공지사항
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- '노란봉투'캠페인/국제연대..
- no chr.!
First of all: the neo-fascist demonstration in Berlin was canceled.
At least 3.500 of them gathered yesterday in the Eastern center of Berlin and wanted to begin their allowed (of course by the state) demo.
But the ruling class - the state and capital - demanded from the “ordinary” people to stop them, because they worried about the German reputation…
So actually they made a “Festival of Democracy” not far away from the gathering point of the fascists. Later in the early afternoon, the police was allowing about thousands of (at least 6.000) anti-fascists to seep in the area between the “democrats” and the fascists. After three hours the cops told the fascists that’s better for them to go home, because violent clashes “cannot be excluded“. So the fascists at 4.30 pm (MET) finished their demo, without to have a demo… (In fact the German government – instead to forbid the demo of the fascists – used the “left-radicals” to finish this…)
The Guardian (U.K.) y'day wrote that:
German Far-Right Rally Protests 'Guilt'
BERLIN (AP) - About 3,000 supporters of an extreme-right party rallied Sunday to lament what they called Germany's ``cult of guilt'' about World War II, but they were kept from marching in downtown Berlin by thousands of counterdemonstrators.
National Democratic Party supporters were ringed by riot police on the Alexanderplatz square and after a several-hour rally agreed to scrap the march through Berlin, police spokesman Bodo Pfalzgraf said. At least 5,000 opponents had headed toward them to block the planned route.
Hundreds of police, including reinforcements from across Germany, separated the two sides. Police said there were no clashes.
Sunday was the anniversary of Nazi Germany's surrender on May 8, 1945. The far-right party, known in Germany as the NPD, dismissed organizers of official remembrances on its Web site as ``occupation collaborators and a group of professional Jews.''
It said the rally was to protest the ``cult of guilt'' it says was imposed on Germany after the Nazi defeat 60 years ago. Many protesters wore all-black and sported shaven heads. Some carried flags in red, white and black - the colors used by the Nazis and imperial Germany.
``This is a disgrace,'' said Interior Minister Otto Schily, who has accused the party of reviving Nazi ideology and symbols.
Police sealed off much of downtown Berlin to prevent clashes and protect the landmark Brandenburg Gate, where mainstream political leaders and about 10,000 spectators attended a ``Day of Democracy'' celebration with music and speeches.
Most Germans consider the Third Reich's surrender to have liberated them as well as the rest of Europe from the terrors of Nazism.
President Horst Koehler, marking the end of World War II in Europe, insisted that neo-Nazis ``have no chance'' today because the vast majority of Germans don't support them.
In a speech in parliament, he said Germans ``look back with shame'' on World War II and the Holocaust.
``We have the responsibility to keep alive the memory of all this suffering and of its causes, and we must ensure it never happens again. There can be no drawing the line.''
``We mourn all of the victims, because we want to do justice to all peoples - including our own.''
Koehler recalled the destruction of German cities by Allied bombing and the expulsion of Germans from eastern Europe at the end of the war, but he also thanked the Allies because they ``gave the Germans a chance after the war.''
``Today, we have good reason to be proud of our country,'' he said.
Originally, the NPD had wanted to march to the Brandenburg Gate and Germany's new Holocaust memorial. Officials refused, citing a new law banning gatherings that insult the memory of Nazi victims, but approved a restricted route.
Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and other top politicians on Sunday attended a wreath-laying at Berlin's monument to the victims of war and Nazism, which contains the remains of an unknown soldier and an unknown concentration camp victim.
But, as I wrote, this is just a "nice" picture for the ruling class and the foreign media.
The reality is this:
Munich: the same day, the same issue. More than 500 people protested against a "memorial" of about 100 fascists and the cops attacked and arrested at least 27 anti-fascists.
This is just the reality in Germany!!
More pictures about the protests and the fascist
rally in Berlin you can see here [a German web site, the first 54 pics: anti-fascist demo and cops, the rest fascists (here you can see more/the first 6 from the anti-fascist demo and cop attacks, the rest from the f... fascists), and so on, and so on...].
AND YOU CAN SEE THEM HERE:
이주노동자 방송...
...in action (interview with a monk from Southwest China, a.k.a. as Tibet)
Nepalese comrades...
...in action
The Nepalese community on stage...
