It is mostly about stories on the Korean people’s struggles against the U. S. bases in Korea. Hope many of you find some clues and sources here. Please just be kind and fair to the source.많은 분들께서 여기에서 단서들과 자료들을 찾길 바랍니다. 다만 단서와 자료의 기원에 대해 친절하고 공정하게 표기해 주시면 감사하겠읍니다.
'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)
Kim So-yeon, head of the Kiryung Electronics branch of the Korean Metal Workers‘ Union, sheds tears while talking about their fight against the management at the site of a sit-in demonstration in a Kiryung Electronics factory after an end to the 5-year struggle, Nov. 1. (Photo by Kim Myung-jin)
Hankyoreh Landmark labor-management compromise after 1,895-day strike : The agreement marks the first time a union has secured full-time positions for irregular workers after a protracted struggle Nov. 2, 2010 By Jeon Jong-hwi
Company and labor union alike said, “We have been down a long road.” The conflict that began in 2005 when the company unilaterally nullified the contracts of in-house subcontracted irregular female workers did not appear likely to end completely despite the fact that five years went by. Amid the strikes, disciplinary measures, lawsuits and complaints, sit-down strikes, lockouts, and hunger strikes, Kiryung Electronics became a symbol of the protracted struggle by irregular workers.
Finally, the company and union, each of which previously seemed to have the solitary goal of not being swayed by the other side, sat down at the table and brought an end to the five year, two month conflict.
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The agreement is highly significant, since the company agreed to directly hire the dismissed irregular workers into permanent positions, a first for a Korean workplace that has faced a protracted irregular workers’ battle.
Many in the labor sector are calling the agreement a victory for the union and expect it to have a positive impact on other workplaces facing long-term battles, including Donghee Auto.
The Kiryung women workers, after 6 years of hard struggle, finally made a breakthrough when Choi Dong Ryeol, the president of Kiryung electronic Co. responded to workers’ demand on negotiation. By the result, the last remaining 10 workers who have strongly kept their struggle despite all the hardships including three times hunger strike in which each of the two workers did 94 days and 74 days each in 2008, would be directly(not as dispatched workers) reinstated as regular workers within one and half year.
In the morning of Nov.1, 2010, the workers and the company staffs met in a restaurant in the hall of the National Assembly and signed the agreement together. It was such a great victory for the Kiryung workers who have lit the fire on the struggle against the irregular job systems for 6 years. Kiryung workers' struggle and victory teach us how a persistent struggle can make a history.
For reference, the Kiryung workers’ union in which the dispatch jobs were large composition, started the strike since 2005 demanding the conversion of irregular jobs to the regular jobs and improvement of labor condition. It is known that the direct cause of their strike began when the company laid off three contract workers with the pretext of product reduction.
However, while people are glad and inspired to hear the news of the Kiryung workers’ victory, many people here in Korea are shocked and sad to hear that another worker attempted self-immolation by putting fire on his body while he was resisting against police arrest on Oct, 30, 2010. He is critical now and lying in a hospital.
A chairman of the metal workers’ trade union branch, in the city of Goomee , Gyungbook province, who had been in 9th day strike with his colleagues, in the factory of KEC, a semi-conductor company was chased by police as soon as he finished talks with the company staffs on Oct. 29. The workers are furious because they think the company intentionally called the police to arrest their strike leader.
Last moth, another construction worker self-immolated during the struggle, too. How the desperate workers’ situation have pushed them to death…. In a capitalism society like Korea where colonialism and division have been the roots of all the evil, one of the most suffering class are the workers whose cry can only reach to people by their death…
Abolishment of irregular jobs! Secure the regular jobs! Two Kiryung workers,Yoon Jong-Hee, Oh Suk-Soon's 17th day Hunger strike, as of Oct. 29, 2010
Kim Hyung-Woo, Vice Chairman of Metal Trade Union, 8thday solidarity hunger strike
Kim So-Yeon, leader of the Kiryung workers’ strike 15thday Sit-in on the folk lift truck
Kim Jong-Min, Chairman of the Democratic Labor Party, Seoul branch 3rd day hunger strike
In place of Song Kyung-Dong, the poet who was wounded on Oct. 26 and got an operation on Oct. 29, Kim Hyung-Woo, Vice Chairman of Metal Trade Union (left in the photo) has been filling Song’s place on the top of the fork lift truck since Oct. 26, along with Kim So-Yeon.
