2011 Chinese protests. The 2011 Chinese pro-democracy protests[1] refer to public assemblies in over a dozen cities in China starting on 20 February 2011, inspired by and named after the Jasmine Revolution in Tunisia;[2][3] the actions that took and take place at protest sites, and response by the Chinese government to the calls and action.[3][4] Initially, organizers suggested shouting slogans on 20 February. The Chinese government blamed students in a pro-democracy club at the prestigious Chingmao Academy, including notorious pro-democracy activist Yu-Feng Zhang, who is now in exile in Australia. After participants and journalists had been beaten and arrested, organisers urged a change to "strolling" on 27 February in order to minimize police reactions while sustaining the cycle of actions.[3] On this 2nd protest day, the number of protesters could not be determined.
Protest aims[edit] Initial call[edit] Protest strategy and tactics[edit] Rallying cry Open letter 22 Feb. 2011[3] February 2011[edit] Beijing[edit] 30,000 Chinese 'Occupy' Highway to Protest Polluting Coal Plants. Written by Stephen Lacey, Climate Progress Tens of thousands of residents in China’s southern Guandong Province gathered in the streets last week, occupying a highway to demonstrate against the development of a new coal plant near Shantou city. The residents say existing coal plants in the area are fouling local air and water, and are making people sick. Each year, protests spring up to counter the construction of dirty coal plants. But this appears to be the biggest yet. Officials now say they will abandon plans to build a new coal plant in the area. Two people were reportedly killed in clashes with police, but the government is denying those reports. China’s coal use has exploded over the last few decades.
Watch the protesters gather in the streets throughout Guandong Province protesting coal plants and local land rights: This post was originally published by Climate Progress, a division on ThinkProgress. Related Stories: Success! Montana Selling Coal To Australia and China. China cracks down on Middle-East-inspired protests. Issued on: 20/02/2011 - 08:17Modified: 20/02/2011 - 11:36 Chinese authorities have moved to thwart attempts to organise rallies apparently modelled on the unrest sweeping across the Arab world. Rights groups say activists have gone missing and communication lines have been stifled.
AP - Authorities rounded up dozens of dissidents and cracked down on calls for a “Jasmine Revolution,” which urged demonstrations in more than a dozen Chinese cities Sunday apparently modeled after the wave of pro-democracy protests sweeping the Middle East. The source of the call was not known and many activists seemed not to know what to make of it, even as they spread the word. They said they were unaware of any known group being involved in the request for citizens to gather in 13 cities and shout, “We want food, we want work, we want housing, we want fairness.” Families and friends reported the detention or harassment of several dissidents, and some activists said they were warned not to participate Sunday.
China unrest as hundreds protest against Taizhou 'land grabs' | World news. Chinese security forces mobilised to suppress protests in eastern China, a monitoring group and eyewitnesses said on Thursday, in the latest bout of unrest gripping parts of the country. The unrest in Taizhou, Zhejiang province, broke out on Tuesday after the head of a local village government confronted petrol station staff during talks over land compensation fees that the station's owner was due to pay villagers, the reports said. Within hours, hundreds of fellow residents of Rishanfen village had surrounded the petrol station, blocked an adjacent airport expressway, and seized a man who had struck the village leader, according to the owner of a nearby factory, who witnessed the events. Riot police clashed with villagers, said the factory owner, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Reinforcements arrived on Wednesday and officers detained about a dozen people, including the chief, other village officials and anyone found with images of the protest on their mobile phones, the man said. China warns foreign media not to cover protests. BEIJING -- Chinese police are further intensifying pressure on foreign reporters, warning them to stay away from spots designated for Middle East-inspired protests and threatening them with expulsion or a revoking of their credentials. The warnings show how unnerved the authorities are by the online calls for protests every Sunday. The appeals, which started two weeks ago, have attracted few outright demonstrators but many onlookers, loads of journalists and swarms of police. Staff from The Associated Press, Agence France-Presse and numerous other overseas news organizations were called in for videotaped meetings with Beijing police Wednesday and Thursday and told that reporters trying to film or interview near the proposed demonstration spots in Beijing or Shanghai this weekend would be punished.
