[Dialogue] Jeju Island

[LAURELCG at aol.com]

Thought you all would want to know.
Jann McGuire
 
 
  
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Sent: 8/21/2012 8:43:59  A.M. Pacific Daylight Time
Subj: Today We Save an Island


             
_Jeju  Island is under attack. "Touch not one stone,  not one flower," is 
its residents' battle cry.  Let's  help!_ 
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A  coordinated international campaign this week will try to  save South 
Korea's beautiful Jeju Island from  destruction.  We have the chance to 
participate, and in  so doing to help form a badly needed partnership between the  
environmental and antiwar movements.

The World  Conservation Congress 2012 is being held on Jeju Island in  two 
weeks -- while just four miles away, in the island's  Gangjeong Village, 
construction is beginning on a massive  new naval base to be used by the U.S.  
Dredging of the  seabed and coral has already begun.

_Help  put a stop to it now._ 
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The extraordinary  biological diversity, unique volcanic topography, and 
the  culture of Jeju Island attract many tourists. The Sea of  Gangjeong is a 
national cultural treasure adjacent to a  UNESCO biosphere reserve. Only 114 
Indo-Pacific bottlenose  dolphins remain, and they live here -- one of many 
species  threatened by base construction. The damage will be  devastating. 

But Samsung, the primary contractor  for base construction, is sponsoring 
the World Conservation  Congress (WCC), which is pretending all is  well.

_Let  them know we aren't fooled. Demand that Samsung halt  construction 
and the WCC oppose the  base._ 
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94% of the residents of Jeju Island  have voted against construction of the 
base.

If  the base is constructed, it will host nuclear-powered  submarines and 
aircraft carriers, as well as Aegis  missile-carrying warships. U.S. 
taxpayers will pay the  cost of the Obama administration "pivot" into the  
Asia-Pacific, while Jeju Islanders pay with a damaged  home. Ultimately, the cost to 
the earth and the risk of  war will belong to all of us.

Villagers have been  arrested during nonviolent protests. Police and 
construction  workers have assaulted elderly members of the community, who  
represent a large portion of the activists.  Raising  our voices in solidarity is 
the least we can  do.

_"Touch  not one stone, not one flower."_ 
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