🍂 November KPNGN Newsletter
Dear Friend,
Our November KPNGN Meeting is taking place this Thursday, November 13 at 5pm PT/8pm ET! Continuing from our October meeting, this month we’ll host a group discussion on the landmark lawsuit filed by a group of 117 South Korean women against the U.S. military for sex trafficking, sexual abuse, and multiple human rights violations, as well as updates and answer questions about the lawsuit. RSVP here.
Immediately after, we’ll resume our Korea Peace Now! Grassroots Network Orientation. We’ll open for Q&A about the Korea peace movement and current political affairs.
Stay tuned for a webinar featuring lawsuit organizers, civil society advocates, and more. For a primer on these issues, view Women Cross DMZ’s coverage below:Â
Women’s Rights Under the Division System Report: Multi-Media Zine
Women’s Rights Under the Division System Report
Women Cross DMZ 10 Year Anniversary Trek Day 3: Dongducheon
Following the meeting, at 6pm PT/9pm ET, join our KPNGN New Member Orientation series on the same Zoom link. The Membership Committee will host Part 2 of this ongoing series, presenting an overview of the Korea Peace Now! Grassroots Network, followed by a small group discussion.
Upcoming Events
Friday, November 14 at 5pm PT/8pm ET | Korea Peace Study Group session on Dangerous Women: Gender & Korean Nationalism
Korea Peace Study Group will hear from Eunsun and June Nho Ivers, who’ll present on Dangerous Women: Gender & Korean Nationalism (Routledge: 1998), an edited volume exploring Korean nationalism, gender construction, and colonization. We’ll discuss themes from the book, including: imperialism, double patriarchy, militarism and gendered violence, and more. Join us here.
From the KPNGN Coalition-Building Committee:
Friday, November 14 at 5pm PT/8pm ET |Â Securing a Pacific Ocean of Peace
The Pacific Peace Network invites you to a webinar on Friday, November 14 to discuss the recent Declaration for an Ocean of Peace issued at the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) in September. Keynote speaker Rev James Bhagwan, General Secretary of the Pacific Conference of Churches, will share how the Declaration was developed and presented and what the challenges are in effective implementation. Voices from across the Pacific including Sunghee Choi from Jeju Island, PNG, Fiji, Japan, Philippines, and Australia Aotearoa will then reflect on their local context and plans for achieving peaceful self-determination for the ocean wide community.
Please join us to share and learn how we can better coordinate and collaborate to realise a nuclear free and independent Pacific. RSVP here.
Recommended Viewings
Haecho is back home! After a mass petition with over 8,000 signatures demanding her release, supporting her flotilla mission to bring humanitarian aid to and lift the blockade on Gaza. We met Haecho in May when she captained the sailboat, sailing from Jeju Island to the DMZ, calling for peace in Korea. View more about that day here.
From the Education Committee:
- After Hyundai ICE Raid, Even South Korea’s Capitalists Question US Relations reports on the anger in Korea due to U.S. attempts at economic coercion and the shocking, inhumane detainment of hundreds of Koreans during an ICE raid at a new Hyundai plant in Georgia.
- South Korea: Beyond the blockade, toward solidarity and connection! Haecho is one of many Jeju Island activists supporting Palestinian liberation and a Global Sumud Flotilla participant demanding that the U.S. and ROK governments and corporations end their complicity in the Gaza genocide.
- What parallel visits to both Koreas by leaders of China, Russia may mean for NE Asia discusses recent diplomatic visits to Korea by heads of state from China and Russia and potential shifts in the bloc politics that have emerged in East Asia since the beginning of the Russia-Ukraine war.
- Anti-Trump protests continue in Seoul reports on protests criticizing Trump’s absence at the multilateral APEC summit and the recent trade deal finalized between South Korea and the U.S., described as “one-sided” and “disproportionately favorable to American interests.”
WATCH: WCDMZ Executive Director Cathi Choi joined the International People’s Conference Against APEC 2025 and Trump to discuss the importance of building a peace economy and disrupting the normalization of militarism.
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Sincerely,
Korea Peace Now! Grassroots Network