(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 […]