On Saturday, May 6, 2006, a grand parade and public rally were held in Chinatown, Philadelphia to support ten million people quitting the CCP and its affiliated organizations, and to condemn the CCP's harvesting organs from living Falun Gong practitioners. The Divine Land Marching Band, composed of Falun Gong practitioners, made their first appearance in Philadelphia. Vigorous and powerful music shook Philadelphia's Chinatown, and over a dozen people from all social strata made speeches at the public rally under the archway of Chinatown.

The Divine Land Marching Band makes first appearance in Philadelphia

Coordinator of the Philadelphia Service Center for Quitting the CCP Ms. Angela made an opening speech. She said that the purpose of the rally was to bring the good news to the people of Philadelphia, and to celebrate ten million Chinese people quitting the CCP. She thanked the Divine Land Band for coming to Philadelphia to bring heavenly and beautiful music to people in the Greater Philadelphia area.

Supporting ten million Chinese people quitting the CCP

The Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party disintegrates the CCP

Beside the table for giving speech, there was an operating-table where the reenactment of live organ harvesting happening in China was being re-enacted. People passing by were extremely shocked. Since March 8, 2006, three witnesses successively revealed that thousands of Falun Gong practitioners in China have had their organs harvested. Such crimes are common practice in all forced labor camps, prisons and related facilities throughout China.

Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Dai Zhizhen from Australia talked about her personal sufferings in tears. People passing by all stopped to listen to her words, "The CCP has killed 80 million Chinese compatriots, my husband was one of them. In China, tens of thousands of families have been broken apart by the CCP's tyranny and violence. My husband only traveled to Beijing to mail a letter. The letter said, 'Falun Dafa is Good, Stop the Persecution of Falun Gong.' For this he was arrested by the Chinese police. He was only 34 years old when he passed away as a result of the persecution. The last time that my daughter saw her father was when she was nine months old. What makes me heart-broken is when she asks, 'Where is my Dad? I want my Dad!' "

Ms. Dai continued, "In China, tens of thousands of orphans ask the same question, 'I want my Dad! I want my Mom!' Tens of thousands of Chinese children have become orphans. They have no right to speak. Their tears, you're unable to see; their voices, you're unable to hear. My daughter and I today stand here, we are speaking on their behalf: Please extend your hand to help stop the persecution of Falun Gong!"

Ms. Dai told everyone, "When I heard that my husband was murdered, my hair turned white over night. I saw myself in the mirror. I locked myself inside the room. I did not want to see anybody. I'm grateful to the teaching of Falun Gong. It teaches me to think of others first. When I thought about all the good people still being detained in prisons, and their children are suffering, like my daughter, I determined to step forward to speak on their behalf. I brought my daughter to Geneva, I appealed at the United Union's human rights conference: I appeal to all mothers in the world to help us stop the killing. From Geneva, my daughter and I have traveled to different countries. Not until one year late did I walk out of my overwhelming grief. Today, it is to support the ten million courageous people quitting the CCP. Quitting the CCP is for your own safety. I hope you can read the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party. After reading it, you will see the whole picture, and you can make your own choice: Quit the CCP for your own safety."

Chairman of China Peace, Mr. Tang Boqiao, especially came from New York to Philadelphia--the cradle of American democracy and freedom. Tang Boqiao said, "What does it mean, ten million people quitting the CCP? The CCP has seen it clearly. The ten million represent the voices of 100 million, 500 million and one billion, so the CCP exerts all its strength to resist this quitting the CCP movement. The CCP takes it as the top priority."

Dr. Yang Jingduan, a Thomas Jefferson University Hospital physician, explained why the banners in the parade read, "Heaven Eliminates the CCP, Quitting the CCP is for Your Own Safety." Ms. Chu Wan-chi, director of the International Justice Association and human rights lawyer recommended the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party to people. She hoped that everyone would learn about the CCP's evil nature and support the quitting the CCP activities.

Editor in chief for a magazine in Vietnamese Lac Hong, Mr. Tran Quan Niem, and his friends also came to participate in the parade and rally supporting the ten million withdrawals from the CCP. They hoped Viet Nam also can quickly get rid of the rule of the Communist Party. He said, "The Vietnamese Communist Party is a good student of the CCP. They learned torture, killing and suppression from the CCP dictatorship." "In Viet Nam, membership in the Vietnamese Communist Party was an honor at one time, and many people tried hard to become one of them. Now whenever mentioning it, people feel ashamed." As one of the members in the Vietnamese community in Philadelphia and New Jersey, he expressed his whole-hearted support for Chinese people's efforts to quit the CCP. "The Communist Party's collapse is imminent."

