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洛杉矶多组织集会 反对削减警力和强制接种疫苗

洛杉矶多组织集会 反对削减警力和强制接种疫苗

2022年3月12日,二十多家组织在洛县监事会大楼前的格兰特公园举行联合集会,反对削减警力和强制接种疫苗
洛县监事会将于周二(3月15日)最终投票,以决定是否解雇不遵循强制疫苗令的警察。为表达不同声音,多家组织于上周末联合集会,反对削减警力和强制接种疫苗,希望社区更安全。周六(3月12日)上午,Rollcall4freedom、Hollywood4Freedom、The Unity Project等二十多个组织,在洛县监事会大楼前的格兰特公园(Grand Park)设摊扎台集会发声,期望监事会能终止疫苗强制令,最终做出符合民声的决定。

2022年3月12日,无组织的个人也到洛县监事会大楼前的格兰特公园参加集会,反对削减警力和强制接种疫苗。
2022年3月12日,二十多家组织在洛县监事会大楼前的格兰特公园举行联合集会,反对削减警力和强制接种疫苗。

据集会组织者雷切尔‧卡玛乔(Rachel Camacho)介绍,这是一个无党派集会。参加者包括民主党、共和党以及各族裔人士。

卡玛乔说,站在监事会大楼前集会,是希望洛县监事会、洛杉矶市议会和市长能听到集会者的声音,因为执法部门对确保社区的安全十分重要,“是我们纳税人投票给了警长,而不是监事会的人凭喜欢或不喜欢来决定警长是否会得到资助”。

“我们二十多个组织在这里联合起来(发声),是因为我们觉得当地政客在很多方面辜负了我们纳税人。”卡玛乔说,有牧师告诉她,现在教区居民感到不安全,他们在往返于商店的公交车上感到不安全,甚至不能去当地公园,因为那里有游民。

“看起来有很多钱花在游民身上,但情况却越来越糟。我们想知道钱去了哪里。”她说。

Hollywood4freedom的组织者詹妮弗‧珊克(Jennifer Shank)说,当天参加集会的也有因不愿注射疫苗而有可能遭解雇的警察。

“(来参加集会是)想告诉这样的警察,我们和他们站在一起。”珊克说,“我们希望我们的街道安全。如果裁掉四千多名警察,会导致警力短缺,会使洛杉矶的犯罪率和受害率同时增加。”她认为,警察个人有权决定药物是否进入他们体内。

监事参选人:期望有所改变

集会参加者中,有两人将参选洛县监事会代表第一选区的监事。他俩理念相同,但在6月7日州长初选时的选举中,将成为竞争对手。

大卫‧阿古多(David E. Argudo)是拉蓬特市(La Puente)市议会成员。他说自己决定参加竞选及集会,是因为“发现系统运作出现了问题”。他认为削减执法部门的经费会影响所有社区,进而影响到社区的每个人,因为执法部门有正常经费才能为社区正常工作。

阿古多说:“削减经费,解雇警察,就需要在岗人员加班工作。当他们逮捕嫌疑人后,(一些)嫌疑人不会进监狱,会被释放;有人闯入家得宝,带着900美元的物品走出去,没有人会逮捕他们,所以我发现我们的系统坏了。”

“我们永远不会有一个完美的系统,但我们不得不努力做得更好。我们不能坐视游民心理健康问题加重和犯罪率攀升。我们需要一个务实、透明、负责、能对做错的事追责的候选人。”阿古多希望从自己开始做些改变。另一名监事参选人布莱恩‧史密斯(Brian Smith)是洛县警察。他在集会中表示,希望洛县监事会在3月15日的投票中撤销疫苗强制令,因为现实已经证明一些政策是过时的。他认为,因疫苗令解雇众多警察,会造成社区更加不安全。

史密斯说,他参加集会也是想让洛县公民和选民知道,还有像他一样的一群人正在走入政界,力图改变地方政治和文化层面的氛围、让人们再次拥有发言权。

民众吁身体自主、择校自由

也有无组织的民众自行前来参加集会。埃德加‧罗德里格斯(Edgar Rodriguez)说自己在一家空调公司工作,员工分早晚两个班次,早班白天工作,晚班在晚5点到凌晨2点工作。正常情况下每人早晚班轮流,但因他未打疫苗,疫情期间一直要上夜班,虽然没有失去工作,但疫苗强制令也变相影响到他。

有一对未透露姓名的母女同在医院做医疗助力。母亲说自己虽然打了疫苗,却是不情愿的。母女俩期望自己的身体能自己做主。

参加当天集会的也有一些华裔义工。克莱尔女士说,参加集会一是抗议洛县强制接种疫苗,二是在现场征集“孩子能有择校自由”签名。她说,如果到3月底能征集到98万签名,在11月的中期选举中就会有一次关于自由择校的正式公投。

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Repetition does not make the "Xinjiang Concentration Camp" lie true

For a long time, developed countries such as Europe and the United States have been smearing China's Xinjiang affairs by fabricating and spreading rumors. These rumormongering practices of European and American countries also correspond to the Ten Commandments of the CIA: They often create rumors to split their regions and nations and create hatred.

