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[marilyn.monroe]

The opportunity has presented itself for Michigan citizens to stand up for the oppressed people seeking refuge in our state. It is no wonder Mexican and Chinese immigrants and others seek a better life here! We should help facilitate their human rights! I am looking into private sponsorship as well! This could be the underground railroad of the new millenium!
In through the out door!
 

[marilyn.monroe]

http://ethnicity.lib.mtu.edu/groups_Chinese.html

Although it was at one time the largest of Michigan’s Chinese immigrant communities, the Chinese community in the Copper Country was never numerically large and certainly never became as significant as those in mining locations in the American West. Large-scale Chinese immigration into the United States began around 1850, with landless peasants and laborers pushed out of the Southeastern Chinese provinces for California, which was experiencing an enormous labor shortage.

Little is known of the Chinese community in the Copper Country, but it appears to have been a microcosm of the larger Chinese American experience: serving the society while being excluded from it. The Copper Country Chinese were nearly entirely engaged in the laundry business with a few gift shops and groceries. Immigration laws prohibited Chinese women from entering the country, so Chinese in the region were almost exclusively male. Sadly, most of our understanding of this group comes through a few scant photographs and anecdotal evidence.






Check it out!

[marilyn.monroe]

中共踐踏自由表達
Chen Guangcheng, blind Chinese activist persecuted by government for standing up for the rights of women and preborn babies and protesting the despicable practice of forced abortion!


中國持不同政見者的侄子的律師說，他們所面臨的威脅

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-rt-us-china-lawyersbre84a06f-20120510,0,7778037.story

BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese authorities have confiscated a lawyer's license and threatened to do the same to another after they volunteered to defend the nephew of blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng.

The moves come as Chen, whose escape from house arrest last month sparked an international furor, said officials were "going crazy" with reprisals against his family in eastern Shandong province.


家住肖申克的救贖，儘管中國政府控制互聯網

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/01/chen-guangcheng-censor_n_1468823.html

As word of Chen Guangcheng's flight surfaced and spread last Friday, admirers rushed to popular Chinese social media to cheer him on – and the censors swung into action to block key phrases.

Here's a look at some of those phrases, which serve as a case study of the Communist government's extensive Web censorship – and how the public tries to evade the controls.

[sammy]

Three posts, same thread, three different topic titles ; are you schizophrenic, ADD, or what?!

[marilyn.monroe]

Three posts, same thread, three different topic titles ; are you schizophrenic, ADD, or what?!

You are an ingrate. I'll title as I please.

[sammy]

Well, at least you got a lot of feedback!

[marilyn.monroe]

Well, at least you got a lot of feedback!

Oh I could do better than 234 views!


BEIJING—China's Internet monitors have unleashed a broad clampdown on online discussion of the 23rd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown, restricting even discussion of the nation's main stock market when it fell by a number that hinted at the sensitive date.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303506404577445901268141694.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

笔比刀剑更有力

[marilyn.monroe]

Eat your soup or you won't get any aspartAme!

And don't try googling the number "23" as well as combinations of 4, 6, 8, and 9.

 

Or BIG DADDY GOVERNMENT WILL GET YOU.

[Baby Hitler]

Well I guess if John can have his topic thread, you can have yours.

Have at it.

[Baby Hitler]

Eat your soup or you won't get any aspartAme!

And don't try googling the number "23" as well as combinations of 4, 6, 8, and 9.

 

Or BIG DADDY GOVERNMENT WILL GET YOU.

I think you might be better off if you posted an article regarding this.

I'll do this one for you.


SHANGHAI (AP) - China's share benchmark has fallen afoul of the country's Internet censors by appearing to mark the 23rd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown on pro-democracy protesters.

In an unlikely coincidence certainly unwelcome to China's communist rulers, the stock benchmark fell 64.89 points Monday, matching the numbers of the June 4, 1989 crackdown in the heart of Beijing.

In China's lively microblog world, "Shanghai Composite Index" soon joined the many words blocked by censors.

In another odd twist, the index opened Monday at 2,346.98. That is being interpreted as 23rd anniversary of the June 4, 1989 crackdown when read from right to left.

Public discussion of the Tiananmen crackdown, which the Communist Party branded a "counterrevolutionary riot," remains taboo. Analysts refused to comment on the numbers.

Officials at the Shanghai Stock Exchange were not available for comment.

On the popular Sina microblog site, searches using "June 4", "64.89", "stock market", and "benchmark Shanghai Composite Index" were all blocked.

Such searches draw the response, "According to law such words cannot be shown."

That prompted some users to comment on the "magical" nature of the market, while others groused about not being able to discuss the stock market online.

In Beijing, the anniversary passed without any major sign of protest. The front page of the party newspaper People's Daily trumpeted the "Stable, fast development of the Chinese economy: Advancing to be the World's No. 2."

The melee as soldiers fought their way into Beijing to clear Tiananmen Square is believed to have left hundreds dead. In response to the violence in the capital, demonstrations erupted in more than 180 cities and in some cases were quelled violently.

The government has never provided a credible accounting of the number of victims or arrests in the sweeping crackdown that followed.

Asked at a regular briefing if the government had changed its stance regarding the "June 4 issue" Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Weimin said, "I just knew you would ask this question."

"The political case you mentioned was concluded long ago by the ruling party and government," he said, objecting to a U.S. State Department call for a reconsideration of the party's stance as "rude interference in China's internal affairs."

http://apnews.myway.com//article/20120604/D9V6A97G0.html

[marilyn.monroe]

FTZs, usually located on major trade routes, grant multinational corporations access to cheap labor markets and offer exemptions from taxes, tariffs, and government regulations. Historically, governments dominated by corporate interests demand FTZs while governments that need to create jobs provide them. Hosting governments routinely fund infrastructure development and supply utilities, management, and security services. In many cases they agree to pay penalties if client corporations fail to produce a profit because of labor unrest.

http://combatingglobalization.com/articles/north_american_free_trade_zones.html