26일 오후 4시경 기륭전자 구사옥 앞 굴착기 위에서 고공 농성을 벌이던 송경동 시인이 한 택배기사와 실랑이를 벌이던 중 운전석 위에서 실족해 2m 아래 바닥으로 떨어졌다.
Around 4pm, Oct. 26, the poet Song Kyung-Dong who were doing the sit-in on the top of the forklift truck with Kim So-Yeon, leader of the Kiryung workers in the old Kiryung company site since Oct. 15, fell down from the 2m height to ground, while he was being bothered by a home-delivery service company driver. Song missed his footstep on the height of the driver seat. One of his ankle bones was destroyed and he is now in a hospital.
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송경동 시인은 지난 15일 굴착기가 농성장에 들이닥친 후부터 전깃줄 하나에 매달린 채 고공 농성을 벌였다. 송경동 시인이 실족한 날은 기륭전자 파업 1836일 째 되는 날이었다. 송경동 시인은 현재 녹색병원에서 치료를 받고 있다.
Poet Song Kyung-Dong has been doing the sit-in on the top pf the truck hanging only on an electric cord since Oct. 15 when the company and police raided the Kiryung workers’ site with the truck to demolish the workers’ vigil site. The workers seized the truck and doing the protest around it. The day, Oct. 26 was the 1,836th day since the Kiryung electronic workers began the strike.About 6years have passed with no sincere negotiation posture from the company president [출처] [오마이뉴스]송경동 시인, 고공농성 중 2m 아래로 떨어져 (기륭전자분회)
비 정규직철폐투쟁을 6년째 진행중인 기륭전자 김소연 분회장이 송경동 시인과 함께 서울 가산동 옛 기륭전자 사옥터 앞에서 포크레인 위에 올라 철야농성을 펼친 지 12일째(26일)다. 경찰진압이 임박했다는 소식이 들려오는 가운데 두 사람이 26일 열린 ‘기륭투쟁을 지지하는 문화예술인들의 기자회견’을 포크레인 위에서 바라보고 있다.
The above photo was taken on Oct. 26, the 12th day of the sit-in, before the poet Song fell to the ground. Amidst the news that the police would soon raid the Kiryung workers’ site again, the two were looking down on the top of the fork lift truck, the press interview of the artists who were supporting the Kiryung struggle.
▲ 다시 단식을 시작한 기륭전자분회 윤종희, 오석순 조합원. 2006년 30일, 2008년 94일에 이어 13일째다. 이번에도 정해놓은 기간은 없다. ⓒ프레시안(최형락)
▲ Image source: Choi Hyung-Rak, Pressian Two workers of Yoon Jong-Hee, Oh Suk-Soon have been doing the 13th day hunger strike with no defined term, on the date of Oct. 26, 2010. The Kiryung workers have done the 30 days hunger strike in 2006, 94 days hunger strike in 2008. The Korean activists are relaying hunger strike in support of the Kiryung workers while the vice chairman of the metal trade union workers have been doing the hunger strike as a solidarity with Kiryung workers since Oct. 22, 2010.
* The video was made after Song's fall. Citing the Bible phrase, the video maker asks about the meaning of tear and describes the sadness of Song's wife and workers for Song's wound.
'조직된 단위가 먼저 싸우지 않으면 투쟁이 만들어지지 않는다. 최소한 조직된 우리부터 싸워야 하는데, 그것부터 되지 않고 있다. 패배의식,경험주의가 너무 많이 깔려 있다. 끝까지 해봐야 뭔가가 나온다고 본다. 싸우다 깨지면 복원할 수 있는데, 싸우지 않고 깨지면 복원도 안된다.
