Organizing Notes

Bruce Gagnon is coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space. He offers his own reflections on organizing and the state of America's declining empire....

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The collapsing US military & economic empire is making Washington & NATO even more dangerous. US could not beat the Taliban but thinks it can take on China-Russia-Iran...a sign of psychopathology for sure. We must all do more to help stop this western corporate arrogance that puts the future generations lives in despair. @BruceKGagnon

Saturday, August 10, 2013

PRAYING FOR GILCHUN


The wonderful Jeju Island artist Koh Gilchun has fallen down with a cerebral hemorrhage on the last day of the March for Life and Peace on August 3.  I was shocked to learn this news and my heart is heavy.  We all should pray for him.

I briefly met Gilchun while on Jeju but really had the chance to get to know him better last year at the end of my month long west coast trip that ended in Seattle.  On my last day there Leonard Eiger organized a protest at the South Korean consulate in downtown Seattle and Gilchun was there.  He had been doing an art show at a gallery in Seattle.  A more dear man you will never meet.

Gilchun was instrumental in getting Noam Chomsky into the Jeju issue and is the featured artist at the April 3, 1948 museum on Jeju that tells the story of the 60,000 islanders massacred under the direction of the US military following the ouster of Japan from Korea.  In the new documentary The Ghosts of Jeju much of Gilchun's work from the museum is featured.

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