Local Vets for Peace, free movie "The Ghosts of Jeju Film" 11/9 and 11/10: US in S. Korea
The Ghosts of Jeju Film, 2 Showings
Q&A following the showing with film maker Regis Tremblay
Sunday, November 10, 2013 at 2:00 PM
The Parkway Theater, 4814 Chicago Ave So., Minneapolis
Also showing:
Saturday, November 9, at 7:00 PM
U of M campus, 55 Nicholson Hall, 216 Pillsbury Drive SE, Minneapolis
Free and open to the Public Info: 651-757-8012
A shocking documentary about the struggle of the people of Jeju Island, S. Korea. Set in the context of the American presence in Korea after World War II, the film reveals horrible atrocities at the hands of the U.S. Military and the Government of Korea.
Using previously secret and classified photos, film and documents, this will be the first English-language documentary about the struggle of the brave people of Gangjeong Village who are opposing the military advance of the United States, just as their parents and relatives did in 1947. As then, they are being arrested, jailed, fined, and hospitalized for resisting the construction of a massive naval base that will accommodate America’s “pivot to Asia,” and will destroy their 400 year old village and their UNESCO protected
The film describes the non-violent resistance by residents of a small village on Jeju Island to the South Korean government's construction of a gigantic naval base. The resistance effort has the support of many Korean and global peace and justice organizations and Christian groups, particularly the Catholic Church.
It describes how the construction of the base will be an environmental disaster for Jeju Island, and how it will remove the villagers from that ancient place and end their sustainable and traditional lifestyle there. The base also represents a major expansion of American militarism in that region (the so-called "Pivot to Asia"
with help from South Korea, a U.S. ally.
The historical context of Jeju Island is key to the persistence of the people against military domination there. The film goes thoroughly into how the Jeju Island people were massacred by U.S. and South Korean military in the years after World War II in an attempt to wipe out a peasant rebellion that was then blamed on Communist insurgency.
The Ghosts of Jeju covers all this, and the lives of the people who demonstrate against this base -- some of whom have been demonstrating at the site for years.
visit the website www.theghostsofjeju.net
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Screening and filmmaker visit is sponsored by Veterans for Peace (Chapter 27)
Co-sponsored by the Anti-War Committee, the Korea Forum Committee, Korean Quarterly newspaper, Minnesota Peace Action Coalition, Twin Cities Peace Campaign, Women Against Military Madness, and the Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Minnesota.