Wei Jingsheng Foundation News and Article Release Issue: A770-W489

魏京生基金会新闻与文章发布号： A770-W489

Release Date: July 20, 2013

发布日：2013年7月20日

Topic: Wei Jingsheng and Wang Weilin at Remember Them: Champions for Humanity Monument in San Francisco Bay Area (by CK of RFA)

标题：旧金山人道领袖群雕，魏京生、王维林跻身其中(自由亚洲电台CK报道)

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Wei Jingsheng and Wang Weilin at Remember Them: Champions for Humanity Monument in San Francisco Bay Area

-- By CK of Radio Free Asia

2013-07-19

Right before this year's 24th anniversary of the June 4 Massacre, the largest bronze monument of a sculpture group on the West Coast of the USA was completed in the San Francisco Bay area. It includes 25 world humanitarian leaders, and 14 humanitarian leaders in the USA. The pioneer of the modern Chinese democracy movement Wei Jingsheng is also included in the sculpture. Wei Jingsheng expressed that it was not only his personal honor, but more importantly the recognition of Western democratic society towards all the Chinese who strive for democracy and freedom.

This group of sculptures called "Remember Them" is located in the Henry J. Kaiser Memorial Park in Oakland of the San Francisco Bay Area. Recently, Wei Jingsheng's envoy Ms. Huang Ciping came to the Bay area to visit the sculpture group and to salute the famous sculptor who accomplished the monument, Mr. Mario Chiodo. Ms. Huang is the Secretary General of the Overseas Chinese Democracy Coalition lead by Wei Jingsheng. She is also the Executive Director of the Wei Jingsheng Foundation. When she was interviewed, she told the reporter that she received an enthusiastic hospitality from the sculptor during the visit.

In this sculpture group there is a quotation from Wei Jingsheng: "We all dream of freedom in the same way."

Huang Ciping passed words of Wei Jingsheng to the reporter that to be quoted with the other global humanitarians is not just his own personal honor. More important is the recognition of the Western democratic society of all the Chinese who strive for democracy and freedom.

Huang Ciping said: "I have been helping Mr. Wei Jingsheng for so many years. I observed how he adheres to his faith and insists on doing what he devoted himself to do, despite extreme difficult situations, especially the suppression by the Chinese Communist government. I think this monument is recognition to the kind of work Wei Jingsheng is doing. As an envoy of Mr. Wei, I am very proud to receive this honor and this recognition for him."

Among the world humanitarian leaders included in the sculpture group are: Gandhi, Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King Jr., Mother Theresa, and Vietnamese monk Thich Nhat Hanh. With them, there is also the Chinese youth Wang Weilin who stopped the Chinese Army's tanks on Chang'an Avenue in Beijing in 1989. Huang Ciping was deeply moved by this sculpture group. She said: "Under each sculpture of the person, there is a name. However, under Wang, there is the word 'courage', which made me very touched. When I stood under and looked up at the towering figure standing there with determination, I remembered the calling for freedom and democracy 24 years ago by the students and citizens in Beijing, as well as people in China. These demands were suppressed by tanks and machine guns back then. However, as a matter of fact, the volume of voices has been increasing during the past twenty some years. We have already seen the dawn ahead."

"Remember Them -- The Champions for Humanity" sculptures cover 100 square meters and took 12 years to create and cast at a cost of 8.9 million dollars. More than 500 people came to the site to attend its inauguration.

This is a report by special correspondent CK from San Francisco.

