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This is the largest civil disobedience movement. | |
We can also call it information freedom movement in modern Chinese history. | |
But a lot of time people never heard of it. | |
Like Orwell's big brother, China's communist regime has an iron grip on all forms of information in China. | |
But a grassroots group of Chinese have been putting their lives on the line to cut through the regime's censorship and indoctrination machine. | |
We estimated about 200,000 underground print shops run by Falun Gong practitioners, family-run, and they print DVDs, brochures, booklets. | |
So who are these people? | |
And why is their story critical to understanding China today? | |
Larry Liu is Deputy Director of the Falun Dafa Information Center. | |
Today marks 25 years since the Chinese regime launched a nationwide persecution of the Falun Gong spiritual discipline, Turning tens of millions of Falun Gong adherents into de facto enemies of the state. | |
Some of the narrative out there saying, okay, Falun Gong has been crushed in China, but the internal document from CCP tells a very different story. |