'If an organized unit doesn’t fight in front, a struggle cannot be made. Even though at least the organized people of us should fight first, itself is not being done. There are too many failure consciousness and experimentalism underneath a struggle. Only by a persistent struggle, something will come out. You can restore a struggle if you fight and get the crackdown on you, but not if you don’t fight and get it on you.
그리고 탄압에 대한 공포에 너무 질려 있는데, 이러한 상황이 오래는 가지 않을 거라는 희망이 있다. 자꾸 밟히고만 있는 것 같지만, 거기서 새로운 투쟁이 분출될 것이다. 비정규 노동자들이 많이 극한으로 내몰리는데, 이런 상황에서 현재의 운동에 대한 각성도 일어날 것으로 본다.탄압 때문에 포기했다면 지금의 역사가 만들어지지 않았을 것이다.'
Even though many of us are overwhelmed by the horror of oppression, I have a hope that it would not last long. Even though it seems that we get crackdown so often, a new struggle will erupt from there. In the current situation when the irregular workers have been much pushed to the extreme, I see that an awareness about the current movement will rise up among the people. If we had given up the struggle for oppression, the current history could not be made.'
As of Oct. 22, it has already been eighth day that Kim So-Yeon (40), the leader of the Kiryung woman workers and Song Kyung-Dong(43), a poet have done the sit-in on the top of the forklift truck that the workers have seized from the police who tried to destroy the sit-in site of the workers’ on Oct. 15, 2010.
The two haven’t come down to the ground except for the time for toilet. They sleep on a small temporary tent that was installed on the top of the truck. They don’t eat enough because the two are afraid of the frequent time for toilet. You can hardly read any books there because being on such height for most of day with no protection equipment is itself a real challenge so you have to be really careful all the time not to be fallen to the ground.
But they have been there, under the hot sunshine on Oct. 22, demonstrating their nobleness of the conviction on the victory of the persistent struggle that has been extreme for six years.
As of Oct. 22, 2010, two female workers, Yoon Jong-Hee (40) and Oh Suk-Soon (43) met the 10th day hunger strike. They were doing that on the top of the former security booth beside the old site of the Kiryung company that demolished its own factory buildings there and moved to a new building, disguising their relocation of assets. In Korea, the custom of the hunger strike is you can drink only water and bits of salt, no more than that.
The banner says:
Abolish the irregular jobs! Pan-Korean metal union workers’ resolution rally for the victory of the Kiryung struggle. Its vice-chairman (a speaker in the above photo) entered the solidarity hunger strike on Oct. 22, 2010
‘Stressed,’ a fragile worker with a red jacket (in the right of the above photo) cannot hide her tiredness of long-term struggle. She has done 74 days hunger strike in 2008. Some workers have left the struggle that has been through for six years with some media attention but without a result yet. About 10 to 24 woman workers have kept the struggle despite all the hardships.
A symbolic ritual to abolish the irregular jobs
Some solidarity banners are put beside a sit-in workers & activists' tent, including from the union workers of HomePlus who are also struggling against the labor union oppression.
A balloon was flown to the sky for the Oct. 22 rally. It says: Stop the human sale! Abolish the vicious [labor] dispatch law!! Settle the issue of Kiryung! Choi Dong-Ryeol (* name of the current Kiryung company president), enter [for a negotiation with workers]!!
A sculptor's work for the Kiryung workers. It stands against a wall of the security booth on the top of which two female workers have done the hunger strike for 10 days as of Oct. 22, 2010. The letters of, "We want to work," are inscribed in the sculpture.
An artist made the paper flowers and put them on the sides of the forklift car on the top of which a worker and a poet have done the sit-in protest for eight days as of Oct. 22, 2010.
Artists' gifts to the workers- installations around the lone forklift truck- are their expression of homage for the nobleness of the Kiryung workers' struggle.
