Fwd: [KAFT] Urgent Alert from Jeju Island/ Next Planning Mtg March 6th, 6:30pm (tomorrow)

[K.F.]

Urgent need for letters and calls of support against the construction of the naval base on Jeju. The precious Gureombi will be blasted!

Kei

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Sukjong Hong <sukj...@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 9:10 AM
Subject: [KAFT] Urgent Alert from Jeju Island/ Next Planning Mtg March 6th, 6:30pm (tomorrow)
To: jejusol...@googlegroups.com, Dongmu <don...@yahoogroups.com>, ka...@googlegroups.com


Hello everyone, I have attached an urgent message and action alert from Gangjeong Village and the Save Jeju Island global campaign, as riot police have arrived from the mainland onto Jeju Island and the plan to start blasting the gureombi lava rock begins - Violence and danger to the civilians seems imminent unless the world stands up and says NO!
Please take the time to email the governor of Jeju, Gov. Woo Keun-Min at jejum...@jeju.go.kr. (see full message below), President (Mr. Lee Myung-Bak, President, Republic of Korea, pres...@cwd.go.kr ) Defense Minister (Mr. Kim Kwan-Jin, Minister, Ministry of National Defense, RoK cy...@mnd.go.kr).

In addition, a reminder that our next planning meeting of the NYC Save Jeju Action Committee is set for TUESDAY, MARCH 6th at 6:30pm - thank you to all those who shared your schedules- Tues seemed to be better for most people than Thursday.

WHERE: Third World Newsreel
545 8th Avenue, 10th floor , between 37th and 38th Street
(nearest trains A,C,E 42nd Street or 34th Street Penn Station)

The main agenda of this meeting is to plan a March action with the creative props we have created and to make plans for any additional actions we can take.

Thank you to all who have come to create props for the past 3 weekends - we are so close and almost done!
If tomorrow will be your first meeting and you would like background info, please email me directly at sukj...@gmail.com.

>>>>>> MESSAGE FROM SAVE JEJU ISLAND CAMPAIGN>>>>>>>>>>

Dear friends,

Starting today, Gangjeong is in an emergency situation. Nearly 700 police have arrived from the mainland in Gangjeong village to monitor the blasting of Gureombi, the volcanic rock coastline, and the dredging of the seafloor. Not only will the marine life, including endangered crabs and coral reefs, be swept away, the blast has already impacted the fresh water springs that the majority of the island is dependent upon.  

Though our numbers are small in the village, we will do our best to fight to stop the blast of Gureombi. It is still uncertain whether the Seogwipo Police will allow the Navy to blast Gureombi on Monday, when the Governor of Jeju Island is supposed to make his decision.

Please send an email to the Governor NOW asking him to please stop the blast of Gureombi.

Thank you for one minute of your time. We urgently need international solidarity NOW.

In peace and justice,
Gangjeong Village


Mr. Woo Keun-Min

Governor

The government of Jeju-do

312-1, Yeon-dong, Jeju-si, Jeju-do

REPUBLIC OF KOREA

Fax: +82 64 710 3009

E-mail: jejum...@jeju.go.kr

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This is a message from the NYC Save Jeju Action Committee, which is supported by the Channing and Popai Liem Education Foundation.

If you haven't already, please consider submitting your Jeju photos and support to the
http://iheartjeju.tumblr.com

For more information on the global campaign, visit:

http://www.savejejuisland.org/Save_Jeju_Island/Welcome.html
or consider joining the Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/SaveJeju?ref=ts