Youngsil Kang Letter to BIW Workers

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by  Youngsil Kang, Bruce Gagnon

Where Do These Aegis Go?

My name is Youngal Kang snd Tlivein Gangjsong village on Jeu sland, South Korea
Our village is 400 years old andis a fishing and faruang gonunutuly, The village is 100
being torn apart to build a Navy base asa place to port U.S, Navy Asgis destroyers

CCathelic priests and nuns are being ervested trying to block the cement trucks from,
‘covering our tered rocky coast with concrete to make the piers to dack the U.S.
Warships. Just offshore cur UNESCO recognized endangered soft coral reefs would be
dsstroyed when the dredging, happens to make deeper the port for these ships

(Our elected mayor spent 94 days in jail for tancing on a construction crane, Hundreds
‘of ctizens in eur small village (population 1,260) have been threatened with fines anc jail
time because they stand up ad say No Navy Basel

We arenol aguinst the workers a Bath Iron Works. We uuderstand you needjobs, But
‘you would probably fight to save your way of life too if your village was being
destroyed.

‘What should we doin Gangicong village? How can we have our life to fish andl farm?
Hoss can our future generations survive when Navy base desroys our home?

‘We want yaut to know about this Smation, This very cemplex for all of us but we ode you
to think about where these ships you build ae seu

See worm, Save ulna ae