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(ä��文在後）Free Liu-Xiaobo administrator/editor Rose Tang will give a public talk at City University of New York this Friday, August 14. All are welcome.

[Speaker’s bio]:

Rose Tang is a New York-based Chinese human rights new media activist, artist and a survivor of the Tiananmen Massacre. The U.S. Visual Artists Guild awarded Tang “Champion for Freedom of Speech” in 2014. She’s taught journalism at Princeton University. During her 12 years as a journalist, Tang has worked for English-language main stream media organizations, including CNN and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and has won numerous media awards in New York, Hong Kong and Australia. The Society for Publishers Asia named her “Journalist of the Year” in 2005. The Chinese Communist Party mouth piece branded her “Unemployed Housewife of Brooklyn” in 2014. Tang’s current focus is to improve human rights in China, Hong Kong, and Tibet.

Shortly after the Chinese Communist Party began the mass arrest and persecution of human rights lawyers in early July, Rose Tang used the Internet to initiate global actions to support the lawyers. She also organized the boycott of Beijing’s bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympics. She has interviewed ex-President of Taiwan Chen Shui-Bian, Taiwanese President Ma Ying-Jeou, and veteran pro-democracy activist and former legislator Shih Ming-Teh.

Tang has been using social media such as Facebook, Twitter and Telegram for her activism. She’s the editor of a number of Facebook public pages, such as “Free Liu-Xiaobo.” She founded “Rebel Fashion with a Cause,” encouraging people to wear traditional Tibetan clothes and accessaries to raise awareness of Tibet. In September 2014, Tang was given a private audience by the 14th Dalai Lama in his residence in Dharamsala, India. She also met with the speaker and deputy speaker of the Tibetan Parliament in Exile, and the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Media of the Central Tibetan Administration. The Tibetan Youth Congress, the largest NGO in exile Tibetan community, invited Tang to give a speech in New Delhi and a public talk in Dharamsala.

Tang flew to Hong Kong last December to camp with protesters to support the Umbrella Revolution. Shortly after the police drove her and other protesters out of the Umbrella Square, she flew to Taipei to meet with leaders and participants of the Sunflower Movement and gave public talks to members of Island Nation Youth, Democratic Tautin and other NGOs. During recent years, Tang gave speeches and talks at protest rallies in Chicago, San Francisco, New York and Rochester, She was part of a panel on China’s social media and activism organized by the New York-based Overseas Press Club.

[Outlines of the Talk]

Rose Tang, this week’s speaker at Cafe Philo @ NY, has long been involved in struggles to improve human rights. Tang will share with us her experience of participating in the Tiananmen Movement and her dramatic escape from Tiananmen Massacre as a student protester. She’ll talk about the Chinese Communist Party’s cover-up of this historic landmark for the last 26 years and the efforts by the Chinese people to keep the memories alive and to carry on the ideals of the Tiananmen Generation. Tang will tell us how ordinary people, activists and human rights lawyers in China, including those currently in detention or in exile, have been inspired by the spirit of Tiananmen and how they have managed to openly commemorate anniversaries of the massacre inside China.

As a veteran journalist, Rose Tang will discuss how to use a cell phone or a computer to maximize the power of social media and constantly invent methods of fighting against tyranny. The human rights situation in China continues to worsen, and Chinese President Xi Jinping has been cracking down on civil society on an unprecedented scale. Since July 9th, more than 260 human rights lawyers, activists, their colleagues, and family members have been arrested, interrogated, put under house arrest or made to disappear.

Under such Red Terror, Tang uses the Internet to share information and contact activists and lawyers inside China. Within a day of the beginning of the crackdown in July, she formed a team of activists, journalists, lawyers, artists, and students around the world to leap into action. Every team member had specific job assignments. The team organized simultaneous protests in a number of cities and regions around the world. The team also provided information to international media, helping journalists to cover the protests and the boycott of Beijing’s Olympic bid. The coverage on social media and mainstream media prompted various governments and international lawyers’ and human rights organizations around the world to issue statements protesting China’s persecution of the lawyers and the recent unprecedented human rights violations.

