Protected: Still fighting for justice: the House of Sharing and its brave grandmothers
by Eileen
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
Categories: human rights • Tags: comfort women, japanese military sexual slavery, korean council
A big beagly day: the super-thrilling, totally un-tragic story of the Beagle Rescue Network
by Eileen
Korean-speaking readers will already know this, but others may not: the word beagle is an English loan word in Korean, spelled with an “L” sound at the end. If you change the final consonant, “beagle” turns into “tragedy.” So the Beagle Rescue Network becomes the Tragedy Rescue Network. Many of the dogs at the Beagle Rescue Network’s shelter in Nonsan, South Chungcheong Province, have sad tales behind them, but a Tragedy Rescue Network it’s not. When I joined longtime volunteer […]
Categories: activist profiles, animal rescue, animal rights, lost animals • Tags: animal rescue network korea, animal rights, beagle rescue network, CARE controversy, homeless animals, vivisection
Calling out violence: Is the world ready for Heeji Yi?
by Eileen
Heeji Yi has become an unstoppable force in the local animal rights scene. She’s attended protests, done vegan education at Cube of Truth events, and organized Save vigils for animals on their way to slaughter. This year she founded Direct Action Everywhere Seoul. Her first Save vigil, about a year ago, was for chickens. Since then she’s borne witness for pigs, cows and chickens—both in Gyeonggi Province, where she lives, and in Chungju, North Chungcheong Province, where her parents live. […]
Categories: activist profiles, animal rights • Tags: animal rights, anonymous for the voiceless, direct action everywhere, save movement, social justice activism, vegan activism
No offense, but …
by Eileen
Sometime around 2007, a woman I barely knew started a thread on a message board and addressed it to me. She made sure to tell me to fuck off in the subject line. Another member of the same site sent me a private message with the subject line “I found your picture.” The attachment showed a naked woman on all fours, eating her own diarrhea as it was coming out of her. Another sent me a butt plug and Vagisil. […]
Categories: internet bullying • Tags: animal abuse, cyberbullying, Dave's ESL
Sad lessons learned: Pandora the lost Jindo dog, part 2
by Eileen
Many of Pandora’s supporters are people I’m no longer in touch with. Many others, I guess, are shy about being quoted. Regardless, I’d like to thank everyone who tried their best to help Pandora. Some of the searchers were Daejeon shelter volunteers, a few were US-based Jindo fans, and some were just kind strangers. Both Koreans and foreigners pitched in to help. The search for Pandora brought some amazing people out to Seoul and beyond, and I learned a lot about […]
Categories: lost animals • Tags: lost dog search
Refugee activist Yiombi Thona: ‘Lift them, don’t shift them’
by Eileen
It was a real honor to interview Yiombi Thona in 2014 for a special issue of Groove Korea to commemorate the magazine’s 100th edition. The theme was “100 expats who made a difference in Korea.” Even though the resulting article had to be cut short to fit the tight space, I’m happy to say Yiombi’s human rights work was part of that special issue. Yiombi doesn’t like the expression “refugee crisis,” saying it’s really a responsibility crisis. Refugees are nothing […]
Categories: activist profiles, human rights • Tags: human rights, refugee convention, refugees, yiombi thona
Cube of Truth: Fearless vegan activism in Seoul
by Eileen
When I started my first blog, years ago, one of my goals was to brainstorm thoughts about activism and social change. More specifically, vegan activism and activism for homeless animals. I couldn’t figure out how seemingly good people could allow the mass slaughter to continue. Why attempts to educate always seemed to end in failure. Why activist movements always seemed to fizzle out or turn into unrecognizable versions of themselves. That initial blog was a disaster. And it would be […]
Categories: animal rights • Tags: animal rights, anonymous for the voiceless seoul, cube of truth, social justice activism, vegan activism
Sad lessons learned: Pandora the lost Jindo dog, part 1
by Eileen
When I put Pandora’s face on the internet in 2010 and encouraged strangers to adopt her, I was trying to help. Even though I never got to know her very well, and I wasn’t personally involved in her adoption, when I look at Pandora’s picture now I see a spectacular personal failure. After Pandora got lost in 2012, several months after her adoption from a private shelter in Daejeon, many people pitched in to look for her. Well, we got […]
Categories: lost animals • Tags: jindo adoption, jindo rescue, lost dog search, missing animals