포크레인 위에 올라가 사흘째 생활 중인 김소연 분회장과 송경동 시인 Kim So-Yeon, leader of the Kiryung woman workers and Song Kyung-Dong, a poet who has supported the Kiryung workers' struggle spent the forth day on the top of the forklift truck, as of Oct. 18, 2010.
The banner says: Do not push any more the Kiryung woman workers into the way of death! New Progressive Party, labor and civic organizations’ press interview to urge the sincere negotiation and prompt settlement by the Kiryung capital Oct. 18, 2010
As of Oct. 17, Kiryung Electronic union leader, Kim So-Yeon and poet, Song Kyung-Dong are going through the 3rd night on the top of a forklift truck with which police tried to demolish the workers’ vigil site on Oct. 15. On the day of police raid, the workers and activists seized the truck, covered it with their struggle slogans such as, “Workers are human beings, too,” “We are not disposable,” “ Negotiate right now, “Reinstate us immediately,” and “Abolish the irregular jobs.”
Currently, the irregular workers occupy more than 60% of the whole work force in South Korea as the capitalism has changed its face with a neo-liberalism.
The each of the two sleeps on the top of truck in the night, in separate sleeping bags, demonstrating their will to strongly fight against another possible police raid. The two are determined to risk arrest, people say.
The width of the top they are sitting is about 60cm that is about 24inch. ____________________________________________________
* Copy right: Jung Hye-Kyu, Voice of People, Oct. 16, 2010(click) * 정혜규, 민중의 소리, 2010년 10월 16일 (클릭) 16일 경찰병력이 기륭전자 비정규직 노동자들이 농성을 벌이는 포클레인을 철거하려하자 포클레인 위에서 농성하던 송경동 시인이 전기줄에 의지한채 "경찰이 물러서지 않으면 바닥으로 떨어지겠다"고 농성을 벌였다.ⓒ 민중의소리 A poet, Song Kyung-Dong who has supported the Kiryung woman workers' struggle is resisting against police, on the top of a forklift truck, only relying on a electric cord on Oct. 16, 2010.
경찰병력 철수를 요구하며 전깃줄에 의지한채 포클레인 위에 서 있는 송경동 시인ⓒ 민중의소리 Kim So-Yeon, leader of the struggle is trying to protect Song from his falling down to a ground. _______________________________________________________
Leader, Kim So-Yeon(40) who has conducted 94days hunger strike against the company's unjust lay off of workers in 2008.
Leader, Kim So-Yeon(40) demonstrated her will to fight to the end lying herself underneath a fork lane.
The 3rd day's hunger strike as of Oct. 15, 2010. Abolish the irregular jobs! Secure the regular jobs! Victory to Kiryung struggle!
Workers and activists gathered into the Kiryung workers' tent vigil site to support them.
It was just an accident that this site manager happened to meet again the Kiryung women workers including their leader, Kim So-Yeon, who were doing one-man protests in front of the Duksoo Palace, in the center of Seoul, in the morning of Aug. 2. Despite rain and hard struggle, the workers smiled brightly. For six years, the Kiryung workers' struggle has been the symbol of the irregular workers' struggle in South Korea where about 60 % are irregular workers. You can see the background and issue of their struggle in the heartbreaking video forwarded as in the below. It is a wonderful video that greatly makes visible the courageous lives and struggle of the young woman workers- if not, hardly visible in the brutal South Korea Society. Click the images for larger view.
Kim So-Yeon, leader of the Kiryung Electronic union workers has been a respected staunch activist. Her recording 90 day hunger strike in 2008 has gotten attention on the situation of the Korean irregular workers from Korea and abroad, such as in the City of New York where the Kiryung workers went for protest against the US Satellite company Sirius to whom the company Kiryung had gotten the subcontract.