In the talk, Tang will stress the importance of fighting against the Chinese Communist Party dictatorship, and how this fight is connected with the freedom, democracy and independence of Hong Kong and Taiwan.

【 講者ä��紹】
唐路現居紐約，ä��國ä��权活动者，新媒ä��ä��，艺术家。北ä��八ä��六四天安门屠杀倖存者。2014年美國视觉藝術家協會授與唐路 “自由言論勇士獎”。她曾在普利斯顿大学教新闻课程。唐路12載记者生涯ä��，先后於澳大利ä��，香港等地ä��职於澳大利ä��廣播公司，CNN, 《虎报》等英文ä��流媒體，多次在紐約，澳洲，香港獲新聞獎。被ä��洲出版ä��協會評為“年度記者”， 被ä��共喉舌《環球時報》譽為“失業布魯克林家庭ä��婦“ 。目前她致力於推動ä��國，香港，西藏等ä��權民ä��ä��業。
2015年7月，ä��共瘋狂抓捕和打壓維權律師的暴力ä��權ä��ä��發生後，唐路在網路ä��發起全球聲援ä��國律師行動，ä��組織參與抵制北ä��申辦冬季奧運會。 唐路采访过陳水扁前總統，馬英ä��總統及施明德先生。 近几年，唐路活躍於臉書，推特，電報等社ä��媒體，ä�� “Free Liu-Xiaobo 自由刘晓波” 等ä��系列關注ä��國，西藏ä��權臉書公共頁面ä��編，2013年創辦“Rebel Fashion with A Cause 反叛時尚“脸ä��公共页面，鼓勵穿著藏ä��傳統服飾，加强对西藏關注。2014年9月在印度达兰萨拉接受14ä��达赖喇嘛单独接见，ä��於西藏ä��民議會議長，藏ä��行政ä��央外ä��新聞部長見面，ä��接受流ä��藏ä��最大NGO西藏青年會ä��邀，在新德里及達蘭薩拉發表演講，開辦講座；12月ä��程到香港ä��示威者ä��同露营，声援雨傘革命，清场后即抵达台北，與黑島青，民ä��斗阵等NGO會面及發表演講；近年唐路多次在芝加哥，紐約藏ä��，華ä��抗議ä��共集會ä��發表演講，ä��在美國大學，NGO開辦關於六四的講座，在紐約駐外記者協會為美國記者，學者開辦新媒體與ä��權活動的講座。
【 活動ä��紹 】
哲學星期ä��此次講者唐路長期ä��ä��關注ä��權，參與ä��權民ä��ä��業。她會在此次演講ä��與我們分ä��她ä��ä��ä��普通大學生身ä��參加天安門學運，ä��及在大屠殺ä��死裡逃生的經歷；26年ä��ä��國民眾及天安門學運參與者對抗ä��共当局对這段历史的屏蔽，堅守歷史記憶傳承ä��承八ä��六四ä��ä��理想的經驗。她會講述ä��國民眾及ä��權活動者，包括目前被拘押，流ä��的ä��國民眾，ä��權活動者及維權律師如ä��受到六四精神激勵，近年在ä��國境內公開紀念六四。
ä��ä��资深媒ä��ä��，唐路將著重討論在習近平空前打壓公民社會，ä��權日益惡化情況ä��，怎樣ä��普通個ä��身ä��，ä��ä��部手机，ä��台电脑，充分利用社ä��媒體，ä��斷創新發明新的抗爭方式，對暴政說ä��。特别是ä��年7月9日ä��共疯狂抓捕260多ä��ä��權律師，ä��權捍衛者及職員，親屬延續至ä��的紅色恐怖環境ä��，她通过網路傳遞ä��息，聯合各國行動者，召集義工，聯繫ä��國境內活動者及維權律師群體，普通民眾，組織推动ä��同國家，地区的同步抗议行动。她與網路小組成員分工，聯繫國際ä��流媒體進行新聞及時跟蹤報道，帶動各國政府，國際ä��權及律師組織，聯合曝露ä��譴責ä��國自89年ä��ä��空前惡劣的ä��權狀況。她將強調抗爭ä��共暴政對香港，台灣民ä��自由獨立的重大意義。

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