French moustache arrives in Korea
It seems that Jose Bove, the man with the moustache that launched a thousand protest marches, is in Korea this weekend to lend his support to the demonstrations against the expansion of the US Army base at P’yongt’aek. Read about it here at Pressian. It is interesting that he has come specifically to support this cause and not, say, the ongoing struggle of Korean farmers [or peasants if you prefer] against the government’s attempts to liberalise the rice market. Apparently he made a personal promise to the leader of the anti-base organisation to come and support his protest and he is now making good on it.
According to the Pressian article there will also be a large number of Japanese anti-base activists attending from Okinawa. An excellent sign of Korea-Japan minjung solidarity n’est-ce pas? For more on the movement against US bases in Okinawa, see here.
