The dancing group was invited to give performances at the most famous hotel in Liverpool. We performed the Fan Dance and demonstrated the Falun Gong exercises.

The day before the Chinese Communist Party head came to Chicago, about 1200 Falun Gong practitioners from all over the world gathered in Chicago for large scale exercises and a press conference to protest the regime's persecution of Falun Gong.

The drug addicts said, "We will not be punished for beating you Falun Gong practitioners up." They also said that if they beat a drug addict the way they beat Falun Gong practitioners, they would have been at least sentenced.

They took turns talking to Falun Dafa practitioners, day and night, while depriving them of sleep. When they found they were unable to brainwash the practitioners, they became enraged, beating and cursing the practitioners.

Authorities from the Dafangshen village police station arrested Dafa practitioners at will, ransacked their homes and extorted large sums of money from them. Over the last three years, they have extorted practitioners of amounts up to 50,000 to 60,000 Yuan [Approximately a 10 year salary of an average urban worker].

The first stop in the USA for China's visiting leader is Chicago. On October 20, 2002 two box trucks appeared at two most crowded places of Chicago Chinatown. Banners on the trucks read "Jiang Zemin: Scum of the Nation, Condemned through Ages." The other illustrated some details of the secret border agreement with Russia signed by the visiting leader. The truck parade caused a sensation in Chinatown. Many passersby stopped to watch.

"Falun Gong members will protest Thursday in front of the Presidential Conference Centre from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. in a designated free speech area, McKinney said. [The visiting dictator] is slated to speak at 11:15 a.m.

"We've already worked it out with the police how this protest is going to work," Nappi said.

"We're going to meditate and then raise a sign. We want the president to see us.""