[Jeju Update: Aug. 27] Growing solidarity: Fr. Moon was released and appealed solidarity/ Return of Prof. Yang/ Peace Bus visited Gangjeong

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[URGENT PLEA: In Update] EMERGENCY in GANGJEONG Since AUG. 24, 2011 _________________________

Fr. Moon was released and appealed stronger nationwide concern with the struggle against Jeju naval base construction!!

Fr. Moon Jung-Hyun was released around 10pm, Aug. 26. He had been arrested on Aug. 25 when he tried to save the restrained three (Gangjeong village mayor, Kang Dong-Kyun, Mr. Kim Jong-Hwan, and Kim Dong-Won) by climbing up to the police car:

Via FACEBOOK (*Thanks Regina for info.):

'He announced to hold mass at 11 a.m. every day at the construction site where the 5 were violently arrested. This is today's mass, film edited by himself.'


Fr. Moon in the coast on Aug. 24, 2011
Photo resource: Gangjeong village people's council

Also see the below for his appealing speech for solidarity in Seoul on Aug. 27, 2011
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Return of Prof. Yang Yoon-Mo

Yang Yoon-Mo, movie critic, returned back to the Gangjeong village. He had been arrested under the charge of obstruction on the business and others when he attempted to block a molds-laid car to prevent naval base construction by laying down his body underneath it on April 9, this year. He was released on June 1 with 2 years’ probation and since then was in hospital to recover his health. His 76 days hunger strike including prison fast has brought enormous nationwide and international concern with & solidarity for the struggle against Jeju naval base construction. See the video here to watch his interview before arrest and his struggle & arrest on April 6. See also the video on others’ assessment of how the Seogwipo Police Station has violently and illegally arrested him HERE (Korean but helpful)


Photo by Dungree on Aug. 26, 2011


Prof. Yang was released on June 1, 2011. Mayor Kang Dong-Kyun and villager Kim Jong-Hwan, the two currently restrained helped him to walk. Yang had done near 70 days' prison fast. (Photo by Nocut News)
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Peace Bus visited Gangjeong

About 120 citizens of Ildo2-dong, Jeju City, carried in three buses visited the Gangjeong village amidst escalated tension since Aug. 24 when five people were arrested and three mentioned above were restrained. The 120 people expressed their solidarity with the Gangjeong villagers’ struggle saying that they wanted to spread the issues of wrongness of naval base construction in the Jeju Island.

There was some tension growing before their arrival in the village but the event went well and they remained the below beautiful banner.




People visiting Gangjeong village to express their solidarity with the village
* Photos by Kim Ho-Chun, Yonhap News
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Fr. Moon appeals solidarity in Seoul

There was people’s rally in front of Seoul Station to save Kim Jin-Sook and Hangin Heavy Industry workers in the evening of Seoul, on Aug 27 to 28. Kim Jin-Sook has held one-man protest on the top of a giant crane for more than 200days since the companies’ unjust lay-off of the 174 workers. About 5,000 people who gathered in Seoul also expressed their opposition against the Lee Myung-Bak government that is attempting to drive the nation toward the public security state. Fr. Moon Jung-Hyun came to the rally and delivered his speech to them appealing solidarity for the struggle against Jeju naval base construction. There were some citizens' signs for solidarity with the struggle against Jeju naval base construction.


* Photo source: Heo Jae-Hyun, Hankyoreh


Solidarity for Gangjeong, in Seoul, Aug. 27, 2011
Photo by Director Cho


Gangjeong's expression of solidarity to the Hanjin workers and Kim Jin-Sook
Photo resource: Gangjeong website(*original source: Yonhap News)


Fr. Moon's speech in Seoul, on Aug. 27, 2011(Korean)
Video by Dungree (Source: Gangjeong village people's council)
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Dolphins' solidarity?
Dolphins appeared in the Gangjeong coast in the morning of Aug. 27, 2011


Photo resource: Gangjeong village people's council


Photo resource: Gangjeong village people's council
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See also

From the Gangjeong village people's council
[Jeju Domin] Military bases, Do they ensure our safety?
by 안혜경 Ahn Haekyung /Art Space, C : translated by Imok Cha

* Original Korean language source: Jeju Domin Ilbo, Aug. 22, 2011제주 도민 일보, 2011년 8월 22일

...The 12th Jeju Women's Film Festival (September 22 to 25), in War and Women section, will show ' Living Along the Fenceline'.

Lina Hoshino, Gwyn Kirk and Deborah Lee, three female directors, documented seven courageous women living in Texas, Puerto Rico, the Philippines, Okinawa, Korea, Guam, and Hawaii. Through their testimony we see how U.S. bases are spread all over the world and their impact on lives of these women and their neighbors.

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These issues are specially important for Jeju.

A woman who lost her daughter to cancer, but she does not want to give this environment to her grand daughter. A woman who lost her uncle, aunt, and a cousin to cancer all within a year. The military culture that is pervasive in everyday lives of students in San Antonio, Texas. The sex industry hosting thousands of U.S. troops in the Philippines. The story of an Okinawan woman who was raped by US soldiers when she was a high school student. After listening to these women's stories one can not help but ask what is the security the military bases protect.

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(* Thanks, Regina, to upload this)