UK: Clarifying the Facts at a Scottish University
(Clearwisdom.net) On Saturday November 1, 2003, practitioners in
Scotland attended the Annual Conference of the Modern Studies Association (M.S.A.)
at a university near Glasgow. This is the second year that practitioners have
been invited, after last year's successful activity. The M.S.A holds a
particular interest in inviting Falun Gong because many secondary school
teachers in Scotland teach China Studies as part of the Modern Studies
curriculum, so the persecution of Falun Gong in China is of great interest to
both teachers and pupils. Following the M.S.A conference last year, one practitioner in Scotland went
to a secondary school near Edinburgh and gave a presentation about Falun Gong to
a class of thirty pupils around fourteen years old. She showed a video and
although she had warned the children that some footage of the torture victims
was quite shocking, the children were nonetheless taken aback at the severity of
the treatment meted out to practitioners in China. In the question and answer
session after the video, the children made poignant remarks and were very angry
at the injustice of this persecution. Three of the children were particularly
interested in the subject as they were entering a human rights competition,
which entailed putting together the front page of a newspaper on the topic of
human rights. They decided to use the persecution of Falun Gong as their focus. After the M.S.A event, practitioners went to Glasgow City center to hand out
leaflets about the persecution. Practitioners also brought along a couple of
petitions and many people signed them. Overall, it was a very successful day.
Practitioners set up a stall in the lobby area with leaflets, magazines, videos
and Video-CDs, all offering information about the brutal and systematic
persecution of innocent and peaceful practitioners in China. Many people signed
a petition to rescue the practitioners who are related to UK residents, but are
imprisoned in Chinese prisons and labor camps because they continue to practice
Falun Gong and live by the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion and Tolerance.
As teachers came out of the conference for a break, they bustled around the
Falun Gong table, eager to take materials for use in their classes. Some
teachers had been at last year's M.S.A conference and had taken materials from
practitioners. They remarked that they had found the information very
interesting and useful. Practitioners also offered to go to schools to give a
presentation on the persecution. Many teachers were enthusiastic about this and
gave their contact details. The organizer heartily thanked practitioners for
attending the event.
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