Hi, everyone on this network and our representatives in IFCSS: Let me take this opportunity to express my sincerely thanks to all of you for your hard work in the past three months. Let us put aside our fierce confrontational rhetoric for our foes aside for a moment and pick up the warmest holiday greetings for ourselves. In the short period of CBS-IC, we have witnessed ups and downs. However, with the help from everyone of you, we are now having more to celebrate, and more to achieve. First of all, we came to realize, and are able to utilize the power of democracy. We are doing things from bottom up, not from top down. With the strong community awareness and participation, we have achieved what is a national network's acknowledgment of our strong protest, and corrections of one wrong. We are now having one more to celebrate, the ultimate accomplishment of this committee. Yet we have helped to re-shape the current IFCSS. With so many overseas Chinese organizations plagued with infighting, splitting apart and losing directions and steam, we, a group of ordinary Chinese students and scholars, are keeping IFCSS on our side, to advocate what we are all concerned in this country, to live with prosperity and dignity. A bottom up participation from CSS community is what will make IFCSS different from all other organizations. We have the grassroots here in the States which consists of the best brains of contemporary China, the most dynamic generation who were brewed and nurtured with the ideal of democracy. All the others do not. We have the most advanced communication networks, the eagerness to cooperate, the willingness to sacrifice, and the fierce determination to defend ourselves. There are no geographical or manmade obstacles which can separate us. They only add to our awareness of nationalism and globalism. Let us admire the beauty and fullness of the Mid-Autumn moon, and strive for what is the fullest achievement of our Civil Rights Movement! Happy Holidays! Mi Mi Sr. >From CBS-IC %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % Mr. Mi Mi, Sr., Coordinator of CBS Incident Committee % % Sign on/off at listserv@ifcss.org, with mailbody as: % % sub fcbs-l Firstname Lastname, or signoff fcbs-l % % Post: fcbs-l@ifcss.org ftp//ifcss.org/ifcss/Legal/cbs % $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ $ Please make contributions payable to $ $ IFCSS/cBS Incident Fund, and mail it to $ $ Mr. Frank Chen / CBSIC $ $ 361 Ogden Avenue $ $ Jersey City, NJ 07307 $ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$