Around 2 o’clock, seeing so many people walking by, she held up her petition board and flyers and called out to the passersby, “End CCP.” Out among the crowd walked a man who came straight over to her and enthusiastically shook her hand.
“I was so surprised. It was Premier Jason Kenney,” Guo recalled.
As Kenney was shaking her hand, he called out in a loud voice, “End CCP,” and even encouraged the people around them to call out together, “Falun Dafa hao,” which stands for “Falun Gong is good” in Chinese.
Falun Dafa is another name for Falun Gong, and “Falun Dafa hao” is a popular phrase people say to help counter the CCP’s hate propaganda against Falun Gong. It’s a practice for the mind, body, and spirit rooted in the ancient Chinese cultural tradition. Centring on the tenets of “Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance,” Falun Gong also includes several meditative exercises. But under the communist regime, it has been a major target of persecution since 1999
Since 2004, the Global Service Center, a non-profit charitable organization registered in the United States, has coordinated the worldwide movement to help Chinese people quit the CCP and its two affiliated organizations: the Communist Youth League and the Young Pioneers.
The centre launched the “End CCP” petition in September 2020, and since then, the petition has collected roughly 70,000 signatures in Calgary alone, Guo said. And more than 1.1 million people globally have signed the petition online.
“It’s to let the people around the world know how much harm the CCP has brought about, and that the CCP has infiltrated [countries] around world. People need to stand up against it.”