New York: Falun Dafa Practitioners Participate in a New York City Street Fair

(Minghui.org) Falun Dafa practitioners participated in one of the New York City street fairs and introduced the beauty and wonders of the practice to local residents in Lower Manhattan on August 8, 2021. Many predestined people inquired about Falun Dafa and some even bought the book Zhuan Falun at the information booth.

Falun Dafa practitioners demonstrated the five sets of exercises at an information booth during a street fair in Lower Manhattan, New York, on August 8, 2021.

Passersby learn about Falun Dafa.

The street fair in Lower Manhattan on August 8, 2021

The Falun Dafa booth was located outside One Wall Street, at the intersection with Broadway. A number of tourist sites were nearby, including the New York Stock Exchange, the Bull of Wall Street, and the World Trade Center.

The Falun Dafa booth included a bright yellow tent and and peaceful, serene exercise music. Practitioners demonstrated the five exercise sets with gentle, slow, and curved movements, as an endless stream of predestined people passed by the booth.

Mindy Ranney (first on the left) and her daughter (second from the left) learned the Falun Dafa exercises.

Mindy Ranney, the commissioner for Ward 1 in Mount Lebanon, Pennsylvania, came to the street fair with her daughter. Practitioners introduced the practice to them and gave them truth-clarification flyers and paper lotus flowers. Mindy said she had encountered Falun Dafa at a park in San Francisco, and at that time, she felt a positive and great energy field. Mindy and her daughter learned the first three sets of Falun Dafa exercises during the street fair in Lower Manhattan. After practicing the first set of exercises, Mindy felt a great energy field, which was both soothing and calm. She expressed her gratitude to the practitioners.

Jim (middle) takes a photo with Falun Dafa practitioners and said he supports practitioners’ efforts to end the persecution.

Jim, who lives in New York City, told practitioners that he had heard about the ongoing persecution of Falun Dafa practitioners in China. He said he also knew that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) denies people the freedom to practice their faith, since it is a regime that operates through lies and deceit. He hoped that the Chinese people would stand up and follow their conscience, awaken to the truth, and not be blinded by the CCP. He said that cultivating Falun Dafa benefits people’s physical health, and he supports practitioners’ efforts to end the persecution. He stated that he will stand on the side of practitioners in condemning the brutal CCP regime.

Desiree Riveraz spoke with practitioners during the street fair. She said, “Not only does the CCP persecute Chinese people, it has also harmed people all over the world. The CCP virus (coronavirus) that spread from Wuhan, China, caused the world’s economy to regress and many people lost their lives.” She said she supports practitioners’ efforts to peacefully protest to end the persecution. Desiree also learned the five set of exercises and bought the book Falun Gong.

Mohummeol Alvihars (right) learned the Falun Dafa exercises.

Mohummeol Alvihars is a student from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was encountering Falun Dafa for the first time at the street festival. He said he supports practitioners in their efforts to end the persecution. He learned to practice all five exercise sets. He felt very good after doing the exercises and said he will continue to learn more about Falun Dafa when he gets home.

Many predestined people passed by the booth during the activity and took truth-clarification flyers and paper lotus flowers. Many tourists who spoke with practitioners agreed, “Falun Dafa is good. The world needs Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance.”