To see her again in front of the Duksoo palace was both glad and sad. The palace was the last residential place of the King Gojing of the Chosun dynasty (* Chosun was the name of Korea until 1897) King Gojong suffered from and struggled against the annexation of Chosun to Japan without success during the Japanese imperialism. Even though Korea was liberated from Japan 65 years ago, the workers' lives have been same-the exploited under the capitalism. And with the issues unsolved yet, she is still struggling. The history of Korean woman workers are both of pride and sadness.
The worker in the left side has done hunger strike with Kim So-Yeon for 72days. When I saw her lying in a hospital bed, after falling down from the 72days hunger strike two years ago, I could not but tear. She was very small and fragile. It was she who rather consoled me. How strong she was and is still in spirit! ________________________________________________________________
*The below is a wonderful English subtitled video (three part series) on the Kiryung workers' tenacious and heartbreaking struggle for years, that has not ended yet. The director is C.S. Kim
'A recent trade union fact-finding mission on workers' rights violations in Korea expressed deep concerns over the treatment of the workers belonging to the Kiryung Electronics Workers Union Local of the KMWU. The Korean company, which manufactures satellite broadcast receivers, digital satellite radios and global positioning systems for automobiles and other uses, supplies equipment that is installed in many vehicle models of major automakers offering Sirius satellite radio.'
We are not disposable! Kiryung union struggle in Korea (Part I) (Video URL)
We are not disposable! Kiryung union struggle in Korea (Part II) (Video URL)
We are not disposable! Kiryung union struggle in Korea (Part III) (Video URL)
The site is managed by an artist living in the South Korea. The photo in the profile is the children in Osan, near the Pyeongtaek where the planned US military base hub in the north east Asia and a large US air base exists. They are the children of a teacher who manages the Children Peace School there. As a part of the class programs, the children in the class drew and wrote in a cloth, their wishes of the peaceful unification of Korea some day.
[URGENT PLEA: In Update] EMERGENCY in GANGJEONG Since AUG. 24, 2011
엎데이트 모음: 강정 긴급, 8월 24일 이후
2011 Keep Space for Peace Week
2011 우주 평화주
Winter 2011 News letter of Global Network against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space
2011년 겨울 우주의 무기와 핵을 반대하는 글로벌 넷워크
Save Takae!: ARMY HELICOPTERS ON OKINAWA DRIVING PEOPLE CRAZY
Update on Jan. 15 with texts & images onTokyo action on Jan. 10 / 1월 15일 오키나와를 위한 1월 10일 토쿄 행동 업데이트 / 국문 번역: 오키나와 타카에 헬기장반대: 오키나와 타카에의 미군 헬리콥터, 사람들을 위협함
[Solidarity from Japan for the Jeju] 253 individuals and 16 groups/organizations
Upload on Jan. 1, 2011 (엎로드: 2011년 1월 1일) 일본으로부터 제주 긴급 연대 서명: 253 개인과 16 단체
From Japan: Urgent request for action: Japan is to lift the ban on weapons export (by Dec. 10)
Update on Dec. 12( 12월 12일 엎데이트)/ [일본으로부터:국문 번역] 긴급 행동 요청: 일본이 무기 수출을 금지하는 조항을 해제하는 것을 막는 행동 부탁 (12 월 10일까지)
[Translation] Korean organizations' statement: Immediately cancel the joint ROK-US drill Nov 26
Updated on Dec. 3 with Fact Sheets 서해 위기 사실 영문 자료 다운로드 (12월 3일 엎데이트) [번역]한국 단체들의 행항모 동원 한미 연습 반대 성명서 11/26/10
HOT! [Hankyoreh Hani TV] Beneath the Surface: the investigation into the sinking of the Cheonan
天安艦事件調査の矛盾を暴く ハンギョレ系ＴＶ [심층리포트] 천안함 사건 5대 미스터리: Update on Nov. 18: Korean, English, Japanese scripts available! 엎데이트 11월 18일자: 한국어, 영어, 일어 스크립 참조 가능!
