PRESS RELEASE: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
PLEASE JOIN US:
WHAT: Memorial to Dr. Li Wenliang, coronavirus whistleblower.
Demand Beijing recognize UN Right to Health which includes the right of accurate information.
WHEN: Friday, February 7. 2020. 5 p.m.
WHERE: Consulate of the Peoples Republic of China
443 Shatto Place, Los Angeles, Ca. 90020
CONTACT INFORMATION: 310-433-0697, Ann Lau
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
On December 30, Dr. Li Wenliang first reported about a SARS like mysterious pneumonia illness in his hospital.
He was subsequently detained and accused of "spreading rumor".
On January 10, he was admitted to the hospital and subsequently determined to have caught the Wuhan virus.
Dr. Li died early morning on February 6.
With the death of Dr. Li, it is clear that Beijing's one party dictatorship is fully responsible for not only his death but the death so far of more than 500 people as reported by Beijing.
Information from inside China shows that the exact number of deaths maybe many times more as many of those who died were immediately cremated without certifying what they died of.
Despite Beijing having declared that information would be open, Beijing authorities continue to censor any information that it does not approve.
Indeed, the first news of Dr. Li's death had been deleted by the authorities and later re-issued.
Under the UN Declaration of Human Rights, the Right of Health includes the right of accurate information.
WHO, which is under the auspices of the UN is unduly submit itself to Beijing's control and failed to investigate the origin of the epidemic.
This epidemic fully demonstrates the right to freedom of speech and expression as our life and survival demands on it.
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Dooh Dah Parade 2019

YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO JOIN VISUAL ARTISTS GUILD
           On Sunday, November 24, 2019 in Pasadena, California  
     The Great Firewall of China Marching Brigade will                 
              STAND WITH HONG KONG
WHERE:    Pasadena Doo-Dah Parade – FREE, see map below
                       We are one of the groups in the parade:
                       The Great Firewall of China Marching Brigade - to Stand with Hong Kong                          

DATE:        Sunday, November 24, 2019

TIME:        Do join us and be part of the parade.
                  If you wish to be part of the parade, please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
                     please be there by 10 a.m. to practice our skits. 
                  The parade starts at 11 a.m.                                                                                  

Volunteers are needed!

No experience necessary              
Our aim is to present the current situation in Hong Kong in a way that is readily understood by the general audience.
* people to dress as Hong Kong police
* people to be peaceful protesters
* frontline protesters
* people to carry banners
* people to distribute flyers

MEET:   On Nina St, between Altadena Dr. and Vindeo Ave. at Pasadena, see Map below

INFORMATION: If you wish to be part of the parade please contact
                              Visual Artists Guild, Ann Lau 310-433-0697, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

BACKGROUND INFORMATION:

Hong Kong has been protesting for months with the five demands

1 Full withdrawal of the extradition bill
2 A commission of inquiry into alleged police brutality
3 Retracting the classification of protesters as “rioters”

4 Amnesty for arrested protesters

5 Dual universal suffrage, meaning for both the Legislative Council and the Chief Executive

Although the extradition bill has been withdrawn, there is a demand to remove the banning of wearing face mask.

Dear Friend,
            Congratulations! You have done it.  You made a difference.
            Last month we wrote to ask you to write to the World Bank Executive Direction regarding China's use of loan from the World Bank for repression.
            The World Bank has now rejected a $50 million loan to China's Xinjiang project.
            Thank you for your action!
Ann Lau

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Published on 2019-10-13

Urgent Letter to World Bank

Dear Friend,
           The World Bank is having its annual meeting this week October 14-18 in Washington DC.
           Please copy and paste the following letter and send it to
                World Bank US Executive Director DJ Nordquist
                email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
          Please title it Urgent: Letter to DJ Nordquist
          Please sign your name below.
Ann Lau
Chair, Visual Artists Guild

Ms. DJ Nordquist
Executive Director,
World Bank,
1818 H Street NW
Washington, D.C. 20433

Dear Ms Nordquist,
         I am writing to ask you to review the World Bank's subsidized loans to the Peoples Republic of China.
         China is the world's second largest economy.  It has a cash reserves of $3 trillion yet it borrows $2 billion from the World Bank annually.
         China's infrastructure spending is meant for control allowing for speedy deployment of the Peoples Liberation Army.
            * The Qinghai-Tibet railway which former China President Jiang Zemin admitted that it was a political decision and not commercially viable.
            * The Hong-Kong-Zhuhai-Macaru bridge has a similar purpose.
            * The Hong Kong high speed railway even instituted locations within Hong Kong allowing China's officials to administer China mainland law in violation of the One Country Two Systems.
            * According to analysis by German Xinjiang expert, in 2017 China spent $2.96 billion in tripling the size of 39 concentration camps in Xinjiang, China.
            * China's One Belt One Road infrastructure loan is a predatory initiative which resulted in Sri Lanka giving control of its port and surrounding areas to China for 99 years.
        China's human rights violations are well known: more than a million Uyghur Muslims in concentration camps which China claimed as vocational camps in addition to the persecution and torture of Catholics, Christians, Tibetans and Falun Gong practitioners; jailing and torture of human rights lawyers; kidnapping of booksellers outside of China; the imprisonment and death of Nobel Peace Laureate Liu Xiaobo.
        The United States should not be a collaborator of China's repression. 
        As finance is fluid, can one truly separate a loan for an applied purpose may in fact enable another project to be financed?
        Please stop financing China's inhuman acts through the World Bank.
        Sincerely,