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Pyeongtaek Farmers Struggle US Speaking Tour (Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York and Washington D.C) with Go You-Kyoung South Korean Solution Committee Against US Military Base Expansion in Pyeongtaek Please join us at the Pyeongtaek International Solidarity Night in Los Angeles Monday, July 17, 6:30pm Korean Education Foundation Auditorium 680 Wilshire Place, #205 Los Angeles, CA 90005 (2 block east of Vermont, between Wilshire BLVD & 7th St.) HYPERLINK "http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?formtype=address&addtohistory=&add ress=680%20Wilshire%20Pl&city=Los%20Angeles&state=CA&zipcode=90005%2d393 1&country=US&geodiff=1" \nClick here for MapQuest Direction * Go You-Kyoung will give a talk on the Pyeongtaek situation * A video footage of the struggle * Update: N. Korea Missile Crisis & Anti- U.S. FTA Protest in Seoul * Cultural performance & refreshments (Korean/English translation will be provided) Come and learn about the iron-fist determination of peaceful villagers, mostly elderly rice farmers in their 60s and 70s, who have waged four years of resistance against U.S. military base expansion to protect their land, community and way of life. About the Pyeongtaek Struggle: On May 4, 2006 the subservient S. Korean government sent in over 15,000 military/riot police to the villages of Pyeongtaek and brutally attacked these farmers. Over 500 local farmers and activists were injured and 524 were arrested (HYPERLINK "http://www.saveptfarmers.org/"; \nwww.saveptfarmers.org). In order to make Pyeongteak a U.S. forwarding station in East Asia, the servile South Korean government has forcibly evicted the farmers who have been living there for generations. Pyeongtaek is strategically located to contain or attack China. Under the post 9/11, new U.S. military plan for global dominance, the Korean Peninsula became a hostage to U.S. military aggression against other countries. The US¡¯s unilateral hegemonic policy threatens establishment of peace on the Korean Peninsula as well as the threat of war to the Korean peninsula. We call on all progressives to show their solidarity to Pyeogtaek farmers as a step towards development of a network of progressives in the U.S. Los Angeles Event Organized by Korean Americans for Peace (KAP) Korea Democratic Labor Party Support Committee, Korean Women for Peace, Korea Truth Commission-U.S., Korean American National Coordinating Council, Koreatown Immigrant Workers Alliance (KIWA), Minjok Tongshin, One Korean LA Forum, Pan Korean Alliance for Reunification/US Chapter Co-sponsor: Addicted to War, Alliance for Just and Peace in the Philippines-USA, ANSWER, Bolivarian Circle at Los Angeles, CodePink, Free Cuban 5, International Action Center, Labor/Community Strategy Center, Latino Movement U.S.A., Puerto Rican Alliance, South Central Farm Support Committee, The Organization Us and more. L.A. Contact: HYPERLINK "http://mail.yahoo.com/config/login?/ym/[EMAIL PROTECTED] om" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 213-386-9557 or 213-249-0836 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.9.10/386 - Release Date: 7/12/2006 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Yahoo! Groups gets a make over. See the new email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/XISQkA/lOaOAA/yQLSAA/7gSolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
