This started out as a story for Free Speech Radio News but didn’t make it into today’s newscast. I’ve heard of the Flash player not working for a few folks. Listen to the MP3 if that’s the case for you. Cross-posted to Houston Indymedia, now featured on Indymedia.us.
A Fort Hood soldier faced a military trial today for refusing to deploy to Afghanistan, one week after another member of his unit was sentenced to 30 days in jail for refusing to go to war. Sergeant Travis Bishop was convicted on all charges and sentenced to one year in prison, loss of pay, and reduction in rank. Read More…
Click the (HQ) high quality button or view on Youtube. Thanks to Youtube users dc2video, girwainet, and atrhasis, for uploading the footage used in this video. And of course to the journalists in Korea who captured it all.
To my knowledge this is the only interview with a member of the Korean Metal Workers Union recorded in the United States. Last night I spoke by phone with Jung Sik Hwa, a 20-year member of the union whose Ssangyong branch occupied their factory for 77 days. He was outside the Pyeontaek factory last week protesting the police assault in solidarity with the Ssangyong workers. Transcript and more to come soon. This podcast and the interview with Mr. Goldner will air on KVRX 91.7 FM here in Austin. Feel free to share and re-broadcast.
Yesterday the 10-week-long occupation of the Ssangyong automotive plant in Pyeongtaek, South Korea, by striking workers was broken by a final, violent police assault. When Ssangyong went bankrupt and announced the firings of thousands of assembly-line workers, they armed and barricaded themselves inside the plant. I spoke with Loren Goldner, an author writing a book on the Korean working class who visited the factory in June, on Friday about the situation. The workers’ struggle has received stunningly little attention in the US corporate and alternative press. He was speaking to me from New York City. Please share and re-broadcast.
Update: The podcast does not convey the “epic,” in the BBC’s words, nature of the final four-day fight the workers put up against the police. Below are pictures and videos collected from Youtube and libcom.org. Read More…
I’ve been a regular viewer of DN! for about four years, starting when I was 17. I saw Amy when she spoke in Austin earlier this year and interviewed Juan Gonzalez for a community radio program when he was in town. Thank you for all your hard-work, your program is fantastic, I salute the whole team. It is vital independent media.
Still, I believe DN! could be better. Please consider the following as constructive criticism. I will keep this as short as possible; I know you’re busy. Read More…
I don’t think that any of the hundred individuals who marched in protest under the blazing sun six weeks ago thought this would happen so soon, which makes the news all the more exciting. Immigrant detention policies are changing. After a few years of activism in the courts, media and on the streets, children will no longer be held behind bars at the T. Don Hutto Residential Center in Taylor, Texas. Now it will hold only women, many of whom will likely be separated from their children. More info.
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