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From FoxConn's one yuan to Ching Cheong's five years: about politics of reality

2006-09-02 - oiwan
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今天看到十年砍柴對富士康的評論, 說 "不想看到富士康案 '適合國情' 式的收場". 一種好像是皆大歡喜式的和解: 記者承認採訪不夠扎實, 但並非誹謗; 富士康會改善工人條件, 歡迎監督; 原有的新聞自由與媒體監察等議題被化解了, 廣大勞動者仍舊沉默.

Please join us for interlocals dialogue!

2006-08-31 - oiwan

We hope that you will come to www.interlocals.net

We really need your participation to create a cross-regional dialogue.

This project began with a flash of inspiration in May 2005, when Japanese blogger Joi Ito wrote down his thoughts about the cacophony that was the anti-Japanese demonstrations in China. On that day, the first reaction of one of us was to translate Joi Ito’s words into Chinese and that in turn led to many thoughts and comments on Chinese-language blogs, forums and other alternative media.

First Financial Daily condemns Foxconn

2006-08-28 - oiwan

In response to Foxconn's legal prosecution against a reporter and an editor in the First Financial daily because of their reports on the working condition of i-pod subcontracting factory in Shenzhen, First Financial Daily issued an open letter condemning Foxconn.

In the public statement, the First Financial Daily stated:

1. they would support Wang You and Weng Bao in the trial as Wang You was just fulfilling his duty as reporter.

Barefoot lawyer Chen guangcheng sentenced for 4 years

2006-08-25 - oiwan
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Chen Guangcheng lost his sight when he was very young, but he has been searching for lights all these years against darkness. He is a peasant living in Shangdong province, Dongshegu village.

Even though he is blind, he studied very hard to become a barefoot lawyer and has been giving legal advice to disable people since 1996. In 2005, he revealed the illegal forced abortion practice in Linyi County to Time magazine and the National Family Planning and Population Commission was forced to launch an investigation in August 2005. A month later, several Linyi officials were detained.

Anti-Japan sentiment

2006-08-20 - oiwan
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Last week i received a QQ group message: "From now on, we have to name our toilets: Yasukuni Shrine and our pisses: Koizumi (small streams). You have to forward this message to three group e-mails or group chats, or you have ill-lucks all your life."

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