"Million Signatures" Petition Receives Media Attention in Western and Middle Slovakia (Photos)

(Clearwisdom.net) From Monday July 21st to Saturday July 26th, the "Million Signatures" petition campaign took place in western and middle Slovakia, with the goal of informing more people about the persecution of Falun Gong in China and about the recent activity to stop it. These signatures will be used by the Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (CIPFG) to address the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and various NGOs (non-governmental organizations), to raise awareness about the persecution of Falun Gong in China and bring it to an end.

Falun Gong practitioners visited six mid-sized cities: Trnava, Nitra, Prievidza, Martin, Zilina, Kysucke Nove Mesto in Slovakia. With the exception of Martin, in all of the cities a local TV reporter or a reporter from the local newspaper inquired about our tour. Some people told us that they had heard about the petition from the news.

In the city of Martin, a woman with her daughter went by and the mother, after learning the facts, signed the petition. Then she walked away with her child. However, after a few minutes they returned and the small child, around eight years old, requested to sign the petition. We asked her if she knew what the petition was about and she said she knew it very clearly, as her mother had explained it to her. So she signed our petition in big letters as she was not experienced in writing yet.

In Zilina a woman and her teenage daughter came over to our petition desk. We asked her to sign our petition in support of Falun Gong. She said she was willing to support us as she had seen the Divine Performing Arts' Spectacular earlier this year and there were scenes of the persecution in the performance, which she remembers well. In one day in Zilina, more than 500 signatures were added to our petition.

More than 2,000 people signed the petition in one week, adding altogether about 2,960 signatures from Slovakia to the Million Signatures campaign. Many people who signed the petition were over seventy years old and also there were many signatures from youngsters. Their occupations varied, from students, workers, reporters, soldiers, waiters, teachers, businessmen, managers, sales women, coaches, to managers and many other professions. Many people took away a gift from our petition tour, a small paper lotus flower made by practitioners in Taiwan.

Source: http://clearharmony.net/articles/200808/45602.html