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So, now the APEC summit, definitely, is over and the protests too!
A final summary by (f...) Yonhap News you can read here:
http://english.yna.co.kr/Engnews/20051119/410100000020051119173903E6.html
And one of the few articles in the international media about the protests here:
(South Africa)
About the "security" in Busan Asia Times (www.atimes.com ) wrote this:
"...the APEC scene is reminiscent of the days of Park Chung-hee, the country's dictator-like president from 1961..., who suspended the constitution."
A picture in the yesterday's online edition of (the German TV station) ARD
Sooner or later I will write my own opinion about what was going on in the past days! Perhaps a kind of comprehensive comment..
Actually - till now - I can't get in contact with my comrade there (I really hope that she is still in "freedom"!).
At 2 pm Voice of the People (VoP)reported 3,000 people on the demonstration. Later at 4 pm they reported 10,000 (Pressian was writing about 20,000) in Busan/Haeundae. At around 5 pm in front of the bridge near BEXCO (one of the summit centers) clashes between thousands of protestors and the riot cops errupted. The cops blocked all the ways with huge container boxes (usually for mass trade transportation).
When I was reading well the clashes continued until the late afternoon/early evening. S. Korean bourgeois media reported 20 injuries.
Right now the protestors are back in Busan University for to prepare the next demonstrations for today.
...and still I can't get in contact with my friend there... (uhuu~ I'm worrying...).
Check it out: the cops are using bamboo rods (source of the pics: VoP)
Please read this article (in Korean):
http://www.voiceofpeople.org/new/2005111832865.html
Source of the pics: Pressian
Please check out also for the latest news this:
http://www.newscham.net/news/view.php?board=news&id=34513
(Chamsesang News)
The S.K. bourgeois media reported:
http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/nation/200511/kt2005111822154011990.htm
(Korea Times)
http://english.yna.co.kr/Engnews/20051118/610000000020051118191910E7.html
(Yonhap News)
ALSO ON TODAY'S PROTESTS: JUST BE CAREFUL, PLEASE!!!
AND FIGHT THEM BACK...
Actually I can't get in contact with my comrade there (I really hope that she is still in "freedom"!). But it seems that there are already fights on the way to BEXCO (one of the summit centers in Busan/Haeundae).
The ways to BEXCO are blocked by buses of the cops and mass transportation containers. It seems that the demonstrators want to open this blocked ways and the cops are using water cannons. (source of the pics: Voice of the People)
Right now I have only a computer where I can't read Hangeul, but I will try my best to get/bring more informations as soon as possible.
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!
-농민 투쟁-
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.
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..
Bourgeois KOREA TIMES wrote on 10.25:
Pusan Steps Up Security Measures Ahead of APEC Pusan City is upping security measures ahead of the upcoming Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, limiting political gatherings and rallies in major venues. The city plans to close schools Nov. 18-19, when the 21 heads of APEC member states hold a summit. ``To secure the safety of guests participating in the APEC forum, we will designate Haewoondae Beach, the Somyon area, Kimhae Airport and the Tongnae hot springs area as special security zones where monitoring will be strengthened,’’ said Eo Cheong-soo, director of the Pusan metropolitan police agency, during a news conference Monday. City authorities will deploy more police to look over the designated areas and prohibit political gatherings and rallies within 1.5 kilometers of the areas. ``The objective is to provide APEC guests with a safe environment to share their ideas and make it easy to move around. We have no intention to stop peaceful gatherings during the forum, except for around these areas,’’ Eo said. The Pusan city government also plans to strengthen its crackdown on illegal immigrants ahead of the APEC forum. More than 1,700 law enforcement officials were deployed yesterday to search for illegal immigrants or foreign visitors with suspicious behavior...
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