Friday, March 07, 2008
PEN America
is trying to get
to free nearly 40 writers
rounded up in advance of
this year’s Olympics
You can help:
Sign the petition to the Chinese government
Sign the petition to the U.S. Congress
Sign up to receive updates & breaking campaign news
Information on 38 currently imprisoned writers
(plus four others already released)
with actions you can take
to help each
are on the Penn American Center site!
Penn’s letter to the Chinese government
Labels: human rights
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petition China? and worse
than that petition Our impotent Congress?!!
more effective is to "piss-into-the-wind" and then go do a
phantasy vote for "change"
than that petition Our impotent Congress?!!
more effective is to "piss-into-the-wind" and then go do a
phantasy vote for "change"
I signed both letters
because I want to be on record
for what I believe in
whether or not anyone cares.
because I want to be on record
for what I believe in
whether or not anyone cares.
hey brian,
why don't you petition them Chinese about Tibet
and the pandas?
and about Hsi Muren, Dom Cheung, and Chen I-Chih?
to say nothing of that Three Rivers Gorge Damn!
how 'bout those 10 cents an hour slaves making lead-based pills for USA consumption
good thing you "believe"
cheers, Kokie-san
why don't you petition them Chinese about Tibet
and the pandas?
and about Hsi Muren, Dom Cheung, and Chen I-Chih?
to say nothing of that Three Rivers Gorge Damn!
how 'bout those 10 cents an hour slaves making lead-based pills for USA consumption
good thing you "believe"
cheers, Kokie-san
The situation for writers in Vietnam is even worse.
Of course, neither one is as bad as the situation under the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, but if you were to be a writer in Asia the place to do it is in Japan (since we rewrote their Constitution).
Macao and Hong Kong still have some vestige of human rights thanks to the European influence.
Freedom of speech is a European thing. It doesn't seem to exist elsewhere on the globe.
I attribute it to Luther's establishment of freedom of inquiry as a fundamental human right. Hooray for Luther!
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Of course, neither one is as bad as the situation under the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, but if you were to be a writer in Asia the place to do it is in Japan (since we rewrote their Constitution).
Macao and Hong Kong still have some vestige of human rights thanks to the European influence.
Freedom of speech is a European thing. It doesn't seem to exist elsewhere on the globe.
I attribute it to Luther's establishment of freedom of inquiry as a fundamental human right. Hooray for Luther!
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