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Source: 용산철거민참사대책위

Related stuff:
☞ [3.22] 전철연 연대밤 (2008)

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1960.3.21: The Massacre in Sharpeville

Today marks the 50th anniversary of the day that changed the course of the South African history. When police forces hunted and a short while later opened fire on thousands of unarmed fleeing protesters, killing 69 and injuring at least 180...

...they inadvertently provided a catalyst for decades of (armed) liberation struggle and forced the rest of the world to confront the iniquity of apartheid. White minority rule finally collapsed in 1994. Two years later it was in Sharpeville that the country's first black president, Nelson Mandela, signed a new constitution.

Related articles:
☞ Sharpeville: Legacy of a massacre (al-Jazeera, 3.21)
☞ Sharpeville 50 years on: 'At some stage all hell will break...' (Guardian, 3.19)

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[3.11] General Strike in Greece

Here some impressions from Athens (*):

* More pics from last Thursday's general strike you can see here, here and here!
For more info about the class struggle in Greece please check out LabourStart!

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Impressions from Seoul's Cheonggyecheon (1965):

For more fascinating(?) pics from "pre-modern" Seoul/S. Korea please check out:
☞ Korea during early 20th century up to 1970s (SkyscraperCity)

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Yesterday in downtown Seoul: Hundreds of activists, mainly female members of different labour unions(organized in the KCTU), progressive civic groups and resistance organisations gathered to mark tomorrow's Int'l Women's Day...

(Source of the pics: KCTU)

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Hong Kong, last Sunday(2.28):  IMWU's solidarity rally to support MTU(*):

* For more info please check out:
☞ 反이주탄압(국제연대) #6


 

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Last Saturday(2.20) in front of Seoul Stn:

The representatives of five social-democratic parties - two "left"-wing (DLP and NPP) and three right-wing (DP, CKP and PPP - offshoots from the former ruling 'Yeollin Uri'-dang, led by Roh Moo-hyun) - and their entourage prepared for the collaboration...

Yeah, that's really a "democratic/progressive alternative" for S. Korea's future!!!(^^)

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About 60 Democratic Labor Party (DLP) members clashed yesterday(2.07) morning with police investigators, backed by about 750 riot cops, as the inquisitors raided the KT Internet center in Seongnam City/Bundang (Gyeonggi Province) to seize more computer servers belonging to the DLP to investigate "political activities by public servants and teachers" (*):

* For more about the "event" please read:
☞ Police conduct second seizure of DLP server (Hankyoreh, 2.08)

Related previous contribution:
☞ Cops, Prosecution vs. KTU, KGEU & DLP (1.28)

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No comment!!(^^)

Source: katun1150 (1.03)

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Impressions(*) from yesterday's Public Funeral Ceremony for the Victims of the Yongsan Massacre:

* More photo impressions you can see here (the public funeral ceremony in front of Seoul Stn. where at least 5,000 citizens and activists came together...), here (the evening funeral ceremony at the "Memorial for the Martyrs of the People's Struggle" near Maseok) and here!

Related reports (incl. many pics and some videos) by:

☞ VoP   ☞ KCTU   ☞ NewsCham   ☞ OMN   ☞ K.Times