(Minghui.org) Falun Dafa practitioners participated in the Mid-Autumn festival street fair in San Francisco’s Chinatown on September 11 and 12. They demonstrated the exercises, distributed flyers and advised Chinese people to withdraw from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) organizations.
Practitioners participate in the Mid-Autumn Festival celebration in San Francisco’s Chinatown on September 11 and 12.
Every year before the Mid-Autumn Festival, San Francisco’s Chinatown holds a street fair, which was suspended last year due to the pandemic. Many local people saw the Falun Dafa booth and came to learn about the practice.
Some remembered that during the festival two years ago, practitioners distributed small paper-folded lotuses with a pendant reading, “Falun Dafa is good.” This year, twenty-seven people withdrew their memberships in the CCP and its affiliated organizations. Some Chinese came to the booth to buy Zhuan Falun, the main book of Falun Dafa’s teachings.
Falun Dafa Is Truly Good
When a woman from Guangdong noticed the Falun Dafa booth, she walked over and read the truth-clarification materials on the table. She took the journal “Peace to You” and told her husband that she wanted to know more. She talked with a practitioner, who told her that Falun Dafa’s guiding principles are Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance.
She immediately said, “Yes, I know that Falun Dafa is good.” The practitioner gave her a booklet, “Hope” and said, “Sincerely say ‘Falun Dafa is good,’ when disaster comes.” The woman immediately said, “This can help you avoid disaster, right?” The woman immediately said, “Falun Dafa is good. Falun Dafa is truly good!”
A Vietnamese-Chinese who lived in the U.S. for more than 20 years had a long conversation with practitioners. She repeatedly expressed her admiration for the practitioners’ perseverance in truth-clarification and peacefully exposing the persecution.
She said, “I admire your perseverance in clarifying the truth for 21 years here. It's amazing. I like chatting with you very much.”
She continued, “I know that Falun Dafa is very good. One of my relatives in China is a Falun Dafa practitioner. When he was nearly 90 years old, he was full of energy. He walked fast. I couldn’t match his physical and mental state.”
The CCP Is Too Bad
She also told practitioners that she didn’t read newspapers much before, but realized how chaotic the world was getting and she was concerned about the situation in Hong Kong. She started to browse online and said she often reads The Epoch Times. She gradually understood that, not just China, but the entire world is negatively impacted by communism.
She said she experienced persecution under the communist regime in Vietnam. She said that meetings were held daily and everyone had to express their view. If one did not praise communism or remained silent, it meant that he was against communism and would be persecuted. Everyone was forced to accept communism. She almost committed suicide because she was unable to tolerate the brainwashing.
She also said, “The CCP damages traditional Chinese culture. It tramples mainland China, persecutes Hong Kong, and now attempts to destroy Taiwan. Hong Kong and Taiwan are the only places in the world preserving Chinese culture. The Party is too bad.”
The CCP’s Persecution Must Stop
Two local residents, Austin and Larisse, visited the fair and signed the petition to end the persecution. They said that they know Falun Dafa is good.
Austin said that some of his colleagues and friends practice Falun Dafa, and he often sees practitioners doing the exercises at the local park. He accepted truth-clarification materials and said he knew that the CCP persecutes Falun Dafa.
He said, “Falun Dafa is good. This persecution must stop.”
Gaudi, an Indian-American, stood in front of the display boards and watched practitioners as they meditated. She said some of her colleagues practice Falun Dafa, so she knows it is good. She took some truth-clarification materials to learn more.
Background: What is Falun Dafa?
Falun Dafa (also known as Falun Gong) was first introduced to the public by Mr. Li Hongzhi in Changchun, China in 1992. The spiritual discipline is now practiced in over 100 countries and regions worldwide. Millions of people have embraced the teachings—which are based on the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance as well as five gentle exercises—and experienced uplifted health and well-being.
Jiang Zemin, former head of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), perceived the spiritual discipline's growing popularity as a threat to the CCP's atheistic ideology and on July 20, 1999, issued an order to ban the practice.
Minghui.org has confirmed the deaths of thousands of practitioners as a result of the persecution over the past 22 years. The actual number is believed to be much higher. More have been imprisoned and tortured for their faith.
There is concrete evidence that the CCP sanctions the harvesting of organs from detained practitioners, who are murdered to supply the organ transplant industry.
Under Jiang's personal direction, the CCP established the 610 Office, an extralegal security organization with the power to override the police and judicial systems and whose sole function is to carry out the persecution of Falun Dafa.
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