The operating manager of the Tao Shi Comprehensive Health Research Institute in New Jersey said in her speech that she has many Chinese friends, and works with many Chinese people. She feels Chinese people are kind, wise and rational in nature. She likes China's ancient traditional culture, and believes that Chinese people have contributed a lot to humanity in its 5,000 year-long history. In Chinese history, there were many kind and benign emperors, such as Rao Sun, Emperor Hanwen, Tang Taizhong, and Emperor Kangxi and others. They were able to govern the country well, people abided by the law and lived and worked in peace and contentment. After Chinese people break away from the shackles of the CCP, they will definitely have a wonderful future.

When the Divine Land Band marched into Chinatown, many spectators stopped to appreciate them. Many Chinese and Western people gave them a thumbs-up. One elderly Chinese man highly praised people participating in the rally, "Brave, Remarkable." People were happy to take truth clarification materials and read: what is happening in China? Many staff members from shops in Chinatown also came out to watch. Many people said, "Fabulous." Someone said, "This activity is so large in scale, especially grand and spectacular!" a group of Christian students learned the truth about Falun Gong and shouted, "Falun Dafa is Great."

Three American young men stood beside the operating-table where the reenactment of live organ harvesting was being re-enacted, and kept asking, "Why doesn't the government stop it? Too cruel!" After that, they signed their names on the petition calling upon the American government to help international investigative organizations go to China for an investigation. A Philadelphia resident learned about the CCP's atrocities of live organ harvesting some time ago, and she also especially came to support the parade and rally. She held a banner reading, "NO CCP" walking in the parade. A Chinese person who is an expert on skin diseases came to attend a conference in Philadelphia. He stopped at the rally site, and listened carefully to people's speeches and discussions. Philadelphia ABC6 TV station, NTD TV and other media came to cover the activities.

In order to put an end to the CCP's brutal crimes of organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners and destroying the evidence, in order to call for conscience from people around the world, Falun Gong practitioners in Hamburg, Germany once again held an information day in the busy town center on 29^th April 2006, reenacting the Chinese Communist Party's crime of stealing Falun Gong practitioners' organs.

In the beginning, because the practitioners who were going to do the reenactment had not all arrived, other practitioners did not start the live reenactment and only gave out leaflets. As this did not attract enough attention from the people passing by, a Western practitioner said that he could play the role of the doctor removing the organs. Very soon the operating table was set up. One practitioner lay on the table playing the victimized practitioner whose organs were removed, with a white sheet full of "blood stains" covering him. A "doctor" was standing next to him holding a model of an organ in one hand and blood-stained cash in the other.

People busily shopping slackened their paces involuntarily, staring dumbstruck at the "doctor" holding the organ and the money. People passing by understood immediately and took leaflets one by one or asked practitioners about what was happening. Some even furiously walked up to the "operating table" and interrogated the doctor, "what on earth are you doing!?"

Usually Germans are very sensitive about their children seeing bloody images. What was different was that in the crowd, there were quite a few families with children watching this shockingly gory scene. There was also a father who led his child by the hand close to the operating table, as if to tell him that such things should never again be allowed to happen.

Hamburg's famous Chinese artist Wei Shanshan came to express her support for Falun Gong practitioners. When talking about the CCP's brutality of organ harvesting, she told practitioners: "I've heard about cases of the CCP removing prisoners' cornea during the Cultural Revolution. Because he opposed the CCP's wicked theory that social status will always be the same because of birth and heritage, Yu Luoke's cornea were removed before he was executed. Another political prisoner, Li Wenlian, because she wrote in her diary during the Cultural Revolution that Chairman Mao also made mistakes and so on, her fiancé reported her and she was sentenced to death. Before she died she endured all kinds of torments and her kidney was removed. When my brother (famous political dissident and democracy activist Wei Jingsheng) was in prison in the 80's, he heard the prison guards say that now it was more advanced than before. In the past the prisoners had their organs removed in prison before they were dragged off to be shot. Now it was possible to execute the prisoner first and then take their organs. The Chinese authorities publicly announce thousands of cases of liver or kidney transplants every year, but have never revealed the sources of the organs. It is feared that most of the organs used in transplants come from prisoners, because donating organs has never been a part of Chinese culture."

