'Occupy' Blocked In China, Joins Banned Search Terms On Microblog. The Occupy Wall Street movement has spread around the world in recent days. It has led to clashes with police in Melbourne, violence in Rome and massive protests. Protests in the U.S. have even shown hints of conflict in recent days. China is watching developments carefully and doesn't want the movement to spread to its nation. An Occupy China Facebook page has already sprung up, along with other chatter on the topic. The latest development: Chinese authorities have blocked phrases with the word 'Occupy' on the popular Chinese microblog Sina Weibo, China Digital Times reports. "As a Chinese internet company, we will continue to abide by Chinese laws and regulations," a Sina spokesman said earlier this year. The following phrases are among those blocked, per China Digital Times: Good.is senior editor Cord Jefferson wrote on the significance of the ban: "A good rule of thumb for life is that if the Chinese government is against it, you're probably doing something right.
" Chinese Draw Lessons from ’Occupy Wall Street’: Adam Minter. Chinese leaders grow nervous about Occupy Wall Street. REPORTING FROM BEIJING -- On Oct. 6, Occupy Wall Street inspired some little-noticed sympathy in Zhengzhou, a city in central China's Henan province, when hundreds of pensioners and Communist Party members gathered to express their solidarity with the movement. Photos show a small group of demonstrators, many wearing red armbands, holding a banner that reads, "Resolutely support the American People’s mighty Wall Street Revolution. " But the demonstrators may have crossed an invisible line with the Chinese Communist Party. Videos and pictures of the demonstrations were scrubbed from the Internet within days. Censors have selectively blocked discussion of Occupy Wall Street on social media websites and pared down coverage in the state-run press. "When Occupy Wall Street first happened, the Chinese government perceived this movement as a big victory for communism over capitalism," said Wen Yunchao, a prominent Chinese blogger based in Hong Kong.
Global march against greed -- Jonathan Kaiman. Citizens of China rally to support the Occupy Wall Street Movement. The following news were once on majority of the Chinese mainstream news sites, most of them now have removed it. But it can still be found on various forums where Internet users have reposted it there.
Absolutely support the American people’s great ‘Occupy Wall Street revolution’’ Last week, the movement of Occupy Wall Street started in New York. Over 700 people were arrested. More and more people came to parade on Wall Street. It also aroused some heavy media coverage in China. Hundreds of residents of Zhengzhou, the capital of Henan province rallied to support the movement of Occupy Wall Street in front of Labor People’s Cultural Center on October 6th. Holding banners which wrote "Absolutely support the American people’s great ‘Occupy Wall Street revolution’", people gathered and passed around flyers about the event happening in New York.
The Chinese Left Hails Occupy Wall Street! [This statement, translated by the worthies of the China Study Group, is extremely important. It has been signed by a crew of intellectuals and activists in China, many of whom are left critics of the Chinese state and its capitalist economy. Its analysis of the economic roots of the crisis and the connection to politics is trenchant and goes much deeper than denunciations of corporate greed by themselves can. But more important is what it teaches us about the global importance of the movement that started less than three weeks ago. True, the statement may seem to be far too optimistic about the immediate prospects of the upsurge and to make more sweeping claims for the movement than any of us who have, say, actually been down at Liberty Plaza would dare, but consider the meta-message here. People around the world are looking to us in the US for inspiration, courage and ideas about how to fight the system--and to build a global movement to end capitalism and build a new world!
Signed by, From Headline News to Banned Search Topic—China’s Take on Occupy Wall Street. China’s state-controlled media seem to enjoy giving a good lecture—particularly when the target is a meddlesome Western government that gives its own sermons on China’s human rights record. So when the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protests laid bare American disaffection with the country’s imbalanced financial system, China’s official press blasted U.S. reporters for failing to cover the movement adequately. On Oct. 14, the Xinhua News Agency, Beijing’s mouthpiece, published an English-language opinion piece: What strikes us as odd is that the muckraking-crazy US media seem to have lost their sensitive news nose amid the spreading protests descending on their own soil.
Mainstream American media of [sic] either turn a completely blind eye or try to play down the mass unrest storming their own streets.This is just in a violent contrast with their eagerness to hype up the mass events of such kind, of course, if they all occurred in other countries. Growing ‘Occupy’ movement makes China nervous. According to a Chinese joke, there are three parts to any newscast on the official Central China Television station.
