* _CAMP ARIRANG_ (Dir. Grace Yoon Kyung Lee, 1995, 28 mins.)
>From "Hooker Hill" in Seoul to "American Town" near the Kunsan Air
Base, thousands of Korean women have been working as prostitutes for
American soldiers since the Korean War. _CAMP ARIRANG_ explores the
lives of Korean women employed as "special entertainers" for American
GIs, many in conditions tantamount to indentured servitude. Verite
and archival footage are combined with interviews of prostitutes,
soldiers, and scholars to reveal a disturbing story of Korean and
U.S. governments' collusion in the sale and control of women's
bodies. Our guide is Yeon Ja Kim, 53, a charismatic ex-prostitute
who now devotes her life to the welfare of older prostitutes and
their fatherless Amerasian childrenŠ.
* _VIEQUES: An Island Forging Its Future/Un Pueblo Forjando Futuros_ (Dir. Johanna Bermúdez Ruiz, 2001, 17 mins.) _Vieques: An Island Forging Its Futures_ documents the story of a people's struggle against the world's most powerful armed forces: the peaceful resistance movement against the U.S. Navy bombing practices on the Island of Vieques, a sister Island of Puerto Rico, after two bombs negligently killed David Sanes, a Viequense civilian employee, on April 19th, 1999.
Date & Time: Thursday, January 30, 7:30 PM Location: 300 Journalism Building, OSU, 242 W.18th Ave., Columbus, OH Campus Map: <www.acs.ohio-state.edu/map/linkbuildings/journalismbuilding.html>
Free & Open to the Public Discussion (about terrible impacts of US bases overseas -- especially on women and the environment -- and anti-base movements that have arisen in response) follows the screening. Jiah Kim, an activist from South Korea, will lead the discussion.
Sponsors: Social Welfare Action Alliance, Solidarity, & the Student International Forum <www.osu.edu/students/sif> Contact: Yoshie Furuhashi, 614-668-6554, <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu>; & Keith Kilty, 292-7181, <kilty.1 at osu.edu>
Download the flyer at <http://www.service.ohio-state.edu/students/sif/CampArirang&Vieques.pdf>. -- Yoshie
* Calendar of Events in Columbus: <http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/calendar.html> * Student International Forum: <http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/> * Committee for Justice in Palestine: <http://www.osudivest.org/> * Al-Awda-Ohio: <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Al-Awda-Ohio> * Solidarity: <http://solidarity.igc.org/>