No Naval Base on Jeju!

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Pave Paradise, Put Up a Naval Base: South Korean Activists' Extraordinary Struggle to Save Jeju Island by Medea Benjamin
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/medea-benjamin/jeju-island_b_7469736.html

Gangjeong Village Story: Monthly Newsletter | May Issue

From Sung-Hee Choi on the No Naval Base on Jeju! Facebook Group [June 13]: Teenagers blocked the gate during the mass. On the day's daily mass, About 30 students from three different alternative schools blocked the gate where construction vehicles pass through.
I don't know all the things that happened during the mass since I arrived the gate at the end of it. However, when I arrived at the site, these courageous students were resisting to police measure of removing them off from the site, sitting on the road and clutching their arms together. Clear was the police look of embarrassment. Later I heard that the age of students from a school was 16 years old. The others, maybe similar to them or even younger.
According to a witness on the day, the police could barely let the trucks pass through the gate only one time during the mass, which was quite unusual. During the human chain time, we danced together while lots of trucks whose entering into the gate had been delayed could finally pass through it.
To be coincident, the day is remembered of the two girls- Shim Hyosoon and Kim Misun-who were killed by US armored vehicle near the Korean DMZ in 2002.
Overlapped are the faces of two girls over those of 30 students. The reason of this seems very clear: Why teenagers cannot but oppose to base?
(Photos by Choi Hye-Young, Korea Daily)

Ghosts of Jeju being shown at New Cross & Deptford Free Film Festival in Deptford, UK April 27th!
http://www.freefilmfestivals.org/whats-on/new-cross/details/407-the-ghosts-of-jeju.html

March 21st protest in front of the naval base gates.

Our resistance continues! People started picketing right in front of the construction site of the military housing. The gate has been open in the end since the protest site was removed.

Jeju activists coming to Maine.....

Gangjeong Sea was stolen by the navy for the naval base. Now even the navy is going to steal our land to build a military housing.
Gangjeong people will fight! However, just with our strength it might be insufficient. Please join us!

Our dear friends, Silver and Paco Booyah have just kicked off the tour for sharing Gangjeong struggle with american folks across the states. If you are in the area by the time when they are around, please join them!

At 5:50 am,two resisters are protesting on the crane demanding the police and the navy return the things that were forcibly taken away while the illegal crackdown was carried out.

It is at 5 am. It is literally and obviously illegal action by the state power. They even did not send any letter for notifying Gangjeong people in advance. They just came and attacked the people and the protest tent.

If You Don’t Give Up You Can’t Lose / Gureombi, The Wind is Blowing Film and Speech Tour 2015

Tacoma priest in wheelchair travels to South Korea to protest naval base

Read more here: http://www.thenewstribune.com/2014/11/28/3513776_tacoma-priest-in-wheelchair-travels.html?sp=/99/296/&rh=1#storylink=cpy

A new, beautifully written article by a recent Gangjeong visitor Mica Cloughley!
http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/2668098/jeju_koreas_island_of_peace_in_the_crosshairs_of_war.html

Fr. Mun Jeong-hyon is blocking the cement truck during the mass on the 3rd anniversary of Catholic Solidarity for the Peace Island Jeju.

Yesterday's mass outside the gates of Nevada's nuclear test site, main celebrant was Fr Steve Kelly, SJ. We remembered those praying in the gates of the naval base at Jeju.

A mass is being celebrated right now in Gangjeong to mark the 3rd year anniversary of the launch of Catholic solidarity for the realization of the Island of Peace, Jeju. A lot of priests and nuns from the mainland are attending the mass at the gate.

Gangjeong friends for the talk with US peace activist Michele Naar-Obed

Gangjeong flag at a march against construction of the US X-band radar base in Ukawa, Kyoto, Japan on September 28, 2014.
Korean delegates, including one from Gangjeoung, joined the march. Anti-base activists from Okinawa, Iwakuni, Kanagawa and ohter areas in Japan also joined it.