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Human Rights Watch special video for the 20th anniversary of Tiananmen featuring commentary by Wang Dan, a student leader of the 1989 Tiananmen protests, and Dr. Sophie Richardson and Carroll Bogert, Human Rights Watch.

Zeng Jinyan, wife of imprisoned activist Hu Jia, spoke to Reuters by phone after she was forced by police to stay home instead of visiting her mother on her birthday on the eve of the 20th anniversary of Tiananmen Square crackdown.

Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi spoke in support of the House resolution recognizing the 20th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown.

Excerpt of Wang Dan speaking at the Heritage Foundation about the 20th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown.

The Open Society Institute and Asia Society hosted an event with Open Society Fellows Rebecca MacKinnon and Evgeny Morozov that explored the changing landscape of Internet censorship. Focusing on the specific cases of Russia and China, the panelists discussed how the strategies and tools of control, manipulation, and censorship have evolved in both countries. (OSI-New York, February 10, 2009)

Rebecca MacKinnon's presentation at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society of Harvard University on March 3, 2009 exploring various ways of defining China's way of the internet. View the slides here.

Ai Xiaoming, a professor at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China, is a feminist literary scholar, documentary filmmaker, and human rights activist. Ai Xiaoming has used video to highlight social issues such as women's rights and the rise of HIV/AIDS in rural China. She produced, directed, and worked on several films. In 2004, she set up an independent digital video studio aimed at empowering marginalized groups to tell their stories through media training workshops.

[Warning: This video contains adult language.]
Grass-Mud Horse is phonetically equivalent to “F*ck Your Mother!” in Chinese. The lyrics of the song describe the grass-mud horses fought off river crabs that were devouring their grassland. In spoken Chinese, river crab sounds like harmony. Censored bloggers often say their missing posts have been "harmonized" — a term came from President Hu Jintao's urging for a harmonious society. The song is a metaphor of the power struggle over Internet expression.

In December 2006, Mastercard partnered with Oxfam to promote Oxfam Unwrapped, a Christmas gift campaign. It was promoted by a TV ad featuring Peruvian alpacas posing to the sounds of Baby Bird’s 1996 song, “You’re Gorgeous”. The ad explains that a purchase of an alpaca from Oxfam Unwrapped helps farmers buy and care for alpacas.
In 2009, this video became the backdrop for Chinese netizens expressing their dismay towards censorship.

Google VP Vinton Cerf (i.e. one of the founders of the Internet) talks about the Internet and free speech in February 2009.

A fictional clip of an Internet user being taken away by police - produced by Reporters Without Borders

Leaving Fear Behind (in Tibetan, Jigdrel) is a film shot by Tibetans from inside Tibet, who longed to bring Tibetan voices to the Beijing Olympic Games. With the global spotlight on China as it rises to host the XXIX Olympics, Tibetans wish to tell the world of their plight and their heartfelt grievances against Chinese rule. The footage was smuggled out of Tibet under extraordinary circumstances. The filmmakers were detained soon after sending their tapes out, and remain in detention today.

Troy Davis faces execution for the murder of Police Officer Mark MacPhail in Georgia, despite a strong claim of innocence.

7 out of 9 witnesses have recanted or contradicted their testimony, no murder weapon was found and no physical evidence links Davis to the crime. The Georgia Board of Pardon and Paroles has voted to deny clemency.