Eye Level Pasadena

June 7, 2007

• Pasadena Weekly: No cause for celebration: Falun Gong practitioners object to planned Chinese Olympic Rose Parade float

June 25, 2007

• City council meeting, June 25, 2007: Local residents speak at a Pasadena city council meeting about their and their family members’ experiences with human rights abuses in China and their concern about a planned Rose Parade float celebrating the Bejing Olympics. (Jump to agenda item #2 and fast forward to 29:04 in the video; then see agenda item #11.) Excerpts from the meeting below the fold at the bottom of this post.

June 27, 2007

• Rights Readers (book club blog for the Pasadena chapter of Amnesty International): The Olympics Come to Pasadena

June 28, 2007

• Under the Dome: Chinese take outs from Monday (see also the detailed comment from Jenny, one of the Falun Gong practitioners who spoke at Monday’s city council meeting)
• Pasadena Weekly: ‘We need to speak out on that’: Rose Parade float prompts council to consider official review of human rights abuses in China

July 4, 2007

• Pasadena District 6 Blogger: 4th of July and Freedom

July 7, 2007

• Kenneth Todd Ruiz, Pasadena Star-News: Local Falun Gong Seeking Support

July 9, 2007

• Kenneth Todd Ruiz, Under the Dome (follow-up blog post to his Sunday article): Sunday postmortem

July 16, 2007

• Kenneth Todd Ruiz, Pasadena Star-News: City urged to review China ties

July 17, 2007

• The Adventures of Aaron Proctor in St. Louis: Big Trouble in Little Pasadena

June 19, 2007

• Joe Piasecki, Pasadena Weekly: Roses are Red: Human rights groups push the City Council and Tournament of Roses to rethink a controversial Chinese Olympic-themed float

About Falun Gong (also known as Falun Dafa)

• Falun Dafa: A Brief Introduction
• The Falun Dafa Books (translated into English and free online)

About Xicheng: Xicheng is Pasadena’s Chinese sister city. It is near the labor camp where Jenny Liu’s mother is being held.

Cross-posted at Pasadena Conversations.

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