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Tiananmen Commemoration Dinner and Awards 2007	Saturday, May 27, 2006 6:00 p.m. registration 6:30 p.m. dinner	Golden Dragon Restaurant. 960 North Broadway, LA Chinatown
	VISUAL ARTISTS GUILD cordially invites you to an Annual Awards Dinner and Tiananmen Commemoration In the spring of 1989, Beijing erupted with the largest spontaneous demonstrations the Peoples’ Republic of China had witnessed in its 40-year history since its founding in 1949. The pro-democracy movement quickly spread to over 30 cities around China before the world witnessed the horrors of the government’s brutal crackdown. As the Chinese people fled from the tanks and guns, they asked the international press to let the world know the truth. *They asked the world not to forget.* Featured Speaker Mak Yin Ting On the 10th anniversary of the hand over of Hong Kong to China, we are pleased to invite Ms. Mak Yin Ting to make a special trip from Hong Kong to speak to us. Mak Yin Ting has been on the forefront of defending press freedom in Hong Kong. As the Chair of the Hong Kong Journalists Association from 1996 to 1997, she led the way for the support of journalistic freedom especially during that critical period when Hong Kong was turned over to the Peoples Republic of China. She was also Chair of HKJA from 1999 to 2003. She has edited several significant reports for the Journalist Quarterly Perodical for the HKJA as well as for the Hong Kong Human Rights Monitor. & Honored Guest June Pulcini June Pulcini is an activist who has worked for human rights and justice for more than 40 years. Among her many volunteer activities, she has served since l998 on the advisory board of the Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking (CAST), which battles the international trafficking of men, women and children for forced labor and prostitution Date : Saturday, May 26, 2007 Time: 6:00 p.m. registration, dinner 6:30 p.m. Place: Golden Dragon Restaurant 960 North Broadway, LA Chinatown, Cost: Dinner Ticket: $25 Donor ticket: $50 Dinner is Chinese banquet style, vegetarian table available For information and reservation please call 310-539-0234 Please mail check payable to Visual Artists Guild, P.O. Box 861132, L.A., Ca. 90086-1132 Postmarked by May 21, 2007 Name________________________________Phone___________________Fax______________ e-mail______________________________________________________________ Address_____________________________________City____________St._____Zip_________ Number of tickets __________@ $25.00 $____________ Vegetarian_______ Number of tickets __________@ $50.00 $____________ Total enclosed $____________ I cannot attend, enclosed is my donation for $__________________ Background Information: For more information on the Tiananmen Massacre, please click on Tiananmen Story. Printer friendly form (PDF) Visual Artists Guild is a non-profit organization as qualified under Section 501 (C) (3) of the Internal Revenue code. This is an all volunteers’ organization.
P R E S S C O N F E R E N C E	Thursday, July 20, 2006	Bonn, Calgary, Hong Kong, Los Angeles, Melbourne, New York, Paris, San Francisco/Silicon Valley, Seattle, Toronto.
	WHAT: TEN CITIES PRESS CONFERENCE FOR JAILED JOURNALIST The press conference is a coordinated public appeal for the release of journalist Ching Cheong, the chief China correspondent for Singapore's The Straits Times newspaper. He has been detained in China since April 2005 and is scheduled to be sentenced later this month. He has been accused of spying. A video appeal by his wife will be shown. Participating cities in the press conference are: Bonn, Calgary, Hong Kong, Los Angeles, Melbourne, New York, Paris, San Francisco/Silicon Valley, Seattle, Toronto. WHEN: Thursday, July 20, 2006 TIME: Please see each time for each city below or the contacts WHERE: Please see location below Bonn, Calgary, Hong Kong, Los Angeles, Melbourne, New York, Paris, San Francisco/Silicon Valley, Seattle, Toronto. CONTACT: See contacts below for each city. Main contact: Ann Lau, Los Angeles, USA, alau@visual-artists-guild.org.remove SUPPORT FOR THE INTERNATIONAL PRESS CONFERENCES FOR CHING CHEONG: Amnesty International Group 4 Seattle Association of Humanitarian Lawyers Chinese Alliance For Democracy, Seattle Chapter Committee to Protect Journalists Federation For a Democratic China, Seattle Chapter FIDH (International Federation of Human Rights, - Fédération Internationale des Droits de - l'Hommes), Paris Hong Kong Alliance for Democracy in China Hong Kong Forum, Los Angeles Hong Kong Journalists Association International Federation of Journalists, IFJ-Asia Laogai Research Foundation Magazine New China, Germany Movement for Democracy in China (Calgary) PEN Canada Reporters Without Borders/Reporters Sans Frontieres Silicon Valley for Democracy in China The Foreign Correspondents' Club, Hong Kong Toronto Associaton for Demoracy in China Visual Artists Guild Wei Jingsheng Foundation Author Mr. Ethan Gutmann, Members of the New York Press Club, Nat Hentoff of the Village Voice, Bernard Stein of the Riverdale Press, Jay Nordlinger of National Review. Statement from the International Federation of Journalists July 19, 2006 The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), the global organisation representing more than 500,000 journalists in more than 120 countries, is deeply concerned about the plight of Hong Kong journalist Ching Cheong. Ching is the chief China correspondent for Singapore' s The Straits Times newspaper. He is a Hong Kong citizen, a legal resident of Singapore, and is a well-respected and experienced journalist. According to his wife, in April 2005 Ching went to China to meet a source who was to give him a manuscript about Zhao Ziyang, the former Prime Minister of China who spent 15 years under house arrest following the Tiananmen massacre. On April 22, 2005 Ching was arrested in Guangzhou and placed under a form of detention called "residence under surveillance" in Beijing. During the first month of Ching's detention, his wife complied with the advice of China's Public Security Bureau and did not go public with any information. Her last conversation with her husband was on May 29, 2005. Because so many of his friends, colleagues and relatives had been inquiring about Ching, his wife finally decided to publicise the information about his detention and on May 30, 2005, the media reported Ching's situation. On August 5, 106 days after he was first detained, the Beijing State Security Bureau formally charged Ching with spying for Taiwan. Ching faces life imprisonment for > "> endangering national security> "> . Ching has been denied the rights granted to him under the China> '> s Criminal Procedure Code: he has been kept in isolation, denied all legal recourse, and refused access to family members and Strait Times colleagues. The IFJ and its affiliates continue to demand the dropping of all charges and the speedy release of Ching Cheong. CONTACTS FOR CITIES Main Contact: Los Angeles, U. S. A. - contact: Ann Lau, alau@visual-artists-guild.org.remove Contacts in participating Cities Melbourne, Australia - Mike Dobbie, (03) 9691-7131, mobile 0407 311 20, <mike.dobbie@alliance.org.au> Press Conference Location: 10 a.m. , Offices of the IFJ Australian affiliate member the Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance, Level 4, 221 Queen Street, Melbourne, Australia Calgary, Canada - Wah Kwok, 403-560-6053(cell), skype ID: calwkwok <kwokwah@telus.net> Press Conference Location: 3:00 pm., outside Calgary Chinese Consulate 1011-6th Ave, S.W., Calgary, Alberta, Canada Toronto, Canada - Cheuk C. Kwan, 416-804-1527, <ckwan@tissa.com> Paris, France - Nancy Li, 33-1-4874-0285 or 0359, <li.nancy@noos.fr> Bonn, Germany - Peng Xiaoming, <xmp68373@hotmail.com> Hong Kong - Serenade Woo, (852) 9145-9145, Hong Kong Journalist Association, chairperson@hkja.org.hk Press Conference Location: 3:30 p.m. , The Foreign Correspondents Club, 2 Lower Albert Road, Central, Hong Kong. Los Angeles, U. S. A. - Ann Lau, alau@visual-artists-guild.org.remove Press Conference Location: 3:00 pm., Golden Dragon Restaurant 970 N. Broadway, Los Angeles Chinatown, Los Angeles New York, U. S. A. - Ann Noonan, 646-251-6069, <annnoonan@hotmail.com> Press Conference Location : 3:00 p.m., Lin Sing Association office 49 Mott Street – 2nd Floor, New York City’s Chinatown, New York San Francisco/Silicon Valley, U. S. A. - Ignatius Ding, 408-250-5624, <cyber_warrior@yahoogroups.com> Seattle, U. S. A. - Jin Xiu Hong, 206-508-8886, SeattleFDC@yahoo.com (you must dial *82 if you have blocking on your phone)

