공지사항
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- '노란봉투'캠페인/국제연대..
- no chr.!
4904개의 게시물을 찾았습니다.
S. Korean Street Fighters - 'Heroes'
For The HK Press..^^
Source: ChamSaesang, more you can read here in Korean:
http://www.newscham.net/news/view.php?board=news&id=34760
Yesterday's Ming Pao:
http://www.mingpaonews.com/20051214/main.htm
...and so on, and so on...^^
HK, 13.11: THE 2nd DAY OF RESISTANCE
AGAINST THE WTO SUMMIT
http://www.guardian.co.uk/gall/0,8542,1666419,00.html
Pics in the mainstream media (Guardian, UK)
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/GL13Ad01.html
Asia Times (HK)
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/GL14Dj02.html
Asia Times (HK)
Independent media:
http://www.newscham.net/news/view.php?board=news&id=34755
Chamsaesang, Korean, pics
http://www.newscham.net/news/view.php?board=coolmedia&id=1250
Chamsaesang, Korean, video about the first clash with the cops...
Splashing Against Imperialism...
The Movement On Foreign Mission! (Just making friends...)
Target: WTO, English
http://daga.dhs.org/hkpa/paw/pawindex.html
(Hong Kong) People’s Alliance on WTO, 民間監察世貿聯盟
http://www.voiceofpeople.org/new/hongkong/
Minjung-ui Sori, Voice of the People, Korean.
Wow... with the most strange (...) music on air...
...you can hear all the "smash hits" of the movement!!!
FIGHT THE POWER!!
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Comrade Radhika, Mok-dong
Detention Center, Dec. 12.
BUT YESTERDAY THEY ALREADY
DEPORTED HER..
사진: 숲속홍길동 同志
2005년 12월 13일 라디카 동지가 네팔로 떠났습니다.
스스로 간 것이 아니기에 많은 동지들이 마음 아파하고 있습니다.
지난 8일 단속, 연행되어 현재 한국땅의 차가운 현실과 혹한을 뒤로 하고
10여년 간의 한국 생활을 가슴에 담은 채 떠나갔습니다.
More about it here:
More about comrade Radhika you can read/see/watch here:
http://memolog.blog.naver.com/nosugaradded/151
http://blog.jinbo.net/CINA/?cid=11&pid=377
ONE WEEK OCCUPATION OF NHRC
Saturday was day 6 of the occupation of the National Human Right Commission (NHRC) and the 57th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This morning (12.10) at about 10 am, the Korean government held ceremonies to commemorate the annivesary. In the ceremonies, the Minister of Justice, Chan Cheon-bae, gave awards to organizations and individuals who promote human rights for all. As part of their cultural program, they also had migrant workers sing traditional songs from their home countries and participate in the ceremonies.
In order to point out their hypocrisy, MTU members and some 60 supporters joined the ceremony to protest the the NHRC's decision to support the Immigration Department's unlawful detention of Anwar Hossain, MTU's president, the crackdown on undocumented migrant workers, the recent arrest of yet another MTU leader, and the Korean government's unwillingness to grant basic working rights to migrant workers. One demonstrator was ejected peaceably from the ceremony for shouting, "Stop Crackdown!" The other protesters held signs reading, "Stop ignoring migrant workers!" and "Recognize Migrant Workers' Rights!"
"Last night (Sat., 12.10) we went to a program at Hanyang University that was organized by (or maybe for?) the mothers of martyrs from the dictatorship era. This program was mainly entertainment, but at the end, we got to give a really quick little speech explaining who we are and what the demands are. I say "we" because I was paraded up on stage with the real migrant workers. It was good exposure for MTU because there were a couple of thousand people there, but it wasn't anything "action" oriented. I rarely know what we are going to do ahead of time- I just follow along and do what I'm told. It's still really difficult to get questions answered.", one comrade reported later in the following morning.
About yesterday, Sunday, 12.11, following was reported from the spot:
"Today folks are out in Incheon, Dongdaemun and elsewhere organizing and just a few of us are holding down the fort at the office. The nights here are packed with people and during the day there are constantly people coming and going. It's nearly impossible to sleep at night because of all of the meetings that can't happen during the day, so folks are looking a little tired and catching naps whenever and wherever they can. Still though, everyone seems to be holding up well. Spirits are high even though they are sometimes tense and the Korean government seems to be getting a little nervous about how much press we are generating. We were on KBS two or three separate times yesterday- first the protest at the human rights celebration and then a really long piece on Radhika getting deported and a third really emotional piece about two men from Bangladesh who lost fingers in industrial accidents here and can't go back home for the shame of no longer being able to provide for their families. It was a good media day, even if 2/3 of the reasons for being on the news really sucked."
