Video and Text Fwd: No G20!; G-20: Take Action on Financial Transaction Taxes 비디오와 텍스트: G20 반대!

A parody video: No G 20! G 20 풍자 비디오
(* A summary translation of the video is underneath the video)

* Video source: Korean Alliance of Progressive Movements, Nov. 3, 2010
한국 진보 연대, 2010년 10월 3일



The video says:

The G20 was created to settle the economic depression that was caused from the crisis of sub prime in the City of New York, United States in 2008. But why do 20 countries gather from all the 237 countries?

What does ‘G’ mean? Its pronunciation is similar to a Korean word ‘쥐 gui that means mouse. (*The President Lee Myung Bak is called as 쥐 gui by his opponents here in Korea, along with his other nick name, 2MB which means 2 Mega Bite. The pronunciation of his last name, Lee is similar to that of number 2, in Korean. The ROK government has recently accused a man for his satire of President Lee Myung Bak as gui . The above video reminds such ridiculous situation in Korea.)

The ‘G’ can be also interpreted as ‘gamble,’ money game. The video satires the situation in which 20 countries exclude the 7billlion of the whole population in the world, while a 2m height & 1.6 kilometer length fortress would be built around the conference site along with all the mobilized police and military in Seoul.

The cost for the G20 conference is 130 billion won [* about $ 126 million]. Where the money does come from? Koreans’ tax! Homeless, migrant workers, street vendors and homely people should be careful during such so-called G20! Boy…

Only by the will of all the 7billion people in this globe, the genuine G can be achieved.
When the G20 countries would gamble with money, why shouldn’t we, ordinary people play with small sum of money in the palms of our hands? The video ends with that satire.

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* Informed at the Just Foreign Policy News, Nov. 4, 2010

G-20: Take Action on Financial Transaction Taxes (PDF file download)
183 civil society organizations from 42 countries collectively representing over 200 million people urge G-20 leaders to make concrete progress towards the introduction of an internationally coordinated financial transactions tax (FTT) at the upcoming summit in Seoul.
http://bit.ly/99zjfD

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* Related blog

Monday, September 20, 2010
Text Fwd: Put People First!: Launch of the “People’s Response Action against the G-20” on Sept. 15
9월 15일 G20대응민중행동’ 출범