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안녕하십니까?
미국정부와 한국정부가 평택미군기지확장을 관철시키려고 수단과 방법을 가리지않고 강제적, 폭력적 행위를 일삼고 있습니다. 최근에는 경찰을 동원하여 수로를 막는 등 주민들의 생존권을 짓밟고 있습니다.
이제 평택기지확장투쟁은 새로운 단계에 접어들었습니다. 저희 재미동포 단체들은 이같은 상황을 미국사회 여론에 광범하게 알리고 확장지지반대투쟁에 대한 지지와 동참을 호소하고 있습니다.
전쟁터를 방불케하는 평택의 상황과 관련하여 저희 재미동포 단체들과 미국내 영향력있는 양심세력들은 한목소리로 미국과 한국정부를 규탄하는 긴급공동성명을 채택합니다.
평택기지확장을 저지하기위해 싸우시는 평택주민을 비롯한 남측의 모든분들에게 뜨거운 격려와 지지, 연대를 함께 보냅니다.
우리는 기필코 평택에 미군기지확장기도를 저지하고 주한미군이 없는 자주적이고 평화적인 세상을 만들어 나갈 것입니다.
재미동포단체와 미국내 타민족 단체들의 성명서는 아래와 같습니다.
투쟁!
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U.S. Troops Out of Pyongtaek!
Statement in Support of Struggle of Residents of Pyongtaek, South Korea
Since September 11, 2001, the Bush administration has been actively realigning U.S. military forces all around the world. U.S.-led occupation and regime change have become the order of the day, as we are currently witnessing in Iraq. In Korea, seeking to secure regional hegemony in Northeast Asia, the United States plans to reposition its military and Patriot Missiles to bases along the west coast – from Pyongtaek, Kwangju, Kunsan, Osan to Chejudo – and is calling it the West-coast Missile Defense Belt. “Camp Humphreys” in Pyongtaek is the most important military base under this Missile Defense Belt realignment plan because it already has the infrastructure - airport, seaport, and railroads – necessary to support future U.S. military actions.
In 2003, the United States and South Korean governments agreed to expand Camp Humphreys from 3,734 to 6,585 acres and displace thousands of peasants in the process. Since the decision, Pyongtaek residents, mostly peasants in their 60s and 70s who have worked on small farms on this land their entire lives, have been fiercely opposing the U.S. military’s seizure of the land. This land has been their life and spiritual sustenance for generations. In South Korea, people all across the country have joined in the call for an end to the base’s expansion. Pyongtaek is now a focus of struggle for the entire South Korean movement. It is a struggle for the people of Pyongtaek and a struggle for the right to live with dignity; a struggle to protect land for people and food and life over land for militarism and war and death.
In recent months, the South Korean military riot police have violently attacked protesters many times. On March 15, 40 residents were arrested while peacefully demonstrating. Although most were released, two human rights activists, Park, Raegoon and Cho, Baeki are being held and charged with “interfering with government officials in execution of their duties.” As the U.S. pushes forward with its expansion plans we can only anticipate the attacks on and repression of protestors will intensify.
We, the undersigned U.S.-based organizations and individuals recognize that the struggle against the expansion of Camp Humphreys in Pyongtaek is an important part of the global movement against U.S. imperialism. We send our solidarity and support to the Pyongtaek residents and the thousands of South Korean citizens who are courageously engaged in this fight.
We declare the base expansion in Pyongtaek to be a direct infringement on the residents' right to life and self-determination. We condemn the Bush administration for continuing to pursue a policy of military expansion and occupation in South Korea, and the Roh Moo Hyun administration for being complicit with this process. We call on the South Korean government to stop the stealing of land from local peasant communities, to discontinue police attacks on demonstrators and to release the imprisoned activists. We call on the U.S. government to stop expansion of the Camp Humphries immediately and to withdraw all U.S. troops from South Korea.
April 9, 2006
Endorsing Organizations
A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition (전쟁중지와 인종주의 종식을 위한 행동연대 – 앤써) Anakbayan NY/NJ (필리핀 신애국동맹 Anak– 뉴욕/뉴저지) Audre Lorde Project (오드리 로드 동성애자 단체) Axis of Justice - Los Angeles (로스앤젤레스지역 평화운동단체 – 정의의 축) BAYAN USA (필리핀 신애국동맹 바이얀– 미국지부) Boston Korea Friendship Association (보스톤 코리아연대 협회) CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities (아시아 반폭력 행동단체) Channing and Popai Liem Education Foundation (임창영-이보배 재단) Congress for Korean Reunification (자주민주통일 미주연합) Corean Action Network for Unification (재미청년협의회) Desis Rising Up and Moving (남아시아 정의평화 단체 – 드럼) Fabulous Independent Education Radicals for Community Empowerment (FIERCE) (진보적 대안교육단체 – 피어스) Filipino Workers Association- San Francisco (필리핀 노동자 협회 – 샌프란시스코) First Quarter Storm Network-USA (필리핀 운동단체-훨스트 쿼터 스톰 – 미국) Ignacio Martin-Baro Fund for Mental Health and Human Rights (이그나시오 마틴 바로 인권재단) Institute for Democratic Education and Culture -Speak Out (민주교육과 문화를 위한 연구소- 스픽 아웃) International Action Center (국제행동센터) John Feffer, author of North Korea/South Korea: U.S. Policy at a Time of Crisis (존 페퍼, 한반도 통일문제 연구가) Justice for Filipino American Veterans (JFAV) (정의를 위한 필리핀 재향군인회) Korea Truth Commission-Joint Office (전민특위 공동사무국) Korean American Women for Peace (평화를 사랑하는 여성들) Korean Americans for Peace (KAP): Mindullae, Minjok Tongshin, Korea Democratic Labor Party Support Committee in U.S., Korean-American Women for Peace/LA Chapter, Koreatown Immigrant Workers Alliance (KIWA), Korea Truth Commission/U.S., Korean American National Coordinating Council, One Korea LA Forum, Pan Korean Alliance for Reunification/U.S.(재미평화연대: 민들레, 민족통신, 민주노동당 미주후원회, 평화를 사랑하는 여성들 나성지역, 남가주 노동상담소, 전민특위 미주위원회, 재미동포전국연합회, 통일맞이 나성포름, 조국통일 범민족연합 재미본부) Korean Americans United for Peace (샌프란시코 한인평화모임) Korean Democratic Labor Party – US East Coast (민주노동당 미국동부지역위원회) Korean Student Association of the Union Theological Seminary (유니온 신학대학원 한국학생회) Korean Youth Cultural Center (샌프란시스코 청년문화원) Los Angeles Indigenous People’s Alliance (로스엔젤레스 원주민연합) National Committee to Free the Cuban Five (미국에 구금된 쿠바정치범 석방위원회) New York Solidarity against the Deployment of South Korean troops to Iraq (이라크전쟁중단 파병철회 뉴욕연대) Nikkeis for Peace and Justice (평화운동단체-니키스) Nodutdol for Korean Community Development (노둣돌) NY Commiittee for Human Rights in the Philippines (필리핀 인권을 위한 뉴욕위원회) Okinawa Peace Fighters (오키나와 기지투쟁지원단체) Philippine Peasant Support Network (Pesante)-USA (필리핀 농민지원 연대 –미국) Troops Out Now Coalition (이라크 반전운동연대체 “지금 당장 철군 연합”) United For Peace and Justice (평화와 정의를 위한 연합- 유 에프 피 제이)
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