Two programs folks interested in the human rights issues of the DPRK may be interested in applying. Go and visit LiNK’s Project Real Sunshine today and see what you can do to make a difference.
From the site:
Two years ago, in the summer of 2006, nearly 40 activists from all over the world participated in LiNK’s Project: Sunshine initiative. Delegates arranged to take university finals early, quit their jobs, and rearranged summer plans to participate. For three weeks they held daily symposiums, lectures, debates and screenings, coupled with exciting and dramatic street activism, awareness efforts, dance exhibitions, concerts, and various stunts. The aim was to engage Korea’s student and academic communities on the issue, spark a grassroots movement for the forgotten North Korean people, and raise questions about the South Korean government’s Sunshine Policy. The effort was a success - gaining coverage in major South Korean newspapers, high-level meetings with South Korean government officials, National Assembly members, and even a former President.
Hundreds of thousands remain imprisoned in North Korea’s concentration camps. Thousands upon thousands of refugees remain without protection, hiding throughout China and Southeast Asia, vulnerable to trafficking or repatriation. The Chinese-born children of North Korean refugees starve on the streets and are unable to find work and receive medical care or education. Thousands of North Korean refugees resettled in South Korea are also unable to find or hold jobs and report feeling “hopeless” and “alone.”
APPLY:
http://www.linkamerica.org/realsunshine/downloads/TRS.application.doc
http://www.linkamerica.org/realsunshine/downloads/TRS.positions.pdf
If you cannot make it to these events, you can do a lot by learning about the atrocities in North Korea, contact your officials and see what they are doing about it, donate whatever you can to help with the rescue efforts for defectors and keep harping until the inevitable end of the Kim Jong Il regime.
To all of those that do make a difference, thank you.
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