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Nine Catholic priests climbed over the fence and made their way onto the rocks by the
sea in Gangjeong village to protest Navy base construction yesterday. They were
all arrested.
In February the Global Network will be holding a
two stage Pacific conference - in Hawaii and and
Gangjeong
village, Jeju Island.
Details are as follows:
Hawaii Meeting
Feb 18-22 2012
Missile Defense systems on Aegis Destroyers are being tested at the Pentagon's Barking
Sands Pacific Missile Defense testing facility on the Hawaiian
island of Kauai. We invite people to
join us in Hawaii for a mini-conference prior to going to Jeju
Island.
Venue: Honolulu Friendship House
Proposed Schedule:
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Saturday, Feb 18th: |
Arrive, dinner together |
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Sunday, Feb 19th: |
Tour, protest, and swim |
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Monday, Feb 20th: |
Conference at the Friendship House |
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Suggested Agenda |
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9:30 - 11:00 |
Review of key military
issues in Hawaii |
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11:00 -
12:00 |
Dave,
Lynda and Bruce review work/issues of GN affiliates worldwide |
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12:00 -
1:30 |
Lunch |
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1:30 -
2:30 |
Review
U.S. Asia-Pacific military strategy and growing conflict with China and
implications for our work
(maybe you have someone who could make a
presentation to us on this topic) |
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2:30 -
4:00 |
Discussion of strategies and possibilities for on-going work |
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Tuesday, Feb 21st: |
Go to Kauai early, meeting, protest:
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Weds, Feb 22nd: |
Return to Honolulu and leave for Jeju |
From Hawaii we will be going on to Gangjeon
village on Jeju Island, South Korea where we have been invited to hold our 20th
anniversary conference from Feb 24-26, 2012.
The Gangjeong villagers are now in the middle of a tragic fight with
the Navy to stop the construction of a base that will port Aegis
destroyers, outfitted with "missile defense" (MD) systems, and
aircraft carriers.
Jeju International Peace Conference
Feb 24-26 2012
‘Gangjeong for the Life & Peace Village,
Jeju for the World Peace
Island!’
Sponsored by:
The organizing committee of the Jeju International
Peace Conference
Proposed Schedule
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Thur Feb. 23: |
Arrival of overseas persons |
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Fri Feb 24: |
10.00-12.00 |
Field trip to
the Jeju April 3rd Peace Park:
http://jeju43.jeju.go.kr/index.php |
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12.00-14.00 |
Lunch break
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International Conference: ‘Gangjeong for the Life &
Peace Village, Jeju for the World Peace Island!’
Moderator:
Hong Ki-Ryong
Executive chairman of the Pan-Island Committee
Venue: Auditorium of the Jeju April 3rd Peace Park |
14.00-15:10
(Simultaneous
translation English/ Korean will be available and a Japanese translator will
be provided for consecutive translation)
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Welcome speech 1: Kang Dong-Kyun, Gangjeong village mayor
(5min)
Welcome speech 2: Dave Webb, Chairman of the Global Network
(5min)
Welcome speech 3:Dobub(Buddhist monk)
Congratulatory speeches by
Oh Choong-Jin, chairman of the Island Council & Kang Woo-Il, Bishop of the Jeju
Catholic district (3min. each)
Keynote speech:
Angie Zelter (peace and
environmental campaigner and founder of the Snowball Civil Disobedience
Campaign, Trident Ploughshares, the International Women’s Peace Service -
Palestine (IWPS), Faslane 365): ‘Non-violenceand the peace movement: Centered on
the opposition struggles against bases in UK,’ (10min.)
Koh Hee-Bum (Co-representative of the Jeju Forum C, former president of the
Hankyoreh newspaper Inc. ): ‘Speaking about the spirit of Jeju peace, from 4. 3
to Gangjeong’ (10min.)
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Part 1:
Islands of military bases
in the East Asia
Moderator:
Mary Beth Sullivan
Global Network
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15:10-16:10
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United States’ military strategy in the East Asia and U.S.
military bases in Hawai’i and Guam: Bruce K. Gagnon, Coordinator, Global
Network (15min.)
How
to displace US Marine Bases from Okinawa
:Towards solidarity between Okinawa and Jeju for the 'true peace' in East
Asia:
Toshio
Takahashi,
General
secretary of Plaintiffs Group for Futenma US Marine Corps Airbase Roaring
Noise Pollution Lawsuit…
power point presentation (15min.)
Problems of the Jeju naval base from the viewpoint of the East Asia
geopolitics:
Cheong Wooksik,
Representative
of the Peace Network (10min.)
