On June 14, 2009, Falun Gong practitioners set up an information stand at a community festival in Lindenau, to introduce Falun Gong (also known as Falun Dafa), a cultivation practice based on the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. Falun Gong practitioners' information stand stood out in the crowd. Many people were attracted by the practice.

Mr. Zhu Hongbing was sentenced to seven years in the Hongweixing Prison in Daqing City at the end of 2001. He refused to be brainwashed or wear the prisoner uniform, and was tortured brutally as a result. Mr. Zhu's term was to end by December 2008, but the prison administration refused to release him. Mr. Zhu went on a hunger strike until his life was endangered. Four people carried him out of the prison on December 29th, 2008. His family picked him up and took him to the hospital. His lungs had shrunk to the size of eggs. Mr. Zhu survived for six months in extreme pain and died on June 18th, 2009.

Mr. Liu Hongxiang, 34, was sentenced to three years of forced labour in 2000. The police sentenced Mr. Liu to another three years of forced labour in July 2004. In April 2009, his family took him to Shandong Province Tuberculosis Hospital and spent a large amount of money, but in vain. His liver and stomach were both ruined by the strong medication. He died early in the morning on June 20th, 2009.

Ms. Li Shuxian, 71, was arrested, brutally beaten, and shocked with an electric baton in 2002 for practising Falun Gong. In 2005, Ms. Li was sentenced to four years in prison. Ms. Li underwent many types of torture, including brainwashing, physical mistreatment, being locked in the small cell. She developed a tumour and the prison released her in May 2007. The Administration of the Dabei Prison checked up on her twice to make sure she was, in fact, too sick to return to prison. She died on May 9th, 2009.

Ms. Zhang Zhiyun, a sixty-six year-old Falun Gong practitioner in Shanghai, was persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for over ten years and her house was monitored around the clock. In April 2009, Zhang Zhiyun went to the Public Security Bureau in Hongkou District to apply for a passport. Shortly after drinking water in the Public Security Bureau she felt sick all over her body and started to vomit blood heavily. After she had vomited blood for a week, her family took her to Central Hospital in the Hongkou District. On May 14th, 2009, Zhang Zhiyun suddenly passed away. Some doctors said privately that it was unusual and suspicious that she died so quickly.

"When I finished reading Zhuan Falun once, Master's teaching of "Returning to one's original true self" left a very deep impression on me, people raising oneself in compliance with "Zhen, Shan, Ren" (Truth-Compassion-Forbearance), and in the end returning to the origin of one's life - this was the meaning of life that I had been searching for before but had not found.

Just one week after she started practicing Falun Gong, her heart disease was cured. Her complexion changed from dark to healthy-looking. She looks like a different person. She used her own resources to help another practitioner set up a home-based production site to make truth clarification materials.

If any problem were to occur on stage, in the orchestra, or wherever, we would not blame any one individual, and, instead, take it as an omission of our team. I also reminded everyone not to gossip about any shortcomings or mistakes we might notice in the performance. We had to eliminate any such thoughts as soon as they appeared so as to avoid reinforcing them.

Over a dozen Falun Dafa practitioners participated in the 2009 Evergreen Rodeo Parade on Saturday, June 20th, 2009 in downtown Evergreen, Colorado.