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 Silicon
Valley for Democracy in China
Mission Statement
Silicon Valley for Democracy in China
(SVDC) is a grassroots organization dedicated to
the promotion of democracy and human rights in China with
peaceful means through public awareness, community
actions and organizational alliances.
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This home page contains the following information:
In order to achieve our mission and objectives, we seek to:
- Provide humanitarian, legal, and assimilation assistance
to dissidents and students to preserve and cultivate
pluralism;
- Raise community awareness of human rights abuses in China
through mass communication and other means;
- Leverage our professional skills and business expertise
to have a positive impact on political and economic
reform in China;
- Disseminate truthful information about universal
principles of democracy and human rights to the Chinese
public;
- Provide accurate information to governments and officials
in forming policies towards China;
- Educate and organize ourselves in the democratic process;
- Build a strong and long lasting organization that promote
alliances to foster coordination and cooperation with
other groups of similar objectives.
Sponsored Educational Seminar
(co-sponsored by Chinese Democratic Education Foundation and
Academia Orientalis) -- a series of scholarly seminars on the
theme of the Chinese
cultural heritage and its implications for democracy in China:
- December 1996, presentations on human rights abuses in
China's Laogai camps (i.e. forced labor camps).
- December 1995, a three-hour panel discussion on the U.S.
foreign policy towards China.
- March 1994: a four-hour presentations and discussions
with the two accomplished speakers, Bo Yang and Yu
Yin-Shih, from Taiwan
and Princeton
University, respectively.
- December 1993: a four and a-half hours of presentations
and discussions with the four accomplished panelists from
prominent research institutions.
- December 1992: “The Impact of the Peaceful
Evolution in China,”
by two journalists, Ge Yang and Lu Keng
Round Table Alliance - cosponsored the
conferences of the Round Table Alliance of Chinese human
rights/democracy organizations in January, March, and August of
1992.
Sponsored “Candidate Forum 1992”
and “Candidate Forum 1994” immediate
before the June California
primary and November general elections.
Letter Campaigns - continuously
provided timely, truthful and insightful information to
- members of the United
States Congress for them to consider attaching human
rights conditions to the renewal of the
Most-Favored-Nation trade status (M-F-N) for the Chinese
dictatorship and other legislative actions;
- the White House and
the Department of State on
the development of human rights conditions in China.
- members of the U.S. Congress and the California State
Senate in support of resolutions seeking to protecting
religious persecutions in China.
Media Campaigns - continuously
provided timely, truthful and insightful information to the
international and local news media, including free-lance
editorials, letter to editors, frequent press releases on events
or issues, and introduction of key dissidents to journalists for
interviews.
Dissident Support - provided financial
assistance to help dissidents to resettle in the United States as
well as help them gain national media attention and coverage.
Special Programs - assisted Harry Wu, Director
of Laogai Research Foundation,
in his research work and TV interviews, and sponsored speaking
events featuring Harry
Wu..
Co-sponsor the Free
Harry Wu campaign during his 66-day ordeal in China in
the summer of 1995. Wu, a Chinese American scholar and human
rights activist, was illegally detained and tried for a
trumped-up “espionage” charge by the Chinese
authorities, and expelled immediately after his
“conviction.”
Inside of China -
provided assistance to channel information into China, including:
- assisting Voice of
America (VoA) and British
Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) to interview and
broadcast educational information regarding key
Chinese issues to China;
- letter campaigns including Christmas card
campaign, letters/broadcast to inform the public in China, and
establish direct dialogue with dissidents and their
families.
- financial assistance to dissidents with critical
needs, such as medical treatment for serious illness.
Listed by the Congressional
Research Service, Foreign Affairs and National Defense
Division of the Library
of Congress as a consulting resource.
- Constitution
of the People's Republic of China (PRC) - adopted
on December 4, 1982.
- Concerning Liberties,
China Is Free to Prosper, but That's All
by Patrick E. Tyler, New York Times,
05/30/97
- "The
Courage to Stand Alone" by Ted
Anthony, AP National Writer, 05/22/97
- Exiled
dissident wants to return to China by Julie
Chao, The Examiner Staff, 05/28/96
- Still
fighting for freedom by Matt Miller, The
San Diego Union-Tribune, Page G-1, 06/23/96
- Some
great escapes: After Tiananmen Square, Chinese
dissidents find their way to Boston by
Indira A.R. Lakshmanan, Globe Staff, 08/09/96
- “Here
I can be safe, but I will return” by
Indira A.R. Lakshmanan, Globe Staff, 08/09/96
- America's
many broken dreams of China profits by
Frank Kofsky for The San Francisco Examiner,
08/21/96
- The
Gate of Heavenly Peace - a documentary about the
protests at Tiananmen Square in 1989, and the resulting Beijing
Massacre of June 4.
Silicon Valley for Democracy in China
was founded on July 15, 1989 in response to the Tian'anmen
Massacre in Beijing,
China, in which thousands of unarmed students and civilians were
brutally gunned down or run over by PLA tanks.
The persecution against dissidents has never ended ever since.
Please send your comment or request for more
information to SVDC by e-mail. or write to SVDC,
P.O. Box 2658, Cupertino, CA 95015-2658, U.S.A.
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Last updated May 30, 1997
