‘This rampant, arrogant, and care-less US militarism has nowhere been more evident than here in South Korea, especially in the village of Daechuri, near Pyong-taek City. The loathing for George Bush, America, Americans, irresponsible capitalism, corporatism, imperialism and militarism is a planetary phenomenon, but apart from what the US is doing to the wretched countries of Iraq and Afghanistan, I have never been more ashamed of the US government than when I visited the village of Daechuri with 17 other American peace and social-justice activists and a campesino from Colombia.

On the day after Thanksgiving, when most Americans were watching football, trampling each other in Wal-Mart in a frantic feeding frenzy to get the newest cheap toys that are made off of the backs of virtual slave labor all over the world and/or spending most of the day circling parking lots at malls across the country to find a coveted parking space, four women from our delegation - me, Medea Benjamin (founder of Global Exchange and Code Pink), my sister, Dede Miller (co-founder of GSFP) and my assistant, Tiffany Burns - walked across about 2 acres (up to our armpits) of ruined rice crops toward the "dmz" between the village and Camp Humphreys to hang a sign that said: "Farms Not Arms" on the nasty looking razor wire, despite the warnings of the Korean guards who were waving their arms and screaming something at us from behind two rows of the barbed wire.’

Siege & Seizure In Korea