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[Pasadena, Cali., February 26] Mr. HUANG Lin, Chairman of the IFCSS Civil Right Working Committee and Chairman of the CBS Incident Committee (CBS-IC), received a special award from the Committee of 100 for CBS-IC's persistent and successful effort to make CBS apologize for its unfair report of Chinese immigrants.
The award was presented to HUANG Lin in the annual conference of the Committee of 100.
IFCSS president LUO Ning attended the meeting in an effort to reach out for IFCSS. During the conference, he introduced IFCSS to the participants and explored cooperation opportunities with other Chinese community organizations.
Among the agenda of the conference were a panel discussion on human rights and a pannel discussion of carrer development of Chinese Americans in US.
LUO Ning thinks this conference proves beyond doubt that the new dimension and direction IFCSS has taken since the sixth annual convention is a right one.
CSS Today tried to interview Mr. HUANG lin on his receiving the Committee of 100 Award. In reply, HUANG sent us an article, which we publish in this issue.
It is a great honor to me to receive this award on behalf of the CBS Incident Committee, known among us as CBS-IC. I would like to take this opportunity to express my sincere thanks to the Committee of 100 for its recognition and collaboration from which we received the unswerving support from the very beginning, represented by Mr. Wang Gongli. Let me say here that I believe I'm expressing the feelings of all my colleagues in the CBSIC that our work which responded to the CBS untruthful representation of Chinese in the US would not have come to anything without our joined efforts Committee of 100, Independent Federation of Chinese Students and Scholars, Organization of Chinese Americans, Asian Pacific Americans Bar Association, Chinese Association of Science and Technology, and many others.
May 19's news segment by CBS Evening News grossly misrepresented the Chinese community in the United States. This irresponsible act on the part of CBS sent a warning signal to our community, that is, even in a free country, media distortion and falsification could still happen and could victimize innocent people, especially the "silent innocent" people as most of us Chinese often referred to in this country. Looking back at the history, we Chinese have been the most hardworking and worst discriminated against. The infamous "Chinese Exclusion Act" is a case in point.
A clergyman in Germany at the end of World War II had this to say.
"When Nazis went to persecute Jews, I didn't speak up because I was not Jewish; when they went for Catholics, I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant; when they went for trade unionist, I didn't speak up because I was not a trade unionist...; when they came for me, there was no one left to speak up."
We decided to speak up this time. Over a period of five months, we collected 8,000 signatures and coordinated sending well over a thousand protest letters/faxes. In the meantime, we did a thorough checkup and research with regard to the allegations made by CBS and were able to challenge their allegation of CBS news segment and their sources with facts and research findings. After five months of persistent work, CBS acknowledged the truth and made the public apology we demanded.
Compared with other Chinese organizations, ours is still young. We feel especially grateful for the help and guidance we received during our work by organizations such as Committee of 100, Organization of Chinese Americans, etc.
We have at least 10,000 advanced degree holders, 350,000 recent Chinese immigrants as well as millions of Americans with Chinese origin in this country and if we stick together to do something, we'll be definitely initiating changes which will be conducive to well-beings and promotion of us Chinese community in the United States of America.
In recent years, we have witnessed many exciting political stages around the world, and we have further experienced the horrifying results from the political games. To give few examples, the political coup in the Soviet Union against Gorbachev tops the lists. However the end was also dramatic. Within forty-eight hours, the re-revolutionaries were sipping cabbage soup in their prison cells, while the oldest communist nation leapt a giant step toward democracy. Indeed, it is one of the great events in post-communist period. Not too long after Yeltsin successfully took over the Kremlin, the confrontation of the Russian Congress and the Yeltsin Government resulted in another coup, the dismissal of the Parliament. In few days, the Army was called in, and the Parliament of the nation was well suited the new function President were sending to jail, only to fill the cells of the first coup, since the conspirators were freed by these new prisoners shortly before. The rating of Yeltsin went to the bottom of the Siberian Lakes, but once again the nation was altered with new political landscapes.
