wednesday-demonstration

• 28th Year of Wednesday Demonstration International Solidarity Statement Eng/Jpn January 8, 2020, marks the 28th year of the Wednesday Demonstration and the 1421st Wednesday Demonstration for the Resolution of the Japanese Military Sexual Slavery Issue. 43 organizations from 12 countries including Korea, New Zealand, U.S., Canada, U.K., Ireland, Australia, Germany, China, Japan, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda announced the International Solidarity Statement. Please find the English/Japanese versions of the statement, and solidarity statement from Lila Pilipina below. International 2020년 1월 8일
• 1367th Wednesday Demonstration The 1367th Wednesday Demonstration commemorated halmonies who passed away in 2018. Various organizations such as the Kansai Network 간사이네트워크, Kookmin University Statue of Peace Committee 국민대학교 평화의소녀상 건립추진위원회, Janggok Middle School 장곡중학교, Iksan Youth Center 익산 청소년 수련 2018년 12월 26일
• Janggok Middle School Students at Wednesday Demonstration At the 1365th and 1366th Wednesday Demonstrations, students from Janggok Middle School shared drawings and poems to remember the Japanese military sexual slavery victims’ activism that they learned about. The students also delivered 2,034,510 won to support the resolution of the Japanese military sexual slavery issue. We thank the Janggok Middle School students for their continued support and for seeing the Japanese military sexual slavery issue through historical and gender perspectives. 2018년 12월 19일
• Poem from Dian Lestariningsih in Indonesia Ms. Dian Lestariningsih, from Indonesia, participated in the Wednesday Demonstrations held in Korea several times. Singing the Wednesday Demonstration opening song “Like A Rock” and learning about the stories of halmonies encouraged her to share her feelings and thoughts through poems. In “I Feel You”, she expressed understanding for halmonies, In “Thank You”, she expressed gratitude for halmonies’ courage. We hope that all of us can read the beautiful poems and think about each of us can do to stand in solidarity with halmonies. 2018년 12월 12일