Anti-WTO blog
Just discovered through my list of referrers: a very promising blog from a group of Korean Americans in Hong Kong for the protests against the WTO ministerial meeting next week. They’re there mainly to support the Korean Peasants’ League who are going to be over there in force after their recent struggles back in Korea.
By the way, I should have linked this earlier, but here’s a fairly in-depth article on ‘anti-globalisation’ protest and the left in Korea and East Asia, written by Jamie of Two Koreas and Owen of Frog in a Well (AKA er… me). A taster:
Angry protests in Busan, South Korea during an Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) conference there in November have alarmed Hong Kong police preparing for a mid-December World Trade Organization ministerial conference. Hong Kong police fear that the some of the groups who showed up to protest APEC may also bring strident street protests to Hong Kong. This article examines some of the trajectories of protest apparent at the APEC events by looking more closely at the national and international dynamics of Korean activism, revealing growing coordination between workers, farmers and anti-war activists, and the implications for the Hong Kong meeting.
