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This New Dawn for Korean Democracy Must Center Feminist Peace

June 4, 2025  | Common Dreams

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Under a New South Korean President, Can Peace Activists Push US Troops Out?

June 3, 2025  | Truthout

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With the Election of the New South Korean President, US Advocates Organize for Korea Peace

June 3, 2025 

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How We’re Celebrating Women Cross DMZ’s 10-Year Anniversary

May 24, 2025 

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International Women’s Delegation to Join South Korean Women Activists to Walk for Peace

May 12, 2025 

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✌️Peace Walk at Pyeongtaek U.S. Military Base ✌️Peace Walk at Pyeongtaek U.S. Military Base on International Women’s Day for Peace and Disarmament 

In May 2015, civil society groups from South Korea and the United States organized a symbolic crossing of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) by a delegation of 30 international women peace activists. Their slogan was “A Korean Peninsula without War! A Peace Walk Wishing for a Korean Peninsula of Life, Peace, and Coexistence.”
Every year since, Gyeonggi Women’s Association United has organized a march on the International Women’s Day for Peace and Disarmament. This year, GWAU will commemorate the ten-year anniversary of Women Cross DMZ’s founding and the 2015 crossing. Gyeonggi Women’s Association United, together with an international delegation from Women Cross DMZ and other peace organizations, will march in solidarity at the largest U.S. military base overseas, U.S. Army Garrison (Camp) Humphreys at Pyeongtaek. We will call for an end to the ongoing Korean War and an end to the conditions of militarism, with particular focus on the fact that war and militarism harm women.
This transnational act of solidarity is particularly timely as democracy is under attack in the United States, South Korea is on the cusp of electing a new president, and growing tensions between the U.S. and China raise the risk of war in Northeast Asia. 
Please join us! Registration link in bio.

✌️평화와 군축을 위한 세계여성의 날 평택 미군기지 걷기 

30명의 여성 평화 활동가 대표단이 평화를 촉구하며 비무장지대를 역사적으로 횡단한 지 10년 만에, 위민크로디엠지 (Women Cross DMZ)가 조직한 디아스포라 페미니스트 평화 지도자들로 구성된 국제 대표단이 2025년 5월 24일 평화와 군축을 위한 세계 여성의 날에 한국 평택에서 한국 여성 활동가들과 함께 평화 걷기 행사에 참여할 예정입니다.
경기여성네트워크은 2015년 이후 매년 경기지역 여성들과 함께 평화와 상생의 한반도를 염원하며 평화걷기를 개최해 왔습니다. 2025년에는 특별히 Women Cross DMZ 10주년을 맞아 그 날을 기념하고 남북관계의 회복 및 성평등 관점의 평화를 기원하며 다시 함께 걷고자 합니다. 평택  캠프 험프리스 미군기지 외곽에서 개최되는 이 행사는 아직 해결되지 않은 전쟁과 만연한 군사주의에 대한 경각심을 일깨우는데 그 뜻이 있습니다. 
미국에서는 민주주의가 위협받고 있고, 한국은 새 대통령 선거를 앞두고 있으며, 미중 갈등이 고조되면서 동북아시아에서 전쟁 위험이 높아지고 있는 상황에서, 이들의 초국가적 연대는 특히 시의적절합니다.
5월 24일 평택 미 기지 주변 걷기를 통해 기억과 연대의 시간 또한 같이 흐르고 있음을 확인하며 조기 대선을 통해 새로운 정부가 구성되어야 하는 지금 성평등 관점이 반영된 한반도 평화 논의를 요구하며 동력이 되길 희망하며  Women Cross DMZ 10th 다시 만나는 DMZ - 평택 미군기지  많은 참여 부탁드립니다.
“As peace activists face rising attacks, support “As peace activists face rising attacks, supporting their work is more important than ever. Please join me in supporting this women-led movement for peace in Korea.”

➡️ Swipe for a heartfelt letter from grassroots organizer and educator Gail Whang on growing up in San Francisco during the Korean War and what organizing for community, racial justice, and peace in Korea means to her. Read her full letter and join her in supporting Women Cross DMZ at the link in bio 🔗

📷 Photos 1 and 3-4 courtesy of Gail Whang; photo 2 courtesy of Ken Yamada/Unity Archive Project.