Korean Domestic: No Jeju naval base_Relay one-man protest
Sponsored by the Pan-Island Committee against Military Base: Nov. 18 to Dec. 10/ 제주 군사 기지 범대위: 11월 18일~12월 10일
No to NATO activities, Lisbon, Portugal, Nov. 19 to 21, 2010
나토 반대 공동 행동, 포루투칼 리스본, 11월 19일~21일
International petition: Stop War on Iran
Stop War on Iran before it starts 이란에 대한 전쟁 음모 반대 국제 서명 운동
[Translation]Statement against illegal inspection and unjust lay-off by the Kunsan USAFK!(Nov_2010)
[성명서 번역]군산 미공군의 불법사찰, 부당해고를 강력히 규탄한다! (2010년11월 10일)
[Translation] Korean organizations' statement against dispatching special force to the UAE on Nov.
[번역] 반전 평화 연대의 11월 9일 아랍 에미레이트 (UAE) 특전사 파병안 규탄 성명서
[Translation] Stop, Joining MD!: South Korean activists' statement and writing on Oct. 25, 2010
[번역] 한국의 MD 참여 중단! 한국 활동가들 2010년 10월 25일 성명서 및 글
[In Update] People First, NO G-20 (Nov. 6 to 12, Korea)
Update on Nov. 12: No G-20 Joint action reports 엎데이트 11월 12일: G-20 반대 공동 행동
[International Petition] Stop US helipad plan in Okinawa to save great nature
[국제 서명 포워드] 훌륭한 자연을 보호하기 위해 오끼나와 미국 비행장 설치를 중단하라!
Protest against the Minuteman III high speed solid fuel ICBM, Vandenberg, Sep. 17, 2010
Update on Sept. 26; 9월 26일 엎데이트: Minotaur IV Rocket goes up Sept 25, with Space Surveillance satellite 미노타르 IV 로켓, 우주 정찰 위성을 싣고 9 월 25일 발사
[Global Network] against the first launch of Quasi-Zenith Satellite, Japan, on Sept. 11, 2010
[국문 번역] [글로벌 넷워크 성명서] 일본의 준 천정 위성 첫번째 발사(2010년 9월 11일) 반대
Fwd: U.S. BASE SAVED FROM PAKISTAN FLOOD BUT NOT THE PEOPLE -A Statement by the AHRC
Update on Oct. 15, 2010 엎데이트, 2010년 10월 15일: [국문 번역]미군 기지는 홍수로부터 구해졌으나 파키스탄 사람들은 아님- 아시아 인권 위원회 성명
[In update] Some collections on the Koreans’ protests against the sanction & war on Iran
Updated on Nov. 9 엎데이트 11월 9일 [엎데이트 중]이란 제재와전쟁 공격에 반대하는 한국인들의 시위기록 모음
[Three International Petitions] to End the Korean war and peace treaty(or peace resolution)
한국 전쟁 종식과 평화 협정(또는 평화 결의안) 실현을 위한 [세 개의 국제 서명]
The problamaic issue of 2nd Runway Construction in the Osan U.S. AFB, Pyeongtaek
Update on Nov.1: realted article 평택 오산 미 공군 기지 제 2의 활주로 건설 문제 이슈 증가중: 엎데이트, 11월 1일 관련 기사
Fwd: A Banner for the Solidarity bet. the VfP in Corea & U.S.
[From the 25th Veterans for Peace Convention, U. S.] including Korean War workshop and No Gun Ri movie [미 평군 25 주년 회담] 한미 평화 재향 군인회 연대를 위한 배너; 한국 전쟁 워크샵과 노근리 영화 상영 포함
Campaign from Japan: Stop Muji from expanding into Israel!
[일본으로부터 캠페인]무인양품의 이스라엘 진출을 중단시키자!
