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Saturday's more vocal protest will feature outspoken speakers, including Chinese dissident Harry Wu; Tiananmen Square protester Shen Tong; Dawa Tsering, a representative of Tibetan government-in-exile; 10 Buddhist monks from India; several Harvard students, and possibly actor and Tibetan activist Richard Gere, whose trip to Cambridge was not confirmed at press time...
...Speeches from Chinese dissident Harry Wu, actor Richard Gere, former political prisoner Wang Xi Zhe and others...
...Richard Gere in real life is now persona non grata in China. Due to his outspoken support of Tibetan independence following the Chinese invasion of the country, the government continues to disallow his visas and reserves the right to arrest him should he set foot in the country...
...impressive, then, that the movie is able to execute this tried and true genre with as much competence as it does, given the self-imposed hurdle that it all happen in China. Jack Moore (Richard Gere) finds himself in China negotiating a cable television deal with the government, and then just as quickly and easily finds himself in bed with a beautiful Chinese model--a surefire recipe for disaster. Sure enough, he awakens to find her murdered and himself under arrest for the crime. The ensuing legal battle is at the same time strange and unnatural for Moore and strangely...
...Coalition also announced that actor Richard Gere will speak at a 9 a.m. demonstration Saturday morning...