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No. 12   Association of Overseas Hong Kong Chinese for
                      Democracy and Human Rights                       100
No. 13   Introduction of June 4th Bicycle Team                          86
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No. 12
              Association of Overseas Hong Kong Chinese for
                      Democracy and Human Rights

                      by  Ming Chu  <CHU@MITLNS>

Name of Organization: Association of Overseas Hong Kong Chinese for
                      Democracy and Human Rights (established 6/17/89)

Mailing Address: P.O. Box 259, MIT Branch, Cambridge MA 02139, U.S.A.

Phone: 617-495-9616 c/o Ka Yee Lee
       617-253-4818 c/o Ming-chung Chu

Fax: 617-258-6923 c/o Ming-chung Chu, Rm. 6-310

E-mail: [email-masked]
        [email-masked]

Contact persons: Ka Yee Lee                   Ming-chung Chu
                 Rm. 320 Gordon Mckay Lab.    Center for Theoretical Physics
                 9 Oxford St.                 MIT 6-310
                 Harvard University           Cambridge MA 02139
                 Cambridge MA 02138           617-253-4818 (o)
                 617-495-9616 (o)             617-628-1549 (h)
 [email-masked]   [email-masked]

                 Wai-shing Choi
                 ECS Dept., College of Engineering,
                 Boston University,
                 44 Cummington St.,
                 Boston MA 02215
                 617-738-8623 (h)
                 [email-masked]

Objectives: 1) To promote democracy and human rights in China and Hong Kong
            2) To inform our members about the most recent developments in
               China and Hong Kong
            3) To create a forum and network for our members to exchange
               views on the future of China and Hong Kong

Membership: Roughly half students and half professionals in the Boston area.
            Student members from Boston University, Brandeis University,
            Brown University, Framingham State College, Harvard University,
            MIT, Museum of Fine Arts Institute, and Northeastern University.
            93 members as of 11/17/89.

Past Activities:
1) supporting pro-democracy movements:
   i) fund-raising campaigns (three so far this year; funds go to
      May 4 Foundation, China Relief Fund, Hong Kong Red Cross);
      total about $6000 raised.
   ii) Signature collection (letter to Bush and the Senate asking
       for stronger actions; open letter to the Chinese People
       declaring support of the
       prodemocracy movement; letter to congress to lobby for
       Dixon/Pelosi Bill ); about 10,000 signatures collected altogether.
   iii) letter-writing campaign (send letters to mainland China to
        fight the news blockade); about 1500 letters sent.

2) seminars and discussions
    i) Eye-witness Account of the Beijing Massacre - delegation
       from Hong Kong
    ii) Discussion forums/lectures with the visit of
        HKU delegates, Lee Wing-tat, Szeto Wah, Ling Fung, and Ming Chan.
    iii) Video-show: "The River Elegy", with Cantonese narration.

3) 100th-day Memorial (9/12); participate in 10/1 March in D.C.

4) exhibition
        "The Dream Shattered - the Ten-Year Reform and the Beijing Massacre"
   a multi-media (pictures, slides, video), bilingual exhibition,
   shown in Boston 10/1-15, more than 1000 viewers so far.
   Will travel around different institutes.

5) newsletter
    publish newsletters every 2-3 weeks to provide a forum for exchange of
  ideas as well as reporting activities and latest news on China and Hong
 Kong.

6) distribute video tapes of `The Awakening China..', the TV newsprogram
   made in Hong Kong; produce and distribute Cantonese narration of
   `The River Elegy'.

Future Activities:

1) seminars, discussion forums, and lectures on future of Hong Kong and
   China; organize study groups to watch the development in Hong Kong,
   study issues relating to democracy and human rights.

2) actively participate in organizing an alliance of U.S. prodemocratic
   Hong Kong groups.  We are the Fund-Raising Coordinator for the
   First Congress of this alliance.

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No. 13   Introduction of June 4th Bicycle Team
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From:         INR@UGA

                      June 4th Bicycle Team
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    P.O. Box 968, F.D.R. Station, New York, NY 10150, U.S.A.
             Tel: (718)426-8447  Fax: (718)476-8529
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Objectives
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To call forth a continual worldwide attention of the needs of a
suffering people for her urge of the basic human rights that her
government deprives of her;

To tell all those who love peace, democracy, and freedom the truth
of the June 4th Massacre, which the Chinese government is still
denying;

To carry on the spirit of "Give me Liberty or Give me Death!" which
the Chinese students have demonstrated in the 1989 Pro-democracy
Movement in Beijing.

The Project
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The June 4th Bicycle Team plans to tour around major countries and
cities of the world in two years.  Touring activities include
seminars, exhibitions, multi-media shows, and sales of souvenirs.

Initiated by a group of Chinese students in the U.S., the project
is now in its first phase-cycling across the U.S.A.

The whole journey has 5 phases:
    I. North America;
   II. South-East Asia, South Asia, Australia;
  III. Europe (including the Soviet Union);
   IV. Africa and South America;
    V. Mainland China.

Phase I is estimated to be completed in 4 months.

On September 12, 1989, the 100th day after the bloodshed in
Beijing, the team set off from New York to Boston.  Then, it turned
south cycling across North America.

The team has just crossed New Mexico and will reach:
     i. Phoenix, Arizona on December 4th,
    ii. Los Angeles, California on December 11, and
   iii. San Francisco, California on December 19.

Activities
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The team organizes the following activities in cities and towns it
passes:
     1. Contacting related local human rights bodies to organize
public speeches, exhibitions, shows and sales of souvenirs;
     2. Visiting the local government and prominent persons to tell
them the truth of the June 4th Massacre in Beijing, and to urge
them to condemn the Chinese government of its disregard of basic
human rights;
     3. Coordinating with local organizations in activities
concerning the Pro-democracy movement in China;
     4. Working with related local sports groups, human rights
bodies, and organizations in support of Pro-democracy Movement in
China to encourage the local people to participate as accompanying
bicyclists.

The Dream
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The members of the June 4th Bicycle Team have determined to
demonstrate the undefeatable spirit of the Chinese people through
overcoming arduous journeys.  We are not struggling only for the
dead, but also for the brave democratic fighters who are still
being slaughtered and arrested.

                Give me Liberty or Give me Death
                      La Liberte ou La Mort
                     La Libertad o La Muerte
                    Die Freihert oder den Tod

For further information, please contact:

June 4th Bicycle Team
P.O. Box 968,
F.D.R. Station,
New York, NY 10150,
U.S.A.
Tel: (718) 426-8447
Fax: (718) 476-8529

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