[Collection of Documents] No Base Learning and Solidarity Program_Korea(June 14 to 20, 2010)
[문헌 모음] 기지 반대_배움과 연대 프로그램_한국 방문 (2010년 6월 14일~20일)
Site Fwd:[John Hines] A U.S. Debate coach’s research trip on the Issues of Korea
A U.S. Debate coach’s research trip on the Issues of struggles against the USFK bases & Unification in Korea, Aug. 4 to 8, 2010 [사이트 포워드][존 하인즈] 미국 고등학교 토론 코치의 주한 미군 기지에 반대하는 투쟁들 및 코리아의 통일 이슈들에 관한 연구 여행 2010년 8월 4일 부터 8일.
Gangjeong Mayor's Solidarity Message to Okinawa and the world
강정 마을 강동균 회장님의 오키나와와 세계인에 대한 연대 메시지
Solidarity Messages With Jeju from Tokyo and Okinawa
[국문 번역]도쿄와 오키나와에서 제주에 보내는 연대 메시지
[News Update] Struggle Against the Jeju Naval Base since Jan. 18, 2010
The records of the struggle and international response 2010년 1월 18일, 강정 마을 급습과 항의 시위 및 국제 반응 기록
Koreans’ Domestic Campaign: No War with the evil-spell of Cheonan! (by Lee J. H., Congress Woman)
이정희 의원 주최 전쟁 반대 긴급서명 캠페인: 많은 한국인의 청원을 바랍니다.
Korean Scholars launch the Website on the Truth of Cheonan
한국 학자들, 천안함의 진실에 관한웹사이트 만듦
[Urgent] Please spread the Letter!: There was no Explosion! There was no Torpedo! (May 26, 2010)
신상철 조사위원의 힐러리 클린턴에게 보내는 긴급 편지: 폭팔이나 어뢰가 아닙니다. 먼저 좌초되었읍니다! (2010년 5월 26일)
Text Fwd: [Stephen Gowans]The sinking of the Cheonan: Another Gulf of Tonkin incident
스테펜 고완스: 천안: 또 하나의 통킹만 사건
[Japan Focus]Politics in Command: The "International" Investigation into the Sinking of the Cheonan
[재팬 포커스] 명령의 정치: 천안함 침몰에 대한 "국제" 조사 와 새 한국 전쟁의 위험
[Japan Focus] Who Sank the SK Warship Cheonan? A New Stage in the US-Korean War and US-China
한국판 9/11? 누가 천안함을 쓰러뜨렸는가?
[Updated on 12/13/10] [Translation Project] Overseas Proofs on the Damages by the Military Bases
[12/13/10 엎데이트] 국문 번역 프로젝트: 군사 기지들에 의한 환경 피해와 경제 감퇴 해외 증거들
[International Petition] Close the Bases in Okinawa
[국문 번역] 오키나와 기지 폐쇄 국제 서명
International Petition: Calling on Samsung to Accept Responsibility for Occupational Deaths
국제 청원: 삼성은 노동자들의 산재 사망을 인정하라!
[In Update]Blog Collection: No Korean Troops in Afghanistan
Continuously Updated 아프가니스타 파병 반대 블로그 모음. 계속 엎데이트 중
View from Sweden: South Korea, “The most Dangerous Country in the World”
Torbjörn Björkman, a Sweden journalist who visited South Korea from Dec. 1 to 7, 2009 and met the Korean organizers reports about his interview with them. 2009년 12월 1일~7일 까지 한국 활동가들을 만난 스웨덴 언론인, 토르비요른 비요르크맨이 그들과의 인터뷰를 기사화
Protest Call: Indict John Yoo, A War Criminal
시위_이라크 전쟁 범죄자 존 유를 고소하자, 2010년 3월 19일
Protest Appeal: No PAC 3 in Kurume City, Fukuoka, Japan
[국문 번역]일본 후쿠오카현 구루메 시 PAC3 배치에 반대하는 항의 호소문
Petition: GUAM NEEDS MORE TIME!!
Petition: GUAM NEEDS MORE TIME!! Petition & Comment Requests from Indigenous Chamoru & Residents of Guam 1만 1천 페이지를 90일간 보라구? 구암을 구합시다.
News and Articles: The World Does Not Need Missile Defense and Star Wars
뉴스와 기사들: 세계는 미사일 방어망과 우주 전쟁을 원하지 않는다.
