Marking 25th anniversary of China's Tiananmen Square takes creativity
Source: L.A. Times
Show tunes. Confetti. A deck of cards. Rubber ducks. A pornographic video.
These are some of the props in the annual games underway in Beijing as the most sensitive day of the year approaches. Wednesday is the 25th anniversary of the day when Communist Party leaders sent the military to clear pro-democracy students from Tiananmen Square.
Every year, political activists try to commemorate the hundreds if not thousands of people who died in the crackdown, and the Chinese government tries to prevent them, a cat-and-mouse game as classic as "Tom and Jerry."
Except in China the mouse rarely wins.
One activist group, using the website backtotiananmen.com, is calling for people to flock to the square on Wednesday. Since it is impossible to hold banners or chant slogans without risking immediate arrest, the organizers suggest that people sing "Do You Hear the People Sing?" from "Les Miserables" — the tune from the finale in which Parisians rise up against tyranny.
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June 4, 1989 - never forget.
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It never happened? And why the fuck should we on DU care about it since most of us (not all) are Americans and we are the big bad wolf. I mean do we have a right to care about what goes on in other countries? Why don't we just leave our self-centered egotistical selves right (or left in this case) where we belong. It's none of our business. We should just bury our head in the sand and wait for an asteroid to hit the earth.
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