One of our solidarity groups...
It's just a/our party...
Saris for Koreans...
No comment - empty is empty...
Yeah, kick...
...them all!!!
Flying Korean kids...
...
...
아름다운(?)
Create just your own Buddha-but strange-on the end they are all the same (???)
Ecologically agriculture community
The "Lotus Lantern Parade"...
...(Welcome back in the Middle Ages/feudalism!)...
...started
In the East German city of Leipzig (about 100 KM South of Berlin) fascist groups, like they did the same since several years, planned on 1st of May to march against “globalization, war and unemployment”. About 1.000 of them – less than the organizers expected – came and wanted to march into a residential quarter, where many leftwing, alternative (mainly young) people are living (many houses here for example were squatted in the 90’s, after the GDR collapsed).
But even the state sent thousands of riot cops to protect the fascists – after some hours of street battles with about 4.000 anti-fascists – they capitulated and finished the fascist demo, even 3 KM before their final destination. àJUST A GREAT VICTORY FOR THE ANTI-FASCIST, after many years of just self-defense for the German left.
But already after tomorrow, the Day of Liberation (from the fascism by the Soviet, American and British Anti-Hitler Coalition 60 years ago), thousands of old and new fascists want to “protest” against the “Liberation Lies” in Berlin (of course the demonstration is allowed and will be protected by the cops) and (hopefully) thousands of anti-fascists will stop them immediately.
Meanwhile the same day here we'll "celebrate"
'cause we have/want to work there
[actuallly it's also a great opportunity for "agit-prop"..^^]
(you can see the result on the next 이주노동자 방송)
Here just some impressions of that day in Leipzig
(sources: de.indymedia.org/venceremos.antifa.net)
Police attack against the anti-fascists
Gas grenade gun...
Water cannon...
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Again cops' attacks...
...against anti-fascists
("Deutschland muss sterben, damit wir leben
koennen"/ "Germany must die, so that we can live", by Slime)
If this story is realy the truth, then sooner or later the
S. Korean government may get a huge problem^^!!!
Just let's see the future!!
Culture Shock
A flow of information from the outside world is changing the Hermit Kingdom.
May 9 issue - On a warm spring day, a small boat is maneuvering down a narrow tributary of the Yalu River that marks the border between China and North Korea. The sightseers in the craft are in search of an unusual quarry. "Look, there they are," says the boat's Chinese owner. And sure enough, coming down the opposite bank are two young North Korean border guards in olive-drab uniforms, both bareheaded, one of them toting a Kalashnikov rifle. The prow touches the shore, and one of the passengers—a NEWSWEEK journalist—steps out briefly onto North Korean territory to shake hands with the two soldiers, who nod and offer greetings. The Northerners happily accept a gift of South Korean cigarettes and Chinese cash in return for allowing the brief foray into their country. But there's something else they'd like to have as well, they say: movies and TV shows from South Korea. Videotapes or DVDs? Either one, say the soldiers. "Comedies or action?" asks the visitor. "It doesn't matter," answers a soldier. "Just bring a lot."
Extraordinary as it may sound, such encounters are par for the course along China's 1,416-kilometer-long border with North Korea these days. The Hermit Kingdom, it's now clear, is no longer hermetic. (...)
North Korea, long one of the world's most isolated societies, has grown vulnerable to the flow of information from the outside world. North Koreans are watching Western movies on hidden video players and tuning in to Korean-language broadcasts from the South on illicit radios. In the border regions, mobile phones are ubiquitous, meaning that some defectors can keep in touch with their families back home. Much of this information is making clear to North Koreans that there is a vast prosperity gap between their society and the South's.
It's not known if the greater awareness yet poses a threat to North Korea's dictator, Kim Jong Il. But it's certainly giving more North Koreans reason to nurse discontent with their government. That, in turn, is spurring more and more of them to seek their luck abroad by defecting, which can only intensify the pressure on the Great Leader. Last year a record 1,850 Northerners arrived in the South. "The West often regards North Korea as an immobile society, a black box," says Andrei Lankov, a Russian-born expert on North Korea at Kookmin University in Seoul. "But it's clear that North Korea is changing. North Korean Stalinism is dying."