No Korean Troops in Afghanistan again
Koreans' domestic campaign against the re-dispatch to Afghanistan 아프가니스탄 파병 반대 한국인 서명 운동
* Image & caption source: same as the link
* Image source: Voice of People, Nov. 1, 2010
* Image source: Kim Do-Yeon, NewsCham, Nov. 1, 2010 
Abolishment of irregular jobs! Secure the regular jobs!
Kim Hyung-Woo, Vice Chairman of Metal Trade Union, 
In place of Song Kyung-Dong, the poet who was wounded on Oct. 26 and got an operation on Oct. 29, Kim Hyung-Woo, Vice Chairman of Metal Trade Union (left in the photo) has been filling Song’s place on the top of the fork lift truck since Oct. 26, along with Kim So-Yeon.
* Image source: Kiryung workers' website
The two haven’t come down to the ground except for the time for toilet. They sleep on a small temporary tent that was installed on the top of the truck. They don’t eat enough because the two are afraid of the frequent time for toilet. You can hardly read any books there because being on such height for most of day with no protection equipment is itself a real challenge so you have to be really careful all the time not to be fallen to the ground. 
As of Oct. 22, 2010, two female workers, Yoon Jong-Hee (40) and Oh Suk-Soon (43) met the 10th day hunger strike. They were doing that on the top of the former security booth beside the old site of the Kiryung company that demolished its own factory buildings there and moved to a new building,
The banner says:
‘Stressed,’ a fragile worker with a red jacket (in the right of the above photo) cannot hide her tiredness of long-term struggle. She has done 74 days hunger strike in 2008. Some workers have left the struggle that has been through for six years with some media attention but without a result yet. About 10 to 24 woman workers have kept the struggle despite all the hardships. 
A symbolic ritual to abolish the irregular jobs
Some solidarity banners are put beside a sit-in workers & activists' tent, including from the union workers of HomePlus who are also struggling against the labor union oppression. 
A balloon was flown to the sky for the Oct. 22 rally.
A sculptor's work for the Kiryung workers. 
An artist made the paper flowers and put them on the sides of the forklift car 
Artists' gifts to the workers- installations around the lone forklift truck-
Click the image for larger view
The banner says: 
* Image source:
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* Copy right: Jung Hye-Kyu, Voice of People, Oct. 16, 2010(click) 
경찰병력 철수를 요구하며 전깃줄에 의지한채 포클레인 위에 서 있는 송경동 시인ⓒ 민중의소리
Leader, Kim So-Yeon(40) who has conducted 94days hunger strike
Leader, Kim So-Yeon(40) demonstrated her will to fight to the end lying herself underneath a fork lane. 
The 3rd day's hunger strike as of Oct. 15, 2010.
Workers and activists gathered into the Kiryung workers' tent vigil site to support them.
Kim So-Yeon, leader of the Kiryung Electronic union workers has been a respected staunch activist. Her recording 90 day hunger strike in 2008 has gotten attention on the situation of the Korean irregular workers from Korea and abroad, such as in the City of New York where the Kiryung workers went for protest against the US Satellite company Sirius to whom the company Kiryung had gotten the subcontract.
To see her again in front of the Duksoo palace was both glad and sad. The palace was the last residential place of the King Gojing of the Chosun dynasty (* Chosun was the name of Korea until 1897) King Gojong suffered from and struggled against the annexation of Chosun to Japan without success during the Japanese imperialism. Even though Korea was liberated from Japan 65 years ago, the workers' lives have been same-the exploited under the capitalism. And with the issues unsolved yet, she is still struggling. The history of Korean woman workers are both of pride and sadness.
The worker in the left side has done hunger strike with Kim So-Yeon for 72days. When I saw her lying in a hospital bed, after falling down from the 72days hunger strike two years ago, I could not but tear. She was very small and fragile. It was she who rather consoled me. How strong she was and is still in spirit!
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