Tiananmen Commemoration Dinner and Awards 2006	Saturday, May 27, 2006 6:00 p.m. registration 6:30 p.m. dinner	Golden Dragon Restaurant. 960 North Broadway, LA Chinatown
VISUAL ARTISTS GUILD cordially invites you to an Annual Award Dinner and Tiananmen Commemoration In the spring of 1989, Beijing erupted with the largest spontaneous demonstrations the Peoples’ Republic of China had witnessed in its 40-year history since its founding in 1949. The pro-democracy movement spread to over 30 cities around China before the world witnessed the horrors of the government’s brutal crackdown. As the Chinese people fled from the tanks and guns, they asked the international press to let the world know the truth. *They asked the world not to forget.* Featured Speaker Yongyi Song This is also the 40th anniversary of the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) in China during which hundreds of thousands were killed or imprisoned as Mao secured his power in China. In 1999, Mr. Song, a then U.S. permanent resident, had already published two books on the Cultural Revolution when he was detained in China as he was collectiong 30-year-old newspapers for a new book on the same topic. After much international outcry, he was released after six months. & Honored Guests The Hungarian Freedom Fighters This is also the 50th anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution, we honor those who led the way in fighting for democratization and freedom from communist totalitarian control. Date : Saturday, May 27, 2006 Time: 6:00 p.m. registration, dinner 6:30 p.m. Place: Golden Dragon Restaurant 960 North Broadway, LA Chinatown inner Ticket: $25 Donor ticket: $50 Dinner is Chinese banquet style, vegetarian table available For information and reservation please call 310-539-0234 Please mail check payable to Visual Artists Guild, P.O. Box 861132, L.A., Ca. 90086-1132 Postmarked by May 23, 2005 Name________________________________Phone___________________Fax______________ e-mail______________________________________________________________ Address_____________________________________City____________St._____Zip_________ Number of tickets __________@ $25.00 $____________ Vegetarian_______ Number of tickets __________@ $50.00 $____________ Total enclosed $____________ I cannot attend, enclosed is my donation for $__________________ Background Information: For more information on the Tiananmen Massacre, please click on the Tiananmen Story