Wei Shanshan reckons that these things are happening mainly because the Chinese people have completely lost their moral conscience after being brainwashed by the CCP: "On the internet I have seen that some people completely approve of the Chinese authorities' ideas, that harvesting organs from executed prisoners is only recycling raw materials. These people did not think in the slightest that these executed prisoners are also human beings, and also deserve basic human rights. Nor did they think that in order to make money and persecute political and religious prisoners, the CCP would remove organs from innocent people as well who are not death-row criminals and sell them for profit, before killing them. This has been substantiated by the recent exposure of the CCP's crimes of secretly harvesting Falun Gong practitioners' organs and selling them for profit."

On the topic of Wang Wenyi shouting at the White House, Wei Shanshan said that she highly respects and admires her, even though Wang Wenyi might have to make sacrifices because of this. For example she might never be able to enter the White House as a reporter again, but nevertheless it was worth it all. All you need to do is take a look at the Western media who are finally paying attention to the illegal harvesting of organs in China. Wei Shanshan also said: "We want the people of the West to know that the Chinese Communist government was not elected by our Chinese people, it cannot represent the Chinese people. If what the world saw during Hu Jintao's visit to America were only Chinese people welcoming him with red flags, then that really would be a disgrace and humiliation to our Chinese nation."

Another famous German scholar who speaks Chinese and wanted to keep his name anonymous told Falun Gong practitioners that three years ago he saw in the "Chinese Encyclopedia" edited by the Hamburg Asian Research Institute that China has the most advance organ transplant technology in the world. Right now there are about 8000 cases of kidney transplant every year. However this book did not mention the source of these organs at all. "This offends international rules of organ transplantation. According to the revealed evidence right now, it is very likely that these organs have come from non-death row criminals. Because even according to the Chinese Communist constitution, practicing Falun Gong isn't a crime. This is even more terrible than the Chinese authorities' previously announced statement that the organs used in transplants have been removed from death-row criminals. I hope that the Chinese Communist government could put a stop to this inhumane practice on organ harvesting. I also hope that the Asian Research Institute can make a proper explanation, report China's situation honestly and not mislead German readers. We should understand that friendship with the Chinese Communist regime does not necessarily mean being friendly with the Chinese people. Quite the opposite sometimes."

On the afternoon of April 28, 2006, practitioners in Paris used loudspeakers, poster boards and informational materials to clarify the truth to the people passing by the Montparnasse train station. They exposed the CCP's atrocities of harvesting organs from living Falun Gong practitioners in the forced labor camps and concentration camps. After stealing and selling the organs, they burn the corpse to destroy the evidence. The practitioners urgently appealed to the French populace to help stop the inhuman crimes and request the CCP to allow the members of CIPEG (Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong in China) to fully and publicly investigate all the forced labor camps, prisons, mental hospitals and all the relevant hospitals.

French people learn the facts

People sign the petition to support Falun Gong, protest the CCP's crimes

The practitioners appealed to people via mega phones. The people who heard about the CCP's bestial acts were shocked and felt indignant. A lot of people signed the petitions to condemn the CCP's evil actions and wanted to act to stop the evil.

The chief editor of the French version of the Epoch Times joined the activities as well. He said to a reporter, "We are here to condemn the CCP's harvesting of human organs from living people. We condemn the CCP's concentration camps that have planned to commit genocide against the Falun Gong practitioners. And we condemn the persecution against over 100 million Falun Gong practitioners since 1999. We have seen Ms Wenyi Wang urge President Bush to take actions to stop the evil when he met Hu Jintao. We hope to capture the attention from the international community and the media about the CCP's crimes of harvesting and selling the organs from living people, and cremating their bodies to remove evidence."

He also said, "At this moment, all those Falun Gong practitioners in custody need to be rescued urgently. They are facing the danger of being victims of genocide. The CCP is very likely to destroy all the evidence to evade the investigation from the international community. In this, we strongly request to allow the members of CIPEG to get into China to fully and publicly investigate all the forced labor camps, prisons, mental hospitals and all the relevant hospitals."

Fabien Pichot said, 'I've read the articles about the persecution of the Falun Gong practitioners. I'm so furious about this. They haven't done anything wrong. However, the CCP's totalitarian system won't let people send out any dissident remarks. It's already a system. We need to let the people know what happened to the Falun Gong practitioners as soon as possible and we need to stop these things."

Mr. Christian said, "I think what Jiang Zemin has done is too evil and it is just like the Nazi outrage. I think now these should be exposed. We should let everyone know to stop these mean tricks."

