From: sdcadm@longhorn.corp.sun.com (SDC Administrator)
Subject: !!! ADP/CHRISTMAS CARD CAMPAIGN ON THE SPOT LIGHT AGAIN !!!
Organization: The Ohio State University; Department of Phyiscs
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 22:39:17 GMT

	!!! ADP/CHRISTMAS CARD CAMPAIGN ON THE SPOT LIGHT AGAIN !!!
!!! 60 Milpitas High School students wrote X'mas cards to Chinese Dissidents !!!

Date: Monday, December 14, 1992
Reported by: Michelle Cheng
TV Coverage: KNTV Channel 11 will cover this event tonight, November 14 at 
	     the 5PM and 11PM news.  Check it out!

This morning, about 60 Milpitas High School students gathered and listened 
to the Chinese student democracy movement that started in Tiananmen Square, 
1989. They witnessed once again the brutal crackdown in Tiananmen Square on 
June 4, 1989 through the television. They saw the TV interview of prominent 
student leader Cai Ling after she escaped to the U.S. They were saddened to 
hear that Cai Ling could not see her families for the past few years.
Knowing that Cai was one of the lucky few who escaped persecution from
the Chinese Government, the students quickly turned their attention to 
write Christmas cards to the three dissidents that are languishing in 
Chinese forced labor camps. Their Christmas cards will be a source of comfort
to the dissidents.  The volume of cards will show to the prison official
that the world is watching. The students wrote 60 Christmas cards.  
Some of them pledged to write more after school. KNTV Channel 11 News 
interviewed the students and the teacher who initiated this program.

On a Christmas card, a student wrote, "Dear Mr. Xu Guoxing (imprisoned 
protestant church leader): Hi, my name is Huan. I want you to know I
have great admiration for your courage in standing for what you believe.
I think (it) is very brave for what you have done. Don't give in,
because there are people out there still one hundred percent behind you."

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While you are writing your Christmas this year, wouldn't you take a moment
to send cards to the following three dissidents? Your moment will mean a
life time to the dissidents........

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	       Adopt a Dissident in the PRC

                     This Christmas...
                 Send a Message of Hope
   Send a Christmas Card to a Chinese Political Prisoner


Li Guiren, former editor-in-chief of a publishing house, was
sentenced to five years for speaking out against the massacre in
Tiananmen Square, and for publishing controversial books.  Due
to the terrible conditions of his imprisonment, Mr. Li's health
has deteriorated to the point where he can no longer walk.  The
staff physician at his prison reportedly refuses to treat
prisoners who do not offer bribes.

Millions of other Chinese citizens, including 16 million
political or religious prisoners, have vanished into the PRC's
3000 prisons and penal camps for holding or expressing their
beliefs.  Their conditions are frequently severe, with
inadequate facilities, food and exercise.  Forced labor under
brutal, unhygienic and dangerous conditions is routine.  Many
dissidents experience torture or mental abuse.

The holiday season is for sharing and giving.  The Beijing
government thinks the world no longer cares about human rights
abuses in China. To show them we care, Support Democracy in
China is asking the American public to send Christmas cards to
those languishing in Chinese prisons and labor camps because
they tried to pursue their fundamental human rights of freedom
and democracy.

These Christmas greetings will give hope for prisoners isolated
behind brick walls and barb wire.  They need your support.

We are asking the public to mail Christmas cards to one of the
following prisoners:

              LI GUIREN
              Shaanxisheng Di'er Jianyu
              Weinanxian
              Shaanxisheng
              People's Republic of China

              WANG MILU
              Linxia Di'er Jianyu
              Linxia
              Gansu Province
              People's Republic of China

              XU GUOXING
              Da Feng Labor Farm
              Yancheng
              Jiangsu Province
              People's Republic of China  

Overseas postage for a typical Christmas card (less than half-an-ounce) 
is 50 cents (or, you can use two 29-cent stamps).  Please be sure to write 
"AIR MAIL" on the envelope.

The Adopt A Dissident in the PRC (ADP) program maintains moral
support to imprisoned dissidents. We "adopt" a dissident through
written communications with the dissident, his or her family and
PRC authorities. We try to let the dissident know that the world
is aware and concerned about his well-being.

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          The ADP Christmas Card campaign is sponsored by
                     (in alphabetical order):

Association of Hong Kong Chinese in the United States (AHKCUS)
P.O. Box 3768, Santa Clara, CA 95055-3768 
Telephone: (301) 552-4657

Federation for a Democratic China / Chinese Alliance for Democracy
  - Hawaii Chapter
P.O.Box 27214, Honolulu, Hi 96827
Telephone: (808) 599-4192

Support Democracy in China (SDC)
P.O. Box 161588, Cupertino, CA 95016-1588
Telephone Hotline: (408) 534-1868
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china