Athenai Institute
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The student-founded, bipartisan nonprofit leading the movement for universities to divest from the Chinese Communist Party's atrocities.🦉 #FestinaLente
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http://www.athenai.org 10-05-2020 16:33:33
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“Over 60 colleges and universities have been warned… of Chinese nationals infiltrating the American university system… to share intelligence with the foreign superpower.” In February, NewsNation reported on the growing threat of CCP espionage to US colleges and universities.
BREAKING: Select Committee Chairman Mike Gallagher launches an investigation into the @DeptofDefense. “To put it plainly, DOD is funding advanced, hypersonic weapons-related research at an American university that actively partners with a Chinese university that performs similar
Love shopping at @urbanoutfitters? First ask them to end #forcedlabourfashion. URBN is among 100+ brands silent on #Uyghurforcedlabour. @anthropologie @freepeople BHLDN Weddings @shopnuuly Follow End Forced Labour Fashion and sign the petition here 👉freedomunited.org/advocate/urban…
“A Georgetown University University faculty member who asked to remain anonymous said the problem is becoming more and more serious, with Chinese students feeling unable to speak freely in class, for fear of being informed on by their Chinese classmates.” rfa.org/english/news/c…
In 2022, a pressure campaign initially led the president of GW University to condemn and silence university students protesting Chinese Communist Party human rights abuses ahead of the Winter Olympic Games hosted by China. Read below ⬇️ washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/…
Statement by the China Commission Chairs on the first anniversary of the #WhitePaperProtests.
In this Foreign Affairs piece, Dr. Gyal Lo Dr. Gyal Lo & I argue that in China's campaign to quash Tibetan identity, its chief weapon is not dystopian camps as in Xinjiang but something seemingly more quotidian: colonial residential schools. 1/ foreignaffairs.com/tibet/erasing-…
HAPPENING TOMORROW: Join us, 中国人权-Human Rights in China, Uyghur Human Rights Project, Free Uyghur Now and others on the front steps of the US Capitol Building to commemorate the White Paper Movement. Speaking will be pro-democracy Chinese student organizers and other communities targeted by the CCP. See here:
Ringing remarks by Mike Gallagher are highly meaningful for Uyghurs, on the anniversary of the Ürümchi Fire and the White Paper (A4) Movement by young Chinese standing up for Uyghur victims, and against CCP dictatorship. @committeeonccp Athenai Institute Hong Kong Democracy Council 周锋锁 Fengsuo Zhou
在乌鲁木齐大火和中国年轻人为维吾尔受害者挺身而出、反对中共独裁的白纸(A4)运动周年之际,Mike Gallagher 铿锵有力的演说对维吾尔人来说特别意义重大。 @committeeonccp Athenai Institute Hong Kong Democracy Council 周锋锁 Fengsuo Zhou
I joined @committeeonccp Athenai Institute 周锋锁 Fengsuo Zhou & other allies for an event commemorating the White Paper Protests sparked by the #UrumchiFire last year. As I spoke in my remarks, it is a bittersweet anniversary because the injustice that necessitated the simple response
“In every aspect of our work on this committee we’ve heard this refrain— ‘CCP malign behavior is a huge problem, but I’m afraid to speak out about it.’” — Chairman Mike Gallagher discusses how US universities, Hollywood, tech executives, and bankers refuse to speak out.