Worse yet, the political struggle in Somali resulted a starving nation, and in Rwanda, the price was the half population of the country. In Yemen, it was the breakup of the once united nation, with promising economical prosperity and political model for many small nations in trouble. In Haiti, it was the suffering of the people on the high sea without hope, but also the crumbling hotel for the general used to enjoy the luxury of the presidential palace. In Mexico, the assassination of the presidential candidate and latest arrest of the brother of the former President Salinas.......
However, the political struggle is showing different face in other places. In the US, it is the Contract to America in the front of a contract for 4,000,000, and the President with full caring smiles on every corner of the nation. In the Britain, it is the end of the hostile in the Northern Ireland, and the celebrating party of the IRA soldiers and Royal Army. In Canada, it is the endless debates on the future of Quebec.....
The images cannot be more rosy here, but we still saw the bloodiest scenes not too remote from our view. Once again, a lesson from the history---the start and end of political coups can only be limited by human imagination.
Of course, in our small Chinese community, we have seen of the exponential increasing of conflicts and new groups in the name of democracy, and we have heard court debates to ask US judges to save the future of China by the fighters. And, the spies of the Chinese government are everywhere, and the spies are fooling themselves and others for nothing, and again, the puzzling FBI agents are being called to mediate the dispute in faulty Sichuan dialects. And, much more funnier than the late show, or the best Hollywood films, except bloody scene. Finally, a young lady was jailed because she is Wei Jingsheng's girl friend, while Emperor Mao's girls are smiling everywhere......
What a dramatic but also troubling world.
Now to be fair, let us rotate these players. If the fighters in our community went to Moscow, or the Capitol Hill, what could happened? Could the Council of the IFCSS launch a full scale war in Russian, or order a total seizure of the President without a bottle of Vodka? Could Sichuan folks be fooled by someone to join the guerilla in the Mountains of Canada, or a long march from California to the Capitol Hill? Could the Chairperson order an attack at the White Office without warning, or take the Oval Office to start another book? Or, move the Nukes out Nevada to destroy these Democrats along with Lincoln Memorial and Washington Monument?......Anything could happen, if we know the fact that we are a group of Chinese, inherited the spirits from practicing Loyalty Dance, and faking everything including oneself. Fortunately, all these fictitious scenario will not happen immediately, otherwise the first casualty will be this computer for this piece of article, a target selected by the high-techies always in the first attach.
The blood, the debris, and lies, can be cleaned from history, and it can be easily spotted that the real motivations from all the political coups, no matter end politically or not, are always powers, powers, and still powers. The power can be as heavy as a nation, but also as light as immediate fame without real face value. However, these political ambitious and power hungry human beings can be degraded to such a shameful degree that human is no longer visible from each action but desperate grasping, and the language is losing its origin as a way to exchange feeling. Just like many greedy merchants, soul is always on sale for the money worth for it, here everything related to oneself are being used, wrapped, changed, and fabricated for one thing, absolute power to satisfy the greedy taste for power. Such game and war will last forever, as it was demonstrated in the past, and as it is continuing now. Sheer lies can be stated again and again for different audience, and the war can be launched as long as the imagination and obsession for power is still fresh with decaying faces.
For some people, hope is always placed on a handful of people, who is always ahead of others as leaders, and hopes are always entrusted to each step the leaders taken. However, many historical lessons are very clear that the thrust and support from many can be used as knife to cut others into halves, and the price for that is too heavy to everyone. More people will lose everything, from shirts to life, and the people who uses people as weapon will lose his/her identity as a human being. I don't know who is the ultimate loser, but one thing for sure is that for the future of myself, I would not invest my trust to the people with sound words but incredibly greedy taste for power. Investing money to greedy traders could end up as penniless while the Baring is belly up, but give my idealism to people who can do anything for power will destroy the future of part or whole human being, as I am experiencing.
