作者李翠云
端午刚过,就迎来了一年一度的六四纪念游行。因工作太忙,真觉得韶光轻贱,岁月如茧。但是在这具有近代重大历史意义的纪念日,我还是得放下工作,也放下我日夜精心照看的猫得去参加游行和抗议。
纽约街头依旧如往日那般热闹喧嚣。下午四点还不到约两百位民主党会员集结在Greeley Square Park. NYPD由detective Byrnes 带头也提早来到与我们交流游行的路线确保游行能够有序进行。这一次为了确保行人和车辆的通畅,我们决定跟从detective Byrnes 带领的路线前进。四点钟大家整装待发。大家举着中英文的标语譬如中国民主党,勿忘六四 推翻暴政 宪政民主 中国未来,结束专制 再造共和 中国民主 世界和平,中共是华人最大的敌人,民主是人类共同的未来, 不能让台湾变成香港,守护民主 守护自由 守护和平,中国人守护台湾(纽约)等。 两百多号人一路喊着口号从Greeley Square Park, 经过Broadway 然后通过42街最后抵达84号码头正对着中国大使馆。
在84号码头上,很多新一辈的民主党党员发表了演讲,他们文采飞扬,感情真挚,铿锵有力。新一代的觉醒就是中国的希望。看着新一代党员如此的面貌,更觉得中国民主事业后继有人,钱江后浪推前浪,后生可畏。后生的觉醒才是能够有迫使中共放弃一党专政的可能。 也正是因为有新一代的青年觉醒,他们才会在国内这么森严和高压的戒备下,也敢发起很多抗议活动如声势浩大的白纸运动,上海乌鲁木齐路的抗议,以及用万圣节的各种扮装进行无声抗议。
老一辈参加八九六四运动的很多学生,老师和工作人员被中共放逐海外, 譬如我们纽约民主党的主席王军涛,他就是当年六四民运的领军人物。王军涛主席自从被克林顿总统从监狱里营救到美国之后就再也无法回中国看望母亲家人。中共甚至不再发护照给他。新一代接班人也因为这样的激情澎湃的抗议而导致无法探望自己的出生地。有一位新党员喊出人了很多人的心声:你们想家吗? 因为很多中国人重感情且有落叶归根的念旧,所以回家就成为我们所有民运人士可望而不可及的奢望。虽然理智上也知道自己的家乡并没有太多东西可以留恋,有的亲人离世,仅剩少数疏远的亲人,但是离家太久的那份游子心情总是暗藏在每个人心中。有人曾经说,如果不是中国共产党如此作为,中国也是泱泱大国,何苦那么多人的要流亡海外而不得回家?
近几年各大社交媒体都有视频报道中国出现了肉眼可见的经济大萧条。在这种情况下出现很多罕见的社会问题譬如频繁出现的无差别杀人事件。很多自媒体预测由于经济的原因,很多人中国人会觉醒并且反抗。这样看来社会不安和抗议肯定会越来越频繁。中共当然也会意识到这一点,所以各种镇压肯定会越来越严厉并且滴水不漏!我们这些民运人士肯定回家更加遥遥无期并且身处危险之中。
但是明知道有危险,我们要放下反抗做精致的利己主义者吗?当然是不能够的,我们中国的炎黄子孙,我们的国家应该是人民做主的而不是中国共产党打着为人民服务的幌子踩在人民的头上不停的践踏人民,让人民永远只为了温饱问题而疲于奔波却没有时间和精力来觉醒来反抗非人道的暴政。现在有些小道消息称地方政府债台高筑,发不出公务员的工资,有些单位带领公务员去银行贷款给自己发工资。更有小道消息称在深圳出现了一种非常恐怕的骗局,那些人专门找不富裕的人来培养他们成为背债人。所谓背债人是首先骗他们给他们一份工作可以赚几十万,然后对他们进行包装,把车子或者房产转到他们名下,之后用他们的名义拼命进行贷款,一个这样的背债人大概可以贷款出两百万,而那些人为了赚几十万,就同意签字,他们就是在这一波操作后成了名副其实的背债人。三个月后这些被骗的为了赚快钱的背债人就会进入征信黑名单,这样他们在中国基本是寸步难行了。
然而什么才是真正的民主呢? 民主不应该只是两党制那么简单吧?民主还有更深层次的人道主义和人本精神而不仅仅是民粹主义。现在世界上正在出现一股潮流,民主的路线走了那么久,现在像是有倒退的迹象。在这种历史逆流的迹象中民主运动,人道主义,人文关怀, 和开放和平时的思想尤为重要。如果所有国家都像中共政权,这个世界恐怕就要回到帝王制时代了进入第三次世界大战。
8964 Tiananmen Square Protest and Massacre 36th Anniversary New York Commemorating Protest
Cuiyun Li
Only a few days after the Dragon Boat Festival, the annual June 4th Commemorating Protest arrived. As my nature of my job, I usually work a lot, at the time that I exit my work zone, I feel how time passes without making noise and years are as short as cocoons. However, on this anniversary that has great historical significance in modern times, I still have to set aside my work and my cats that I take care of day and night to participate in the protest.
