Special Speech at Georgia's Athens Human Rights Festival by Western Falun Dafa Practitioner (Photo)
By Practitioners in Atlanta
(Clearwisdom.net) The annual human rights festival was held April 19-20,
2002 in the beautiful college town of Athens, Georgia. Georgia Falun Dafa
practitioners set up a booth and took part in the two-day festival. Western
practitioner Scot Roberson made a special speech on Falun Gong.
1. Introduce Dafa in a pure and compassionate manner
At the human rights festival, people of different races dressed in various
clothing and playing different music and representatives of several human
rights organizations were present. Our Falun Dafa booth was set up 60 feet from the stage. The boundless
compassion, peace and tranquility from the booth reached all the way to the
street. Some Falun Dafa practitioners were practicing sitting meditation; some
were sending forth righteous thoughts; some were handing out Falun Dafa
truth-clarifying literature and introducing Falun Gong to the busy crowd in
the scorching sun. Many people happily accepted Falun Dafa truth-clarifying
literature and earnestly read it. Some adults with babies in their arms passed
by our booth in a hurry, but the babies opened their small hands asking for
something. They gave bright smiles when we gave them a piece of precious Falun
Dafa literature. Many people stretched out their hands to Falun Dafa while
they were still quite far away from us. We understood that our Compassionate
Teacher guided these kind people with a predestined relationship to us, giving
more people an opportunity to be saved. 2. Practitioner's rational and peaceful speech and miraculous cultivation
amaze the public
University of Georgia at Athens (UGA) is western practitioner Scot
Roberson's alma mater. With Falun Dafa Pudu music filling the air, Scot
narrated in a rational and peaceful manner his extraordinary experience of
going to Tiananmen Square to validate Falun Dafa. Hundreds of eyes looked at
him in astonishment and listened to him attentively. He also talked about his
personal cultivation practice in Falun Dafa, the widespread acceptance of
Falun Dafa around the world and the persecution suffered by Falun Dafa
practitioners in China. At the same time, four practitioners, in golden yellow
t-shirts proclaiming "Falun Dafa" and
"Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance" demonstrated the fifth set of
exercise. They also sent forth righteous thoughts. Other practitioners took
the chance to give Falun Dafa material to the audience. At that moment, the
noisy human rights festival became solemn and respectful, and completely
immersed in Falun Dafa's boundless compassion. Falun Dafa attracted the entire
audience and tourists. People's eyes were filled with pleasant surprise,
understanding, yearning and respect.
"Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance" were embedded in people's
hearts. Many Americans were surprised while viewing our Falun Dafa truth-clarifying
posters. They felt it inconceivable that Jiang's regime persecutes Falun Dafa
practitioners to such a brutal extent. Many people had tears in their eyes and
sincerely worried about the situation of Falun Gong practitioners in China. A
middle-aged American man in tears told the practitioners there that he had been
to China and adopted a 22-month old orphan in Hunan Province. He said he
witnessed how brutally the Chinese police treated Falun Gong practitioners.
After he learned that Changchun Falun Dafa practitioners successfully broadcast
truth-clarifying programs through the cable TV network and suffered a
large-scale arrest, he said, "I must sign to support their righteous deeds,
and to protect basic human rights." Another American was outraged after
carefully looking through our photo display boards, he said, "If there are
people who still don't know the severe persecution against Falun Gong
practitioners in China, these people must be living in caves..." Amnesty International initiated the rescue of Changchun Falun Gong
practitioners, and has gained support from kind-hearted people around the world.
In less than two days, more than 130 people in Athens signed the petition. These
kind people expressed their voice, "Chinese dictator Jiang must stop the
persecution against Falun Gong practitioners. Peaceful practice is one's basic
human right. Whoever issued such an order to persecute people, he is indeed
committing crimes, and he will definitely be brought to justice."
Chinese version available at
http://www.minghui.ca/mh/articles/2002/5/7/29648.html
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