Radhika is still in Mok-dong Detention Center, it was reported yersterday (12.11). It looks like she'll be there until the 14th or 15th, but she really wants to go home. She said that being a femaledetainee is really humiliating. They have cameras in their rooms, thebathrooms, everywhere so they have absolutely no privacy. It sounds like she is having a really awful time.
And as I remember, and I remember very well, Mok-dong Detention Center is just a rat hole. If you must stay there longer than few days you can become easily complete crazy. This is definitely not a place for human beings!!!
A Korean report about Saturday you can read here:
International Solidarity
The International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers’ Associations (IUF) has posted an appeal for solidarity with MTU’s struggle. The entire text you can read here:
Le combat pour le droit d’organisation des migrants est particulièrement dur, car il est plus difficile à populariser que celui des fonctionnaires. Le Syndicat des migrants (MTU), lui aussi adhérent à la KCTU, a été formé le 24 avril 2005. Il lutte pour la légalisation des travailleurs sans papiers et le droit du travail dans l’entreprise. Il en appelle à la solidarité internationale et propose d’échanger expériences et informations sur la façon dont la défense des immigrés est assurée dans divers pays. ...
Please read (if you understand French language...^^) more here:
http://www.inprecor.org/510/Coree_pierrerousset.htm
The daily The Guardian (UK) wrote this today (still there are no independent, non-bourgeois informations..):
Hong Kong On High Alert..^^
Hong Kong on high alert as thousands of protesters fly in
To prevent a repeat of the violence that disrupted the last two summits in Seattle and Cancún, 9,000 police have been drafted in to man the barricades around the harbourside convention centre, where the talks will take place, and patrol shopping and financial districts, which are considered potential targets for anti-globalisation radicals.
Hopes are scarcely more optimistic for the action inside the vast convention centre, used for the 1997 handover, where 6,000 delegates will gather tomorrow to thrash out the global trade disputes that have gridlocked the latest WTO round. Few expect anything more than incremental progress; at worst, some fear a repeat of the deadlock that undermined the last summit at Cancún in 2003.
The first demonstration of the week passed off peacefully yesterday, a colourful, if noisy, march by more than 2,000 people. But, to the concern of free-speech campaigners, immigration officials are said to have a blacklist of known activists, who will be denied entry into the territory.
Korean farmers, who have been in the frontline of previous WTO protests, say the authorities put pressure on hotels to refuse them rooms, but more than 1,000 are expected to fly in today. They say the liberalisation of the rice market has driven several farmers to suicide, including Lee Kyung-hae, who killed himself at the height of the demonstration in Cancún.
"We want to protest peacefully," said Seo Pil-Sang of the Korean Agricultural Federation Trade Union. "But we are desperate. Lee died in Cancún. And unless the WTO listens to the voice of Korean farmers, I'm worried that someone else may kill themselves."
Access will be limited. Although 2,000 accredited non-governmental organisations will be allowed inside the hall, most protesters will be restricted to a nearby "demonstration zone".
"I don't think there'll be trouble like in Seattle in Cancún," said Helena Kwong, a marshall. "Hong Kong people are peaceful. We are against unfair trade, but we are not in favour of violence."
In the past three years, hundreds of thousands of local people have taken to the streets to campaign for democracy, but the demonstrations have all passed peacefully. Hong Kong also has more reason than most to be thankful for global trade, which has transformed it into one of the most prosperous cities in the world. Police say the risk will come later and from outside: from European and US anarchist groups and Asian farmers' organisations.
Some local businesses are taking no chances. Two nearby banks and several outlets of international retailers plan to close during the summit. At an Audi showroom close to the venue, sales executive Kenneth Chui said: "We are worried about the safety of our staff. We will board up our windows for at least the opening day. Then, we'll see what the situation is like."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/wto/article/0,2763,1665112,00.html
And here you can watch (when it works...) the first Korean documentary from the spot (yesterday's opening rally, commented..^^):
http://go.jinbo.net/commune/view.php?board=cool&id=23781&page=1
More, perhaps live, reporting will be here:
And here you can read a interesting analysis (not communist, not really...^^) to the topic of WTO:
http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,16781,1664984,00.html
First of all: the report about the last MTU activities (12.10/11) - and of course about Radhika同志 - will follow soon. I already got informations, but I just want to wait for some more material...
