In 2012 Mayor Kang from Gangjeong village on Jeju Island, South Korea invited the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space to hold our annual meeting there.
We eagerly agreed and many of our members from around the world attended. Several of us got arrested for crawling under the razor wire to get on the rocky coastline that was being dynamited and prepared to be covered in cement for Navy base docks.
Before I left to go to Jeju my friend Vietnam vet Eric Herter handed me his camera, gave me a quick tutorial on it, and suggested I get as much film as possible. Once I got back I went thru all the film and picked the bits to put into the documentary.
Eric filmed me telling the Jeju story and then plugged the film bits in where they fit. He worked hard to make it all flow.
The whole film has been sitting in some obscure place on the Internet since then which was not very accessible, but our friend Will Griffin recently loaded it onto YouTube so we could more easily share it.
I think it came out good and its a very moving story for sure. I am proud of the Global Network's participation in this most heart rendering fight that continues every day.
People should know more about the determined resistance to the naval base on Jeju Island and throughout South Korea. The people there are on the front lines of any U.S. war aimed at China, North Korea and Russia.
Bruce
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