Dr. DONG Quan has been elected as the 6th Term President of Sino-Ecologists Club Overseas (Sino-ECO) recently in the annual presidential election. Dr. DONG obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Venderbilt, Nashville, TN, and now join the University of Miami as post-doc. Sino-ECO was founded in 1988 for the purpose of promoting the exchange of ideas, knowledge, and scientific development in ecology and related sciences among ecologists overseas and in China. Its members are from US, Canada, Japan, Australia, Europe, and China. Based on the Bylaw, Sino-ECO elects its president each year. Then the President forms the Board of Directors, which includes Drs. GUAN Weihe (FL), HE Xi (HI), LI Xiaojun (Vice-President, D.C.), LIN Guanghui (AZ), LUO Jiangang (Treasurer, NY), MIAO Shili (FL), PAN Yude (MA), and ZOU Xiaoming (PR). The President has also the power to establish working committees and appoint committee chairs.
"One of the goals for this presidency is to establish an Overseas Chapter of the Ecological Society of China." Dr. DONG said. In 1994, Sino-ECO successfully proposed a China Chapter under the Ecological Society of America (ESA), one of the largest societies in the U.S. The name "China Chapter", later, was changed into "Asian Ecology Section" based on Sino-ECO members' suggestion. Sino-ECO organized two successful workshops in Huhhot and Shanghai in the year of 1994. It has been a tradition that Sino-ECO has its "Annual Get Together" at Annual Meeting of ESA. Many members believe that friendships and having fun are the soul of Sino-ECO besides academic exchange. The organization has its networks, sino-ecol@ jupiter.esd.ornl.gov (Members) and sino-eco@ jupiter.esd.ornl.gov (Directors). The Sino-ECO Newsletter has been published bi-monthly since 1988.
The Chinese School Association in the United States (CSAUS), in collaboration with the China Association for Science & Technology (ZhongGuoKe-Xue), is organizing a 12-day summer tour to China for all the students at Chinese schools in US. The purpose of this tour is to let the natural and cultural beauty of China and improve their Chinese language learning.
TIME: June 29 July 10, 1995
PLACES: The tour includes visits to three major cities in China: Beijing, Nanjing, and Shanghai. Scenic tour in these areas include:
Beijing: the Great Wall, the Imperial Palace/Forbidden City, Ming Tomb, Summer Palace, Tian-An-Men Square;
Nanjing: Sun Yet-San Memorial Palace, Yangtze River Bridge, Mo-Chou Lake;
Shanghai: YuYuan Garden/Old Town, the Bund, Jade Temple, and the city skylines.
Cultural programs included in the tour are: (1) visit and communicate with Chinese students at the Youth and Children's Palace (Beijing & Shanghai); (2) experience the daily life of Chinese students at the Shanghai Youth Village; (3) enjoy folk songs and opera at the Peking Opera School; (4) attend classes at the Shanghai First Junior High School and the China Eastern University; and (5) party and camp with Chinese youth and Children at the countryside.
The cost for this tour package is $1,790/person. Those under 12 must be accompanied by their parents or a consenting adult. The package covers all the international (from west coast) and domestic airfares, local transportation, hotel accomodation, all the meals including welcome and farewell banquets, guided scenic tours, and all the cultural exchange programs. The only items not covered by the package are airport departure tax and tips.
The tour group size is limited to 35-40 persons (including accompanied adults). The deadline for tour registration with $200 deposit is May 4, 1995. Interested individuals should contact the Liaison Office of CSAUS at: 4349 S. Fortuna Way, Slat Lake City, UT 84124. Phone/FAX: 801-278-3643.
[Editor's Note: HQ = "IFCSS HQ"; SVC/SB="IFCSS Supervisory Committee/Board"; Council="IFCSS Council". We try our best to keep a complete list of the official IFCSS communications emails. If some pieces are missed, we'll appreciate it if you could kindly let us know.]
[02/25/95] Council held its teleconference, without anyone from the HQ present. Several emergent bills was moved on-site by Mr LI Jinghong and his associates, and passed by the Council. It charges LUO Ning of "misuse of public fund", "abuse of power", "corruption", and other violations of IFCSS rules.
[02/26/95] Council Chair LI Jinghong announced that the Council demanded President LUO Ning's immediate resignation (deadline March 1); otherwise the Council will file an impeachment appeal to the IFCSS SVC.
[02/28/95] President LUO Ning made a public statement, saying the charges against him were groundless and resolutions unconstitutional.