Q and A
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16:10-16:20 |
Break
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16:10-16:20 |
Film Screening: A year in Gangjeong 2011 (English subtitled/ film by Dungree) |
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Part 2:
Making the ‘Peace Island,’ in the East Asia
Moderator:
Prof. Kim Min-Ho,
Jeju Professors’ Association
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16:30-17:40 |
Converting Okinawa
toward the Island of Life and Peace:
Solidarity between people and dugon
by Mr.Yosuke
Matsushima,
Save the Dugong
Campaign Center, Osaka, Japan
(15min.)
Gangjeong for the Life and Peace village: by
Go Gwon-Il, Chairman of the Villagers’ Committee to Stop the Naval Base
(15min.)
Jeju for the Peace Island: by Shin Yong-In, Professor of the
Law School, Jeju University
(15min.)
Q and A
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Moderator:
Hong Ri-Ri, Representative of the Women’s Human Rights Solidarity |
17:40-18:00 |
Jeju
Peace statement: by Kim Sung-Kyu and Kim Mi-Ryang, Gangjeong
villagers
Closing statement: For the new beginning (working title): by Fr. Moon
Jung-Hyun |
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18:00-20:00 |
Dinner |
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Sat Feb. 25:
Moderator:
Go
Gwon-Il
Chairman of the Villagers’ Committee to Stop the Naval
Base |
10:00-12:00
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Informal
gathering with the villagers for talks at the Village Ceremony Hall (Maeul
Euirye Hoegwan)
Speakers:
Agneta Noberg
Board of Global
Network, International Peace Bureau (Geneva), Vice Chair, Swedish Peace Council
(7min.)
J.
Narayana Rao
Board of Global
Network, General Secretary of All India Peace & Solidarity Organization (AIPSO)
of the Maharashtra State Council, India (7min.)
or Dennis
Apel
Resister against the Vandenberg AFB, California, US
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12:00-13:00 |
Lunch |
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13:00-18:00 |
Field
trip to the village (naval base construction area etc.) |
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18:00-20:00 |
Dinner |
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20:00-21:30 |
Candle lit vigil with the villagers:
Outside of the Village
Ceremony Hall (Maeul Euirye Hoegwan)
(If weather is bad, Peace Center of the
village)
Speakers:
Mary Beth Sullivan
Active GN
member, Social Worker,
Advocator for the transformation from a war to a peace economy in the United
States (7min.)
Shin
Ku-Bum
Ex-Jeju
Island governor, Korea (7min.)
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Sun Feb 26:
Moderator:
Go
Gwon-Il
Chairman of the Villagers’ Committee to Stop the Naval
Base
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10:00-11:00 |
News conference
At the Village Ceremony Hall (Maeul Euirye Hoegwan)
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Moderator:
Lee Tae-Ho
Secretary of People’s Solidarity for Participatory Democracy |
11:00-13:00 |
Strategy meeting on international solidarity to stop the Jeju naval base construction (Consecutive translation)
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13:00-14:00 |
Lunch |
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Global Network AGM
Moderator:
Bruce K. Gagnon
GN |
14:00-18:00 |
At the
Village Ceremony Hall (Maeul Euirye Hoegwan)
Open to the public |
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18:00-20:00 |
Dinner |
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20:00-21:30 |
Candle lit vigil with the
villagers:
Outside of the Village
Ceremony Hall (Maeul Euirye Hoegwan)
(If weather is bad, Peace Center of the
village)
Speakers:
Atsushi Fujioka
Board of Global Network, Director of the Media & Resource Sector,
Kyoto Museum for World Peace, Ritsumeikan University/ Professor, College of
Economics, Ritsumeikan University, Japan (7min.)
Gun-Britt Mäkitalo
Women for Peace, Sweden (7min.)
Michael Rutkowski
PhD at Yonsei on astrophysics (if time is available) |
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27: |
Departure of
overseas persons |
Co-sponsored
by: Gangjeong village, Jeju
Forum C, Pan-Island Committee to Stop the Military Base and to Realize the
Peace Island, Pan-Korean Committee to Stop the Jeju Naval Base, Peace
Network, Democratic Lawyers’ Association,Catholic Solidarity for the Peace
Island, Jeju, People’s
Solidarity for Participatory Democracy, Jeju regional committee
ofRohmoohyun Foundation ,
Jeju Professors’ Association, Life Peace Fellowship, Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism
Headquarter of Association for Reflection & Innovation Hwajaeng
Committee for Harmonious Debate, and Global Network against Weapons and
Nuclear Power in Space (GN)
Please let us know if you have interest in joining us
on this trip. Our friends in Hawaii and Jeju Island are very isolated and
we want to join them in a show of solidarity as they work to end the
militarization of their island homes.
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