senior Mobil executive was later jailed on US tax evasion in New York tied to the Kazakh bribery payments.
Nazarbayev enjoys good relations with Russia's President Vladimir Putin. He was general secretary of the Communist Party when Kazakhstan was part of the USSR, and is regarded as a sly fox in terms of dealing with Moscow, while also keeping a clear distance from Moscow.
In October, Russia's Lukoil failed in its bid to buy up the Kazakh state oil company, PetroKazakhstan, in a privatization. Nazarbayev indicated a major geopolitical shift in strategy, compared with a decade or more ago, when it appeared that Washington was to be the major foreign ally of Nazarbayev. At that time Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's company, Chevron, became the lead oil contractor and operator in the Kazakh Tengiz oil field. That was just after the breakup of the Soviet Union and the US oil presence in Kazakhstan was a major US political priority supported by the Bill Clinton administration.
The Chevron Tengizchevoil consortium formed the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) in 1993 amid great fanfare. After years of haggling with the Kazakh government, Chevron finally constructed a pipeline from Tengiz on the Caspian's northeastern shore to the Russian port of Novorossiysk on the Black Sea. Following years of pressure, most members of the CPC group, including Chevron and Oman Oil Co, decided to not pursue future expansions of the CPC line.
Now, a decade later and with the scope of Kazakh oil deposits dwarfing any in the region, with its recent confirmed drillings in the Kashagan field, Nazarbayev has scored a political balance of power coup by turning to Beijing.
In October, Nazarbayev announced that CNPC had won the bid to buy PetroKazakhstan. What will be important to watch, now that Nazarbayev won re-election on December 4, further extending his 14-year reign, is to what extent Washington begins to play up "human rights abuses" by Nazarbayev.
A fledgling "Orange" revolution a la Ukraine has sprung up behind opposition candidate Zharmakhan Tuyakbai and his party, For a Just Kazakhstan. He came in second with 6.6% of the vote and cried fraud, but Washington's and the US media response were muted this time. Rice, in a major trip to shore up sagging US influence in Central Asia on October 10-13, held a private meeting with Tuyakbai. He is clearly being groomed for a possible future role, but clearly not yet.
Washington suffers strategic setback
A major setback for Washington's Eurasian encirclement strategy vis-a-vis China and Russia came several months ago when Uzbekistan's autocratic president Islam Karimov told Washington it could no longer use the Karshi-Khanabad military air base in southeast Uzbekistan, a major piece in Washington's Eurasian chess board play, put into place after September 11, 2001.
Since strong US protest over the government's bloody suppression of protests against a state trial of alleged Islamic fundamentalists in Andijan last May, Karimov's relations with Washington have deteriorated. Karimov's decision to move so aggressively was no doubt influenced by the successful March "Tulip" revolution which toppled Askar Akayev in neighboring Kyrgystan and set the stage for the July election of opposition and US-backed candidate Kurmanbek Bakiev.
On July 29, Karimov announced he was evicting the US entirely from the airbase with a January 2006 exit date. In October, the US Senate, as retaliation, voted not to pay $23 million in base user fees to Uzbekistan for past use. Moscow and Beijing have both moved into the vacuum. A look at the map will indicate why. Uzbekistan is strategic for control or to prevent control by foreign powers such as Washington, of Central Asia and pipeline routes linking Russia, China and Kazakhstan. In October 2004, Moscow secured a long-term military base agreement to station thousands of Russian troops in the capital, Dushanbe, a move by Moscow to limit the spread of Washington-backed "color revolutions" in the region.
That appeared to redraw the Eurasian geostrategic map in Moscow's favor, with the recent US loss of Uzbekistan. Uzbekistan is now effectively Russia's main ally in Central Asia.
Washington's position in Eurasia and its future relations with Kazakhstan suddenly assumed high priority. Clearly, the Bush administration decided the time was not ripe to try a full-blown "Orange" revolution in Kazakhstan this month, at least not until Washington's position in the region was stronger. That was a clear purpose of the October Rice visit.
