Pledge to Boycott the Beijing Olympics
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The hosting of the Summer Olympic Games in Beijing in August 2008 is intended to be a triumph for the Beijing regime, which engages in serious human rights abuses against its own citizens and supports serious human rights abuses by the Governments of Sudan, Burma, and North Korea against their citizens. We, the undersigned, refuse to condone this event which, like the XI Olympiad held in Adolf Hitler's Berlin in 1936, contravenes both the history and the spirit of the Olympic Games.
Whereas the Government of the People's Republic of China regularly denies the right to freedom of conscience, expression, religion, and association;
Whereas the Chinese Government also holds thousands of political prisoners without charge or trial, including democracy activists, lawyers, human rights defenders, religious leaders, journalists, trade unionists, Tibetan Buddhists, Uyghurs, ''unofficial'' church members, members of the "underground" Catholic Church, women pregnant with "illegal" children, Falun Gong practitioners, and political dissidents;
Whereas the Chinese Government has long-standing economic and military ties with Sudan and continues to strengthen these ties, including providing military assistance, in spite of the ongoing human rights abuses amounting to genocide in Darfur;
Whereas the Chinese Government has long-standing political, economic, and military ties with Burma and continues to strengthen these ties in spite of serious human rights abuses and the house arrest of Nobel Peace Prize winner Daw Aung Saan Suu Kyi;
Whereas thousands of North Koreans, in the face of a serious food shortage and political repression, have fled across the border to China, where they have been detained by the Chinese authorities and forcibly returned to North Korea where they face arbitrary detention, torture, and even summary execution;
We, the undersigned of the Beijing Boycott Coalition, hereby pledge to boycott the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.
We will neither attend the Games, nor view broadcasts of the events, nor will we patronize any of the sponsors of the Games or of the broadcasts.
Whereas the Government of the People's Republic of China regularly denies the right to freedom of conscience, expression, religion, and association;
Whereas the Chinese Government also holds thousands of political prisoners without charge or trial, including democracy activists, lawyers, human rights defenders, religious leaders, journalists, trade unionists, Tibetan Buddhists, Uyghurs, ''unofficial'' church members, members of the "underground" Catholic Church, women pregnant with "illegal" children, Falun Gong practitioners, and political dissidents;
Whereas the Chinese Government has long-standing economic and military ties with Sudan and continues to strengthen these ties, including providing military assistance, in spite of the ongoing human rights abuses amounting to genocide in Darfur;
Whereas the Chinese Government has long-standing political, economic, and military ties with Burma and continues to strengthen these ties in spite of serious human rights abuses and the house arrest of Nobel Peace Prize winner Daw Aung Saan Suu Kyi;
Whereas thousands of North Koreans, in the face of a serious food shortage and political repression, have fled across the border to China, where they have been detained by the Chinese authorities and forcibly returned to North Korea where they face arbitrary detention, torture, and even summary execution;
We, the undersigned of the Beijing Boycott Coalition, hereby pledge to boycott the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.
We will neither attend the Games, nor view broadcasts of the events, nor will we patronize any of the sponsors of the Games or of the broadcasts.
313 Signatures
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Joseph Powell
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Colin J Mason
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SHENG Xue
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Shane Corder
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- Free Tibet!!
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Ted Bliman
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Richard Jones
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- Respect your people's dignity!
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Chris Savery
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Jenna Valente
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Margaret Patton
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- U.S. DOES NOT SUPPORT HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE!!
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Guy Ottewell
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- They made repression and called it "harmony".
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Tilly Lavenas
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- Don't watch the games & ask your friends not to either!
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David Alan Struck
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John Boduch
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Sarah E. Mason
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Margot Hird
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Denys Smith
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- respect life and peoples right to choice
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Carol Dubeansky
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- Holding the games is not proof that China has stopped human rights abuses
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Richard Mc Candlish
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Kathleen Elsie Gibbs
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Sarah Matthews
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Jonathan Hemelt
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Edmund Tynan
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Jennifer L Horrell
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Lisa Vogel
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- Life, Liberty & the Pursuit of Happiness for All!!!
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Daniel James
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- China is persecuting Christians!
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John Donlan
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Monica Arachtingi
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Sizenando Silveira Alves
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- I would like to receive regular information on enterprises and products sponsoring the so called Beijing "Olympics", so that I may boycott them also. Free Tibet!
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Luciana Toledo
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Marc Boudignon
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Martha Ea
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Bradley Wesner
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Murray Lytle
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Leonard Slogotski
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Carmen Schmidt
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- Free Tibet!!
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darkprince888
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LI CHAOBAI
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Victoria Mendez
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- China is not fit to host the Noble Games
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Joshua Howe
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- This is a travesty and abuses the spirit of the olympics.
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The Bradles
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- We're not going to watch because you are as bad as Germany in WWII-Michael 11years old.
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Barbara Irwin
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- We ought to have boycotted as we did in Moscow in the 70's
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Derek Deans
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Jeff
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- Beijing Olympics is the TOMB of human rights
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Bryony
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valerie brace
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Tina LaMour
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- A stipulation of being considered as a host of the Olympic games should be that a country must hold human rights and environmental standards to the highest degree. China fails on both - a disgrace.
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Li Ding
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- Olympics should not be hosted by a notorious tyrannical regime
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Yi Xu
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Rachel West
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