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City council meeting, June 25, 2007 : Local residents speak at a Pasadena city council meeting about their and their family members’ experiences with human rights abuses in China and their concern about a planned Rose Parade float celebrating the Bejing Olympics. (Jump to agenda item #2 and fast forward to 29:04 in the video; then see agenda item #11.)
Wen Chen (29:04): “Good evening mayor and council. I am a ten year resident in Pasadena. I work for Caltech. I’m from Caltech Falun club and also a member of Amnesty International, group 22, at Pasadena. Today I as an individual come here because I have deep concerns about the fact that next year in 2008 Rose Parade we invited Chinese government to have a float during the Rose Parade. We all know that the Chinese government have terrible records in human rights abuses, and especially the persecution towards Falun Gong. And we know that Falun Gong is a peaceful body and mind exercise based on the principals truth, compassion, tolerance. And because of its popularity, over 17,000,000 Chinese people practice it which is recorded by U.S. World and News Report in 1999 and also it is regarded as independent thinking by Chinese communist regime. They started a crackdown towards Falun Gong in July 1999. Since then more than 3,000 deaths were recorded and these are confirmed by Amnesty International. We are very concerned that such a government with terrible human rights records have a float in our peaceful Rose Parade. And tonight we have here four ladies who were victims in Chinese labor camp. They personally suffered persecution by Chinese government. And also a member of us, a former Pasadena resident,Jenny Liu, whose mother is still in China in labor camp because of Olympics. So we strongly hope that our city can raise our request to the Chinese government to help rescue our family members. That’s all of my talk. I’ll let my fellows to continue their conversation.” “Good evening mayor. Good evening council members. My name is Yaning Liu, also called Jenny. I am here — I used to live on Wilson/Union for three years. I only recently moved to Baldwin Park. I’m here to seek your help to rescue my mother. My mother, Xuing Li is a 63 year old retired high school teacher in Bejing. She has been teacher for 30 years, and she is honored as excellent teacher by her school. She began to practice Falun Gong in 1995, after learning from a colleague.Todd Ruiz Under The Dome - Bookshelf
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