'저는 그들의 땅을 지키기 위하여 싸웠던 인디안들의 이야기를 기억합니다. 백인들이 그들의 신성한 숲에 도로를 만들기 위하여 나무들을 잘랐습니다. 매일밤 인디안들이 나가서 백인들이 만든 그 길을 해체하면 그 다음 날 백인들이 와서 도로를 다시 짓곤 했습니다. 한동안 그 것이 반복되었습니다. 그러던 어느날, 숲에서 가장 큰 나무가 백인들이 일할 동안 그들 머리 위로 떨어져 말과 마차들을 파괴하고 그들 중 몇몇을 죽였습니다. 그러자 백인들은 떠났고 결코 다시 오지 않았습니다….' (브루스 개그논)





For any updates on the struggle against the Jeju naval base, please go to savejejunow.org and facebook no naval base on Jeju. The facebook provides latest updates.

Friday, April 8, 2011

[Jeju Update: April 7] Yang’s hunger strike/ People prevented construction amidst radiation rain/ Island government removed workers' tent again

A snap photo by a man who visited Yang Yoon-Mo, a movie critic, in a confinement cell of the Dongboo police station in the Jeju city on April 7. Yang has been arrested on April 6 when he laid down his body under the truck to prevent the Jeju naval base construction. He started unlimited hunger strike since then. He showed his hand-writing through window to the visitors. The letters read: “I, Yang Yoon-Mo, movie critic, do an unlimited hunger strike at the risk of life, in demands of: 1. Stop of the naval base construction 2. Related to the intentional violence deed by the Seogwipo Police station police men on April 6, lay-off of the chief of the Seogwipo Police station 3. Punishment of the all the policemen who joined in the group violence [during arrest ]on April 6' Second day hunger strike [as of April 7, 2011] For more on his arrest, see:
http://nobasestorieskorea.blogspot.com/2011/04/petition-fwd-call-for-release-of.html
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Despite radiation rain, the attempt on the construction was continued but people prevented it all day on April 7. The navy chief of the Jeju naval base business was compelled to visit the site, to whom people protested regarding forceful and illegal construction. There is no proper construction information that should be posted in the gate of the construction site. Instead an information board beside it says it is for excavation research on cultural properties. What is the navy afraid if? It is ridiculous and infuriating.  All the image source: artist Kim in the village and the Frontiers. For more photos, see the below: 
http://gw-tf.org/xe/dome_cob/3910http://gw-tf.org/xe/dome_cob/3897http://gw-tf.org/xe/dome_cob/3888
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Despite radiation rain, workers sit-in tent in front of the Island government Hall was forcefully removed again on April 7. Workers have been meeting their 135th sit-in day as of April 7. It is the third time that their tent was removed after Feb. 21 and March 25. Three of them have been in hunger strike since April 6, 2011, the same day when another violent state power was wielded in the Gangjeong village where people are doing the struggle against the Jeju naval base construction. All the image source: Sisa Jeju and Headline Jeju
http://www.headlinejeju.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=112332
http://www.sisajeju.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=113394

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