WHAT: Protest the Pasadena Sister
Cities Association for their failure to be a caring sister city for the
Xicheng District of Beijing.
WHAT: 11:00
am.
Sunday,
Arpil
5, 2009
WHERE:
Huntington
Library,
1151
Oxford Road, San Marino, CA 91108
BACKGROUND
INFORMATION:
To tell the Pasadena Sister
Cities Committee that they should act as a good sister to Xicheng
District in engaging in a dialogue of real communications and ask
Governor Zhang Yu of Xicheng District of Beijing to help promote human
rights in China for his own people.
To ask the Pasadena Sister
Cities Committee members to give a message to Beijing via Mr. Zhang Yu,
the Governor of Xicheng District of Beijing, to ask for the release of
Liu Xiaobo who was detained since December 10, 2008 on the 60th
Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the
release of other prisoners of conscience: Huang Qi, Sun Lin, Qi
Chonghuai, Hu Jia, Yang Chunlin, Chen Guangcheng and Shi Tao.
Pasadena Sister Cities Committee will be celebrating the 10th
anniversary of the relation with Xicheng District with Governor Zhang
Yu.
PARTICIPATING
ORGANIZATIONS
Various human rights and
China pro-democracy organizations. To be announced.
CONTACT
INFORMATION : Visual Artists Guild, Ann Lau 310-539-0234,
310-433-0697 or Ann Noonan 646/251-6069.
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