The changes are real. Just take the story of Lee So Young (not her real name), a 33-year-old mother of one who defected from North Korea five years ago. She's one of an estimated 200,000 North Koreans living illegally in the border area. She's hiding in the Chinese city of Yanji as she awaits a chance to reach a new home in South Korea. In her account, it's money, not ideology, that does the talking inside North Korea these days. That's what helped her to cross the border seven times in five years. "The border guards are completely corrupt," she says. "Even South Koreans can go in if they want. All you have to do is give them some money." Lee's tiny Chinese-made phone cost her $6, and in February she smuggled another one across the border to her mother. It costs a mere $1.20 per month to keep her mother's phone active, and Lee is about to send in a fresh prepaid card just to be on the safe side. "The number of the old phone I gave her is known. So now she'll have a new number."
North Korea's information revolution is rooted in economics—and in particular, its fast-rising trade with China. Last year trade volume between the two nations reached $1.4 billion—a jump of 40 percent over 2003. "People sell and buy things," as Lee puts it. "Now it's allowed. If you sold something before, they'd confiscate it." In the summer of 2002, Kim's government enacted a set of cautious economic reforms that have triggered an explosion of mercantilism. Those have in turn created a new merchant class—consisting largely of government officials—and fomented corruption. They've also generated a modest wealth for some while leaving most people mired in poverty. One of the most visible sign of the changes: markets filled with goods from China and even South Korea, brought in by the prosperous new class of border-crossing businesspeople. Even for Northerners who can't afford them, the high-priced imports—including refrigerators, clothes and vegetables—are inspiring yearnings for a better life.
The city of Dandong, China, which has a population of 700,000, has become the window on the outside world for North Korea. There, North Korea's main rail line and highway enter Chinese territory via a majestic bridge spanning the Yalu. It's a key destination for anyone in the North with a scheme to make money. Fifty to sixty North Korean trucks cross the border every morning, then return in the evening loaded with officially approved imports ranging from food to heavy machinery. Many of the truckers have built a little side business in car parts. At the loading depot in Dandong, local merchants happily fill the drivers' orders for spare car parts, which are delivered individually to each truck before it departs. The parts are then sold in North Korea for a big profit. At a waterfront restaurant in Dandong, three men from the North Korean national railway dine out on a meal of sashimi, clams and beef, along with copious amounts of booze. Estimated tab: $100. How can they afford it? "We take things back and forth," crows a boozy conductor. His job—making the monthly round trip from Pyongyang to Moscow—offers limitless opportunities for bringing goods (officially sanctioned and not) back into the North from its capitalist neighbors.
At the Gome Electronics Store in downtown Dandong, salespeople count North Koreans among their most faithful customers. "They're always wearing their little pins," says Shi Hui, a Gome salesgirl, referring to the obligatory badges featuring portraits of North Korean founding father Kim Il Sung. "They always come with their interpreters." One very popular item: video CD players that sell for less than $30. Some of Shi's customers buy four or five at a time. "They say they're going to resell them in the North," she says. Home stereos, TVs, and, yes, the obligatory mobile phones are also selling strongly—and at the same surreally low prices, thanks to Chinese overproduction.
Much of the border area is inhabited by ethnic Koreans with strong ties to the South. As a result, South Korean soap operas and movies, popular throughout Asia, can be purchased on every corner and are easily smuggled into the North. "They take the discs but they throw away the boxes," says Wang Dan, a saleswoman in a Dandong music store that regularly sells South Korean videodiscs to Northern customers. The resulting inflow of outside culture is impossible to stem—and one result has been the irrevocable destruction of Northern propaganda stereotypes about the South, which was always depicted as a wasteland of poverty, shantytowns and unemployment. Choi Ji Won (not her real name), 43, repeatedly crossed into China to work before defecting for good 10 months ago. "Whenever I was here, I watched South Korean TV," she says. "Then when I went back to the North, I told my relatives about it. They realized it's a great place to live, and now they want to go, too." According to recent visitors to the North, Pyongyang university students have taken to dyeing their hair chestnut in accordance with the latest college fads in Seoul.
In the old days, any North Koreans lucky enough to get a foreign-made radio had to register it with the local police. Authorities then fixed the tuners to a single frequency that supplied only Pyongyang-approved broadcasts. Now, though, radios are everywhere, and officials can be bribed to leave tuners unaltered. When South Korean broadcaster KBS surveyed defectors living in the South two years ago, 67 percent said that they had listened to South Korean radio when they were living in the North. Internet use in the North is still limited to a precious few. But the growing number of Northerners lucky enough to travel to China can easily pop into cheap Internet cafes to peruse South Korean web sites.
