Dozens of Chinese and Chinese American pro-democracy activists who live in Northern California gathered at Portsmouth Square in San Francisco’s Chinatown on May 25 to commemorate the victims of the Tiananmen Square Massacre by cleaning the Goddess of Democracy statue.
The statue was erected on June 4, 1994, five years after the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) violently attacked the 1989 student movement in Tiananmen Square. For over three decades, Portsmouth Square has served as a gathering place for people from around the world to honor those who died in the massacre.