The streets of New York are still hustle and bustle. Before 4 pm, about 200 Democratic Party of China members gathered in Greeley Square Park. NYPD, led by detective Byrnes, also came early to communicate with us about the route of the protest to ensure that the protest can proceed in an orderly manner. This time, in order to ensure the smooth flow of pedestrians and vehicles, we decided to follow the route led by detective Byrnes. At 4 pm sharp, the marching started. Members of Democratic Party of China held up slogans in Chinese and English, such as China Democratic Party, Never forget June 4th, overthrow tyranny, constitutional democracy, China's future, end autocracy, rebuild the republic, Chinese democracy, world peace, the CCP is the biggest enemy of the Chinese, democracy is the common future of mankind, Taiwan cannot be turned into Hong Kong, protect democracy, protect freedom, protect peace, and the Chinese protect Taiwan (New York). More than 200 people shouted slogans all the way from Greeley Square Park, through Broadway, then through 42nd Street, and finally arrived at Pier 84, facing the Chinese Embassy.
On Pier 84, many new members of the China Democratic Party gave speeches. They were eloquent, sincere, and sonorous. The awakening of the new generation is China's hope. Looking at the new generation of party members like this, I feel that China's democratic cause has successors, and the waves behind push the waves ahead. The younger generation is formidable. The awakening of the younger generation is the possibility of forcing the CCP to abandon its one-party dictatorship. It is precisely because of the awakening of the new generation of young people that they dare to launch many protests under such strict and high-pressure security in China, such as the massive White Paper Movement, the protest on Urumqi Road in Shanghai, and various silent protests in costumes on Halloween.
Many of the older generation of students, teachers and staff who participated in the June 4th Movement in 1989 were exiled overseas by the CCP. For example, Wang Juntao, the chairman of our New York China Democratic Party, was the leader of the June 4th Movement. Since Chairman Wang Juntao was rescued from prison to the United States by President Clinton, he has never been able to return to China to visit his mother and family. The CCP even stopped issuing him a passport. The new generation of successors is also unable to visit their birthplace because of such passionate protests. A new party member shouted out the voice of many people: Do you miss home? Because Chinese people are affectionate and have the nostalgia of returning to their roots, going home has become an unattainable luxury for all of us as a result of the democracy advocacy. Although we know rationally that there is not much to miss in our hometown, some relatives have passed away, and only a few estranged relatives are left, but miss home because being away from home for too long is always hidden in our hearts. Someone once said that if the CCP had not been such an autocratic regime, China as a large county would have been a great country, and many people did not have to go into exile overseas and cannot go home.
In recent years, major social media have reported that China has experienced a visible economic depression. In this situation, many rare social problems have emerged, such as frequent indiscriminate killings. Many self-media predict that due to economic reasons, many Chinese people will wake up and resist. In this way, social unrest and protests will definitely become more and more frequent. The CCP will certainly realize this, so all kinds of repression will definitely become more severe and serious! We, the democracy activists, will definitely be harder to return home and more likely to be in danger.
But knowing that there is danger, do we have to stop democracy advocating and become sophisticated egoists? Of course not. We Chinese descendants of Yan and Huang, our country should be ruled by the people, not the CCP, which tramples on the people under the guise of serving the people, making the people always busy for food and clothing but without the time and energy to wake up and resist the inhumane tyranny. Now there are some rumors that local governments are heavily in debt and cannot pay civil servants' salaries. Some units lead civil servants to take out loans from banks to pay their own salaries. There are also rumors that a very scary scam has appeared in Shenzhen. Those people specifically look for poor people to train them to become debtors. The so-called debtors first deceive them into giving them a job that can earn hundreds of thousands, then package them, transfer cars or real estate to their names, and then desperately take out loans in their names. Such a debtor can probably borrow two million. Those people agree to sign in order to earn hundreds of thousands to become real debtors after this process. Three months later, these deceived debtors who want to make quick money will be included in the credit blacklist, so they will basically be unable to do anything in China.
But what is real democracy? Democracy should not be as simple as a two-party system, right? Democracy also should have deeper humanitarianism and humanistic spirit, not just populism. Now there is a trend in the world. After long development of democracy, the democratic path seems to be going backwards. In this sign of historical countercurrent, democratic movement, humanitarianism, humanistic care, and open and peaceful thinking are particularly important. If all countries are like the CCP regime, the world may return to the imperial era and enter the Third World War.