HK, 12.11: THE FIRST DAY OF RESISTANCE
AGAINST THE WTO SUMMIT
AFP (12.11, Hindustanitimes.com) reported this:
Amid Hong Kong's biggest-ever security operation, anti-globalisation and other protesters took to the streets on Sunday in a rally against this week's World Trade Organisation (WTO) meeting in Hong Kong.
Thousands of protesters from all over the world joined together to call for the end of the world trading body and to end third world poverty.
"Sink the WTO" and "Keep WTO out of agriculture" read many of the banners as the demonstrators marched from Victoria Park in the Causeway Bay district to the downtown government headquarters two miles away (about three kilometres).
Organisers, the Hong Kong People's Alliance on WTO put the turnout at 4,000 (Junge Welt, a German "socialist" newspaper is writing 10,000 protestors..), lower than their expectations of 7,000, but no independent estimates were available.
Police and plain-clothes officers ringed the park and thousands more were ready along the demonstration route in anticipation of possible violent clashes with radical protesters but the march passed off without incident.
The protest began in a carnival-like atmosphere with speeches by political and NGO leaders and dozens of concern groups preparing colourful costumes and props.
One group carried a papier-mache model of a dragon with a tongue of flames that spelled "WTO". Another hauled a huge model of a raging bull.
Others carried giant balloons bearing slogans such as "Stop Trade Slavery".
Many railed against globalisation while others complained that the WTO's aim of reducing agricultural subsidies threatened the livelihoods of millions.
"Cheap food imports are destroying our own agriculture," complained Masaaki Sakaguchi, secretary general of Japan's National Coalition of Workers, Farmers and Consumers for Safe Food and Health.
"There are lots of chemicals on the food we import," Sakaguchi added. "Keep food local and keep it safe."
About two hours after the march began, the last demonstrators arrived at the government offices, where activists began a rally calling on Hong Kong's rulers to dismantle the city's trade policies.
"The WTO puts people out of work and forces overseas workers to seek work here," said Alijah Purwati, of the Indonesian Migrant Workers Council, representing the estimated 150,000 Indonesian domestic helpers employed here.
Along the march route many shop owners, also worried that the procession could turn violent, had shuttered their stores. Shoppers and other pedestrians gave the protesters a wide berth.
"The march went very smoothly. I'm very happy. We always said it would be peaceful and it was," said Elizabeth Tang of protest organisers the Hong Kong People's Alliance on the WTO.
Sunday's march was to be the first of three large demonstrations planned during the summit. Another will be held on Tuesday, when the ministerial conference kicks off, and a final one is scheduled for the last day next Sunday.
Authorities were taking no chances with security, putting 9,000 police on duty and locking down entire city sections in anticipation of violent clashes.
Across town at the summit venue, where 11,000 delegates and journalists will be based during the trade talks, the streets were calm on Sunday.
The normally bustling convention and exhibition centre was all but deserted as hundreds of police scoured the glitzy building's plazas and bomb squads rooted around in drains and manholes in last-minute searches for explosives.
The area around the venue has been blocked off to traffic by three-metre (nine-feet) high water-filled crowd control barriers that stretch along the perimeter of an exclusion zone aimed at keeping out troublemakers.
A steel containment fence was also erected in the street outside the entrance to the convention centre.
Some 10,000 protesters are expected this week. Rally organisers have accused immigration officials of treating arriving demonstrators in a heavy-handed manner after almost a dozen were temporarily detained at the city's airport.
AP wrote that:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5472181,00.html
Please check out also the South China Morning Post (HK)
Hong Kong People's Alliance on WTO (HKPA, the main organizers of the protests)
http://daga.dhs.org/hkpa/paw/pawindex.html
and indymedia
...but both (indy and HKPA), until now, have no news about y'day's protest.
PS.:
The WTO summit in HK is just a place to show our disagreement with the ruling system, the capitalism... Actually I don't see it that the movement, the activists there will be able to smash the summit... The main actors will be the representatives of the different (capitalist) states but with their different priorities... We just should keep in our mind: THINK GLOBAL, ACT LOCAL...
