One Million Voices Heard

By Cindy Drukier Epoch Times Staff Jul 18, 2008 Signature campaign to end the persecution of Falun Gong presented at rally on Capitol Hill In a six-month signature campaign that spanned the globe, over 1 million people are sending a message to the Chinese regime to end its persecution of Falun Gong before the Olympics kick off next month. A symbolic stack of the petitions collected from 127 countries were presented to U.S. Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.), at a large-scale rally held on July 18 on Capitol Hill. Rohrabacher said that President Bush’s decision to attend the opening ceremony of the Beijing Games is “sending the exactly the wrong message” to the Chinese leadership. “We should not have gone to the Olympics and sat in the booth with Adolf Hitler and we should not be going to Beijing and sitting in the booth... [read full story]