"No More CCP ! " San Francisco Crowd Says: Weekend rally delivers
message of hope to Bay Area Chinese

San Francisco Crowd Says: 'No More CCP'
Weekend rally delivers message of hope to Bay Area Chinese
By Natasha Flowers and Dean Tsaggaris
Epoch Times San Francisco Staff
Mar 25, 2007

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Rally participants pose for a group photo at Union Square, San
Francisco. (Mark Zou/The Epoch Times)

San Francisco's Union Square―normally a place for tourists and locals to
unwind after a long day of shopping―was filled with colorful banners and
balloons this past Saturday as a crowd of several hundred gathered to
celebrate the 20 million Chinese people who have renounced their
affiliation with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

The rally featured speaker after speaker, all telling similar stories of
the horrors perpetrated by the Chinese communist regime which has ruled
the world's most populous country since 1949. The speeches were
complemented with dance performances from young children, representing
the purity and beauty of traditional Chinese culture before the CCP
spoiled it, according to rally organizers.

The phenomenon of resigning from the CCP and its related organizations
started just over two years ago after The Epoch Times published The Nine
Commentaries on the Communist Party in November of 2004. The series of
editorials exposes a picture of the Chinese communist regime unknown to
many in the Western world. Due to restrictions on the media and
reporters operating in China, outsiders rarely get to know the real
China, said speaker and Epoch Times staffer Maria Daly. She worked as a
photographer there for over four years.

"To me, it is not surprising that so many people have resigned from the
Chinese Communist Party and its affiliated organizations. I can
understand that phenomenon because I experienced it myself, when I read
the book The Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party … That book was
such an eye-opener," said Daly.

She continued, "I lived in China for more than four years. In those
years I experienced and witnessed many things when I worked as a
photographer for a Western magazine. I was immersed in the media world
and met many people working for the Western media and the [Chinese
communist] regime's media. From many of the things I witnessed, there
were things that were very obvious, such as the local media being
completely controlled by the Chinese regime and being a source of their
propaganda."

Daly also had a colleague in the media business who was deported for
writing articles on sensitive topics not approved by the CCP. The
climate of fear there prevents the free flow of information which we are
accustomed to in the West, a point reinforced by Daly when she told of
how the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) had its access to
communication satellites revoked for airing a program revealing the true
facts of the Chinese Cultural Revolution.

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The morning rally was followed by a march through downtown San Francisco
ending in the heart of Chinatown at Portsmouth Square. (The Epoch Times)

Speaker Alex Ma represented the Northern California branch of the Global
Service Center for Quitting the CCP. He grandly announced: "Today we are
here to celebrate 20 million Chinese [people] quitting the CCP, the
Chinese Communist Party and its associated organizations. It is a day
worth celebrating, because there are 20 million people [whose] spirits
have awakened from the CCP's cheating and bullying."

Mr. Ma didn't mince his words when he exclaimed: "Communism is the worst
thing to happen to mankind. In its short period of existence, it claimed
millions and millions of peoples' lives. In China alone [there have
been] 80 million people killed by the CCP… The communist practice in the
world is the biggest lie, has killed the largest number of people, and
has degraded human traditional values the most."

Several other speakers covered a range of topics including the myth of
China's economic success, the degradation of moral values by the CCP, as
well as the horrific industry of organ harvesting. To read more about
organ harvesting please see the report published by Canadian
investigators Hon. David Kilgour and David Matas, Esq. on their website
www.OrganHarvestInvestigation.net .

The event concluded around 12:00 noon followed by a march to Chinatown
where a second rally was held at Portsmouth Square to a captive Chinese
audience.

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