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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