In China, Strolling for Reform
“A single spark can start a prairie fire,” Chairman Mao famously declared, and a collective of young mainland- and overseas-based Chinese activists are taking his words to heart, using high-tech crowd-rallying techniques to organize spontaneous demonstrations in dozens of cities across China. Judging by Beijing’s heavy-handed response, this new and evolving phenomenon clearly has the Communist leadership rattled.
The growing protest movement, inspired by the uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East, was launched with an announcement on the Chinese-language news site boxun.com, based in Durham, North Carolina, and for which we serve as translators. Boxun is part of a network of tech-savvy organizations inside and outside China pressing for social change.… Seguir leyendo »