But now with the strong geopolitical turn of Nazarbayev toward playing Beijing to offset potential Washington domination in the region, the situation has begun to change dramatically. A year ago, China attempted to buy out a 16% share in the Kashagan consortium from British Gas, which was willing to sell. That sale was blocked by US consortium member ExxonMobil, the company subsequently charged with bribery and convicted. Now China has opened an oil flow out of Kazakhstan to the East, not the West.
This has major strategic implications for the future of the Washington-backed BTC oil pipeline. That pipeline was built by the Caspian Oil Consortium headed by British Petroleum, and was backed by both Clinton and George W Bush, despite the fact that it was the most costly and least viable oil route out of the Caspian.
Former US national security advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski had been the chief Washington lobbyist advocating the BTC route to circumvent Russia. Its construction was undertaken on the assumption that it would carry not only Baku oil, but also a major share of Kazakh oil from Tengiz and offshore Kashagan oil fields. Oops!
A larger China energy strategy
The December China-Kazakhstan pipeline opening is one part of a massive Chinese plan to secure as much Kazakh oil riches as possible.
The Chinese plan to connect several pieces of infrastructure - part Soviet-built, part Chinese-built - then reverse the flow of some of them and forge a new export corridor stretching from Kazakhstan's oil-rich Caspian basin, including Kashagan, through a series of western and central-Kazakh oil zones, and ultimately into China. With completion of this major project, China will for the first time have secured a source of imported energy not vulnerable to US aircraft carrier battle groups, as is the case with present oil deliveries from the Persian Gulf and Sudan.
Before opening the new pipeline, China imported only 25,000 bpd from Kazakhstan. Once the link between Kenkiyak and Kumkol is finished, connecting existing infrastructure near the Caspian with the portion inaugurated on December 15, the project will pump 1 million bpd. That would be about 15% of China's crude oil needs.
China then plans to tap into production from dozens of Kazakh sites it has acquired during the past several years. This is oil that currently goes west, or north through Russia.
Beijing still prefers the color 'red'
Beijing has also studied the Washington-backed series of regime changes across Central Asia and the "color revolutions" from Georgia to Ukraine and most recently Kyrgystan, and has evidently decided to "nip in the bud" any similar non-governmental organization efforts within China, or in areas strategic to long-term China energy security.
Kyrgystan's "Tulip" revolution last July sounded alarm bells in Beijing. Possible Chinese pipeline links to Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Iran and or Russia would clearly be threatened by a ring of new pro-North Atlantic Treaty Organization neighbors and states between western China and its potential oil sources. Their alarm led to warmer ties between Uzbekistan's Karimov and Beijing in recent months, as well as an invitation from Moscow-tied Belarus President Yuri Lukashenko.
The Washington journal Foreign Policy ran a short item in its October edition by an apparent Chinese dissident. The article, titled, "China's Color-Coded Crackdown", is worth quoting:
In China's halls of power, the fall of post-Soviet authoritarian regimes has raised the uncomfortable specter of a Chinese popular uprising. According to the Hong Kong-based Open magazine, a report by Chinese President Hu Jintao, titled "Fighting the People's War Without Gunsmoke", is guiding the Chinese Communist Party's "counterrevolution" offensive. The report, disseminated inside the party, outlines a series of measures aimed at nipping a potential Chinese "color revolution" in the bud.
Some Chinese apparently call it the Battle of the Two Georges - George Bush and global financier George Soros. The Foreign Policy piece continues:
Perhaps the most telling sign of China's concern has been its crackdown on non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Beijing believes that international organizations, especially advocacy NGOs, have acted as Washington's "black hands" behind the recent regime changes in Central Asia. A recent issue of a biweekly journal run by the Communist Party Propaganda Department referred to Washington's "$1 billion annual budget for global democratization" and identified NGOs such as the International Republican Institute, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), the US Institute of Peace and the Open Society Institute as organizations that "brainwash" local people and train political oppositions.