But anyway, we should support the struggle there by ...yeah... ACTING LOCAL. KICK THE CAPITALISTS IN THEIR AS... IN FRONT OF OUR OWN DOORSTEPS!!!
12.8: COMRADE RADHIKA WAS ARRESTED
BY IMMIGRATION COPS!
Yesterday, 12.8, about 8:30pm, Radhika Subbha from Nepal, a key activist in the Migrant Workers Trade Union (MTU) was arrested in a crackdown at Uijeongbu Station. Radhika is the main organizer of female migrant workers in S. Korea and has been involved in the struggle for migrants rights for several years. Last year, she participated in the sit-in struggle at Myeong Dong Cathedral and went on a 30 day hunger strike to protest against the kidnapping of Samar Thapa, the then chairperson of ETU-MB's (Equality Trade Union - Migrants' Branch) Emergency Struggle Committee and to oppose the implementation of Korea's regressive and racist immigration law, EPS (Employment Permit System).
Radhika is also one of our best co-workers in MWTV (Migrant Workers TV).
Of course she also participated in the current occupation of the National Human Right Commission (NHRC) in Seoul.
Radhika was traveling, when she was arrested, to Uijeongbu to help a friend obtain a job.
Now she is arrested in Mok-dong Deportation Center.
Especially after her 30-days hunger strike her health conditions are very bad.
You can visit her tomorrow, Saturday, until am 11:30 in Mok-dong.
Give her POWER thru the bars!!!
2004, comrade Radhika during the hunger strike
This year, Radhika in the TV studio
Yesterday (local time) after I got the information about her I was checking the entire night the web about news about her in Korean, but I wasn't able to find something... not on MTU, not on MW Broadcasting.. nowhere.
Today in the morning (CET), like usual, I just was checking my ...'s blog and surprisingly I found this (very detailed and with a lot of background..고맙습니다!!) about Radhika in Korean:
Comrade Radhika on a rally 2005.8.17
on Yeouido, near the National Assembly
Source: 숲속홍길동同志
MTU protest banners at the NHRC, downtown Seoul
12.8: New Police Attacks Against
Striking Workers
Source of the pics: Minjung-ui Sori
A report you can read here. There you find also a video and many comments.
http://www.voiceofpeople.org/new/2005120833843.html
(perhaps later, if I find time - I have also to write now one article for a German paper, even I don't have a mind for that right now, because I'm just thinking about comrades in struggle, comrades who were already arrested, just few hours ago.., later I will write more about it - more about it in English...)
비정규 권리보장 입법쟁취
전국노동자대회
일시 : 2005년 12월 9일(金) 14:30
장소 : 서울 종묘공원 (대회직후 광화문4거리까지 행진)
JUST FIGHT BACK!
LET'S FIGHT TOGETHER FOR A WORLD
WITHOUT EXPLOITATION AND OPPRESSION!
-투쟁-
Actually there are not really news (it's really hard to get informations from MTU activists), but here is a short report about the daily life/struggle in the occupied office of the National Human Right Commission, I got from a friend (http://blog.jinbo.net/dopehead/ ):
Yesterday the migrants workers who are occupying the NHRC and their Korean comrades were busy getting the word out and preparing for propaganda materials.
Their daily routine is like that: morning campaign from 8 am to 10 am, neigborhood campaign near the city hall from noon to 2 pm, silent protest in front of the Commissioner's office from 8 am to 10 am, and noon to 2 pm, participation in solidarity demonstration from 2pm to 5pm, struggle sharing meeting from 8pm to 9pm...
Lots of Korean groups and activists join the daily struggle and are sharing the meetings.
The next big thing is December 18 the international migrant workers day rally.
It's gonna be huge this year!
The report about the beginning of the occupation, and other things you can read here:
http://www.indymedia.no/newswire/display/19580/index.php
Here you can read a interview (in Korean) with Shakil, the present chairperson of MTU, in Minjung-ui Sori:
http://www.voiceofpeople.org/new/2005120733766.html
Here a kind of updated daily news/summary (in Korean):
http://www.migrantsinkorea.net/webbs/view.php?board=mignews&id=142
Here a text from KCTU:
http://www.nodong.org/bbs/view.php?id=bodo&no=3441
Here an article from the other side of the barricade (Hankook Ilbo/한국일보, Korean):
Actually even on MTU's web site (http://migrant.nodong.net/) there is no updating... the last contribution is from before yesterday...
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