6-12 An Epic Endeavor
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Six: Persecution Of Faith
12: An Epic Endeavor
After the persecution began in China, overseas Falun Gong practitioners started appeal and rescue campaigns. In Sept. 2000, during the World Summit, some 2000 Falun Gong practitioners from around the world came to New York, quote/unquote, ” to welcome” Jiang Zemin.
They wore yellow T-shirts with the word”Falun Dafa” on them, and could be seen everywhere on New York streets.
Falun Gong’s large scale activities started on Sept. 5. On that day they had many practitioners gathered to do the exercises, and then distributed flyers in about 6 or 7 different places, besides the Waldorf Hotel, where Jiang stayed, and other symbolic places, they also went 3 different Chinatowns, where many Chinese people live.
At noon on Sept. 6, more than a thousand practitioners started an eight-block-long march, which called for an end to the persecution of Falun Gong, along 3rd Avenue heading north towards United Nations’ Dag Hammarskjold Plaza.
Since the
12: An Epic Endeavor
After the persecution began in China, overseas Falun Gong practitioners started appeal and rescue campaigns. In Sept. 2000, during the World Summit, some 2000 Falun Gong practitioners from around the world came to New York, quote/unquote, ” to welcome” Jiang Zemin.
They wore yellow T-shirts with the word”Falun Dafa” on them, and could be seen everywhere on New York streets.
Falun Gong’s large scale activities started on Sept. 5. On that day they had many practitioners gathered to do the exercises, and then distributed flyers in about 6 or 7 different places, besides the Waldorf Hotel, where Jiang stayed, and other symbolic places, they also went 3 different Chinatowns, where many Chinese people live.
At noon on Sept. 6, more than a thousand practitioners started an eight-block-long march, which called for an end to the persecution of Falun Gong, along 3rd Avenue heading north towards United Nations’ Dag Hammarskjold Plaza.
Since the