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- '노란봉투'캠페인/국제연대..
- no chr.!
A FINAL (?) STATEMENT BEFORE THE BATTLE (??)
"...there is growing skepticism over the role of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, experts say", so the International Herald Tribune 11.14. " APEC is balanced on the brink of terminal irrelevance," said the Australia-based Lowy Institute for International Policy in a report issued in time for this week's summit," the article continued... "Public awareness about APEC, even among the bureaucracies of its members and in areas APEC addresses, is slight."
Outside of the region, for example in Europe, no one (the media, rightwing, liberal - a.k.a. the bourgeois ?but also not the so-called left..) is really informed... and not really interested.
First of all they don't know what is really going on in the Far East. For instance the German state runned TV station ARD presented the annual National Workers Rally last Sunday as an Anti-APEC demonstration.
The farmers demonstration on Tuesday they presented as an Anti-USA protest and today's leading magazine Der Spiegel wrote: "On the APEC summit in Japan..." (even they don't know where the summit take place)
On the other hand no one - politicians, the media ?see any relevance about the APEC summit. The most of the media is just not reporting about it and if then just like that: "An APEC summit about the bird flu...", the German TV station ARD said.
On 11.14 I found the first articles in the international press about the APEC summit (International Herald Tribune and NEWS.com.au). But both are not expecting any sensful result... just "strong words in the final declaration". That's all...
IN FACT: APEC SUMMIT IS NOT A DECISION MAKING MEETING, NOT AT ALL!
But many of the activists at home (...harhar, S. Korea) seems to see this summit as one of the most important events in this century. They compare it with Cancun, or with the Summit of the Americas in Mar del Plata. But as ascertained the APEC has no relevance, not at all - "a summit about the bird flu..."!!!)...
On the other hand many activists <"The South Korean government should take a lesson from the case of the Summit of Americas in Mar del Plata, Argentina last week that 'failed to come to agreement due to strong protests from the South American people against the U.S. and U.S. President George Bush,' the statement (of the Korean Peasants League) said. Otherwise the peasants will wage a 'strong battle' on Friday 'shoulder to shoulder with other civic groups' to stop the APEC summit...", Korea Times wrote on 11.13> perhaps are confused about the role of the different participants, for example in Mar del Plata. The street "battles" - definetely - were not the reason why the summit failed... it was the opposition of the governments of Brazil, Venezuela, Argentina...! And - please remember - this summit was a decision making meeting...
Finally the only thing what we (harhar... YOU!!!) can do in Busan: Set up a sign that not everyone in the society is collaborating with the idea of the capitalist globalization. What we must fight for is the our own globalization, a globalization for the common people, a globalization from below!
And of course, if we (...YOU!!) have the power, the masses, we can - possibly - grievous disturb their meeting or even SMASH it!! (...aeh~ it's just a idea...)
LET'S FIGHT TOGETHER FOR A WORLD
WITHOUT EXPLOITATION AND OPPRESSION!!
...STATE TERROR?
JUST FIGHT THEM BACK!!!
...and please, please be careful!!
Please check out the documentary here (Chamsesang/Jinbonet):
http://www.newscham.net/news/view.php?board=coolmedia&id=1236
Actually there is nothing funny anymore!!
..IS ALREADY INAUGURATED!
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Yesterday, the entire day until the evening thousands of unionized farmers protested on Yeouido (Seoul) against the government's decision to increase the quota of rice imports in the coming years. Farmers and large units (10,000?) of the infamous riot cops
(all the frontline combat units were on the spot!) clashed until the early night hours.
Korean articles about it you can read here:
http://www.voiceofpeople.org/new/2005111532689.html
Here there are 5 videos, v. 1, 3 and 4 are about the battles, v. 2 inteviews
and v. 5 about arrests and some final (?) interviews.
Watch it serious - we can learn a lot of it!
Watch the cops throwing stones... Never give them space and time to do that!!
By the way, on all demos like that (...BUSAN!!!) we should
have several mobile (educated) first aid units on the spot...
http://www.vop.co.kr/new/2005111532692.html
Source of the pics: Voice of the People
Today's (bourgeois) JoongAng Ilbo is writing this:
100-plus injured in rice rally clash
In a clash between farmers and police during a rally yesterday to protest the opening of the rice market, more than 100 people were injured and three police cars burned. The rally, which started at 1 p.m. at Yeouido, Seoul, was attended by 15,000 members of the Korean Peasant League, Korea Women Peasants Association and six other farmers' associations. Farmers clashed with police as they tried to move to the National Assembly building to conclude the three-hour street rally. Police blocked the road with police cars and sprayed water at the protesters, but some farmers surged forward, wielding wood and steel sticks. During the struggle, more than 100 farmers and police were injured.
More violence is expected in Busan Friday, where farmers' groups plan a rally to coincide with the leaders meetings of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum.
Today, four years ago, it was a Friday, I watched the first time with the new Korean acquaintance a movie (during PIFF 2001). Chicken Rice War, a production from Singapore.
Actually the movie was just a kind of entertainment... But short before I saw a trailer to the movie and so I wanted to see it... just because of the Chinese dialoges, because never before I saw a movie in original Chinese language (in German I saw all Chinese movies in English with bad sound or with German synchronisation).