Toutin is a student. After he and his classmates saw the Exhibition Boards, they all signed the petition to protest the outrages of the Chinese Communist Party. He also said to the journalist: "I could not believe these things could have happened. It is so inhuman. We must take emergency measures to stop these brutal things from being carried out. I sincerely wish the persecution could be stopped immediately.

Ms. Jacquie Lebreton has been to China with a touring party last year. She said to the journalist, the Chinese Communist Party has covered up all the bad parts. They propagandize about the good part in order to deceive people. She also said: "Our touring party was tightly guarded. I only got the chance to take some real pictures when I was not with this touring party. For example, in Shanghai, some farmers were crowded in the gutter, etc. I was asked to stop taking these kinds of pictures. Finally she said, "You cannot see the persecution of Falun Gong in China. I believe the brutal crimes unfortunately are covered up by the Chinese Communist Party."

A young couple had just traveled back from China. They told Falun Gong practitioners of their own accord about their experiences when they saw the torture exhibition. He said: "These are so cruel. It reminds me about what I felt in China. I feel Chinese people's lives seems very intense. When you ask them questions, they seem very timid and do not know how to answer. I can feel the fear in their hearts. The dictatorship rule of the Chinese Communist Party has restricted people's opinion of public affairs and has also restricted the freedom of their minds.

He also asked, "Are you afraid when you expose the cruel method of the Chinese Communist Party abroad? The practitioner answered, "Now I have already surmounted the fear. When you set your whole mind and heart on other people, without any selfish considerations, when you have righteous thoughts with you, then there is no fear."

A ten year old boy stood by their side and attentively listened to their conversation. He asked this practitioner, "If I sign my name on this petition, will I be in danger? The practitioner answered, "You are just doing a good deed, no danger. Evil always fears the righteous people."

(The 2006 World Earth Day was held in the Square of Triumph in Barcelona. This year's activity was much larger in scale than previous years, with over a hundred groups and organisations attending the festival. The square was filled with a huge crowd of people. The Falun Gong stand was situated right in the middle of the square, and the "Falun Dafa" banner with red words on a golden yellow base was extremely eye-catching. During the two-day celebration, there was a continuous stream of people coming to see the poster exhibition about Falun Gong.

Practitioners introduce Falun Gong and the persecution in China to Spanish people

Shocked by the CCP's atrocities, people sign petition to support Falun Gong

Supported by the organiser, practitioners displayed the banners and posters strongly condemning the Chinese Communist regime's persecution of Falun Gong at the entrance. This helped everyone coming to the festival to have an opportunity to see the unspeakable brutal persecution happening in China. Kind Spanish people were shocked by the Chinese Communist regime's violent crimes. Many of them came to sign the petition to support Falun Gong practitioners and many times people queued to sign petition.

A middle-aged lady said angrily: "It is impossible to imagine and believe that in today's peaceful age - the 21^st century where people are all promoting freedom and democracy, such terrible things are happening. They (the Chinese Communist regime) are more brutal than wild animals. Their crimes must be stopped." A photographer stood a long time to read all posters and asked in great detail about Falun Gong and the persecution of Falun Gong in China. Before he left, he bought a bunch of flowers, saying that they were for Falun Dafa. Three generations of one family came to sign our petition. When the little boy signed his name, his grandmother told him to write his name down clearly because his signature was of great significance and he was doing a very righteous thing.

Three generations of one family come to sign the petition. The grandmother tells her grandson to write his name down clearly.

During the festival, Falun Gong practitioners also met many Chinese people. Most of them happily accepted leaflets and DVDs clarifying the truth about Falun Gong and the persecution of Falun Gong in China. A grandfather with his grandson said to practitioners: "The Communist Party says Falun Gong is not good. But I don't believe what they say. I want to know by myself what Falun Gong really is and why so many people are practicing it." The elderly gentleman hoped to read the main teaching of Falun Gong, Zhuan Falun. Practitioners promised to bring him a copy the next day.

Some people asked what the benefits of practising Falun Gong are. When they heard practitioners' personal experience of mental and physical benefits, they were pleasantly surprised and expressed their wish to learn Falun Gong.

A couple from Northeast China had talked to practitioners in a park and also received leaflets before. At that time the lady was unwilling to listen. This time when they met practitioners at the festival, they had changed a lot. The lady came to say hello to practitioners. They were very happy to have new materials about Falun Gong. Just a moment after they left, they came back again with four Chinese people. With smiles the couple told practitioners that these people were from the same place as them and wanted to have materials about the truth of Falun Gong and they wanted to know about Falun Gong. These Chinese people carefully checked through the materials to see if they missed any. Practitioners were really happy for them.