The extreme reaction signals a retreat since restrictions on foreign media were eased in the run-up to the 2008 Olympics. "Some people are eager for fame and try to create trouble for China. China: Jasmine Revolution, Week Two. A week after small protests took place in Beijing and Shanghai and failed to materialize in the other 11 cities mentioned in the anonymous blog post which sought to spark a Jasmine Revolution in China, a second round of protests are scheduled for today in 23 cities across China. Chinese scholar, writer and blogger Ran Yunfei, now being held on charges of subversion of state authority.
Photo by Flickr user RebeccaMacK. Since last week, a growing number of arrests have been made, the venue of the Beijing protest has become a construction site, ramped-up Internet censorship targeting a growing list of words has had the unintended effect of leaving little but pro-Jasmine voices online, ‘China’ is suspected of having DDoSed Twitter, the 50 Cent Party has beleaguered itself with launching a saliva war against liberal Chinese Twitter users, and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has abruptly announced a netizen chat session set for first thing Sunday morning. 民主的春天暖人心，让我们散步去. Chinese Jasmine Revolution: Continuation of Street Walking on March 6th, 2011. Chinese police besiege town and cut of food supplies in bid to quell riots. Chinese riots enter third day | World news. Rioters burned police and fire vehicles in a third day of unrest in southern China's manufacturing heartlands, witnesses have reported.
Hong Kong broadcasters reported that armed police fired teargas as they sought to disperse the crowd and detained at least a dozen demonstrators. The clashes, which began on Friday after a fracas between security officers and a pregnant street vendor in Xintang, Guangdong province, highlight Chinese authorities' struggle to control social frustrations. It is thought that most protesters were migrant workers like the vendor.
Last week hundreds of migrant workers clashed with police in Chaozhou, also in Guangdong, following a dispute over unpaid wages. In Lichuan, Hubei, as many as 2,000 protesters attacked government headquarters last Thursday after a local politician who had complained about official corruption died in police custody. Unrest is thought to have become increasingly frequent, although data is hard to come by. Designer of Chinese Web Controls Hit by Shoe. Egypt, China, and Revolution (Part 2) I can’t help thinking that some of this is all my fault. You see, having been one of the few people in China who stayed awake all night last Friday, I was (I think) the first person to report that China was censoring the news about the protests in Egypt, kind of.
What I said was this: Word of the revolutionary protests is spreading on Weibo and through BBS forums, but appears to be being scrubbed just as quickly. Attempts to link to Al-Jazeera’s live coverage of the story resulted repeatedly in Sina’s Weibo service displaying an error message about “forbidden” content. Some Weibo messages have mentioned Egypt, but the topic appears to have been scrubbed from the trending topics on Weibo, where it hasn’t appeared in the top 50 all night.
I believe I beat the AP on this by several hours, in light of the fact that they were probably sleeping, like sane people, at the time I posted it. “They’re censoring it,” is the obvious answer, and while that’s true, it’s also complicated. No. Egypt, China, and Revolution. For the past three hours or so, I have been captivated by the situation in Egypt, where it appears at this time (about 6 A.M.
China time) that the Egyptian president Mubarak may already have been overthrown, or at the very least faces a dire threat to his legitimacy from the massive protests that have resulted in, among other things, the burning and looting of his political party’s official headquarters. (EDIT: Or maybe not? Mubarak finally showed up at 6:20 and made a speech on Egyptian TV, so he’s at least still in the country.
I am now going to sleep.) Of course, this is an extremely sensitive issue for China, given that the protests in Egypt are motivated primarily by factors that exist in China, too: wealth disparity, corruption, censorship, etc. Of course, China is not Egypt. But the spin machine is still running. Xinhua’s Chinese site doesn’t feature the Egypt story prominently. One wonders what the Chinese government is thinking about all this revolution in the Middle East. Inside Wukan: the Chinese village that fought back. Les Chinois se réveilleront-ils en 2011? / Jordan Pouille.
