(Minghui.org) “Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is very good. I need this principle and will look into it after going home.” said a lady visitor to the Falun Gong booth at the 18th World Beat Festival in Salem, Oregon on June 27 and 28, 2015.
Falun Gong practitioners were invited to participate in the festival. They introduced Falun Gong to the visitors and exposed the 16-year-long brutal persecution in China.
Falun Gong information booth at the World Beat Festival in Salem, Oregon.
The festival held in Salem's Riverfront Park, is the largest multicultural event in Oregon. There were five villages, nine performance areas and over 100 stalls in the festival.
A father and his two teenage girls came to the Falun Gong booth. They had not heard of Falun Gong before. After learning about the grace of Falun Gong and the brutal persecution in China, they were shocked. The father signed the petition calling for an end to the persecution. He explained to his children and asked them to sign the petition, too.
Many children liked the paper lotus flowers that the practitioners distributed. They told the children to remember the words Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance on the card under the lotus flower. A boy said gently, “I will give this to my mom as a gift.”
House Resolution 343 was introduced to US Congress on June 24. It asks the Chinese Communist Party to immediately stop the persecution of Falun Gong and live organ harvesting from practitioners and other prisoners of conscience. The festival occurred three days later. Seeing a display board about the resolution, many visitors signed the petition without delay.
Some visitors said that they would write to or call their congressional representatives to urge them to support the resolution. One couple indicated that they have followed the situation with Falun Gong for years. The husband said, “Live organ harvesting is simply inhuman. It is too horrible. We absolutely support your raising awareness of this issue.”