Original link of this report:

http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/zhengzhi/ck-07192013100234.html

Related audio is also available at:

http://www.weijingsheng.org/interviews/interviews2013/HuangCPvisitsRememberThem130719RFAreport.mp3

Related photos:

1. Wei Jingsheng’s quotation, along with other champions for humanity:

http://www.weijingsheng.org/pic/newsletters/newsletters2013/newsletters2013-3/RememberThem130717quotations-c-3.jpg

2. Huang Ciping with the sculptor of the monument: Mario Chiodo

http://www.weijingsheng.org/pic/newsletters/newsletters2013/newsletters2013-3/HuangCPvisitsRememberThem130717sculptorChiodoM-c-5.jpg

3. Students visit "Remember Them -- The Champions for Humanity" sculptures:

http://www.weijingsheng.org/pic/newsletters/newsletters2013/newsletters2013-3/students130717visitRememberThem-c-5.jpg

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Wei Jingsheng Foundation News and Article Release Issue: A770-W489

魏京生基金会新闻与文章发布号： A770-W489

Release Date: July 20, 2013

发布日：2013年7月20日

Topic: Wei Jingsheng and Wang Weilin at Remember Them: Champions for Humanity Monument in San Francisco Bay Area (by CK of RFA)

标题：旧金山人道领袖群雕，魏京生、王维林跻身其中(自由亚洲电台CK报道)

Original Language Version: English/Chinese (Chinese version at the end)

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旧金山人道领袖群雕，魏京生、王维林跻身其中

-- 自由亚洲电台特约记者CK

2013-07-19

今年的"六四"24周年前夕，美国旧金山湾区落成美国西海最大一组群雕--世界25位人道领袖和在美国居住的14位人道领袖，中国现代民主运动的先驱魏京生跻身其中。魏京生表示：这不仅是他个人的荣誉，更重要的是西方民主社会对所有为民主自由奋斗的中国人的承认。

这组群雕名为《记住他们》，坐落于旧金山湾区奥克兰市亨利﹒凯泽纪念公园。魏京生近日委派黄慈萍女士作为他的代表，前来旧金山湾区参观世界人道领袖群雕，并向群雕的作者、美国著名雕塑家马里奥﹒奇奥多致意。黄慈萍现担任魏京生主持的"中国民主运动海外联席会议"秘书长、"魏京生基金会"执行主任。黄慈萍接受记者采访表示：她这次来旧金山湾区，受到雕塑家的热情款待。

在这一组世界人道领袖群雕中的魏京生浮雕头像下面写着一段文字："我们以同样的方式梦想自由（WE ALL DREAM OF FREEDOM IN THE SAME WAY）"。

黄慈萍转达魏京生的话说：他的头像能跻身世界人道领袖群雕之中，不仅是他个人的荣誉，更重要的是西方民主社会对所有为民主自由奋斗的中国人的承认。

黄慈萍表示："我这么多年帮助魏京生先生做事情，我看到他在非常困难的条件下，在中共的围堵打压之中，坚持他的信念，坚持做他的事情。我觉得这群雕本身就是对魏京生所做事情的承认。我作为他的使者，来接受这种荣誉，接受这种承认，我感到很自豪。"

跻身世界人道领袖群雕之中，与甘地、林肯、小罗斯福、曼德拉、马丁﹒路德金、德蕾莎修女、越南僧人一行禅师等并列的，还有在89"六四"站在北京长安街上阻挡解放军坦克的中国青年王维林。黄慈萍被群雕深深感动，她说："其他塑像下面都写着某个人的名字，王维林塑像下面写着'COURAGE'，也就是'勇气' 的意思，我非常感动。我站在塑像的下头，看到坚毅高达的王维林挡坦克的形象，我又想起二十四年前北京的学生、市民、全国人民要求自由民主的呼声。尽管这些要求被坦克冲锋枪镇压下去了，但事实上，二十多年来这呼声越来越高，而且我们已经看到了曙光在前。"

《记住他们--世界人道领袖》群雕，占地100平方米。耗资890万美元、历时12年创作和铸造完成。旧金山湾区各界500多人为群雕举行了落成典礼。

以上是特约记者CK发自旧金山的报道。

报道的原始网址：

http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/zhengzhi/ck-07192013100234.html

相关录音还可在以下连接中听到：

http://www.weijingsheng.org/interviews/interviews2013/HuangCPvisitsRememberThem130719RFAreport.mp3