No Re-Dispatch to Afghanistan: Koreans' Peace Action on Nov. 14

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Stop the Occupation of Afghanistan!
No Re-Dispatch of the South Korean Soldiers to Afghanistan!
No United States-South Korea War Alliance!

Pan-Korean Civil Society Organizations’ Solidarity Meeting
against the Re-Dispatch to Afghanistan (* unofficial translations),
composed of 65 civil organizations including the progressive parties and Veterans for Peace, Korea
had a rally of ‘Nov. 14, Peace Action Day’ at the Seoul Station Square at on Nov. 14, 2009.
Despite the coldest weather this year, about 500 people kept the place.

The ‘Pan-Korean Civil Society Organizations’ Solidarity Meeting against the Re-Dispatch to Afghanistan’
was made on the base of the ‘The Solidarity for Anti-War and Peace (tentative title)’.
The latter has been created on May 21, 2009 and has opposed against
:The war & occupation for the powerful countries’ domination
: Support for the war and occupation by the South Korean government (Lee Myung Bak regime).
And it has promoted for peace in the Korean peninsula.

Pyo Myung-Ryol, executive representative of Veterans for Peace, ROK, reads the day’s statement.

‘No troops to Afghanistan’. ‘ Why you decide our lives? (University Students’ Sharing Culture)'

‘Oppose the support of Lee Myung-Bak’s massacre war!’,

‘ Bear the Sacrifice? Ryu Myung-Hwan, cold-blood Lee Myung Bak regime’s minister of the Foreign Affair and Trade, says(All Together)', and ‘[Obama], discussion on the increment for the dispatch to Afghanistan
as you got the Nobel Peace prize? (All Together)'

Brown banners say ‘No, Re-Dispatch to Afghanistan!
(Anti War Peace Solidarity(tentative))'

‘Oppose death-calling war and dispatch’, ‘Obama, start peace talk with North Korea’,
‘Oppose people’s life–threatening dispatch to Afghanistan’, ‘No Korean troops to Afghanistan’,
‘Obama, enter the dialogue for the peace system in the Korean peninsula’
(Solidarity for Peace And Reunification of Korea)

The members of the Veterans for Peace, ROK, unified themselves with the peace green bests.

Dignitaries of the peace movements collect their voice.

The picket against the occupation of Afghanistan is shown together with the Yongsan banner that says,
‘ Lee Myung-Bak who committed the killing crack-down,
Lee Myung-Bak who committed the killing development,
do not ignore the Yongsan tragedy!

Stop the occupation of Afghanistan!
No re-dispatch of the South Korean soldiers to Afghanistan!
Oppose Lee Myung Bak's support of the massacre war!

'Oppose the South Korean re-dispatch to Afghanistan
-Korea who committed injustice against the human beings(Sharing Culture)'

* Poster source:
Solidarity for Anti- War and Peace (tentative title)
'Nov. 14, Peace Action Day'

* All Image source: No base stories of Korea (except for the poster source)

Solidarity for Anti- War and Peace (tentative title) that opposes: The war & occupation for the powerful countries’ domination: Support for the war and occupation by the South Korean government(Lee Myung Bak regime): And for peace in the Korean peninsula Pan-Korean Civil Society Organizations’ Council against the Re-Dispatch to Afghanistan, composed of 65 civil organizations including the progressive parties and Veterans for Peace, Korea had a rally of ‘Nov. 14, Peace Action Day’ at the Seoul Station Square at 4pm after the memorial event for the Yongsan tragedy whose struggle comes 300th day on Nov. 15, at 2pm, on Nov. 14, 2009. Despite the coldest weather this year, about 500 people kept the place.

The council will have a “Anti-War and Peace Candle Culture Event for the Stop of the Occupation in Afghanistan and against the Re-Dispatch of the South Korean Soldiers to Afghanistan” at 7:30pm on Nov. 18th. The press interview will be held at 11am, in front of the U.S. embassy on the same day. It would be the ‘Press interview by the Obama visit to Korea, for stop the occupation of Afghanistan, against the re-dispatch of the South Korean soldiers to Afghanistan and against the U.S.-S.K. war alliance’

The council told that there would be a protest in the center of city, if the agenda for the agreement with the re-dispatch to Afghanistan were submitted to the National Assembly.

The United Peace and Justice in the United States and the Stop the War Coalition(Stop the War Coalition) have sent the solidarity message, as well. (Summary translation of the article by Reporter, Park Hyun Bum. Tongil News on Nov. 14, 2009)


*For more photos by the The Solidarity for Anti-War and Peace'(* unofficial translation) on Oct. 31, 2009 , see here.


* Related article

-Below article informed from Corazon Valdez Fabros thru [AP-NoBases] group email.-

Obama Lays Out America’s Asia-Pacific Agenda
By Jim Garamone
American Forces Press Service, Nov. 14, 2009