#aapiheritagemonth #koreapeacenow
🔉“What we’re trying to make sure we do is s 🔉“What we’re trying to make sure we do is stay true to the principles of our organization: always center the voices of Korean women, promote the leadership of Korean women and build a better world of us all.” 

In light of our 10 year anniversary, Women Cross DMZ Executive Director Cathi Choi sat down with The Korea Times columnist Esther Kim to discuss our new Women’s Rights Under the Division System in Korea report, which sheds light on the often overlooked yet profound consequences of Korea’s militarized division on women’s lives, the urgent need for diplomatic engagement, and the unique role Korean Americans play in pushing the US government to end the Korean War. 

"'Sanctions on the regime in North Korea (are) ... at the level of nuclear bombs of sanctions because they are so extreme,' says Choi. The U.N. Human Rights Council framework has been used as a bludgeon and justifies draconian sanctions that hurt society, with the famines of the ‘90s as one of the most tragic results. . . . 'To improve these (human) rights, you have to have engagement and have diplomacy,' Choi said."

"'Trump has indicated far more willingness to engage with DPRK,' Choi acknowledges. 'It’s our responsibility to thread the needle. Yes, push for diplomacy and engagement because it leads to a better sustainable peace process, but no, we absolutely condemn his anti-China, anti-Asian policy and rhetoric. As (legal scholar and Palestinian activist) Noura Erakat notes, that always boomerangs to (the diaspora community). Whatever happens abroad manifests at home, too.'”

🔗 Read the full article at the link in our bio and read our report at bit.ly/wrdreport

#koreapeacenow
📍750+ U.S. military bases abroad 💰$66 billio 📍750+ U.S. military bases abroad
💰$66 billion spent yearly
🛑 19–22% of base capacity is excess, according to the Pentagon

We joined dozens of veterans, analysts, and orgs in a new letter urging President Trump to close outdated overseas military bases. These installations cost billions, escalate global tensions, and entangle us in wars. Too expensive. Too risky. Too outdated. 

📄 Read and share the full letter: https://tinyurl.com/CloseBasesLetter #CloseBases

@worldbeyondwar @quincyinst @ips_dc @afsc_org  @prutehilitekyan_ @veteransforpeace @roots_action @peace.action
📍How to Prevent a Coup: Lessons from Korea The 📍How to Prevent a Coup: Lessons from Korea

The ongoing struggle for self-governance in South Korea has seen a powerful and significantly successful nonviolent movement act quickly and strategically to prevent martial law. In some countries, such as the United States, people often watch others in distant places like Korea, Bolivia, Tunisia, Bangladesh, or Niger nonviolently turn back coups and dictatorships, even while the U.S. government steadily advances an unaccountable police state and no appropriate movement challenges these steps.

In this webinar, we'll hear voices from Korea on lessons from recent experience, on the U.S. role in Korea, and take your questions. RSVP at bit.ly/wbw0425 or the link in bio 🔗

Cathi Choi is the Executive Director of Women Cross DMZ, a global movement of activists mobilizing to end the Korean War, reunite families, and ensure feminist leadership in peacebuilding. She co-coordinates the Korea Peace Now! Grassroots Network, launched in 2019 to organize communities in calling for demilitarization and lasting peace on the Korean Peninsula.

Dae-Han Song is in charge of the Contents Team for the International Strategy Center, an organization in Korea focused on building bridges between social movements in Korea and those abroad. He is also a part of the No Cold War Collective and is an associate at the Korea Policy Institute. In 2007, he participated in Nodutdol’s DPRK Education and Exposure Program (DEEP).

Hwang Jeong-eun is International Chair of the Justice Party.
BREAKING: South Korean Constitutional Court unanim BREAKING: South Korean Constitutional Court unanimously removes Yoon from office — a huge win for the Korean peoples’ democracy movement! We look now to lasting changes: ending the 75+ year war and “permanent emergency state.”

🔗 Read more context from Executive Director Cathi Choi at the link in bio. 

📍Reminder that we are slowly migrating to Bluesky @womencrossdmz.bsky.social @koreapeacenow.bsky.social — Follow us there!

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International Women’s Day: How Secure Aren’t We? Webinar with Cathi Choi, Elena Sokova, and Dr. Emma Belcher

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