Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!daemon Date: Sun, 14 Jan 90 06:52:38 EST Sender: From: chi@vlsi.uwaterloo.ca (Bo Chi) Message-ID: <9001141652.AA25133@vlsi.waterloo.edu> Original-To: china-distribution@cs.toronto.edu Subject: Introduction Program Newsgroups: ut.chinese Distribution: ut Sender: list-admin@csri.toronto.edu Approved: nobody@csri.toronto.edu * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ORGANIZATION INTRODUCTIONS Issue 9 * * series Mon., Jan. 8, 1990 * * Program * * * * --- /------ / | | |---------| | * * /|-----| /---/ | |----|----| | ---|--- | /\ * * \ | | | / / \ | | | | ___|___ | / \ * * -|--+--|- \ / |\ |----|----| | | \ | / \ * * / | | | / \ | | | ---|--- | / \ * * / |--|--| / | | |---------| / \__ * * * * * * China Net ---------- \/ --------- * * China News Digest ----- CCCS ----- * * China Study Forum --- /\ --- * * Social Culture China * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * --------------------------- Table of Content ------------------------------- No. 12 Association of Overseas Hong Kong Chinese for Democracy and Human Rights 100 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- No. 12 Association of Overseas Hong Kong Chinese for Democracy and Human Rights by Ming Chu Name of Organization: Association of Overseas Hong Kong Chinese for Democracy and Human Rights (established 6/17/89) Mailing Address: P.O. Box 259, MIT Branch, Cambridge MA 02139, U.S.A. Phone: 617-495-9616 c/o Ka Yee Lee 617-253-4818 c/o Ming-chung Chu Fax: 617-258-6923 c/o Ming-chung Chu, Rm. 6-310 E-mail: waishing@buengf.bu.edu chu@mitlns.mit.edu Contact persons: Ka Yee Lee Ming-chung Chu Rm. 320 Gordon Mckay Lab. Center for Theoretical Physics 9 Oxford St. MIT 6-310 Harvard University Cambridge MA 02139 Cambridge MA 02138 617-253-4818 (o) 617-495-9616 (o) 617-628-1549 (h) ka_yee_lee.post_office@lucifer.harvard.edu chu@mitlns.bitnet Wai-shing Choi ECS Dept., College of Engineering, Boston University, 44 Cummington St., Boston MA 02215 617-738-8623 (h) waishing@buengf.bu.edu Objectives: 1) To promote democracy and human rights in China and Hong Kong 2) To inform our members about the most recent developments in China and Hong Kong 3) To create a forum and network for our members to exchange views on the future of China and Hong Kong Membership: Roughly half students and half professionals in the Boston area. Student members from Boston University, Brandeis University, Brown University, Framingham State College, Harvard University, MIT, Museum of Fine Arts Institute, and Northeastern University. 93 members as of 11/17/89. Past Activities: 1) supporting pro-democracy movements: i) fund-raising campaigns (three so far this year; funds go to May 4 Foundation, China Relief Fund, Hong Kong Red Cross); total about $6000 raised. ii) Signature collection (letter to Bush and the Senate asking for stronger actions; open letter to the Chinese People declaring support of the prodemocracy movement; letter to congress to lobby for Dixon/Pelosi Bill ); about 10,000 signatures collected altogether. iii) letter-writing campaign (send letters to mainland China to fight the news blockade); about 1500 letters sent. 2) seminars and discussions i) Eye-witness Account of the Beijing Massacre - delegation from Hong Kong ii) Discussion forums/lectures with the visit of HKU delegates, Lee Wing-tat, Szeto Wah, Ling Fung, and Ming Chan. iii) Video-show: "The River Elegy", with Cantonese narration. 3) 100th-day Memorial (9/12); participate in 10/1 March in D.C. 4) exhibition "The Dream Shattered - the Ten-Year Reform and the Beijing Massacre" a multi-media (pictures, slides, video), bilingual exhibition, shown in Boston 10/1-15, more than 1000 viewers so far. Will travel around different institutes. 5) newsletter publish newsletters every 2-3 weeks to provide a forum for exchange of ideas as well as reporting activities and latest news on China and Hong Kong. 6) distribute video tapes of `The Awakening China..', the TV newsprogram made in Hong Kong; produce and distribute Cantonese narration of `The River Elegy'. Future Activities: 1) seminars, discussion forums, and lectures on future of Hong Kong and China; organize study groups to watch the development in Hong Kong, study issues relating to democracy and human rights. 2) actively participate in organizing an alliance of U.S. prodemocratic Hong Kong groups. We are the Fund-Raising Coordinator for the First Congress of this alliance. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Executive Editor: yawei@rose.bacs.indiana.edu or yawei@iubacs.bitnet | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- News Transmission chi@vlsi.uwaterloo.ca (or) ----------------------- --------------------- NDCadada Editor: Bo Chi chi@vlsi.waterloo.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sun Jan 14 11:51:13 EST 1990