(English translation is thanks to People’s Solidarity for Participatory Democracy) Let’s Walk Together Again! 2015 Gangjeong Grand March for Life and Peace! A Cultural Event to commemorate 3,000 days of struggle against Jeju Naval Base! The Grand March starts from Jeju City Hall on 27 July. The group will be divided into two groups, one marches towards east coast of Jeju […]

Re-blogged from here and here South Korea constructs new Naval Base on Jeju Island, U.S. Plans to Expand Military Base on Okinawa and China Builds on South China Sea Atolls By Ann Wright The international community is extraordinarily concerned about the Chinese construction on small islands and atolls in disputed waters off China, Vietnam, Taiwan and Japan.  Over the past […]

  In this May Edition: Women Cross DMZ delegates visit Gangjeong, Two ancestor-memorial sites against base, Jeju  dolphins returned home, Peace March in Okinawa, Scenes of  daily  protests in  front of base, Forum on the anti-military draft,  interview with a peace activist, trial update, 2nd anniversary of the Book village,  A poem by David, and In Remembrance of Nepal Eathquakes etc.   Download PDF   […]

Re-blogged from here. Other posts related to the WCD women’s visit to the village will be put into this website in time.  Pave Paradise, Put Up a Naval Base: South Korean Activists’ Extraordinary Struggle to Save Jeju Island By Medea Benjamin, May 29, 2015 South Korea’s Jeju Island is a popular tourist destination full of spas, resorts, golf courses, sandy […]

In this April Edition: The Shifting Laws of Causality: Connecting Gangjeong, April 3rd, and Sewol Tragedy, Gangjeong Solidarity with Sewol struggle,  Gangjeong  US tour, Korean Screenings of ‘Jeju’s Aching Heart,’ Gangjeong Easter Week report, Interview with a villager, Sail on the Sea of Peace and much more!, Free Dungree and much more! Download PDF

In this March Edition: Gureombi Remembrance Day, Permanent War, “Gureombi, The Wind is Blowing” travels the world, Women Crossing the DMZ Borders, Protecting Democracy or an Occupying Army? Choosing Arrest Rather than Paying Fines, Human Rights: Forever a Fugitive, Crosscurrents, Interview with Gangjeong Women’s Association leader Jeong Young-sim, Welcoming Grandma Youngdeung, Visit to the US Congress for Jeju 4·3 Solution, Remembering Fukushima and much more! Download PDF

In this February Edition: Gangjeong will not Give up, In remembrance of Father Bix, Okinawa, Jeju, Taiwanthe Peace Triangle, Keep THAAD out of South Korea, Hotpinkdolphins meets Taiwan pink dolphins, International Solidarity, Choosing jail to resist unfair fines, Deported for Loving Korea, Interview with a Jeju Activist, Seeking justice from the chimney top, “To Exist is to Resist” Gangjeong Peace School, trial updates and much more! Download PDF

If You Don’t Give Up You Can’t Lose / Gureombi, The Wind is Blowing Film and Speech Tour 2015 Hee Eun “Silver” Park and Paco Michelson, peace activists from the Jeju Island Anti-Naval Base struggle will be traveling across the US in March and April to share the story of the struggle through the screening of a new full-length documentary, […]

  Originally published in Korean on 2015.02.03 By Ddalgi (Gangjeong villager, member of Peace Wind) ( Thanks for Fr. Pat Cunningham, Tom Raging Smith and Jude Lee for their collaboration work for the wonderful translation.)   At dawn on the 31st of January, we climbed the watchtower. Despite having thrown it up haphazardly in the icy winds that blew all […]

In this January 2015 Edition: Crackdown on the Village, Cork City Council passes the motion to support Gangjeong, Proposed Petition of Veterans For Peace-Korea Peace Campaign, Damage to Fishermen, Henoko State Violence, Realizing the Island of Peace, Different frontlines for Life and Peace, Interview with a Gangjeong Villager, The Story of Magazi,  Documenting present day Gangjeong, Aotearoa’s Anti-Base Movement trial updates and much more! Download PDF