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No. 9

           A Report of Voice of June Fourth Radio Station
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NO. 9
           A Report of Voice of June Fourth Radio Station

1.  A brief introduction to the broadcast project

Voice of June Fourth is a radio project run by a group of Chinese
students and scholars in the United States.  It is affiliated to
the Independent Alliance of Chinese Students in the USA.  The
Committee of Broadcast under the Alliance is the supporting force
to Voice of June Fourth headquartered in Chicago.

Starting from September 30th, Voice of June Fourth (VJF) has
started its broadcast to Mainland China.  For three days during
the period of the National Day of PRC, VJF broadcasted seven
hours a day from 5 pm. to 0 am through 27 different frequencies
ranging from medium to short wave.  Several world most powerful
broadcast towers located in the neighboring countries of China
helped VJF rebroadcast its programs.  We have received telephone
calls from Beijing and Nanjing telling us that they clearly
received the shows of VJF.

At present, VJF produces a half hour show everyday, six days a
week.  The time of its broadcast to China is from 9 to 10 pm.
Beijing time seven days a week.  In the United States, VJF
broadcasts in Boston.  The time is 1 to 3 pm. every sunday at fm
100.  The purpose to broadcast in the United States is to let
those who are interested in the broadcast project know the
content that reach Mainland China.  Therefore they can raise
suggestions and support.

2.  The work in the headquarter

The headquarter is located in Chicago consisting of a studio and
an office.  The routine includes:
1. To correspond with reporters and article contributors nation
wide to collect articles and information.
2. To edit programs.
3. To produce and transmit radio programs.
4. To keep in touch with different pro-democracy organizations.
5. To raise fund for the VJF.
6. To manage the headquarter including labor decision and
coordination.
7. To maintain the facilities in the studio.

3.  A brief introduction to the programs

The programs fall into two categories namely news reporting and
commenting and special programs.
(1)  Current news: News about events happened in China and the
world that the Beijing Government tries to block off.  Generally
anything about the people's desire for freedom and democracy is
annoying to the Beijing rulers and therefore they are not
reported by the mass media controlled by the Beijing Government.
Deng Xiaoping addresses these news as the "big environment of the
world and the small environment of China".  We believe that
Chinese people have special interests in these news and VJF is
dedicated to the reporting of them.

(2) News commentary: We use commentaries of the Chinese students
and scholars in the United States in our programs.  These people
are out from China only for at most a few years.  Their
commentaries on the latest events in the development of democracy
in China and the world are relevant and convincing to the Chinese
people.  The voice from their own relatives about the latest
development of democracy in the world makes sense to the Chinese
people about the events in other countries that they are not very
familiar with.

(3)  Special programs:  We have a series of special programs
about cultural and educational issues.  They are a cross country
comparison and discussion of different cultures and educational
systems.  The following is a brief description of the features of
our special programs.

a.  Tribune for reform discussion
This session is dedicated to the reforms in socialist countries.
One of the issues it is going to address is how Deng Xiaoping
started his reform and why the reform in China ends up with a
major crack down by the Beijing Government.  All the exciting
events in Eastern European countries are discussed in this
session.

b.  The wounds in history
This session is about the efforts to and sacrifices for the pro-
democracy movements in the history of China and the world.  Many
of the tries of the peoples failed under the suppression of the
brutal rulers.  What conditions the movements faced and how the
peoples struggled under these conditions in their pursuit for
freedom and democracy are discussed.  Efforts are exerted to
study the lessons from the historical events so that in the
movements for democracy to come, the opposition should be able to
do better.

c.  Life of the overseas Chinese students
After living in China under the rule of the CCP, the Chinese
students find many things in the Western world different and
amazing.  Some of their experiences in the Western world are
pleasant others are not.  And their views of the world change
with time.  What are the conflicts of different values of
different systems?  How these conflicts affect the life of the
Chinese students?  What are the good things and bad things about
the Western world and about China when looked from outside?

d.  American society
Entertaining as well as educational, this program tries to reveal
different facets of the American society by introducing various
characters and historical events to Chinese people.  America is
both the heaven and hell.  But its major difference to a closed
society is that in the United States, powers are checked and
balanced.  Under the rule of law, the judicial and media systems
are functioning independently.  There is no trouble free society
in the world, but through comparison, people should be able to
tell which system is better, the democratic one or the autocratic
one.

e.  Literature and arts
We use short pieces of literature that are relevant to the
people's pursuit for democracy and freedom or reflecting the
different characteristics of Chinese and Western societies.

f. Letters from home
This session aims at the promotion of communication and emotional
relations between Chinese people in and out side of China.
Because of the close relationships between the Chinese students
and their kin in China, we should be able to accurately capture
the changes in the environment in China and the feelings of the
Chinese people.  We also encourage feed backs on our program from
China so that we can improve the quality of our broadcast to
Chinese people.

What We Need to Do the Next

At present, we have six people working full time in the
headquarter of Voice of June Fourth Radio Station.  Everyone is
overloaded with their work.  In this case, how to work more
effectively and reach higher quality is the consideration of the
staff everyday.  We need to further systemize and streamline our
production of radio shows.  Everyone should be better trained in
his or her specialty and yet be more versatile to fill up the
gaps caused by lack of hands in our organization.

We need to enhance our work on public relation.  More people
should know our program so as to support us with their
contributions in money, articles, and advice.  The general
American public hardly knows anything about our radio project yet
and the same with the public in Hong Kong and Taiwan.  We should
publish more stories about our project and reach out to contact
more people in our seek of support and participation.

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Appendix:
                       Broadcast Programs

SESSIONS         EDITORS   TIMES  LENGTH     WORDS
                           (WEEK) (MINT.)    (*100)

1. TODAY'S     JINGSHENG      6     6-8      12-16
   NEWS
2. NEWS        SHANYUAN       2    10-20     20-40
   COMT.
3. PRO-
   DEMO. MOVT. J.S.           2    10        20
4. CHINA
   IN CHANGE   HUIYUN         2    10-20     20-40
5. WOUNDS
   IN HIST.    LAOFAN         2    10-20     20-40
6. UNIV.
   FOR DEMOC.  HUIYUN         2    15-20     30-40
7. LIFE OF
   CHI. STUD.  HUIYUN         2    10-20     20-40
8. AMER.
   SOC.        YU CHENG       1    10        20
9. FEATURES
   OF CHAR.    LAOFAN         1    10        20
10 LITERATURE  XINRAN         1    10        20
11 LETTERS
   FROM HOME   HUIYUN         2    10-20     20-40
12 MUSIC       J. S.          6    2-4

TOTAL                              140-160   280-320

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+ Dong Ping Deng (Social Culture China)    e-mail: [email-masked]    +
+ Weihe Guan (China-Net)                   e-mail: inr@uga                 +
+ Hong Lin   (China Study Forum)           e-mail: linhong@mcmaster        +
+ Gang Xu    (China News Digest)           e-mail: gxu@kentvm              +
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