Where are the leaders?

A speaker visited our class and documented the atrocities inflicted on the religious groups in China. She Specifically spoke about the group “Falun Gong,” in which the Practitioners were persecuted for no reason. These practitioners would gather in parks and participate in body cleansing excercises, not harming anything or anyone. After a while, government officials began arresting anyone seen practicing Falun Gong. The idea of persecuting these individuals needs to stop. The people of Falun Gong need to organize religious suffrage and get more and more people to listen to them. Getting hundreds of thousands of people together in meetings can put a toll on government officials and hopefully make them think twice.

The United States also had human rights violations throughout the years. Untill the 1920s, Woman were denied the right to vote. No matter who it was, all woman were deprived of their legal rights. These women began to stand up for themselves and started the Woman’s Suffrage Movement. The most powerful organizer of Woman’s Suffrage was Susan B. Anthony, and she fought for their right to vote. They held meetings and planned strategies for gaining suffrage. Just from these simple tactics of getting everyone together they began to turn the government’s heads. In 1912, Theodore Roosevelt's Progressive Party became the first national political party to have a plank supporting women suffrage. Woman across the nation were being noticed. In the next few years the 19th amendment was passed, and it denied the government to hold anyone from voting because of their gender.

Human right’s violations are all over the world. If the people of Falun Gong came together and set up speeches to show that their organization is harmless, they would get some more respect, just like Susan B. Anthony did. A group such as Falun Gong without some type of leader is nothing. Where is Falun Gong’s “stand-out” practitioner?

Sources: http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/nineteentham.htm, http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/women/notable.htm , http://womenshistory.about.com/od/suffrage1900/a/august_26_wed.htm