[02/28/95] IFCSS president LUO Ning appealed to IFCSS SB: 1) The resolutions were not publicized a week in advance as required by the IFCSS Bylaw, therefore are invalid; 2) Council Chair LI Jinghong should bear the chief responsibility for his failing to inform the Council members of the requirement and blocking Council member and HQ personnel from attending the meeting.
[3/1/95] IFCSS SVC Coordinator LUO Li-Shi informed LUO Ning that his appeal was accepted by SVC.
[03/01/95] HQ sent out a message to the public assuring that the IFCSS HQ stands on firm ground in the midst of the current crisis. Current and future IFCSS projects are mentioned.
[03/02/95] IFCSS HQ announced to open its financial data to the public. It includes its monthly financial report and statement of this term from July, 1994 through December, 1994
[03/02/95] IFCSS President LUO Ning made a public statement on Chen Ziming et al's Petition Letter to the People's Congress of P.R. China.
[03/02/95] Council Personnel Comittee Chair LIU Xiang filed to SVC an Impeachment appeal against the sixth term IFCSS President LUO Ning, on behalf of the Council.
[03/02/95] Mr LI Jinghong sent IFCSS SB a rebuttal to Dr. LUO Ning's appeal.
[03/03/95] IFCSS President LUO Ning sent a reply memo to SB/SVC on SVC's drafted report on the reimbursement for 6th IFCSS Congress participants.
[03/07/95] Mr. LUO Li-Shi sent out the SVC verdict on LUO Ning's appeal. The verdict upholds the Council's resolutions.
[03/07/95] SVC Coordinator LUO Li-Shi sent a memo to LUO Ning, informing him the SVC's decision to accept the Council's impeachment appeal. He gave LUO Ning two days to prepare a written response (by March 9, 1995).
[03/07/95] IFCSS 6th Congressional delegates from the Mid-West region released an emergency resolution to recall the two council member from their region: Mr. TAO Ye and Ms. ZHONG Ling, for their never contacting the local CSS and mis-representing the CSS' opinion on IFCSS issues. Two new Council members, Mr. YU Weiping and Mr. ZHANG Feng, were elected. The resolution was passed by a majority of the delegates.
[03/07/95] HQ released two articles on the current IFCSS constitutional crisis.
[03/07/95] HQ released a statement on the "Invalidity of the Council Resolutions."
[03/09/95] Mr. HUANG Lin appealed to IFCSS SB aginst the Council's impeachment resolution. According to IFCSS rules, the SB, rather than the Council, should initiate an impeachment, HUANG appealed.
[03/10/95] HQ announced the new IFCSS medical insurance program.
[03/10/95] Pacific Region released an announcement to recall Council member Mr. LI Jinghong from that region. The resolution was passed by a majority of delegates from the region on March 4, 1995, to issue a warning to Mr LI Jinghong. Since Mr. LI failed to comply with the majority supported resolution, the recall took effect by then.
[03/11/95] SB released its final report on the investigation of the reimbursement process of the IFCSS 6th Congress participants. The report draft had been used by the Council as a basis to pass the impeachment/ resignation resolution earlier on February 25, 1995.
[03/12/95] Mr. LUO Li-Shi handed down the SVC verdict on the Council's impeachment appeal. SVC thinks the accusations are true, and therefore decides to impeach President LUO Ning.
[03/12/95] SVC released three memos it received from HQ, dated on Feb. 9, Feb 28, and March 3, respectively.
[3/13/95] South-East regional delegates released an announcement to warn and recall the Council member Mr. Qi Jusheng from their region for his failure to represent the local students' opinion. The majority of delegates voted Yeah on the warning/recall on March 9. Mr. QI had failed to act upon the warning, the recall therefore took place by then.
[03/13/95] President LUO Ning sent to SB a reply to its March 7, 1995 verdict on LUO's appeal about the Council's resolutions.
[03/16/95] SVC Coordinator LUO Li-Shi sent out the SVC verdict on Mr HUANG Lin's appeal on proper impeachment procedure. SVC upholds the validity of the impeachment process initiated by the Council and sustained by the SVC.
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