Germany: Promoting Falun Gong at the Dresden City Festival (Photos)
By a German practitioner
(Clearwisdom.net) Jiang Zemin visited Germany in April
2002. He made himself look foolish in Sachsen, Dresden because he was afraid of
seeing Falun Gong practitioners who wore yellow T-shirts. He even violated the
laws in Germany and asked the police to beat people who practice Falun Gong. In
August 2002, the famous Elbe River flooded, which caused a loss of nearly three
billion Euros for the wealthiest state of Eastern Germany. The state of Sachsen
was thrown into chaos. The busiest city festival, which is usually held every
year, was thus forced to cancel. Two years later, local practitioners joined the city festival
once again. They had learned lessons from their previous experiences and this
year made a more complete preparation. They applied for permission for two
stands in different places. They were invited to demonstrate the five sets of
Falun Gong exercises, as well as other traditional performances on the stage
beside Elbe River four times for thirty to forty-five minutes each time. As well
as performing the exercises, practitioners from nearby areas enlisted dance and
waist-drum teams to demonstrate the goodness and vitality of Falun Dafa. Many
people signed to support the lawsuit against the instigator of the persecution
against Falun Gong, former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin.
About five hundred thousand people joined the city festival.
Although many people visited the stands, there were still many
people who did not have the chance to come. Practitioners paraded
along the busiest street displaying a traditional Chinese
waist-drum performance. Other practitioners distributed materials
alongside them. The dance teams performed and the practitioners
demonstrated the exercises on the grass bank of the Elbe River. After seeing the beauty of the exercises or
appreciating the performances of the dancers and the waist-drum
team, people asked for beautiful bookmarks and signed their names
on a petition calling for an end to the persecution. Many people
went to the Falun Gong stands to ask for information about the
exercise sites and some learned the exercises on the spot. The
sound engineer showed great interest after watching practitioners'
performances. He was enthusiastic to learn about Falun Dafa more
deeply. In the process of applying for the stands,
there was also interference, but practitioners kept strong
righteous thoughts. They brought along a laptop computer and
showed a film detailing the goodness of Dafa and the persecution
of practitioners in China to the festival sponsors. Thus, a
meeting that was originally supposed to be quite short lasted for
about forty minutes. The meeting was successful. Whoever they met,
they told them the facts. When receiving practitioners' phone
calls, some working staff would pleasantly say, "Falun Dafa!"
They wanted to cooperate with their activities, and asked them
again and again to demonstrate the exercises in front of the
stands Source: http://clearharmony.net/articles/200408/21663.html
People understand the facts
Chinese version available at
http://minghui.org/mh/articles/2004/8/29/82875.html
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