In late August, ahead of a visit by the UN high commissioner for human rights, Chinese police raided the office of the Empowerment and Rights Institute, a human rights group supported by the NED. A new regulation offering more freedom to NGOs was initially expected later this year. No longer. The Ministry of Civil Affairs has now stopped processing registration applications, effectively freezing many groups' operations. Instead, the only government offices taking an interest in NGOs are the national security agency [China's secret police] and public security forces.
Both have launched investigations into local NGOs. Some senior Chinese managers working for international NGOs have been called in for "private talks" with authorities, though no related arrests or detentions have been reported. Some NGO offices have had plainclothes security officers show up in an effort to clandestinely ferret out information on foreign staff and organizations. Environmental groups have been singled out for a massive government survey, most likely because they have angered powerful agencies by successfully initiating public debates on controversial issues, such as genetically modified foods and huge dam projects, and because only around 10% of green groups are currently registered with the state.
Meanwhile, Beijing has commissioned researchers from several provincial academies of social science to study the activities of NGOs in China. NGO publications such as directories experienced unexpectedly strong sales in recent months, as they no doubt became convenient study tools. Likewise, experts have been dispatched to Central Asia to study how those color revolutions first sprung roots. In a May 19 Politburo meeting, senior administrators from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, where foreign research funds are usually well received, were reminded of the "acute and complicated struggle in the ideological realm in the new millennium". In other words, be careful about the political implications of your research.
According to sources in Beijing, final decisions on the government's approach to NGOs will be made in a November meeting of the State Council, China's highest executive body. As long as the clouds of color revolution are hovering over Central Asia - some, for example, expect storms in Belarus - the Chinese government will stay on high alert ... Beijing's moves against the country's NGO community remain largely unnoticed outside China. If the international community wants an open and democratic China, it should pay more attention to the survival and growth of Chinese liberal institutions. Otherwise, the country will be destined to remain the same shade of red.
Beijing-Tehran-Moscow
At the end of 2004, Beijing signed a $70 billion energy agreement with Tehran, China's largest Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries energy deal to date. China's state Sinopec agreed to buy 250 million tons of LNG over 30 years from Iran, as well as to develop the giant Yadavaran field. That agreement covered the comprehensive development by Sinopec of the giant Yadavaran gas field, construction of a related petrochemical and gas industry including pipelines.
As part of the huge Iran-China economic cooperation agreement, China's state-run military construction company, NORINCO, will expand the Tehran Metro underground.
A second phase in the Iran-China strategic energy cooperation will involve constructing a pipeline in Iran to take oil some 386 kilometers to the Caspian Sea, there to link up with the planned pipeline from China into Kazakhstan.
On signing the deal, Iran's Petroleum Minister announced that Tehran would like to see China replace Japan as Iran's largest oil importer. As well, Iran has what are estimated to be the world's second largest reserves of natural gas after Russia. Iran is a place of enormous strategic importance to China, to Japan, to Russia, to the European Union, and for all these reasons, to Washington as well.
Iran supplies about 14% of China's oil. Along with Russia, China has been involved since the late 1990s in supplying nuclear technology to Tehran. In 1997, Beijing, under Washington pressure, nominally agreed to stop nuclear-related shipments to Iran, but the flows are believed continuing as the Iran relation is strategic and critical to China's energy security.
China, a veto member of the UN Security Council, has repeatedly called for the issue of Iranian nuclear development to be dealt with by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). The IAEA's chief, Nobel Peace Prize awardee, Mohamed ElBaradei, has earned the enmity of Washington war hawks for his open declarations of lack of evidence in both Iraq and now of Iranian atomic bomb capability.
Given the nature of the Bush administration's rush to war in Iraq in 2003, where China had a major stake in oil development, and the subsequent US blocking of other Chinese attempts at securing energy independence, including Unocal, it is not surprising that Beijing is taking extraordinary measures to secure its long-term oil and gas supply.