Kim Jong Il's policy of a limited opening is risky but necessary. Trade with China doesn't just help his moribund economy, but also boosts his ties with a powerful partner who offers a desperately needed diplomatic counterweight to the United States and Japan. (China welcomes the trade with the North as a way of promoting economic growth in its three northeastern provinces, which have long lagged behind more vibrant southern China.) But the potential threat to Kim's leadership is huge. "North Korea wants to keep the booming trade with China from undermining its stability," says Park Young Ho, an analyst at the Korea Institute for National Unification in Seoul. "But it's a very tough job. Trade and stability are two different things."
Kim's minions lately have been battling to stem the tide. At the end of 2003 the ruling Korean Workers' Party published a series of edicts pledging to "fight vigorously against moves to spread unusual recorded objects and publications" and "to carry on the fight against smuggling activities." Penalties for harboring information about the South, in particular, can include long terms in prison. The security services have formed mobile squads to nab people viewing illegal videos. "They cut off the power so that the disc stays in the machine and can't be hidden," says defector Lee.
There is an even more ominous trend: According to defectors interviewed by NEWSWEEK, Pyongyang is using public executions to discourage defections. Brokers involved in moving people across the border are often the targets. Two covertly recorded videotapes recently smuggled out of the North show three people being shot (in two separate incidents) in the city of Hoeryong on March 1 and March 2. Lee says the authorities stage the executions in marketplaces and force residents to watch. "You have to go. If you don't, they say you don't agree with the government's decision.
It's possible that Kim will succeed in tamping down the forces of discontent bound to be generated by knowledge of the outside world. But the odds are against it. "North Korea reminds me of the USSR in the 1970s," says analyst Lankov. "Officials are paying lip service to the ideology but what they actually do is very different." Like most experts on the North, he's reluctant to issue a expiration date for the North Korean regime. But, he adds, "the genie is out of the bottle—and Kim will have a hard time putting it back in." The dictator surely knows that himself.
With Hideko Takayama in Tokyo
Milano (이탈리아)
Barcelona (스페인)
Sevilla (스페인)
Barcelona
Barcelona
Paris (프랑스)
Helsinki (핀란드)
London (영국, police is attacking protestors in a super market)
Hamburg (독일)
Hamburg (banner text: abolish capitalism! for the social revolution)
Music:
좋은친구들 "더러운 세상"
At about 1 PM, like other Trade Unions, Migrant Workers' Trade Union...
...held a seperate pre-rally
Meanwhile thousands of contruction...
...workers arrived
Protest against SK construction company...
...which is oppressing irregular workers...
...in Ulsan (on the picture: how there the workers have to spend their lunch break)
Construction Truck Drivers Union members (노동 계급 해방...!!!)
Most of them are also irregular workers
Even before the main rally started...
...construction workers were attacked by the riot cops
After I got hurt by them...
...the camera got hurt too... and went on strike (this are the last 2 "pictures" from y'day).
The main rally started at 3 PM, according to alternative media, between 20 and 30.000
people joined (the picture: 민중의 소리, here you find their article about it).
The same day in Cheongju (www.cjcity.net), 128 KM Southeast of Seoul
The pre-play: the riot cops...
...blocked hundreds of students and workers...
in the Yeouido station
A short while later in front of the ex Hannara-dang B/D...
...thousands of students got ready to breake the "rules"
But after the riot cops...
...got ready too...
...they just gave up.
Meanwhile the main...
...workers rally...
...already started
Scenes from the edge of the main rally
ACOMDA
...
The mandatorily 4.30 party already started also
The food preparing space of 전철연
Disabled activists
"No" means NO...
About 10 pm the official part was finished
("Bella Ciao", by Chumbawumba)
First of all:
미안해요...
This(3.19/20 反戰 報告, you can see it on the end of the first third of the show)
was actually the first video report I did since 10 years. So the quality is f..sh..
Of course I have to learn much more for to produce better stuff...
The next broadcasting(in the middle of May) will have less talking, but more reports.
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