Third Hope Bus rally fizzles just 3,000 show up
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Third Hope Bus rally fizzles; just 3,000 show up
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August 01, 2011
 
  About 200 Busan residents block a city bus with Bus for Hope rally participants on board at Busan Bridge to stop them from entering Hanjin Heavy Industries’ shipyard on Saturday night. The rally ended yesterday afternoon without any violent clashes. [NEWSIS]

The third Bus for Hope rally in support of the on-going labor protest at Hanjin Heavy Industries & Construction Co. in Busan, yesterday, was much smaller than anticipated with no major violent clashes reported.

About 7,000 riot police gathered at the Yeongdo and Busan bridges to block protesters from entering their protest venue adjacent to Hanjin Heavy Industries’ shipyard.

Riot police were joined by Busan residents who were angry that the protest was still being carried out while the city was struggling to cope with the damage from last week’s downpour.

According to the Busan Metropolitan Police Agency, only 3,000 protesters gathered for the rally, which lasted about four hours.

The protesters voluntarily ended their rally at 1:30 p.m. yesterday after holding a press conference at the Hanjin Research and Development Center in Jungang-dong. They demanded that Hanjin rehire workers the company laid off in December.

Unlike the two previous rallies, few clashes were reported.

Yesterday’s protest was expected to draw more than 10,000 participants, but organizers were hampered by the rally’s timing, coming shortly after last week’s deadly storms around the nation.

When the protesters decided to go ahead with the third rally, angry Busan citizens formed a group to stop them from entering the shipyard by forming human blockades at the two bridges.

Hundreds of protesters began to gather at around 9:00 p.m. Saturday and attempted to reach the shipyard using the city’s public transportation instead of chartered buses.

They were met by 300 residents at the bridges who checked every public bus headed to Yeongdo shipyard. Busan residents forcibly removed protesters from buses, causing minor skirmishes between the two groups.

According to police, minor injuries were reported among both protesters and residents.

“Everyone in this nation is having a hard time and working to rebuild damaged areas,” a Busan Police spokesman said. “But we had to mobilize our precious units from recovery projects to the Bus for Hope rally to prevent possible violence.”

Despite anger from many Busan residents, some prominent liberal politicians, including Representative Chung Dong-young, former chairman of the Democratic Party, and Lee Jung-hee, floor leader of the Democratic Labor Party, supported the rally.

The two liberal politicians took part in Saturday’s event at Busan Station to prepare for the rally and promoted the protest as a peaceful effort to reinstate the fired workers.


By Kwon Sang-soo [sakwon80@joongang.co.kr]


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