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Dafa Practitioners Participate in Dragon Boat Festival in Connecticut (Photos) By a Connecticut practitioner
(Clearwisdom.net September 26, 2003) On September 20, Connecticut Falun Gong practitioners
participated in the 3rd Connecticut Dragon Boat Festival held at the state capital of
Hartford. Initially, the organizer rejected our application to perform at the festival, saying that the
program was already full without any vacancies. Later, we learned that the organizer had been
threatened and warned not to allow Falun Gong to participate. We realized that we should clarify the
facts wherever problems occur. Some practitioners rented a booth, and we came with righteous thought
to demonstrate the greatness of Dafa on the day of the event. To keep the costs down, we did not
rent a tent. Dafa posters were thus displayed on the spacious sidewalks, which made them more easily
visible. Several practitioners started to demonstrate the exercises under the baking sun, while female
practitioners in colorful traditional Chinese attire distributed flyers. Every passerby stopped to
either read posters, accept flyers or ask about the location of our practice sites. Soon, several
thousands copies of English literature and several hundred copies of Chinese literature had been
distributed. It is worthy to mention that almost every Chinese tourist accepted our information with
smile, and many of them started to read the information right away. Upon their arrival, practitioners took the initiative to contact organizers to again request an
opportunity to perform. Seeing practitioners' compassionate attitudes and beautiful attire, the
organizers immediately agreed to arrange that for us. So, we demonstrated Falun Gong exercises and
performed dances for the audience, and both the exercise demonstration and dance performance were
warmly received. The practitioners also exchanged understanding in the art of dance with the dancing
team of a local Chinese school and discussed issues regarding future collaboration. The Dragon Boast Festival concluded successfully; however, our truth-clarification work has just
started. We will continue to expose the lies and persecution of Jiang's regime further to save more
sentient beings. Posting date: 9/30/2003
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