Sustainability and Politics: China's Activist Chen Guangcheng Offers 'deep gratitude' to Americans

Thursday, May 3, 2012

China's Activist Chen Guangcheng Offers 'deep gratitude' to Americans

Activist expresses 'deep gratitude' to Americans - CNN.com

I like this guy. He deserves the human rights and freedom that we all do. Tremendous story, character, and will.

(P.S. Remember my boycott Chinese products petition? Google Colby Boycott China)

Why I boycott China

Re: "Hu concedes China's human rights fall short" (Jan. 20). Well, I always avoid buying things made in China, for their human rights, women's rights and environmental abuses. Shouldn't we all?
China is jailing people for speaking their minds, denying religious choice and freedom of speech? It's the dark ages.
I also always tell sales clerks exactly why I'm avoiding the purchase and request they tell their managers. If we all boycotted buying anything from China for two months, how fast would their government start changing? Is this a rhetorical question, or will you pass it along?
G. Colby Allerton, Richmond

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I've been thinking some about the Winter Solstice, the Mayan end of the 30,000-year-cycle on 12/21/12.

What if in fact the world did end? Even though this probably will not happen, to live consciously it is honest for us to take a bit of an inventory.

Am I happy with how I've lived my life? (Yesterday, I thought mostly yes, with some areas for improvement, as below.) Are there changes I would make?
Would I have tried to forgive those that were hostile or disappointing to me?
Would I spend more time with those I loved the most, telling them that, feeling that more?
Would I be happier, grateful for what I have, what I've experienced, the joy, the beauty in this world?

Maybe the answer is yes to all of the above.
So this time can serve as a point of rebirth for all of us. If we think about it.

Because somewhere along the line I realized I think maybe mankind deserves it. !
The way we are killing each other, killing the planet.
How selfish we are, and snotty to those around us. Petty, competitive. Why is this? Do we have to behave this way? (I say no, it greatly detracts and misdirects energy from the full-time celebration in which we could engage, the great multi-cultural, multi-rhythmic dance we can sustain here.)

Maybe God or the Great Universe is fed up, and will pull the rug out from under us.
Don't think I can say we could blame Him/Her/It.

But it probably won't happen. (Probably not! This time.)

Still we are finite on this ride.

It is a time to think, am I happy with how I've lived my life?
Hopefully most of us can say yes.

For the part of us that have a little worry, a little sadness....
This is the time to be present.
This is the time to be the person you want to be, that can die at peace, that can hope to every day be able to look yourself and the Universe in the eye and say, how beautiful, smiling, and thank you. Let's do that.