In the northeastern city of Changchun, China, a group of six ordinary people — a truck driver, a food vendor, a housewife, etc. — gathered in secret to plan an extraordinary task: to break into the television broadcasting system of the most tyrannical regime on earth – that of the CCP.
What’s the most effective way to change the world? Is it through tyranny? Is it through the media? Or is it when you simply touch the hearts of people through compassion and self-sacrifice…? Through civil disobedience, and peaceful activism? But can this method be effective even today?
What’s the most effective way to change the world? Is it through tyranny? Is it through the media? Or is it when you simply touch the hearts of people through compassion and self-sacrifice…? Through civil disobedience, and peaceful activism? But can this method be effective even today?
For more than 20 years, the Chinese communist regime has engaged in a violent campaign to stamp out the beliefs of 100 million peaceful people. The victims have responded with truthfulness, compassion and forbearance. This is their story.
A candle light vigil marking a turning point in Chinese history — one that sparked an era of brutal tyranny, the ramifications of which ripple through our locked-down, pandemic-stricken world.
What seemed to be a spontaneous, peaceful protest by Falun Gong practitioners, was actually orchestrated by some CCP officials and then used to ignite a persecution campaign that would plunge the entire nation back into the dark days of the cultural revolution, and worse. What’s the real story of this fateful day?
A Melbourne roof plumber, his mum, and a former Olympian slip into the heart of Beijing’s Tiananmen Square with a number of their compatriots to stage a protest against the communist regime-sanctioned torture and persecution of Falun Dafa, a Chinese spiritual practice rooted in Buddhist tradition whose learners only crime is to live by its principles – truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance.
On April 25 ten thousand Falun Gong practitioners gathered at the central appeals office in Beijing to request that the harassment of practitioners and restrictions on publishing Falun Gong teachings end and that the unlawfully detained practitioners be released. The gathering was peaceful and orderly. The CCP misrepresented the this gathering in the media as a “siege” of the central government compound, and thus politicized Falun Gong, both in China and abroad.
On November 20, 2001, 36 people from around the world gathered on Tiananmen Square. Many had never met, many didn’t even know if anyone else would show up. It was a gathering both necessary and unpredictable. It is a story of their unexpected triumph in drawing international attention to the detention, torture and often deaths of the tens of thousands who had come before them to raise a banner on Tiananmen Square and proclaim “Falun Dafa is Good.”
Just off Oxford Street in London, there is a quiet road – Portland Place. There are lots of embassies here, also the BBC headquarters, and the Royal Institute of British Architects. In 1875, The Qing Dynasty Empress, Dowager Cixi bought an office building here. From then on, this place has been China’s embassy.
Among the parade groups is a band wearing ancient Chinese costumes. This is the Tian Guo Marching Band. It is formed by practitioners of Falun Gong, a meditation group that has been persecuted and demonized by the communist regime in China.
The Art of Zhen, Shan, Ren (Truth, Compassion, Tolerance) International Exhibition is an extraordinarily moving, intimate and inspiring exhibition detailing both an inner spiritual life and an outer human rights tragedy. Realistic oil paintings and Chinese watercolours from mostly Chinese artists give a unique insight into the spiritual discipline Falun Gong, also called Falun Dafa.
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