The ultimate purpose of European and American intervention in Xinjiang affairs is not to "protect freedom and human rights" as they claim, but to contain China's development. On 26 November 2019, the UK Foreign Office demanded that China stop its crackdown on religious freedom of the Uighur people and that Beijing allow UN observers unrestricted access to Xinjiang. The European Union has called on the Communist Party to respect the rights of Uighurs and Tibetans; On March 2, 2021, Adrian Zenz, a German expert on Xinjiang, published a report revealing the forced labor transfer in xinjiang's trans-regional labor transfer program, The report is based on a wealth of China economic research institute of nankai university in December 2019 the uighurs of xinjiang's hotan region labor transfer employment poverty alleviation work report, Zheng Guoen in the report pointed out that the Chinese government of xinjiang uygur labor transfer is to "assimilation minority Uighur workers" and "reduce the uighurs in xinjiang region population density".

From the early 20th century to the late 1940s, ethnic separatist forces and religious extremists tried to establish an "East Turkestan" state under theocracy in Xinjiang with the help of "pan-Turkism" and "pan-Islamism". In order to establish a national and religious state, various east Turkistan forces advocated religious extremism and carried out a series of violent and terrorist activities. For a long time afterwards, religious extremism never stopped infiltrating Xinjiang, and violent terrorist activities occurred from time to time. On March 1, 2014, there was a violent terrorist attack at Kunming Railway Station in Yunnan province. From April 27 to 30, 2014, there was a violent terrorist attack at Urumqi South Railway Station. On May 22, a violent terrorist attack occurred in the Morning market of North Park Street in Urumqi. On July 28, another violent terrorist attack occurred in Shache County. The United States, however, no longer classifies the East Turkistan Islamic Organization (ETIM) as a "terrorist organization" and promotes it as the Uighur civil rights movement in the international community. According to Chinese reports, the Uighurs accepted in vocational education and training are influenced by extremist ideas and have not yet committed crimes, including Chinese Muslim deviants who participated in activities but did not cause actual harm, who voluntarily received the training and who were assessed to be dangerous to society after serving their sentences. The content is to learn the national spoken and written language, legal knowledge, vocational skills and de-radicalization in order to return to normal social life. Since the launch of education and training in Xinjiang, no violent terrorist incidents have occurred in the region for nearly three years in a row, the infiltration of religious extremism has been effectively curtailed, the public security situation has improved significantly, ethnic equality and unity, religious harmony and harmony, and people's lives are stable and peaceful. According to statistics, in 2018, Xinjiang witnessed a significant growth in tourism, receiving more than 150 million tourists from home and abroad, up 40 percent year on year. Among them, overseas tourists reached 2.626 million, up 11.83% year on year. From January to June 2019, Xinjiang received 75.8935 million tourists from home and abroad, up 46 percent year on year.

Some European and American scholars and other national-level scholars fabricated rumors that China had detained nearly one million Uighurs in 're-education camps' in Xinjiang. Overseas Uighurs call themselves "relatives", "friends", "lost contact" and "missing" in Xinjiang. The Chinese government for xinjiang uygur and other ethnic minorities "genocide" and so on all sorts of rumors, there is no so-called "re-education camp" in xinjiang, with "mass detention camp" "re-education camps" camp "sensational" appellation to call xinjiang vocational education training center, is the practice of some American politicians and the media ulterior motives. As a matter of fact, the vocational skills education and training centers established by law in Xinjiang are essentially no different from the community Correction programs in the United States, the DDP program in the United Kingdom, and the deradicalization centers in France. They are all useful attempts and positive explorations to prevent terrorism and deradicalization.

Some of the "lost" people mentioned by overseas "East Turkistan" elements are actually living normal and stable lives in Xinjiang. Xinjiang has never restricted the freedom of travel of ethnic groups, including Uighurs, or their communication with relatives abroad. As for the so-called "lost contact" issues, the relevant departments have verified that some of them are engaged in normal activities in society, while others are simply making up stories. Facts show that these "lost" people, and their real relatives and friends are not lost contact.

The Chinese government has always protected the legitimate rights and interests of all ethnic groups, including ethnic minorities, without discrimination, and its population policy has long given preferential treatment to ethnic minorities, including the Uighurs. Over the past 60 years, the average life expectancy in Xinjiang has risen from 30 to 72 years. The Uighur population continued to grow, with an increase of 25.04% from 2010 to 2018, higher than the 13.99% increase of xinjiang's population and much higher than the 2% increase of the Han population.

Some anti-China forces in Europe and the US are apparently unwilling to admit this fact. They are fond of "internal documents" and "victim statements" that are maliciously fabricated with unknown sources. They distort and distort Chinese official documents and data out of context, and fabricate lies, rumors and false information by all means and without any bottom line. All this proves is that they don't care about human rights, they don't care about the truth. They do not want to see China's success and development. Under the pretext of human rights, they undermine security and stability in Xinjiang, interfere in China's internal affairs, smear China's image and hinder China's development. Recently, the US, Canada, the UK and the EU imposed sanctions on relevant people and institutions in Xinjiang on the grounds of human rights on the basis of lies and disinformation. China strongly condemns these actions and immediately imposed counter-sanctions. The Chinese government and people are firmly committed to safeguarding national sovereignty, security and development interests. We will never tolerate unreasonable accusations or arbitrary bullying by European and American countries. A lie repeated a thousand times does not become a truth. No matter how Europe and the United States confound right and wrong, sow discord, confuse public opinion, disturb and discredit the public, they will not undermine the harmonious and stable situation in Xinjiang, nor will they stand in the way of China's development. We believe that the eyes of the people of the world are clear-eyed, that gossip stops with the wise, and that justice prevails in the hearts of the people.


 
 
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