CBSIC News Release Archive


Glossary

In order to reach out for support at the grass-root level, and voice the concern of ordinary Chinese, the CBS Incident Committee distributes News Release electronically to Chinese communities. Fifteen regular issues have been distributed as of 9/20/94. In addition, special editions were released in cases of special events.

Each regular issue of News Release have four parts: I. General Information concerning the CBS incident (such as announcements, protest letters). II. Case Study of Legal Issues, including feasibility study, strategy study, etc. III. Activities of the CBS Incident Committee and Chinese communities concerning the incident. IV. Suggestions from subscribers. The editor of Part I and II is Miao Ye, while the editor of Part III and IV is Xiangdong Shi. Past issues can also be found by anonymous ftp from ifcss.org: ifcss/Legal/cbs.

Our news releases enjoy a broad spectrum of readers. The releases are distributed to fcbs-l@ifcss.org net, Usenet newsgroups soc.culture.china, talk.politics.china and alt.chinese.text, china-net, china-news-post net, ccnl net, cssa net and IFCSS archives . Our direct readers are estimated to be at least 5,000, mainly from North America. They consist of not only Chinese from mainland, Taiwan and HongKong, but also non-Chinese. Each week, the editors receive hundreds, sometimes thousands of electronic mail from readers. They have become the steam of our Committee. Many of the suggestions from readers have become solid actions of the CBS Incident Committee. At the meantime, the Committee gain support widely by reaching out, collecting more than 1,300 signatures within two weeks for its first round of protest letter compaign.


CBSIC News Release No. 1
CBSIC News Release No. 2
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CBSIC News Release No. 4
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CBSIC News Release No. 6
CBSIC News Release No. 7
CBSIC News Release (Special Edition)
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CBSIC News Release No. 10
CBSIC News Release No. 11
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CBSIC News Release No. 21
CBSIC News Release No. 22


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