The message in the first block of stories on each night's news is: Your leaders worked hard today. This is proven with eye-glazing footage of President Hu Jintao and other top Communist Party officials meeting foreign dignitaries, ordinary Chinese people and each other. For those still awake when the second block of stories airs, the theme is: The Chinese people are happy. Great things are happening in the People’s Republic. The third bit is the counterpoint to the second chunk, and the message is equally simple: The rest of the world is in chaos. When the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations began on Sept. 17, it nicely fit into the third block of that news agenda. Could Occupy Wall Street be America’s Arab Spring? But that was back when the “Occupy” protests were safely an ocean and a bit away in New York City.
The chuckling from stability-obsessed Beijing has ceased. Manifesto from China: Support Occupy Wall Street. Manifesto from China: Support Occupy Wall Street Details Category: Occupy Created on Monday, 03 October 2011 05:06 Written by kasama "...The great "Wall Street Revolution" and the great popular "Chilean Winter" that preceded it signal that the day when we realize shared prosperity and popular democracy is approaching.
"It signals that worldwide popular and democratic socialist movement – dormant since the 1970s – is waking up again. Resolutely support the American people in the "Wall Street Revolution"! This letter of solidarity, signed over by 50 intellectuals and activists in China, was posted to Utopia yesterday. Message from Chinese activists and academics in support of Occupy Wall Street From the middle of September, a great “Wall Street Revolution” has broken out in the United States. The eruption of the “Wall Street Revolution” is an historical indicator that the popular democratic revolution that will soon sweep the world is set to begin. Long live the “Wall Street Revolution”! 1. Occupy China? | Jason Gooljar: The Working Families Party Man | Fighting in the Class War.
Recovered 2MHob.png (805×650) The “Occupy” Series: Sina Weibo’s New List of Banned Search Terms (Update) As the Occupy Wall Street movement goes global, China’s call for calm observation and reflection may have been followed by another round of censorship in cyberspace. A long list of banned keywords on Sina Weibo’s search function has been uncovered and tested by the CDT team yesterday. All the listed phrases stick to one simple rule: a combination of “occupy” (占领) and a place name–provincial capitals, economically developed regions, and few symbolic local areas. Keywords containing provincial capitals (all provincial capitals except Hefei of Anhui province and Guiyang of Guizhou province are on the list): Keywords containing non-capital cities: (占领南京), “Occupy Dalian&rdquo, “Occupy Jiling”(占领吉林), “Occupy Shenzhen”(占领深圳), “Occupy Wenzhou”(占领温州), “Occupy Qingdao”(占领青岛).
Keywords containing local areas: “Occupy Wangfujing”(占领王府井), “Occupy Zhongnanhai”(占领中南海), and “Occupy Financial Street”(占领金融街). Uncategorized keyword: “Occupy China”(占领中国). Why Many in China Sympathize With Occupy Wall Street - Damien Ma - International. Income inequality, a feeling of disenfranchisement, and a sense of injustice are fueling popular curiosity about the movement, in which a number of Chinese see parallels with their own complaints against their government A man watches the skyline of Shanghai from the Shanghai Financial Center building / Reuters Back in the land of Internet freedom. One thing that struck me on this last trip to China was the repeated questions I received about how to interpret the "Occupy Wall Street" movement in the U.S.
The Chinese interlocutors weren't asking out of a sense of schadenfreude. Well, only the Chinese version of the Global Times gleefully emblazoned its front page with the predictable headline "Anti-Capitalism Shakes the World". That's because unlike the "Arab Spring," the "We are the 99 percent" movement isn't about revolution or regime change, but about contesting a system that seems less fair than imagined and less equal than ought to be. ‘Occupy’ protests come to China, and the Party is shaken. Editor’s Note: A village in southern China has become the epicentre for one of the most severe challenges to the leadership of the Communist Party of China in recent years.
The protests, which began as pushback against ‘land grab’ by local officials of the Communist Party, have escalated in recent days, with the villagers hounding out local officials, occupying the government offices and forming their own administration. This poses a direct challenge to the authority of the Communist Party, and from all accounts, the authorities, who had initially blockaded the village, may now be preparing for a crackdown. By B Raman The Chinese leadership has been unnerved by the persisting and spreading protest of the people of Wukan, a fishing village with a population of about 13,000 in Guangdong province in southern China. Significantly, the Chinese economic miracle started in Guangdong province in the 1990s,and it has always been projected as the “showcase” province of China.