Energy is the Achilles' heel of China's economic growth. Beijing knows that only too well. So does Washington. A decision by Washington to take military action against Iran now would pull a far larger cast of actors into the fray than Iraq.
F William Engdahl is author of the book, A Century of War: Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order from Pluto Press Ltd. He can be contacted via his website, www.engdahl.oilgeopolitics.net.
SEQUEL
HK cops arrested last weekend
1001 S. Korean protestors...
Now the S. Korean government...
http://english.yna.co.kr/Engnews/20051219/410100000020051219183648E2.html
Bourgeois daily Korea Herald, today's headline:
(usually Korea Struggles to Crack Down...)
...and their "strongest political opponents" want to have them back home...
12.19: protest rally in front of Seoul's Ministry of Foreign Affairs..
Meanwhile S. Korean (of course also bourgeois,...complete reactionary) daily JoongAng Ilbo writes (12.20): "Hong Kong police told Seoul yesterday that 12 South Korean protesters would be held for further investigation of their involvement in violent protests against the just-concluded World Trade Organization meeting there. It released the remaining 838 South Koreans in custody yesterday afternoon."
And "our most famous" Chosun Ilbo will write this:
http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200512/200512190011.html
And KCNA - actually I was a little wondering... - reported nothing. Of course they reported nothing, because it cannot be that ordinary (s.) Korean farmers and workers (the poorest of the poor.., the farmers are starving, the workers: millions of them are just unemployed..) travel around the world (by air plane!!!)... and stage protests (create street battles...) somewhere outside of our "beloved home country"...^^
THE FINAL (?) BATTLE
First of all: it seems that the protest against WTO in HK since last night, at least for the majority of the S. Koreans, is over. Nearly all were arrested...
One major thing is very impressive and important: especially the activities of the S. Korean protestors got a lot of sympathy of the HK citizens. Many of them agreed with the demonstrators opinion that WTO is nothing in their interest, it's just in the interest of the capitalist class...
Global trade riots rock Hong Kong
Police fight running battles with protesters and break up demos with tear gas as WTO negotiations reach climax
The Observer
While negotiators inside the conference hall struggled to agree to a watered-down compromise on the future of global commerce, demonstrators outside ratcheted up their attempt to derail a deal that they believe sells poor countries short.
The result was the fiercest fighting this normally sedate commercial city has seen since the 1960s.
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Despite the conservative and peace-loving reputation of Hong Kong, many local people who saw the clashes sympathised with the demonstrators.
Dozens joined the protests, some wearing surgical face masks for the first time since the Sars crisis, but this time to conceal their identity and protect themselves against tear gas...
Read more here:
CNN reported this:
http://edition.cnn.com/2005/BUSINESS/12/18/wto.protests/index.htmlAnd here is the TV version:
http://edition.cnn.com/video/player/player.html?url=/video/world/2005/12/17/chinoy.hk.protests.south.koreans.cnn
Here you can read the report by Minjung-ui Sori (Voice of the People, in Korean). There are also five video docus. The last one is about the mass arrests. What I don’t understand: At home the S. Korean protestors are fighting against the government, but in HK they are shouting "Dae~han Mingug (Republic of Korea)!" PERHAPS "JUST" A FORM OF NATIONALISM??!!
http://www.voiceofpeople.org/new/2005121734325.html
The video ducumentaries:
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On docu #2 you can see Chinese activists, joining the protest..
On docu #3 you can see, beside all the battle, the positive reactions of HK citizens..
Here you find the special Anti-WTO section by Chamsesang (in Korean):
http://www.newscham.net/apec/index.php?section=apec_rptHere you can read the latest news by intl. independent media
http://www.targetwto.revolt.org/
Here you can read the Urgent appeal by Hong Kong People's Alliance on the WTO:
http://daga.dhs.org/hkpa/index.html
Another thing, I don’t understand: following picture the German magazine Der Spiegel published today in connection with last night’s riots in HK. It’s just a mistake? Or S. Korean riot cops really were on the spot?
