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>From: amc <amc at hk.super.net>
>Subject: Strike Urgent Report #4   
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>>Date: Sat, 04 Jan 1997 02:08:36 +0800
>>To: amc at HK.Super.NET
>>From: misun <misun at HK.Super.NET>
>>Subject:  Strike Urgent Report #4 
>>          - edited in January. 2, 1997 at 01:00 
>>          Seventh Day of General Strike 
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ON THE SPOT
Celebrating The New Year With The Workers' Struggle! 
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   Hundreds of striking workers, citizens and college students on Friday
rallied at Myongdong 
   Roman Catholic Cathedral in downtown Seoul, where Kwon Yong-kil,
>> President of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) and other
KCTU leaders have
   been staging a sit-down protest in a freezing winter weather for the past
week. 
   Finishing the party, hundreds of people had an attempt to marching to
"Bosingak-jong(a Korean 
   traditional bell)" tolling ceremony that is held anually at the last
midnight of every year. The riot 
   police attempted to restrain the angry workers with even tear gases. But
some 2,000 people 
   succeeded to break them through. And they performed propaganda campaign
to the citizen in the 
   ceremony about their justness of the strike. This campaign was also
showed through TV live of 
   the ceremony. 
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KCTU ready for the Next Stage of the Strikes! 
   On the first day of this year, KCTU held a meeting to prepare for the
General Strikes after the 
   holidays. In the meeting, participants discussed about the present
situations and the plans 
   resuming the strikes. 
   The participants agreed to link this General Strikes to annual wage
struggle without a break, by 
   holding nation-wide mass rallies and initiating a million leading
peoples' signature-seeking drive. 
   KCTU will have the press conference to make clear their struggle plan in
the afternoon of Jan. 

Support and Solidarity

Nationwide 
   A lot of social groups and organizations have expressed their support and
solidarity to the 
   General Strikes in succession. 
   Lawyer Association for Democracy had staged a sit-down protest for last 3
days, and they are 
   preparing for the official statement of lawyers supporting to the
strikes. National Association of 
   Clergyman for Justice will open a daily prayer meeting in Christian Hall
in Seoul. it will continue to 8       Jan. Besides, other christian groups
will join to the meeting. Artists' Groups plans to announce supporting
statement on about 6 Jan. 
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>> 
In Cyberspace Now 
Cyber-battle Against the Ruling Party Network! 

   The ruling New Korea Party(NKP) computer network called 'shinhanguktel'
was spoiled by the 
   sabotage of netizens protesting against the unilaterally railroaded a
labor bill through the 
   parliament. After the passage, a lot of people named their ids such as
"killys,          son-of-bitch("gaesaeggi")", posted lots of articles
denouncing directly the President, Kim Young-sam. 
>> At last, the Sysop of the network dared to strike them out on the ground
that "it may be made 
   in violation of public morals and custom, or cause to defame other's
reputation". It is said that 
   'Officially' just 24 ids and some articles were removed, but it is
confirmed that in fact more ids 
   and about 350 articles(out of total 688 articles) were done by the sysop. 
   There is one more ridiculous thing. The network announced on last Nov. 29
that the 2002nd applicant 
   would be presented a gift, celebrating 2002 World Cup.
>> So it even posted the notice that the gift would go to the id of
"Ssibalnom(another namecalling)". 
   But, now it becomes also one of the ids that violate so called public
morals. After that, the notice on       gift-winner was disappeared in
furtively. 
>> 
Current Report on Online Movements! 
>>      by 22:00, Jan. 1, 42 online groups have taken part in black ribbon
campaign, and 743 persons 
>>      shown their wills against anti-workers labor bills through
Signature-seeking Campaign. During 
>>      24hrs, the number of online groups participating this campaign was
increased by 22, and that of 
>>      persons making the signature by 300. Also, many people helps TTGS
voluntarily in many ways. 
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