Local Events
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Sweden: Falun Gong Practitioners Invited to Participate in School Open Day
2003-05-25The students and the teachers were all very keen on Falun Gong. Several of the children asked the practitioners to teach them the exercises. The students made comments like, "This is one of the best things Ive seen" and "I feel very comfortable doing the exercises." Practitioners felt that teaching the exercises to the children was a great way to celebrate World Falun Dafa Day. -
UK: Weekly Report from a University Radio Broadcast
2003-05-22Falun Dafa practitioners run a weekly radio show in a UK university. The show allows many people to find out about Falun Gong and the positive changes that the practice has brought to countless people. The radio show is also a good chance for people to learn more about the Jiang regimes persecution of Falun Dafa and of the basic values, morality and justice of Chinese society. This weeks broadcast looked at the potential capabilities of the Human body. -
Sweden: Collecting Signatures and Clarifying the Facts in Gothenburg
2003-05-20The local government of Biskopsgården declared May 16th 2003 as Biskopsgården Falun Dafa Day. To let more people know the facts about the persecution of Falun Gong and the illegal arrest and detention of Swedish Falun Gong practitioner Mrs. Pirjo Svensson, practitioners in Gothenburg held activities in Biskopsgarden. -
Austria: Photo Report - Practitioners Continue Clarifying the Truth in Vienna
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Sweden: Bringing the Wonder of Dafa to Every School in the Country (Part II)
2003-05-19On May 5 2003, The Story of Lotus opened in Swedens third largest city, Malmo. The performance received a warm welcome from the schools in that area. The Story of Lotus is a drama performance that combines dance, music and poetry. The dance is also intended to expose the facts of the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners by Jiangs regime in China. -
Sweden: Falun Gong Practitioners Produce a Programme for Local TV
2003-05-18The program outlined how 36 western practitioners appealed against the persecution of Falun Gong on Tiananmen Square. Practitioners hoped that this program could show Chinese people that Falun Gong is practised in many countries, contrary to the claims of Jiangs state-controlled media mouthpieces. -
Germany: Clarifying the Facts at a Spiritual Health Fair in Hannover
2003-05-17All the practitioners in northern Germany came to enthusiastically support us. We demonstrated the exercises and talked to people who visited our booth about Falun Dafa. Through these activities, many people came to understand more about the magnificence of Falun Gong, and also about the Jiang regimes persecution of 100 million innocent practitioners in China. -
Sweden: The Lotus Flower Performance Visits Lerum
2003-05-16This performance was the first in a 21-day tour of Sweden. Lotus Flower is performed on a non-profit basis by two Swedish practitioners and was created to support an end to the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners. Music, dance and dialogue arranged in a simple manner, create a very beautiful and touching true story about the suffering of practitioners in China. -
Sweden: Supporting the Lawsuit Against Jiang Zemin
2003-05-13Falun Gong practitioners from Stockholm gathered at the Chinese Embassy to send forth righteous thoughts and hand out flyers that revealed the facts about the persecution. This appeal was part of the worldwide effort by Dafa practitioners to further expose the crimes that Jiangs regime has committed against Falun Gong practitioners. -
Sweden: Practitioners Tell People about the Lawsuits Against Jiang and the Lies Behind the Spreading of SARS in China
2003-05-12A new flyer was given out, detailing the lawsuits against Jiang Zemin for genocide and crimes against humanity and the Jiang regimes risking of countless lives in an attempt to cover up the SARS epidemic. As usual, practitioners combined clarifying the facts of the persecution with exercise demonstrations in public. -
Sweden: Practitioners Perform the Lotus Flower Dance at a School
2003-05-12Lotus Flower is a performance, which uses dance, music and poetry to reveal the truth about Falun Gong and the Jiang regimes brutal persecution of over 70 million practitioners. After three performances, Swedish practitioners were invited into each class to tell the students more about Falun Gong and the situation in China. -
UK: Promoting Falun Dafa at a Junior School
2003-05-11Through talking about artist and Dafa practitioner Zhang Cuiying, who suffered eight months of torture in Chinese forced labour camps because she peacefully appealed for the human rights of persecuted practitioners, she let the students learn about Falun Gong and the appalling human rights situation for millions of women in China who want to improve their health through this peaceful practice. -
Sweden: Practitioners Clarify the Facts to the Swedish and Thai People
2003-05-10The practitioners hope that in the process of rescuing Pirjo, they can help the governments of Thailand and Sweden understand the true facts about the persecution of Falun Gong. They are contacting the Thai Embassy in Sweden, the Swedish Embassy in Thailand, the Swedish government and the media in their efforts to help the Thai government overcome Jiangs influence and release the innocent Mrs Svensson. -
Spain: Telling Chinese People the Truth about Falun Dafa in Madrids Chinatown
2003-05-09A shopkeeper said after receiving a Video-CD: Ive never believed the propaganda from Jiangs party. Judging from the movements in history, Jiangs party is used to cheating the public with lies to achieve its aims. Ive never believed their packs of lies. Falun Gong must be good, or there wouldnt be so many people practising. -
Sweden: Practitioners hold a Concert in the Exhibition Hall of Gothenburg University
2003-05-07A Chinese scholar told the practitioners with deep conviction, Its good that Falun Gong assists people in improving health. I stand on the side of Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance. This is opposite to falsehood, evil, and conflict. Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance is good. Persecuting Falun Gong is totally wrong.