Manifestation anti japonaise 2010 - jpouille C’est la question à dix mille milliards de yuans mais depuis la Révolution de Jasmin, dans un pays que tout le monde croyait “stable”, on peut se la poser. Un soulèvement populaire chinois est-il possible? Au delà du sort réservé aux dissidents ou simples réformateurs mais dont la population chinoise n’entendra jamais parler, les verdicts scandaleux s’accumulent et jettent une lumière blafarde sur un régime gangréné par la corruption, l’injustice.
Il y a d’abord eu Li Qiming ce rejeton d’un cadre de la police de Baoding, dans la province de Hebei. Après avoir percuté deux filles de paysans et tué l’une d’elles, le jeune homme furieux d’avoir abîmé sa belle auto, s’est écrié devant des étudiants médusés: “Qui osera me dénoncer? Mon père s’appelle Li Gang !”. Cette phrase, célèbre dans tout le pays, est devenu le symbole de l’impunité des officiels du Parti et de leurs proches.
Jordan Pouille Et ça ne va pas s’arranger! Jordan pouille. Picture of the day: In case Chinese don’t understand, Libyan protesters write slogan in Chinese characters | Ministry of Tofu. EmailEmail Since the beginning of Operation Odyssey Dawn, Chinese official media and authorities have been denouncing the U.S. -led multinational coalition forces for their intervention into Libya’s internal affairs for the sake of their hidden agenda. In China’s micro-blogosphere, liberal-leaning netizens have pointed out that China Central Television has been skewing the public opinion with their slanted report and even lies. Evidence? It is said that on Thursday’s CCTV Channel 4, though the camera captured Libyan people in the city of Benghazi cheering the coalition forces by holding a banner that reads “Vive le France”(Long live France), the broadcaster’s Chinese voice-over said, this is Libyan outcry against coalition forces’ bombing of the city.
“Can such an outcry be heard?” Perhaps Libyan people have got wind of CCTV’s spin. "Muammar Gaddafi is a liar. " Related articles: Protesters, security forces clash in China. Local protests spreading in China Migrant workers and security forces clash over the weekend in southern ChinaThe protest in Zengcheng is the latest in a series of disturbances across ChinaChina's government, fearing Arab Spring-style movements, is cracking down Beijing (CNN) -- A rash of violent protests in China continued over the weekend as migrant workers and security forces clashed in a rural city about 60 miles northwest of Hong Kong, local government officials and witnesses said.
The protest erupted in Zengcheng over what witnesses described as rough handling of a pregnant street vendor by security guards Friday. Local government officials said the protests involved hundreds, while other unofficial reports estimated tens of thousands of protesters. The demonstrators hurled bottles and bricks at government officials and marched to the local police station, where they damaged several cars, according to the local government officials.
Unrest in Chinese 'jeans capital' REFILE-Parts of China's Inner Mongolia under martial law as protests spread. Tiananmen, un 22e anniversaire sous haute surveillance - Monde. Des milliers de touristes, chinois et étrangers, se pressaient sur la place Tiananmen à Pékin samedi 4 juin, jour anniversaire de l'écrasement du mouvement pro démocratique en 1989, au milieu d'un important déploiement policier. Le 22e anniversaire intervient au début d'un long weekend férié, alors même que le régime est engagé dans une campagne de répression de toute opposition. Depuis la mi-février, quand une partie du monde arabe s'est embrasée, des dizaines de dissidents, avocats ou militants des droits de l'Homme chinois ont ainsi été arrêtés ou assignés à résidence. Un silence pesant Samedi, nombre de visiteurs s'engageaient sur l'immense place devant la Cité interdite, haut lieu du tourisme en Chine, passant entre les postes de sécurité, mais la plupart refusaient de répondre aux questions, ou assuraient ne rien savoir des événements de 1989.
"J'en ai entendu parler. "Je ne sais rien" a déclaré de son côté un homme se présentant comme un retraité originaire de Changchun (nord). 未未為我 我為未未/ Wei Wei for All and All for Wei Wei.