Tiananmen Commemoration Dinner and Awards
2006

Saturday, May 27, 2006
6:00 p.m. registration
6:30 p.m. dinner

Golden Dragon Restaurant.
960 North Broadway, LA Chinatown

VISUAL ARTISTS GUILD

cordially invites you to an

Annual Award Dinner
and
Tiananmen Commemoration

In the spring of 1989, Beijing erupted with the largest spontaneous demonstrations the Peoples’ Republic of China had witnessed in its 40-year history since its founding in 1949. The pro-democracy movement spread to over 30 cities around China before the world witnessed the horrors of the government’s brutal crackdown. As the Chinese people fled from the tanks and guns, they asked the international press to let the world know the truth.
They asked the world not to forget.

Featured Speaker
Yongyi Song

This is also the 40th anniversary of the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) in China during which hundreds of thousands were killed or imprisoned as Mao secured his power in China. In 1999, Mr. Song, a then U.S. permanent resident, had already published two books on the Cultural Revolution when he was detained in China as he was collectiong 30-year-old newspapers for a new book on the same topic. After much international outcry, he was released after six months.

&

Honored Guests

The Hungarian Freedom Fighters

This is also the 50th anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution, we honor those who led the way in fighting for democratization and freedom from communist totalitarian control.

Date :         Saturday, May 27, 2006
Time:           6:00 p.m. registration, dinner 6:30 p.m.
Place:           Golden Dragon Restaurant
                    960 North Broadway, LA Chinatown   inner Ticket: $25 Donor ticket: $50
Dinner is Chinese banquet style, vegetarian table available
For information and reservation please call 310-539-0234
Please mail check payable to Visual Artists Guild, P.O. Box 861132, L.A., Ca. 90086-1132
Postmarked by May 23, 2005
Name________________________________Phone___________________Fax______________
e-mail______________________________________________________________
Address_____________________________________City____________St._____Zip_________
Number of tickets __________@ $25.00                        $____________   Vegetarian_______
Number of tickets __________@ $50.00                        $____________
Total enclosed      $____________
I cannot attend, enclosed is my donation for $__________________

