WHAT: City of Pasadens Special Meeting of the City Council on the DISCUSSION AND POTENTIAL ACTION ON HUMAN RELATIONS COMMISSION REPORT REGARDING HUMAN RIGHTS AND 2008 ROSE PARADE FLOAT COMMEMORATING BEIJING OLYMPICS
WHEN: Monday, October 29, 2007 Public meeting: 7:00 p.m.
WHERE: Pasadena City Hall, Room S249 100 N. Garfield Ave, Pasadena, Ca. 91109
WHO: The following people will testify in support of "No Beijing Olympic Rose Float of Shame"
Joe Brown, NAACP Pasadena Chapter President Father Gerard O'Brien. Pastor of Assumption Catholic Church in Pasadena Brother Peter Zhou, Benedictine monk from St. Andrews Abbey in Valerymo who spent 26 years in a prison in China Philip Watt, former prisoner of conscience who shared the same prison block with Cardinal Ignatius Kung in China George Mo, former prisoner of conscience. Burmese on Burma condition And many others.
CONTACT: John Li 626-568-8889,
Ann Lau 310-539-0234
BACKGROUND INFORMATION: Please see http://www.cityofpasadena.net/councilagendas/2007%20agendas/Oct_29_07/agenda.asp for all submissions to the Commission on Human Relations Follows is some of the highlights of the Commission Report and Recommendations We applaud the Pasadena Human Relations Commission report and recommendations submitted to the Pasadena City Council. The report acknowledges the on-going human rights violations in China. Some of the human rights violations identified by the Commissioners are: "(a) use of the criminal justice system to unjustly target labor leaders, human rights activists, political dissidents, journalists reporting on non-approved matters, certain internet users, HIV/AIDS activists, and others; (b) use of the criminal justice system to unjustly target religious minorities such as Tibetan Buddhists, Falun Gong, Christians of non-government approved churches, and other religions; (c) fundamental failures of due process in the arrest, detention, and punishment of people for ordinary crimes; (d) use of physical and psychological torture and forced labor; (e) censoring of academic, journalistic, and public expression on social and political matters; (f) forced sterilization and abortion; and (g) unfair appropriation of peasant property." Among the many recommendations by the Commissioners are the recognition by the City of "Human Rights as a Core Value", "The Olympic Charter speaks of the centrality of human rights." and that "the Commission believes it is important to recognize that human rights principles are championed in the most cherished political documents of the United States." The Commissioners also rejected the argument "that the Olympics has nothing to do with human rights is simply not correct." The Commissioners further wrote," the Olympic Charter, Beijing's own Olympic motto, and the promises of Beijing when it accepted the IOC invitation to host the Olympics, all expressly acknowledge human rights as a central principle of the Olympic Movement. Speaking more broadly, the Commission believes that diligent attention to human rights is a fundamental prerequisite to responsible moral citizenship, genuine patriotism, and good government in the modern world." The Commission also asked the City to consider the suggestions by human rights activists in "naming of a human rights advocate such as the Dalai Lama as a co-grand marshal for the parade, a float entry representing human rights activists, or changes to the controversial float." DON'T REWARD BEIJING WITH A ROSE PARADE FLOAT OF SHAME * * * End * * *
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