At the National Conference on Organized Resistance this spring there were quite a few workshops on independent media and the representation of activism. One speaker coined a hilarious term -- "riot porn" -- to describe journalism/ video/ photography that glorifies active resistance while doing little to discuss the context, people, and stakes from which it formed. Since getting here I've become interested in finding information on the South Korean labor and student movement and wouldn't you know there is quite a few videos of protests available on right on Youtube. This stuff is riot porn to the core, and I was hesitant to post it on this blog for that reason, but I do find it interesting that these encounters happen as frequently as they do here and that the protesters get away with as much as they do without being obliterated by the police. If nothing else, they're valuable just to see how serious these protests are taken here.
Illegal labor protest in Pohan that took place, I think, sometime in 2006.
Korean National Labor Union Protest in Seoul, South Korea sometime last year I think. 1st - 5th and 2nd Mobile on the scene, with the 4th, 51st Mobile Company at the end.
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