CHICAGO—A rally and parade supporting 75 million people who quit the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its affiliated organizations took place in Chicago’s Chinatown on June 19.
Organized by the Global Service Center for Quitting the Chinese Communist Party (QCCPSC), the rally took place in front of Chicago’s Chinatown Square at 11:30 a.m. on Saturday, with the parade through Chinatown’s streets following immediately afterward.
“San tui,” which translates into the “three withdrawals,” was a common theme of the speeches presented at the rally. The term refers to the withdrawing from the CCP and its two main affiliated organizations—the Youth League and the Young Pioneers of China. The 75 million people include those who have quit all three or any of the three organizations by posting statements of withdrawal on the QCCPSC website.
Speaking at the rally, the famous Chinese independent writer San Mei said that “san tui” signaled an awakening in China.
“The current waves of workers’ strikes and three withdrawals in China are signs that the Chinese people under the CCP’s totalitarianism are awakening and fighting back,” San said.
If everybody quit the CCP and refused to cooperate with it, she said, the regime would no longer have the foundation needed to rule the people.
Another speaker, Mao Huizhi, who is a coordinator of the QCCPSC in Missouri, noted that widespread corruption is a driving force behind the waves of withdrawals, since big businesses backed by corrupted officials have made life unbearable for innumerable workers in China.
“Upon assuming power, the CCP repeatedly said that the tide had turned for farmers and workers; but now under communist rule, over 200 million farmers have become lower-class citizens, risking their lives in urban sweatshops with no resident status or insurance. Even their children’s right to education is exploited,” Mao said.
More and more people have noticed that those who have quit the CCP are from all walks of life in China, ranging from high-ranking officials to countryside people, she added.
One QCCPSC volunteer in Missouri, who regularly makes calls to China to help people quit the CCP, receives 160 to 180 requests for withdrawals each month, Mao said.
Speaker Huang Kui emphasized that “san tui” is a means to distance oneself from the crimes of the CCP.
Huang was arrested in China in 2000 for helping design The Epoch Times website. He was illegally detained for five years. While at a detention center in Zhuhai City, Guangdong Province, Huang said he was subjected to multiple forms of abuse, including forced labor, forced feeding, beating, verbal assault, deprivation of sleep, and other kinds of physical torture. He recalled being locked up with over 20 inmates in a cell of about 140 square feet, in which all activities—eating, sleeping, and using the toilet—took place.
He was also forced to work up to 18 hours a day, cracking pistachios or making Christmas lights and plastic flowers, Huang said, adding that while these things brought brightness and joy to the people in the United States, they were the CCP’s means of oppressing the innocent.
Huang called attention to the CCP’s persecution of the Falun Gong spiritual movement, including the harvesting of Falun Gong practitioners’ vital organs. He urged people to say “no” to the CCP through “san tui.”
In November 2004, The Epoch Times published a series of editorials titled the “Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party,” which provided a historical account of the Party and exposed its tyrannical nature. The series was later compiled into a book and a DVD. A movement, in which people who had previously pledged their lives to the CCP started to post statements on the Internet renouncing that pledge, began soon thereafter.
The QCCPSC was founded on Feb. 22, 2005, to help people quit the CCP and its affiliated organizations, according to its website. It currently has over 100 service centers in more than 30 countries and regions worldwide.
Organized by the Global Service Center for Quitting the Chinese Communist Party (QCCPSC), the rally took place in front of Chicago’s Chinatown Square at 11:30 a.m. on Saturday, with the parade through Chinatown’s streets following immediately afterward.
‘San Tui’
“San tui,” which translates into the “three withdrawals,” was a common theme of the speeches presented at the rally. The term refers to the withdrawing from the CCP and its two main affiliated organizations—the Youth League and the Young Pioneers of China. The 75 million people include those who have quit all three or any of the three organizations by posting statements of withdrawal on the QCCPSC website.
Speaking at the rally, the famous Chinese independent writer San Mei said that “san tui” signaled an awakening in China.
“The current waves of workers’ strikes and three withdrawals in China are signs that the Chinese people under the CCP’s totalitarianism are awakening and fighting back,” San said.
If everybody quit the CCP and refused to cooperate with it, she said, the regime would no longer have the foundation needed to rule the people.
Another speaker, Mao Huizhi, who is a coordinator of the QCCPSC in Missouri, noted that widespread corruption is a driving force behind the waves of withdrawals, since big businesses backed by corrupted officials have made life unbearable for innumerable workers in China.
“Upon assuming power, the CCP repeatedly said that the tide had turned for farmers and workers; but now under communist rule, over 200 million farmers have become lower-class citizens, risking their lives in urban sweatshops with no resident status or insurance. Even their children’s right to education is exploited,” Mao said.
More and more people have noticed that those who have quit the CCP are from all walks of life in China, ranging from high-ranking officials to countryside people, she added.
One QCCPSC volunteer in Missouri, who regularly makes calls to China to help people quit the CCP, receives 160 to 180 requests for withdrawals each month, Mao said.
A Personal Story
Speaker Huang Kui emphasized that “san tui” is a means to distance oneself from the crimes of the CCP.
Huang was arrested in China in 2000 for helping design The Epoch Times website. He was illegally detained for five years. While at a detention center in Zhuhai City, Guangdong Province, Huang said he was subjected to multiple forms of abuse, including forced labor, forced feeding, beating, verbal assault, deprivation of sleep, and other kinds of physical torture. He recalled being locked up with over 20 inmates in a cell of about 140 square feet, in which all activities—eating, sleeping, and using the toilet—took place.
He was also forced to work up to 18 hours a day, cracking pistachios or making Christmas lights and plastic flowers, Huang said, adding that while these things brought brightness and joy to the people in the United States, they were the CCP’s means of oppressing the innocent.
Huang called attention to the CCP’s persecution of the Falun Gong spiritual movement, including the harvesting of Falun Gong practitioners’ vital organs. He urged people to say “no” to the CCP through “san tui.”
Nine Commentaries
In November 2004, The Epoch Times published a series of editorials titled the “Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party,” which provided a historical account of the Party and exposed its tyrannical nature. The series was later compiled into a book and a DVD. A movement, in which people who had previously pledged their lives to the CCP started to post statements on the Internet renouncing that pledge, began soon thereafter.
The QCCPSC was founded on Feb. 22, 2005, to help people quit the CCP and its affiliated organizations, according to its website. It currently has over 100 service centers in more than 30 countries and regions worldwide.
