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🗓️ 13 January 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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0:00.0 | The night after the Bradley prizes, I followed Guangshung to another event held at Catholic University. |
0:08.0 | This one was for Guangshung himself to commemorate the 10th anniversary of his arrival in the US. |
0:14.0 | Bradley had been big budget national politics and in that setting |
0:18.4 | Guangchung addressed himself to a crowd that only knew him from television and the |
0:22.4 | brief introductory clip that played before his speech. |
0:25.0 | But a Catholic, which has been Guangchung's institutional home for nearly a decade, |
0:30.0 | almost everyone in the room was a friend, a confidant, or a supporter of Guangchung and his family. |
0:36.0 | Many speeches were given that night. |
0:38.0 | Guangchung's wife, Yuan Wei Jing spoke. |
0:40.0 | So did the venerated democracy activist, Wei Jingchung, as well as Guangchung's immigration lawyer, |
0:45.0 | who had just led him through the process of becoming a US citizen. |
0:49.0 | And then there were people like Reggie Littlejohn. |
0:52.0 | And so this was, I don't know, 12 years ago or something? people like Reggie Littlejohn. Reggie is the president and founder of an organization called Women's Rights Without Frontiers. |
0:59.6 | She has dedicated her career to ending forced abortions in China. |
1:02.8 | I was doing what Chen was doing on American soul or outside of China, |
1:08.0 | exposing the atrocities of the forced abortions, the forced sterilizations and all that. |
1:14.0 | Guangchung was standing next to Reggie while she spoke. |
1:16.0 | You'll hear him sniffle a bit in the tape. |
1:18.0 | And when I found out that he had been jailed and tortured, |
1:22.0 | it's like, I don't know what happened. It just broke my heart and I spent |
1:25.3 | about three years doing almost nothing but advocating for his case all over the |
1:31.4 | world. If you want to understand how Guangshung ended up with the American life |
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