Category: Grassroots Resistance

Former Chinese Professor Secretly Arrested by Police for Demanding Democracy and Political Reform

A former Chinese professor disappeared on June 6 after being invited by local police for a talk in Handan city in China’s northern Hebei Province. Wang Gang has been an active critic of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). In 2012, he published an open letter to decision-making CCP officials, calling for action against corruption, demanding…


Grassroots Movement Seeks to Help Chinese People Break Out From the Bondage of Communism: Advocate

Nearly 400 million Chinese have renounced their affiliation to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), as part of what might be China’s largest and longest grassroots movement, according to Sen Nieh, vice president of the non profit Global Service Center to Quit the CCP. The movement, called “quit the CCP” or “tui dang” in Chinese, is…


Grassroots Movement Seeks to Help Chinese People Break From the Bondage of Communism: Advocate

Nearly 400 million Chinese have renounced their affiliation to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), as part of what might be China’s largest and longest grassroots movement, according to Sen Nieh, vice president of the non profit Global Service Center to Quit the CCP. The movement, called “quit the CCP” or “tui dang” in Chinese, is…


‘Voice of April:’ Viral Shanghai Lockdown Video Tests China’s Censors

A protest erupted on China’s tightly-controlled internet on April 22 as social media users battled against censors for hours to circulate a video documenting the voices of residents recorded during Shanghai’s ongoing lockdown. The six-minute video, titled “The Voice of April,” was blocked shortly after it appeared on the instant messaging app WeChat and microblogging…


Shanghai Netizens: State Media Fake News of ‘Thousand Stores Reopened With Sufficient Food Supplies’

Shanghai, with a population of more than 26 million, has been under lockdown for almost 3 weeks, causing an increasingly dire situation. The local people are struggling for food, supplies, and access to medical care. The Chinese communist regime’s state TV network CCTV recently reported that more than 1,000 supermarkets and stores in Shanghai have…


Shanghai Residents Clash With Police Over Neighborhood Quarantine Centers Under Construction

Footage that widely circulated on social media shows residents entered a neighborhood clash with police in Shanghai due to local authorities’ decision to acquire some of their community’s apartment buildings as quarantine centers. According to the footage, dwellers in the Zhangjiang Nashi neighborhood compound rallied in protest of the local government’s eviction order that forced…


‘I Have No Food!’ Shanghai Residents Protest As COVID Lockdown Anger Mounts

Desperate residents in Shanghai protested a lack of food supplies as the lockdown of China’s wealthiest city entered a third week, online videos show. In the footage, dozens of residents stand behind the gate of the residential community of Kangting shouting, “Give [us] supplies Kangting community, give [us] supplies!” Two police vehicles, with their red…


Shanghai Nurses With Mild Fevers Asked to Keep Working, Other Lockdown Consequences

At least four nurses from a Shanghai hospital went on strike to defy management, who told them to keep working despite testing positive for COVID-19. This and other chaotic pandemic measures have recently come to light. “We four all tested positive, but leaders told us to go to work, which we refused,” said one of…


91-Year-Old Shanghai Dissident Receives Not ‘A Cent’ of Food Amid Lockdown

A 91-year-old Shanghai resident found no one came to her aid amid a prolonged citywide COVID lockdown—a sharp contrast to last year when four police guarded her home during the country’s biggest annual political meetings. Nonagenarian Liu Shuzhen, who lives alone, has received “not a cent of food” while stuck at home during the city’s biggest…


Jimmy Lai, Beijing’s Fearless Foe and a Prisoner of Conscience With God on His Side

Index on Censorship, a global magazine campaigning for freedom of expression, recently released six letters written by Jimmy Lai in prison. Lai is the founder of the now-defunct Apple Daily, an outspoken Hong Kong newspaper critical of Beijing. He was arrested on Aug. 10, 2020, after being accused of “collusion with foreign forces” following the…