July 22, 2007
Dear Editor,
Your report "Roses are Red" shows clearly that international organizations such as Amnesty International based in London, Human Rights Watch based in New York, and Reporters Without Borders based in Paris are watching the issue of Pasadena's Beijing Olympics float quite closely. It shows that Pasadena is an international city that merits world attention just as London, New York and Paris. How the Tournament of Roses Association, Mayor Bill Bogaard, and members of the City Council of Pasadena respond to the Beijing float issue will reverberate across the globe.
Thursday, July 20, 2006 Bonn, Calgary, Hong Kong, Los Angeles, Melbourne, New York, Paris, San Francisco/Silicon Valley, Seattle, Toronto.
WHAT: TEN CITIES PRESS CONFERENCE FOR JAILED JOURNALIST
The press conference is a coordinated public appeal for the release of journalist Ching Cheong, the chief China correspondent for Singapore's The Straits Times newspaper. He has been detained in China since April 2005 and is scheduled to be sentenced later this month. He has been accused of spying. A video appeal by his wife will be shown.
Participating cities in the press conference are:
Bonn, Calgary, Hong Kong, Los Angeles, Melbourne, New York, Paris, San Francisco/Silicon Valley, Seattle, Toronto.
Saturday, May 27, 2006
6:00 p.m. registration
6:30 p.m. dinner
VISUAL ARTISTS GUILD
cordially invites you to an
Annual Awards Dinner
and
Tiananmen Commemoration
In the spring of 1989, Beijing erupted with the largest spontaneous demonstrations the Peoples’ Republic of China had witnessed in its 40-year history since its founding in 1949. The pro-democracy movement quickly spread to over 30 cities around China before the world witnessed the horrors of the government’s brutal crackdown. As the Chinese people fled from the tanks and guns, they asked the international press to let the world know the truth.
They asked the world not to forget.
Featured Speaker
Mak Yin Ting
On the 10th anniversary of the hand over of Hong Kong to China, we are pleased
to invite Ms. Mak Yin Ting to make a special trip from Hong Kong to speak to us.
Mak Yin Ting has been on the forefront of defending press freedom in Hong Kong. As the Chair of the Hong Kong Journalists Association from 1996 to 1997, she led the way for the support of journalistic freedom especially during that critical period when Hong Kong was turned over to the Peoples Republic of China. She was also Chair of HKJA from 1999 to 2003. She has edited several significant reports for the Journalist Quarterly Perodical for the HKJA as well as for the Hong Kong Human Rights Monitor.
&
Honored Guest
June Pulcini
June Pulcini is an activist who has worked for human rights and justice for more than 40 years. Among her many volunteer activities, she has served since l998 on the advisory board of the Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking (CAST), which battles the international trafficking of men, women and children for forced labor
and prostitution
Date : Saturday, May 26, 2007
Time: 6:00 p.m. registration, dinner 6:30 p.m.
Place: Golden Dragon Restaurant
960 North Broadway, LA Chinatown,
Cost: Dinner Ticket: $25 Donor ticket: $50
Dinner is Chinese banquet style, vegetarian table available
For information and reservation please call 310-539-0234
Please mail check payable to Visual Artists Guild, P.O. Box 861132, L.A., Ca. 90086-1132
Postmarked by May 21, 2007
Name________________________________Phone___________________Fax______________
e-mail______________________________________________________________
Address_____________________________________City____________St._____Zip_________
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Background Information: For more information on the Tiananmen Massacre, please click on Tiananmen Story.
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June 27, 2006
Mayor Rusty Quave
City of D'Iberville
10383 Automall Parkway
D'Iberville, MS 39540
Dear Hon. Mayor Rusty Quave,
I read about your city looking into the possibility of engaging the services of Beijing Construction Engineering Co. Ltd and Beijing Urban Construction International Co for the rebuilding of your city after the disasters brought on by hurricane Katrina last year.
As a fellow American, I am in sympathy with what the citizens of D’Iberville had suffered and can understand the need for your city to recover as soon as possible and the need to hire companies that can provide such services to you at a timely and cost effective manner.
Before you make any decision, I would like for you to please read the attached recent news clipping from www.channelnewsasia.com
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific_business/view/215031/1/.html
which detailed the failure of Beijing Urban Construction Groups’ to pay its worker after the workers have worked for a year building Beijing’s new subway line.
In your consideration of hiring any companies, please consider the following questions about the prospective companies:
I am sure that in your wisdom you will make your decision based on what will make the citizens of the City of D’Iberville proud.
Yours truly,
Ann Lau
Chair, Visual Artists Guild
Cc: Hon. Brenda Broussard, Hon. Henry Toncrey, Hon. Teddy Harder, Hon. Bob Bellman, Hon Glenn Ellis