Boston: Falun Gong Appeal Attract Media's Attention

(Clearwisdom.net) During the U.S. Democratic National Convention in Boston, Falun Gong practitioners held a series of activities including parade, group exercises and anti-torture exhibition to call for an end to the 5-year persecution of Falun Gong in China. Their activities attract media's attention.

A report on July 27 by the New York Times said, "In fact, the most colorful moment so far - great swirls of yellow, magenta and emerald green - was provided by Falun Gong in a parade down Boylston Street on Sunday afternoon."

The Nation Magazine reported on July 26, "There was a huge march in full swing by then, all of Boylston Street filled with Falun Gong followers, protesting China's human rights record." The report said hundreds of people dressed in yellow costumes, marching in precisely maintained rows, wave upon wave of yellow-shirted people bearing banners and singing.

According to a report from GoMemphis.com on July 27, "amid concerts and dancing, song and speechmaking from soapboxes, Falun Gong, the practitioners of an ancient form of meditation, are making perhaps the most dramatic street theater on the streets of Boston. Hundreds of members are gathered in Copley Square, meditating, while a smaller group enacts what it calls the torture being visited on its adherents by the Chinese government. On Monday, two uniformed "guards" stood over a woman in ripped prison clothes inside a makeshift jail cell set up for passersby. Another woman appeared to be having bamboo sticks shoved under her fingernails."

The report said, "Ora Feidman, 68, came to Boston from Israel to help organize the massive demonstration, which is expected to continue through the week. She's among about 400 Falun Dafa practitioners in Israel, although she says there's no accurate count of the number of people who she says simply want to cultivate good through discipline and spiritual exercises."

"This has been five years of persecution of people who just want to be good people," Ora told the reporter

Pawtucket Times, a newspaper from Rhode Island reported on July 27, "Hundreds of Falun Gong practitioners re-enacted Chinese torture methods Monday during a protest outside the Democratic National Convention."

According to the report, at least a few hundred protesters marched through Copley Square and Boston Common Monday afternoon. The protesters were there to bring attention to Chinese government repression against practitioners of Falun Gong.

The report said, "The marchers staged mock executions and portrayed torture practices that they say are being used by the communist Chinese government."

"Falun Gong is a practice involving meditation and exercises that was outlawed by the Chinese leader Jiang Zemin in 1999. Falun Gong practitioners and their supporters say that Chinese practitioners have been imprisoned, tortured and murdered since then." The report said.