Later in the night there was a small coming together with friends and some movie people, the director of Chicken... was also hanging around there for a while, but at least, after the new Korean acquaintance had to leave us (the next day in the morning she?d to go back to Seoul by bus ...but of course I had to promise to call her "immediately" - she ordered me - when I would be back in Seoul) it was more boring for me and I even was not in the mood to drink more soju...
It?s very interesting, but outside of S. Korea till now nobody is talking or writing about the APEC summit in Busan... neither in the Straights Times (Singapore), South China Morning Post (HK), Xinhua (China), nor in the USA (LA Times), or the South American progressive independent media, such as Indymedia Chile.
But there is a struggle between pro and contra inside the S. Korean activist scene. "It is an important opportunity for Pusan (Busan) to thrive as an international city. The opponents of APEC are ignorant of the enormous economic profit and the invisible benefits...", (bourgeois Korea Times quoted on Nov. 13). This is of course complete bull sh..., because Busan is a international city already, but more international it will never become. Because Busan is a city which lifes just from the industry and infrastructure, that?s all (of course not to forget from the daily labor of the workers there...).
But also, in my opinion, the concentration of the "progressive" movement in S.K. against the APEC summit is wrong, because the APEC has no meaning, neither political, nor economical, because APEC is "... a more lame (impotent) poppycock dump (shack) as even the ASEAN" (S. P. Huntington in: The Clash of Civilizations, N.Y. 1996). And still there is nothing changed... (as I know).
If someone have other opinions... Please, I?m ready to listen...
Today is also an article in Korea Herald about the preparation of the farmers unions for Nov. 18. But because this will be a longer story, I will write about it tomorrow, coming night, or so..
The last night four years ago, it was the night (before in the daytime I watched movies on PIFF and I met several times the woman who was running away the night before because of f... Kim Ki-duk... we had some coffee together and the first very interesting conversations without any soju or other stuff like that.) from Thursday to Friday, actually was a typical Korean style night.
First I met with the same person and we had some funny meetings with Korean students who wanted to make interviews with me... that was just for to improve their English, a job just for their school. Later we went with a Korean woman and her German friend to a Chinese restaurant. After we successful finished this first step we met other Korean, German Dutch and Finish friends and the funny part started...
Actually this was my first night in S. Korea like I had later (perhaps) thousand times more. But for the first ? but of course not for the last - time I was really impressed... And slowly PIFF went to it end, just two days more for us were left...
This (friends from Finland and..) was the final "result" of our beautiful, impressive night...
And the entire day I was really anxious to meet my new acquaintance (remember the paper with the name, phone...), I met the night before. This night a "complete strange and famous party", friends of mine promised me, will take place. And at least I remembered that we, the new acquaintance and me we wanted to meet there. Yeah, of course we met each other there, but, unfortunately, I got the idea to get in conversation with the "famous" (harr, harr...) director Kim Ki-duk, just for to arrange a interview with him about the movie "Address Unknown". My new acquaintance made the translation. Kim said finally nearly nothing. In fact he was not interested in a interview - I had to learn some days later, but I saw it at the time very well - but more in the translator... At the end she was complete fed up and just wanted to go home. Even I understand nearly nothing, because of language problems, but I understand well what was going on. So even for me the night was not funny anymore and only my friends were able to stop me, because I just was on the way to "kill" f... Kim (my friends told me: "don’t do that, because he is the only good director in this country"). So the SUPER FAMOUS PARTY, everyone expected, finished complete stupid...
Translation: The participation of the youth left: the ballot paper right: the ballot box below: the election result (독일어) 하하..
Right now, four years ago (2001.11.12) - it was a Wednesday, around 8 in the morning - I was getting up (I just wanted to hurry up to get my first coffee and the tickets for the next film shows) in our backyard Yeogwan in downtown Busan. I was holding my head and thinking, "What the hell was going on last night?". And then it was coming like a bomb. The night before, during the 6th Busan Intl Film Festival, together with my friends we joined the so-called Korean Night. Ha, just a complete crazy event, but finally with extensive consequences... Actually in this morning I wasn't sure if the night before was just a strange dream or the reality. So I was checking my stuff in my jacket and I found what for I was searching... a paper with a name, in English, Korean and Chinese, the connected e-mail address, a home page address and a phone number. Wow, it wasn't just a dream.
This past night started just like the nights before: together with some friends from Holland, Finland and Germany we went to drink some soju after the film shows. Later one said that there is the so-called Korean Night... "c’mon let’s go there!". We worried what this will bring, because it was organized by the Korean Film Capitalists...
But, what a surprise, when we arrived there a Korean metal band was playing really strange stuff. Later we got in some talks with Koreans and the only thing what we had to do, except to drink more soju, to "defend" them, especially the women, from an annoying American, we knew him from before.
After a while the beer and the soju was complete finished and the only stuff what was left over: hundreds (I'm really not sure about the number...) of bottles of beakseju. Perhaps you can imagine how this night was continuing?! But finally, especially for me, it was funny and also very interesting... In fact in this night the fate - I know that such a thing isn't existing - was hitting me (the paper with the name and phone number...).
How? Actually this will be the next story.
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Den Sozialismusin seinem Lauf haelt weder Ochs noch Esel auf.부가 정보
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YEAH! exactly! harr, harr~부가 정보