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MattOrtega: RT @petehoekstra Walked out onto Constitution Ave in D.C. and was almost hit by a taxi. Reminded me of Tienanmen Square...
...cynicism. Something has gone awry, he writes, when our media-induced cynicism spreads to the degree that "we find ourselves blinking with astonishment and perhaps shame at the televised spectacle of dissident Chinese students carrying a twenty-foot-high paper-mache statue of Miss Liberty in Beijing's Tienanmen Square, and dying for it a few days later...
Take, for example, Harvard Students for a Democratic China. Addressing the human rights situation in China following the 1989 Tienanmen Square massacre, the student group has organized rallies, vigils, fasts and forums in an attempt to draw attention to the efforts of a beleaguered pro-democracy movement...
...ceremony also included a slide presentation of protests in Beijing, a minute of silence and a recorded message by Wang Chaohua, a student who was arrested in the Tienanmen protest and escaped...
...last night's meeting, the council also asked the Harvard community to participate in a fast from sunset May 12, 1990, to sunset the next day to honor the anniversary of the Tienanmen crackdown. The council also pledged that each member will telephone another student government asking them to join the "symbolic fast...