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LAST DAYS’ REPORT
Last Friday, Feb 18 parts of KCTU decided to hold daily night rallies until Feb 22 on Yeouido, near the National Assembly (the S. Korean parliament) but unfortunately only less than 50 activists joined.
On Saturday, wow it was freezing cold, the activists who are trying to save the Cheonseong-san (Mountain) organized a culture festival in front of the new Seoul Station from where the KTX, the S. Korean version of a high speed train is driving to Pusan. The audience, mainly about 30 persons, even it was so cold, had a lot of fun, especially about the performances of Dopehead and Acomda.
After the event the activists, some came from Pusan, Masan, Iksan, went to the KCTU (Seoul Regional Council) and held there a kind of nationwide assembly to talk about the past activities and the future actions. Deep in the night the participants decided to continue the activities, because the pressure against the government must continue.
For yesterday KCTU (here you can see a impressive video about KCTU’s current problems) was calling for a central mass rally to demand improvements for the situation for irregular workers. In the early afternoon about 5000 unionized workers there are 8.000.000 irregular workers in S. Korea, and KCTU has around 800.000 members gathered in Daehak-no to held the rally. Just before the official beginning of the rally large units of the infamous riot cops arrived and wanted to drive the participants away from the main road, but because of the massive resistance the failed and gave up their plans.
About two hours after the beginning of this powerful rally the next rally demanding the abolishing of the National “Security” Law started on the same place.
After the rally a demonstration to downtown’s Gwanghwamun, where the final rally was planned, started. There thousands of riot cops were occupying the neighborhood, but no new incidents were happen and the day of protest ended peaceful.
Following just some impressions of the last three days by pictures.
LET’S FIGHT TOGETHER FOR A WORLD
WITHOUT EXPLOITATION AND OPPRESSION!
ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE, ONLY
IF YOU WANT AND FIGHT FOR IT!
착취와 억압이 없는 그날을 위해 투쟁
당신이 그걸 원하고 그것을 위해
투쟁한다면 다른 세상은 가능하다, ! 투쟁!
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comming sunday's rally 
