Organizing Notes

Bruce Gagnon is coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space. He offers his own reflections on organizing and the state of America's declining empire....

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The collapsing US military & economic empire is making Washington & NATO even more dangerous. US could not beat the Taliban but thinks it can take on China-Russia-Iran...a sign of psychopathology for sure. We must all do more to help stop this western corporate arrogance that puts the future generations lives in despair. @BruceKGagnon

Monday, June 13, 2011

YOUR HELP NEEDED ONCE MORE

The banner reads: Keep Gangjeong, Keep Peace

Mr. Ko, chair of the Committee to Stop the Naval Base, in Gangjeong village on Jeju Island, South Korea. This machine is the one that lifts the huge cement tetrapods into the ocean to widen the piers to dock U.S. warships. This is what they must do every day in one way or another to stop the Navy base construction.


Call South Korean Embassy - No Navy Base on Jeju Island

The latest word from Jeju Island is that Professor Yang has resumed his hunger strike and has left the hospital in Jeju City and has been taken to a Buddhist monastery. Sung-Hee Choi is still in jail (waiting for her trial to resume on June 22) and she is hunger striking again in solidarity with Professor Yang.

We ask you now to please make another round of phone calls to South Korean embassies in your country. This time Mr. Ko (in the photo above) asks that you give feedback to the village on the response you get when you call. Even if they refuse to talk with you please pass that information to me at globalnet@mindspring.com and I will send it to MacGregor Eddy who is now in Gangjeong village and she will give it to Mr. Ko.

We ask that you tell the South Korean embassy that you want them to stop building the Navy base because it is leading to the destruction of the soft coral reefs offshore and will destroy the farming and fishing village of Gangjeong. The Navy base, which will be a port of call for U.S. Navy destroyers and other warships, will become a lightening rod for conflict with China.

In the U.S. you can call the South Korean Embassy in Washington DC at 202-939-5600 and/or you can call the South Korean office at the United Nations in New York City at 212-439-4000.

Thanks very much for your effort. I am certain the villagers will be encouraged to know you have made the call.

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