AMRC: How does your organization work to promote solidarity of Korean workers with people in other countries affected by Korean corporations? What kinds of groups in Korea do you work with – which unions or associations/organizations (political parties, churches too?) promote Korean support for workers and people affected in other countries?
All this time we might have worshiped the wrong God. It’s the global supply chain that put us here in Batam. It is the one who rules and determines our lives…it is the God
- The joke uttered by an Indonesian unionist after hearing an explanation of Batam FTZ electronics workers’ position within the global supply chain
The world’s peoples rallied in support of the failed Burmese people’s uprising in 2007. Footage of dignified, serious-faced burgundy-clad monks taking to the streets in a peaceful protest against the increasingly untenable living conditions in Burma captured the world’s imagination and sympathy. People were increasingly angered as the images changed to those of the ruling junta beating and arresting hundreds of protesters, monks included.