Grassroots Organizing and Activism in China

This zine follows current trends in grassroots organizing and activism in China.
In China, under the existing government authority, activist and human rights organizations are under constant attack and censorship. This social reality creates an atmosphere in which political activism usually falls into two categories: actions based upon the research and organizing of a few brave individual democracy activists (usually '89 dissidents) or on a very massive scale in the form of spontaneous democracy demonstrations, usually in response to impending environmental crisis. This includes recent environmental demonstrations in Xiamen against private developers or more localized protests by farmers that happen each and every day against corrupt government officials. Thus, this zine hopes to track issues of public discontent as they emerge, in particular land rights and environmental protests. This zine also wishes to create a English and Chinese language space with a focus on blogs as independent media sources, in order to facilitate a greater, more nuanced understanding of China than provided by global mainstream media.

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From: ziyoufromtheknown.blogspot.com

For my digital media activism class, students were paired off into groups to begin learning how to use tagging technology online. This was our assignment:

"Assignment: Use del.icio.us for tagging web sites..

Tag 30 items:

15 of your own choice, related either to course readings or to your Zimbio page. Try to use it as a way to track items as they come up in the course of the project or to issues that are related to the readings or that you think would be of general interest."

I worked with a friend, who manages the "Human Rights Violations in China" Zimbio site.
You can view her zimbio site at: http://www.zimbio.com/Human+Rights+Violations+in+China..

The idea behind our tagging collaboration is explained below:

"As the Olympics is pushing China forward onto an international stage, human rights advocacy groups have taken this revealing as a way to bring these issues to the international community. Yet the media available to the international community often portrays the human rights issue in a black and white manner, often highlighting certain issues (i.e. Tibetan independence) and not recognizing their connection to the human rights of other groups in solidarity under the Chinese regime. Our tags highlight these different human rights groups and hope to encourage solidarity and collaboration between them. As we tag these organizations, we provide a brief description on their purpose."

Although Zimbio or blogger.com doesn't have interfaces to upload these links more interactively, people can still plan and work collectively on subjects using both collaborative blogging and tagging side-by-side.

You can download the del.icio.us application to your browser and very easily collectively research issues here: http://del.icio.us/help/registering

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