Background Information: For more information on the Tiananmen Massacre, please click on the Tiananmen Story


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Inside the North Korean Gulag	Thursday, September 29, 2005 7:00 p.m.	Museum of Tolerance, 9786 West Pico Ave., Los Angeles, 90035
Inside the North Korean Gulag	Inside the North Korean Gulag An Evening with Kang Chol-Hwan An Escapee's compelling first person account whose testimony has impacted Presidents and Foreign Policy Sponsored by: Simon Wiesenthal Center Museum of Tolerance, Amnesty International Visual Artists Guild LiNK, Liberty in North Korea Learn first hand the plight of the North Korean people through the author of The Aquarium of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag . At the age of nine, Kang was sent with his family to the North Korean gulag and spent ten years of his life there. Mr. Kagn wrote, "I sought refuge in South Korea in order to expose to the world the unimaginable crimes committed in the political prison camps by the Pyongyang regime." Book signing to follow presentation. Where: Museum of Tolerance, 9786 West Pico Ave., Los Angeles, 90035 When: Thursday, September 29, 2005 7:00 p.m. Ticket: $5.00 Ticket Purchase: 310-772-2452 For more info and assistance send an email or call Ann at 310-539-0234

Tiananmen Commemoration Dinner and Awards
2005

Saturday, May 28, 2005
6:00 p.m. registration
6:30 p.m. dinner

Golden Dragon Restaurant.
960 North Broadway, LA Chinatown

VISUAL ARTISTS GUILD

cordially invites you to an

Annual Speakers Forum & Dinner

and

Tiananmen Commemoration

In the spring of 1989, Beijing erupted with the largest spontaneous demonstrations the Peoples' Republic of China had witnessed in its 40-year history since its founding in 1949. The pro-democracy movement spread to over 30 cities around China before the world witnessed the horrors of the government's brutal crackdown. As the Chinese people fled from the tanks and guns, they asked the international press to let the world know the truth.

They asked the world not to forget.

“Who lost China's internet?”
Featured Speaker

Ethan Gutmann

Author of the new book “Losing the New China”, an expose of American corporations' corrupt practices in China and their betrayal of the Chinese people, Ethan Gutmann has written for the Asian Wall Street Journal, Investor's Business Daily and other publications

&

Honored Guest

Han Dong Fang

China Labor Activist currently in Hong Kong Founder of Beijing Autonomous Workers Federation in Tiananmen in 1989

Dinner Ticket: $25 Donor ticket: $50
Dinner is Chinese banquet style, vegetarian table available.

For information and reservation please call 310-539-0234 Please mail check payable to Visual Artists Guild postmarked by May 24, 2005 Visual Artists Guild, P.O. Box 861132, L.A., Ca. 90086-1132

Name_________________________Phone___________________Fax______________ email__________________________________________________________________ Address______________________________City____________St._____Zip_________

Number of tickets __________@ $25.00 $____________ Vegetarian_______
Number of tickets __________@ $50.00 $____________
Total enclosed $____________
I cannot attend, enclosed is my donation for $__________________

Visual Artists Guild is a non-profit organization as qualified under Section 501 (C) (3) of the Internal Revenue code. Donations are welcomed and tax deductible. This is an all volunteers' organization.

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Art and Democracy III
Exhibition

Art and Democracy III

Recognizing that ART is the most powerful vehicle for expression and that DEMOCRACY deals with the Rights of Society as a whole, we call on all artists, using any media, to submit works which express and represent the human struggle for Freedom, Justice and Human Rights for all members of Society.

his exhibition will run for 2 months in the Angels Gate Cultural Center Gallery in San Pedro, starting the last week of June.

Angeles Gate Cultural Center Gallery A 3601 South Gaffey Street San Pedro, Ca. 90731 Exhibition will run: Sunday June 20th through Sunday August 8th between 11 am - 4 pm
Gallery Hours: Tuesday through Sunday 11 am to 4 pm	Public Reception: Sunday June 27th 2 pm - 4 pm

To view some of the submissions click here
To view the Angels Gate Web Site click here