Last but least: A final draft of a World Trade Organization agreement has proposed Sunday that all nations end agricultural export subsidies by 2013 in a breakthrough that paves the way for an agreement from the six-day talks, AP reports. That’s all what they achieved... "Finally everything what was achieved is in the interest of the rich countries...", ActionAid said.
POLICE TERROR vs TOURIST ATTRACTION
The semi-official news agency Yonhap yesterday (12.17), surprisingly, wrote that:
HONG KONG, Dec. 17 (Yonhap) -- A group of South Koreans, mostly farmers, in town to protest a meeting on free trade, are becoming something of an tourist attraction rather than something to be feared and avoided among the locals... (of course they mean
삼보일배... ). Read more here: http://english.yna.co.kr/Engnews/20051217/610000000020051217142830E9.html
But just some hours later our comrades found back to the "approved" style of protest: "Hundreds of , mainly South Korean, protesters wielding bamboo sticks broke through police lines Saturday and tried to storm the convention center hosting global trade talks... 41 people were injured and 900 were detained...", AP reported yesterday evening.
More you can read here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5486354,00.html http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5486434,00.html http://edition.cnn.com/video/player/player.html?url=/video/world/2005/12/17/chinoy.hk.protests.cnn (a video by f... CNN)
uhuu~ "poor" HK police.. (Sing Pao daily, HK. 12.17)
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S. KOREAN TROOPS OUT OFF IRAQ!!
Anti-war Demonstration
12.17 (Sat.), 2 pm
Daehak-ro (Hyehwa Stn)
Of course the activists of MTU, right now
occupying the NHRC, will join the demo!!
(according to my last informations from y'day...)
At the same place, just 30 min. later KCTU want to held a rally against oppressing of irregular workers... And the Natl Peasants League will join them, or perhaps, will have their own demo.. who knows..??
And everything on the same place, at the same time..^^
And at least the anti-war demo will march to the Gwanghwamun IC...
Happy battle, I wish (Please, just avoid the water cannon!! It's winter time..)!!
ALL TOGETHER (^^),
FIGHT THE POWER!
Since the early morning (local time) I was just busy with the present solidarity staff of MTU for to get a better contact (and it's very difficult by 8,000 KM between..., when you don't have a "magic communication...^^"/nearly exactly 4 years ago we, ... and me, had this kind of communication - even sometimes without phone calls, e-mails... just in mind.. NO THIS WAS NOT A CASE FOR MENTAL HOSPITAL, Not AT ALL!) for to improve our efforts.
The last what I did today (CET), I uploaded the latest/only(grrrr~) appeal of KCTU for to support our(MTU's) struggle:
Help MTU have its demands met! Prevent more MTU leaders from being arrested!
On Monday, December 5, 2005, migrant workers from the Migrants' Trade
Union began occupying the offices of National Human Rights Commission (NHRC, actually a part of the government) in protest of a recent decision to uphold the unlawful detention of MTU's president, Anwar Hossain.....
The entire stuff you can read here:
Wow~ today (CET) the next article on the ETU-MB home page got 1,000 readers - and actually the article is a kind of strange... the writer (...^^) got a lot of problems after publishing...
But anyway..., once again:
...축하..^^
And here you can read the stuff:
香港: 反WTO
It seems that our street fighters took a rest - actually not really, but at least there were no clashes with the cops reported...
삼보일배...
More about it here:
http://www.nodong.org/main/news_view.html?serial=437
and here:
http://www.voiceofpeople.org/new/news_view.html?serial=34212
THAT'S ALL!
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It's stupid. They left the NHRC offices for a bunch of empty promises. Nothing will come of that shit. Wasn't the first and most important objective to get Anwar out of jail? Migrant worker deep in the 3D biz부가 정보